Shadowing Practice: You won't fall behind - Learn English Speaking with Video
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There's a new apparent trend where people who get way too into the AI psychosis things find themselves programming
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and using AI so much that they end up like going to the hospital.
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Which if you've been keeping up with anything that's been going on, that shouldn't be a surprise.
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The report also finds 45% of developers feel the value of their current skill sets are threatened.
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This is from Pluralsight.
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AI skill threat describes developers fear, anxiety, and worry that their current competencies will become obsolete as they adapt to AI-assisted coding, plural site.
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This study focuses on the fear of being left behind or fear of missing out, FOMO, to understand employees' perception of AI adoption, science direct.
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Individual fear of missing out on the benefits of AI technology and being rendered obsolete by others or by society, science direct.
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FOMO, AI, may drive individuals to engage in complex behavior such as obsessive focus on acquiring AI skills
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or overzealous use of AI technologies.
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Science direct.
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Our results show that Gen AI adoption heightens burnout by increasing job demands.
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That's from Archive.
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Gen AI tools can amplify cognitive load, inducing new forms of oversight, labor, and escalate expectations around output and pace.
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This is from Archive.
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The Gen AI movement is also transforming professional norms and altering career entry points, demanding continuous adaptation. from Archive.
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And it goes on and it goes on.
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Now, I think a lot of people are seeing this as some kind of new experience that is happening.
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First off, I don't think that this experience is new, but I will say that this experience is kind of pressured by a whole new set of outcomes that,
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say, I, when I was first learning how to program or getting into technology, did not have to have.
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So this video is going to be a little bit different because I'm going to talk a little bit about my past, some of the things
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that caused some pretty big issues for me in the same type of category
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and more than that we're also going to hear from my boy george hotz about this exact topic
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Now, when I was a lot younger, I was about 24, 25 years old.
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I was freshly married and I was attempting to start a company.
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One of the big things I would do is I would program for over 24 hours straight.
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And you can, my wife will attest to it.
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I would sit in the studio apartment, sit next to the actual door to leave our studio apartment,
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and just program nonstop by myself while my wife would sleep all throughout the entire night.
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And that's because a I just really loved programming.
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I loved the act of programming.
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But even more so, I was trying to start a company.
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And I had this like constant fear slash anxiety
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that I was falling behind that I wasn't quite actually outputting enough
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that I wasn't going to be able to launch this product successfully.
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And it was something that weighed on me constantly, all my social interactions were colored by this, I would often find myself hanging out with friends and then ask myself, man, I got to get back home.
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This is taking too long.
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I was like, freaking out.
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And I was actually having almost some sort of like mental breakdown there for quite some time, quite large period of my life.
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And this obviously caused a lot of issues.
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Like honestly, it caused a lot of undue stress on my wife.
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This actually probably hurt our marriage for quite some time.
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And I do look back on that as kind of one of my more foolish moments.
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Now, I really do want it to be well understood that I'm not saying that you shouldn't work hard.
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I actually am a huge proponent of, especially in your younger years, to go out there and really try hard at something that you shouldn't half-ass anything,
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two butt cheeks, whole ass that attempt, really go out there and make the most of it.
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Because honestly, learning and becoming deeply competent at something
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and becoming excellent at your craft is an extremely rewarding thing
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and we live in such a world
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that your imagination is the only thing that's holding you back
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and of course that and the fable five limits
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that they keep on resetting for us over
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and over again come on dario just give me a couple
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just give me a couple more of them tokens dario
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and the reason why i tell you that is
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that you'll probably notice
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that there's a lot of similarities to the things you're seeing people are feeling the same kind of general like, oh, we're going to be left behind.
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Now, the reason why I felt it is obviously very, very different.
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I was trying to start a company, there were competitors in the space, I wanted to be the best one.
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Now that is going to cause a natural kind of competition slash, oh, I better hurry up, I don't want to be left behind.
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Now, this did not come from a general angst that everyone's going to be left behind,
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that this AI hype beast ain't stopping and jobs are in between the AI hype beast and its goal,
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and it's going to ramrod most of them away and everybody's going to become part of the permanent underclass.
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And this is kind of like this new wave, this new talking point that you see nonstop, where people are just constantly telling you that you're missing out, that you're going to be left behind.
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Now, the same person, Seth Rose, that actually gave me that nice list of all the different kind of statements and studies kind of going over this feeling.
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I just said, hey, you're not being left behind.
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And he said, I know.
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It's weird because it's the feeling of falling behind, not necessarily the reality.
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When models and tools are changing every few days, it creates that constant shit, I need to keep up mentality.
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And it's super toxic.
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I realize I'm in a bubble and already ahead of so many people.
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This AI thing is it's not the first time this has happened.
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And it's happened to a lot of people in a lot of different situations, including just generally to a whole bunch of people graduating,
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like how many people graduating during 2020 2021 are going through boot camps,
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felt this just onslaught of all these different technologies they had to learn, or they're going to be falling behind.
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I remember actually getting in an argument on Twitter saying, hey, react server components, they're not that big of a deal.
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I don't think you need to use them.
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I don't think you need to go and switch your company over to them.
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I don't think your resume needs to be sprinkled with them.
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I think you're going to be going down the wrong way.
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And I still I mean, hey, I still actually feel justified by that with all the different vulnerabilities and everything.
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But I had people quote tweet me being like, this guy that gives you the worst advice.
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If you're not keeping up, if you're not just like, it's just causing this swirl and this anxiousness in people.
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And I just really want to make sure that people understand
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that if every single day you are learning and you're making a step forward, that's a good day.
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And guess what?
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On a couple days, if you take a weekend off, that's not going to dramatically change the course of your life.
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And that's what people don't understand is that, and I had to unfortunately learn it by kind of hurting my marriage
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and not being a good husband
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and really not being a great father during my kids very early years is that I didn't know how to step away.
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I didn't know how to take that break.
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Honestly, I still struggle with that today.
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It's like such a learned or ingrained problem inside of me that I have to learn how to step away from things.
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Because ultimately, taking a day off, taking a bit of time off is not going to dramatically alter the course of your life.
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Being engaged and focused and working hard when it's time to work, that is going to pay tons of dividends.
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Learning and actually understanding the underlying thing instead of pressing the I'm going to be lucky tonight button, yeah, that's going to pay off a lot of dividends.
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So choose the good things.
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Choose the good work.
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You don't have to keep up with everything.
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And I do want to say this also when chat jippity 3.5 came out.
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This was not that long ago.
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People actually looked at chat jippity 3.5 and said, that's replacing me.
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I know that's crazy, right?
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But people looked at that.
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They said that.
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And what did you constantly hear during the chat jippity 3.5 and the Opus 3, Opus 3.5 era?
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Oh, if you're not using these tools, you're gonna be left behind.
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Anything you did during that time useful, virtually none.
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The way you set up context, the way you use it, the way you interact with it today looks almost nothing like it did in the beginning.
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Yet in the beginning, so many people were given this kind of hype, scared mentality that if they're not completely engaged in the most latest and greatest ways to do something,
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they're gonna fall behind.
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And now look at it.
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Every last single thing about that era is effectively void.
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You're not falling behind.
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And I do mean that.
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You're not falling behind.
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All right, now time for my boy, George Hatz.
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Hey, by the way, George Hatz, open invite.
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Anytime you want to come onto the standup and yap, let me know.
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I love LLMs.
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I hate the hype.
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Now, there's a couple things I wanted to point out in this blog post.
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First off, this one right here, I set up a Linux box with open code on my local GLM 5.2 last week.
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Bro is flexing just running a quick local GLM 5.2.
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Damn, that's a sweet ass machine you got there.
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Also, open code, good choice.
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Love it.
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And wow, I just said install Tmux with GeoHot configuration works.
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The year of the Linux desktop is finally here.
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Let's go.
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It's actually not because of models.
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It's because Microsoft keeps fumbling the bag.
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But I really specifically wanted to read these two paragraphs because I think they are incredible.
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What I don't like is two things.
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One, the constant bullshit about the window closing or the perpetual underclass or falling hopelessly behind.
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This is negative balance hype.
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Not only is it not true, it's mostly designed to make you feel bad about yourself and to move to shitty San Francisco where everything really does suck,
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like how these people claim.
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We don't love George Hots enough, okay?
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We don't love him enough!
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And two, the straw man jumped from, oh, hey, it's a fancy autocomplete, smart compiler, better search engine, to it's gonna, like, own the whole light cone, bro.
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Like, if you aren't in SF and at the right parties, there's gonna be a flash of light in the sky one day, and you're not even gonna know what happened.
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But everything just changed.
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He's talking about it like Jesus is coming back.
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It was crazy.
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I'll bet everything I have that this doesn't happen.
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The people perpetuating this are terrible people, but the justice is that this is how they feel inside all the time themselves.
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Now, two things.
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Obviously, first off, he says everything way cooler than I ever say.
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Dude, I just loved all those words in that particular order.
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It was absolutely fantastic.
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But also, can we just take a side?
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I didn't realize that George Hots was related to G.K.
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Chesterton.
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I mean, this man is writing like he's a philosopher from 1927.
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What is going on here?
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But he's absolutely right at the end of the day.
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You're not being left behind in this moment if you're not token maxing, okay?
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These companies telling you to go token max, they make money off of you token maxing.
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You do understand that, right?
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Don't you realize that there's a little bit of a perverse incentive
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when the people who are selling shovels telling you the only thing you ever need to practice or do is dig holes?
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Now, I'm not saying that you shouldn't go investigate.
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In fact, right now, if we go over here and we jump right over to here, you'll see I actually have a little loopity loop running right here because I want to know, does this actually work?
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Is this a waste of time or is this something that's actually super duper valuable
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and I should spend more time kind of being in tune with it?
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Because at the end of the day, I want to have an informed opinion, but I'm also just not betting everything on this.
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And I understand the risk of just spending entirely too much money with this thing.
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So my personal best advice is this.
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enjoy this time period.
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You get to build whatever you want.
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You get to investigate whatever you want.
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When you don't understand something, you get to ask something that is a fantastic search engine that can bring up the answer to what you're asking, even in just some terrible English like I have.
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It still works.
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I never got that.
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When I had a question, my best solution was Stack Overflow.
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And if it wasn't on Stack Overflow, I'm reading the code.
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Like, that's it.
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Those were my two options.
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I couldn't be like, yo, this is broken.
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What's going on?
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Why, why, why, why does this happen?
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In fact, last night, I accidentally introduced a regression into the game I was building.
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So I was just like, yo, launch perf and tell me what function did I just screw up?
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It went off and a half an hour later, sent me back being like, yo, here you go.
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Here's exactly what you did wrong.
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And I was like, oh yeah, I remember doing that.
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That makes me a complete idiot.
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That is incredible.
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Like that is fantastic.
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That saved me a lot of time and it was super cool.
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So just like have fun, go explore, see what you can build.
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This is one of the few time periods in which nobody knows what the future is actually going to hold right now.
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I have no idea, but I can tell you this much, that learning and becoming better at your craft, still like I said a couple years ago, like I said last year,
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and like I still say today, is an excellent choice, and I don't think you're being left behind.
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The name is the datagen.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 202 sentences and 2584 words to shadow. The speech runs for 12:30. The speaker talks fast, about 207 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 84% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| hype noun | /haɪp/ | Promotion or propaganda, especially exaggerated claims. |
| token noun | /ˈtoʊkən/ | Something serving as an expression of something else. |
| engage verb | /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/ | To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied. |
| anxiety noun | /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/ | An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event. |
| output noun | /ˈaʊtpʊt/ | Production; quantity produced, created, or completed. |
| skill noun | /skɪl/ | A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate. |
| investigate verb | /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/ | To inquire into or study in order to ascertain facts or information. |
| craft noun | /ˈkɹæft/ | Ability, skillfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning… |
| beast noun | /biːst/ | Any four-footed land mammal. |
| developer noun | /dɪˈvɛləpɚ/ | A person or entity engaged in the creation or improvement of certain classes of products. |
| adoption noun | /əˈdɑp.ʃən/ | The act of adopting. |
| dramatically adverb | In a dramatic manner. | |
| dividend noun | /ˈdɪvɪdɛnd/ | A cash payment of money by a company to its shareholders, usually made periodically (e.g., quarterly or annually). |
| mentality noun | /mɛnˈtæləti/ | A mindset; a way of thinking; a set of beliefs. |
| obsolete adjective | /ˈɑbsəlit/ | No longer in use or no longer useful; now disused or neglected (often in favour of something newer, better, or more fashionable); outmoded. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| leave behind verb | To abandon. | |
| fall behind verb | To be late (for a regular event) | |
| go out verb | To leave, especially a building. | |
| keep up verb | To maintain; to preserve; to prevent from deteriorating or falling. | |
| keep up with verb | To manage to remain beside or just behind someone or something that is moving away from one. | |
| miss out verb | To miss an experience or lose an opportunity, etc. that should not be missed. | |
| set up verb | /ˌsɛt ˈʌp/ | To make ready for use. |
| bring up verb | To mention. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are threatened · being left · being rendered |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | people who get · people who are |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 68 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, don't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: adoption /əˈdɑp.ʃən/, flash /flæʃ/, interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, perception /pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/
- Long words — get the stress right: anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, developer /dɪˈvɛləpɚ/, mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like hype, token, engage.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.