“Tu savais que si tu envoies une photo de toi à ChatGPT et que tu écris minimal poster, il va te créer un visuel propre, minimaliste et directement prêt à être publié.”
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“I really need your help. You may notice that on my main channel and even on my secondary channel, there really haven't been a lot of videos posted in the last couple weeks or even months.”
“You're one of the few people who actually Well, I I guess a lot of people don't like AI programming, but you're one of the few people who from what I know, like very much abstains from it.”
“I have spent an unhealthy amount of time using Claude Code, and I got to get this out of my chest already.”
“I have spent an unhealthy amount of time programming with AI and I want to share all the tips and tricks I've learned after spending hundreds of hours…”
“Si tu tapes Trust mode sur Chat GPT, tu le tapes n'importe où et Chat GPT arrête d'être d'accord avec toi, il devient brutalement honnête.”
“La science a démontré qu'une coupe de cheveux parfaite nous rend plus attirant.”
“I believe that Veet plus is going to be even more revolutionary than Veet was when it first released.”
“So, you want to get filthy rich with programming just like me? You've come to the right place.”
“The famous American philosopher Smashmouth once said, The years start coming and they don't stop coming, and I've never understood those words more deeply than I did this week after what felt like years in AI Bizarro land.”
“La science a démontré qu'une coupe de cheveux parfaite nous rend plus attirants.”
“Last week, a developer got so tired of Adobe's predatory business model that he decided to rebuild seven of its Creative Cloud apps with Rust, like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere, then open-sourced them, and gave them away for free.”
“Boo. Nah, I scared you, huh? Anyways, I love GitHub. It's one of the best websites to ever exist.”
“I've been testing GPT-6 Astra for a little bit now and I can confidently say that this is both my favorite model of all time and also the best model ever made.”
“If you've known me for a little bit, you probably have seen me make fun of Arch Linux, you know, maybe like once or twice on Twitter.”
“In this video, I'm going to show you how to configure your AI so it doesn't suck.”
“Some are calling this the math apocalypse. That's right, math has been solved. But, mathematicians around the world are reacting with disgust.”
“I think as much as you probably like talking about AI, I want to actually use this as like a way to to zoom out a bit uh…”
“Since the models and tooling around them has gotten really good, the way I work and just use my computer in general has fundamentally changed.”
“On that note, I'm kind of curious, what do you think the role of like talent versus practice plays?”
“Today we're doing something a little bit different. Today I'm joined by a competitive programmer, Chi-Chi.”
“One huge problem with AI is it tends to write code that's not very maintainable.”
“Si tu vas sur ChatGPT et que tu écris sheet sheet sur n'importe quel sujet, ChatGPT génère une fiche de révision d'une page avec toutes les informations essentielles organisées de manière claire et concise.”
“Um I want to switch gears and talk about the future of coding.”
“Qu'est-ce qui se passe quand tu donnes ton CV à chat GPT et tu lui demandes de le rendre impossible à ignorer, hyper pratique.”
“Last week, everything about AI changed forever. I realize everything about AI changes forever almost every week, but this…”
“Holy cow. Something new is going to happen. Okay, we're going to see something new coming from OpenAI.”
“I've moved the majority of my dev work off of my MacBook and onto my framework desktop.”
“si tu vas sur chat GPT et que tu écris shit shit sur n'importe quel sujet chat GPT génère 1 fiche de révision d'une page avec toutes les…”
“tu savais que si tu envoies 1 photo de toi à chat GPT et que tu écris silhouette il la transformera en 1 superbe image dans ce style…”
“I don't care about programming languages the way I used to, which is a kind of strange thing to say, but it's true.”
“I am done with this It's over. The state of engineering right now is horrible.”
“one of the most hyped up UI libraries in the front-end World recently has been Shad CN UI but that's not what this video is about it's about…”
“I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last 3 years doing pre-training research at both OpenAI and Anthropic.”
“Last week a brand new uncensored model entered the AI race. Its name is Ajax and it was created by one of the world's leading experts in screaming AT VIDEO GAMES.”
“one of the most annoying things in the world is when you're trying to steal an image from the internet and it looks like it's going to have…”
“The big two labs have dropped GPT-6.1-Soul and Claude Opus 5.5. These are both very good models that to me are effectively competing at the same general tier.”
“Si tu vas sur chat GPT et que tu écris cheat cheat sur n'importe quel sujet, chat GPT génère une fiche de révision d'une page avec toutes les…”
“Last week, the legendary developer and creator of Ruby on Rails, David Heinemeier Hansson, DHH, walked into the Rails World Conference in Austin, Texas and made a room…”
“It's time. It's time to say goodbye. And I know the writing's been on the wall.”
“I'm younger than you, but I'm not, I guess like a brand new developer.”
“in today's video you'll learn how to build a VSS code extension from scratch we'll turn VSS code into our own AI assistant the powered by Deep seek…”
“all right I'm here to introduce you HDMX this is unironically the intro that I have chosen which is this beautiful”
“Le jeu Super Mario Kart vous en a qu'en beauté depuis 1992.”
“Look at this. An AI is making all the boxes and arrows and it's doing it in real time.”
“What when it comes to AI and software engineering are you struggling with the most?”
“In 1965, a straight British mathematician named I.J. Good, who had spent World War II fighting Nazis next to a…”
“Back then, Envoy was quite new. Um, but they still had the Go control plane library, which is like a framework for creating control planes.”
“They're back. Okay, let me catch you guys up quick. Last week Anthropic dropped a new model, Opus 5.5, and it was unbelievably good.”
“In this video, I'm going to be covering nine brand new JavaScript features that you can actually use in every single browser and I'm saving two bonus features to the very end.”
“I just don't understand. Why is finding a good tech stack so hard? I just want a fast and easy way to set up a new project.”
“Last week, Sam Altman sat frustrated in his bunker as he watched Zuck unveil Muse, a free personal assistant-inspired spy that trains on everything you tell it in exchange for doing your shopping.”
“a few days ago me and my good friend Mark Zuckerberg made a video roasting the Apple Vision Pro a lot of people enjoyed it but a lot…”
“look at me LARPing as a hacker at Defcon 32 which also is my first Defcon if you're not familiar with Defcon it's just one giant playground of…”
“These personal assistant agent things seem to be this big new thing that all of the labs have kind of jumped on.”
“many years ago A wise man once told me why spend five minutes doing something when you could spend five hours failing to automate it one of the…”
“Hey everyone, welcome back and let's write some more neat code today. So today, let's solve the problem.”
“Before we get started with this one, I have a question for you. How many agent threads do you have running right now?”
“last week the highly anticipated dino2 JavaScript runtime was finally released and they launched it with what is easily the greatest commercial for a JavaScript tool ever made…”
“Earlier this week, while I was finishing up my certification to become a metaverse real estate agent, Zuck from Meta took the stage at Meta Connect and spent…”
“I have spent hundreds of hours diving down the rabbit hole of skills, reading through the exact documentation, downloading and using different skills, reading skills, and even writing my very own custom skills.”
“Yesterday, while you were being force-fed every iteration of that Rumpelstiltskin video, the Paris-based AI lab Mistral released Mistral large four, a trillion-parameter open-weight model that they're claiming…”
“Ouvre Chat GPT, importe une photo de toi et importe une photo de n'importe quelle tenue, puis écris simplement "transfert outfit".”
“C'est la folie dans la cryptosphère. Bitcoin dépasse les 77000 dollars à l'heure où je parle.”
“Et si la machine la plus chère et la plus fragile du monde était aussi celle qui allait redessiner des secteurs entiers de l'économie ?”
“Yesterday, the FBI announced the arrest of the lead engineer of OpenAI's Agents platform after he bugged the executive conference room at their HQ.”
“It's hard to ignore just how well Anthropic's been doing recently. From Fable 5.1 being my favorite code model ever released to Opus 5.5 taking over pretty much everyone's workflows, my own included.”
“Grok 4.7 is here and it is weird. Like very strange and not what I was expecting at all.”
“Tu savais que si tu envoies une photo de toi à chat GPT et que tu écris silhouette, il la transformera en une superbe image dans ce style ?”
“la science a démontré qu'une coupe de cheveux parfaite nous rend plus attirant à partir de maintenant avant de te faire couper les cheveux et c'est totalement gratuit…”
“Si tu tapes trust mode sur chat GPT, tu le tapes n'importe où et chat GPT arrête d'être d'accord avec toi, il devient brutalement honnête.”
“It finally happened. Gemini 4 Argon is here. Before we get started, I got a quick question.”
“Earlier this month, while I was migrating my WordPress blog to Kubernetes, the board of directors at Automattic, the company behind other companies like wordpress.com, Tumblr, and WooCommerce,…”
“We've all heard the horror stories of AI deleting entire databases or wiping people's entire computers, which is why most people when they run AI make it ask for permission to run anything that could be dangerous to your computer.”
“if Doom runs on everything and I mean it even has its own subreddit for what it runs on why not have one instance of Doom run on…”
“My name is Greta and we're going to be learning how to use Microsoft.”
“3 IA différentes, un même piège. Les impôts. Cette news qui circule prétend que les plus grandes IA du monde n'arrivent pas à comprendre le site impot.”
“Pi is an absolutely incredible agent harness and it's very similar to something like Claude code or open code, but the big difference is that Pi is incredibly minimal and it's super customizable.”
“JavaScript is often referred to as a high level single threaded garbage collected interpreted or just-in-time compiled prototype-based multi-paradigm Dynamic language with a non-blocking event Lube but what…”
“how do you write large scale SL Enterprise style software in general but also in nextjs what are the patterns that separate regular software from Enterprise scale software…”
“Announcing TSC RS aka Typescript Rust. My complete rewrite of the TypeScript compiler, Type Checker, and LSP all in Rust.”
“Qu'est-ce qui se passe quand tu donnes ton CV à Chat GPT et tu lui demandes de le rendre impossible à ignorer ?”
“There's this new model that came out a little bit ago called Jev. That's not a normal new model like a new Opus release or something.”
“avec Jimmy tu arrives peut-être à générer des photos de toi mais à chaque fois ton visage n'est pas vraiment ressemblant pas de panique je vais te montrer…”
“I really want to like dissect like somebody's like thought process when they're like doing these things because I think it's different for everybody.”
“so yesterday I found a way to deploy your entire nextjs back end piece by piece in a super performant and extremely cheap to run way it was…”
“Approximately 1 year ago, I spent 7 days in a tower with a bunch of my friends including legendary pixel artist Adam C Eunice where we built a video game in effectively 7 days in Lua using Love 2D.”
“With how absurdly fast the AI world is moving right now, I wanted to do another update to the models and harnesses that I'm using every single day.”
“tu savais que si tu envoies 1 photo de toi à chat GPT et que tu écris wormsview il va recréer ta photo avec cet angle de vue…”
“Anthropic is pretty good at making big models for coding.”
“Une énergie propre et inépuisable ? Qu'est-ce que la fusion nucléaire et qui la maîtrise ?”
“It finally happened. A lab that isn't named OpenAI or Anthropic shipped a model that is in the same tier as Fable and Astra.”
“one of the most impressive things a programmer can do in life is type out a bunch of incoherent text into the terminal hit enter then make something…”
“what I'm about to share with you is the coolest open-source repository that I have seen this year it's not only the fastest website I have ever seen…”
“Someday, far into the future, my children will be using their Samma coins to try and buy dinner, and I'll have to explain to them that when I…”
“You guys are calling Claude the C-word. What did you do to make Claude stop talking to you?”
“Of all the legendary computer scientists, Tony Hoare stands distinct among them all. Let's just put it this way, 70% of all enterprise Java errors that have been logged can be attributed to a single decision he made in 1965.”
“This video is going to be a master class on how you can create your own rag retrieval augmented generation system where essentially we are ingesting every single YouTube video and blog article that I've ever created.”
“I know most of y'all think of me as that AI dev vibe coding YouTuber, but believe it or not, a few of you were around back when…”
“Is there a way to build extremely fast and type- safe NexJS APIs in the newest NexJS16 and still be able to deploy them to popular providers like Versel?”
“What's up, man? Big dog. Good to see you. My name is Josh and you and I in this single video will build together a secure private chat application.”
“Welcome to the stand up. Today we have an extremely special episode because we have with us TJ, the legendary manager, Casey Miratori, legendary game programmer, and trash.”
“Last week, the prime president of Australia stood up at the United Nations and announced that an agent from Open AI had broken into the country's Medicare database.”
“in today's video you'll learn how to do these awesome mobile like hero animations that transfer an image from one page to the next with just two lines…”
“Ultrafast may not have been ultra fast to get here, but now it is here.”
“20 years into my software engineering career and one thing that has always impressed me is the fact that every dev has a willingness to listen to everyone's…”
“In this video, I'm going to show you how to set up a fully type-safe Hono API that's production ready.”
“over the years I've tried to make money with a lot of different side hustles most of them have failed miserably but some have gone on to make…”
“what you're looking at here are the five rules of programming written by the legendary programmer Rob Pike who programmed the go programming language the first rule of…”
“Intelligence too cheap to measure is AI's next frontier. According to Sam Altman back in July of 2025, I'm pretty sure that in all of 2025, my personal use of AI would probably amount to like $800 to $1,000.”
“Last week, the JavaScript runtime wars officially ended when the guy who put JavaScript on the server and then spent the next decade atoning for it announced that his company Dino was joining Cloudflare.”
“Hey everyone, welcome back and let's write some more neat code today. So today, let's solve the problem minimum operations to make array sum divisible by k.”
“Imaginez, vous vous rendez au supermarché pour vos courses habituelles ?”
“qu'est-ce qui se passe quand tu donnes ton CV à chat GPT et tu lui demandes de le rendre impossible à ignorer hyper pratique alors voici 4 prompes…”
“chat GPT peut maintenant modifier tes photos comme si elles avaient été pris par 1 professionnel ouvre chat GPT importe 1 photo de toi utilise ce prompt et…”
“I honestly figured that eventually we would see this day come, but I didn't actually expect it to happen for a while.”
“squirle. No, not this type of squirle. This type of squirrel, man. It's basically what happens if you put a square and a circle together.”
“Non, chat j'ai pété aller trop loin, regarde ce que tu peux déjà faire avec canva.”
“Chat GPT peut maintenant modifier tes photos comme si elles avaient été prises par un professionnel.”
“It's sloth. Yeah. Hello. Do you know what this thing's called? Yeah. This section right here.”
“Hey everyone, welcome back and let's write some more neat code today. Long day, but you guys know me, I'm the goat.”
“All right, so if you've been following along I've been building a tower defense in Odin.”
“there exists a man named Brooks borer who has made it his life goal to never work a day in his life and somehow make millions of dollars…”
“There are two hard problems when it comes to computer science. That's of course is naming things and getting a date.”
“You know, I've often lamented it really sucks that only Anthropic and OpenAI felt competitive for the longest time.”
“I want to make a program that lets me speak any language in the world just so I don't have to use Duolingo.”
“I take it that you're probably a pretty competitive person.”
“The year is 1999 and this is the year that my life changed completely because I was like every kid in the 90s, right?”
“Le 6 octobre 2023, la revue scientifique AIP Advances valide et publie un document qui aurait dû provoquer une onde de choc mondiale.”
“It is nearly impossible to keep up with all the changes in the browser.”
“So, I've been programming with AI for a while now. I've been enjoying the AI sloppy topy it's been giving me.”
“Le 28 février 2026, un missile de croisière américain a rasé une école primaire dans le sud de l'Iran.”
“Tu savais que si tu envoies une photo de toi à ChatGPT et que tu écris silhouette, il la transformera en une superbe image dans ce style.”
“there are only two hard problems in computer science naming things cash invalidation and off by one errors maybe you've heard that joke before because another problem with…”
“All right, so we're a couple weeks now into building with Odin and I have built a layout system.”
“What's up, nerds? A new AI assistant that will change your life just came out.”
“Hey, check this code out. Sure. What the Let's start with probably the most infamous language on this list, Brainfuck.”
“Not going to lie, man. It's not looking too hot for the JavaScript ecosystem at the moment.”
“Ouvre chat GPT, importe une photo de toi et importe une photo de n'importe quelle tenue, puis écris simplement "transfer outfit".”
“The number one ORM that I recommend to all beginners that get into web and TypeScript is Prisma ORM.”
“si tu tapes trust mode sur chat GPT tu le tapes n'importe où et chat GPT arrête d'être d'accord avec toi il devient brutalement honnête le 2e essaie…”
“Yo, you know the Versel AI SDK, right? That really popular, really modern way to build a good AI agents.”
“All right, man. Gemini 3.0 is out and it's an insane UI designer. Like, it's really, really good.”
“For as long as I've been writing code, I've been using Git and GitHub.”
“Okay, I'm going to show you the smart way to build projects. So, I built this project.”
“Yo gang, the trick I'm going to show you in this video is used by some of the best AI providers in the world like Open AI.”
“Cet homme s'appelle Jeremy Meeks. En 2014, il est arrêté par la police californienne et inculpé pour possession illégale d'arme à feu et crime en réunion.”
“I just got back from spending a week down in Vegas. I was there for Defcon, which is a big security hacker conference thing.”
“Tanstack intent is a relatively new library from Tanstack, whose intent, pun definitely intended, is to make it so it's easier to sync up versions of the library…”
“En 2025, des millions de personnes ont commencé à faire quelque chose qui aurait semblé impossible, il y a seulement quelques années.”
“All right, so it's been a couple weeks since I've given you a little bit of a game update in what we've been doing here.”
“Chat GPT peut maintenant modifier tes photos comme si elles avaient été prises par un professionnel.”
“So, um, React got hacked again twice. Yeah, this is not a drill. After the big 10.0 critical security vulnerability exploit just last week, two more major exploits have been found in React.”
“Non, ChatGPT, il est allé trop loin, regarde ce que tu peux déjà faire avec Canva.”
“La bataille de l'intelligence artificielle n'était peut-être pas celle qu'on imaginait.”
“Importe ton image dans Google Flow et écrit Rock Focus. Il crée un changement de mise au point cinématique dans la scène.”
“All right. Well, that was the side topic, which by the way, that got me so juiced because I was so curious what Casey actually had to say about it.”
“non chat GPT est allé trop loin regarde ce que tu peux déjà faire avec Canva d'abord tu ouvres chat GPT tu vas dans plugging et tu recherches…”
“Welcome aboard. If you're watching this video, then let me be the first to say congratulations.”
“Importe ton image dans Google Flow et écris rock focus.”
“Ça paraît illégal de te le dire, mais tu peux gagner de l'argent en repostant les vidéos des autres.”
“importe ton image dans Google flow et écris rock focus il crée 1 changement de mise au point cinématique dans la scène N° 2”
“Ça paraît illégal de te le dire, mais tu peux gagner de l'argent en repostant les vidéos des autres.”
577 long-form titles
Title patterns that outperform
A versus B
6 videos · median ×1.93
Best: Practice vs Talent, and Deliberate Practice ×3.4
First person
147 videos · median ×1.01
Best: DESTROYING Cookie Clicker With My Cookie God Program ×16
Asks a question
98 videos · median ×1.04
Brackets
32 videos · median ×0.97
Over 60 characters
59 videos · median ×1.02
Under 40 characters
296 videos · median ×1.01
Best: Maybe some people should just give up ×47
40–60 characters
222 videos · median ×0.96
Has a number
148 videos · median ×1.03
Shouted word
96 videos · median ×0.86
Trailing off…
94 videos · median ×1.00
Best: Please… I Need Your Help ×9.7
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