senior software engineer in NYC hello at conniexu dot com mainly on instagram and tiktok
New York, New York
Joined January 2023
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Connie Xu retweeted
New Paper: Rethinking On-Policy Self-Distillation for Thinking Models
On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) is a promising approach to recursive self-improvement. Thinking models seem especially well positioned to teach themselves with privileged information since they can deliberate, verify, and self-correct.
Surprisingly, we find that OPSD can make thinking models worse.
(More details in 🧵below)
Self-distillation does not work for thinking models YET
arxiv.org/abs/2603.24472
openreview.net/forum?id=VhCJ…
arxiv.org/abs/2606.11709
Connie Xu retweeted
quit ur 9 to 5 job so u can work in startups 9 to 9 and then quit ur startup job so u can work 24h/7d on ur own startup
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Connie Xu retweeted
> gidiyorsun bi vps alıyorsun tercih ettiğin yerden 5$ ile başla ama önerim min 8gb ram olur
> ssh'den bağlanıyorsun içine claude code kuruyorsun (20$'lik bile olur sonnet kullan ama)
> bu yeni bir sunucu, gerekli güvenlik optimizasyonlarını yap (ufw, f2b, port kapama vs. yap, sudo user oluştur) vs.
> bitirince "bana coolify kur" diyorsun
> son kez bir güvenlik optimizasyonu yap diyorsun
> sonra coolify'a giriş yapıp 2fa açıyorsun, github app oluşturup github app bağlıyorsun
> private repondaki vercel-netlify vs. hosted olan projeni alıyorsun burada deploy ediyorsun, domain olarak www'siz ve www'li olarak domaini ekliyorsun
> domain dns ayarlarından A kaydına @ ve www olarak ip adresi veriyorsun
ve 5-10$'da muhtemelen tüm projelerini host edebileceğiniz şahsi sunucunuz oluyor. istersen supabase kullanmak yerine proje içinde kendi db'ni barındır.
I get 4,150,000,000 (4 billion) requests and 300,000,000 (300 million) visitors per year
That'd cost me $338,913 if I wasn't on a VPS like @brian_lovin below
Instead I pay $2,932/year or 115x less because I host my sites on my own VPS
My VPS servers are way too big and usually only use 10% of their resources so I could even go with $300/year probably if I optimized more (but I don't care)
Especially with AI these days it's easier than ever to host your sites yourself, and way cheaper! 100-1000x cheaper!
Connie Xu retweeted
VERCEL GOT HACKED
ShinyHunters - the group behind the Ticketmaster breach - is selling Vercel's internal database for $2M on BreachForums
here's why every developer should care:
- they have NPM tokens and GitHub tokens
- Vercel owns Next.js - 6 million weekly downloads
- one malicious push = global supply chain attack
- Vercel confirmed the breach today, April 19
- they literally DMed the hackers on Telegram asking them to stop
rotate your env variables RIGHT NOW
We’ve identified a security incident that involved unauthorized access to certain internal Vercel systems, impacting a limited subset of customers. Please see our security bulletin:
vercel.com/kb/bulletin/verce…
Connie Xu retweeted
I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. Lots of people have asked how I use Claude Code, so I wanted to show off my setup a bit.
My setup might be surprisingly vanilla! Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. There is no one correct way to use Claude Code: we intentionally build it in a way that you can use it, customize it, and hack it however you like. Each person on the Claude Code team uses it very differently.
So, here goes.