and trust + control AI at scale
This is already happening inside teams.
Just not loudly.
If you’re still thinking in terms of “AI helping you code”…
you’re looking at the smallest part of the change.
That’s the real shift Boris is pointing at:
We’re not speeding up development.
We’re changing how work itself gets done.
The engineers who win here won’t be the fastest coders.
They’ll be the ones who can:
break problems down clearly
design systems
Boris Cherny just laid out how AI is actually changing software engineering behind the scenes…
not the hype version, the operational one.
And honestly, this is where it gets interesting 👇
YOUR ISP CAN SEE YOUR TRAFFIC. USE A VPN.
YOUR ISP CAN SEE YOUR TRAFFIC. USE A VPN.
YOUR ISP CAN SEE YOUR TRAFFIC. USE A VPN.
YOUR ISP CAN SEE YOUR TRAFFIC. USE A VPN.
So instead of chasing people…
you’re plugged straight into what’s happening.
And yeah, Grok is behind a lot of it, deciding what actually shows up.
Which means the game is shifting:
It’s less about posting a lot and more about posting something worth being surfaced.
X just changed a lot… but most people aren’t seeing it yet.
The feed isn’t really about who you follow anymore.
You can now pin topics (like AI), and it basically builds a live feed for you; ranked, filtered, and constantly updating.
YOUR ISP CAN SEE YOUR TRAFFIC. USE A VPN.
YOUR ISP CAN SEE YOUR TRAFFIC. USE A VPN.
YOUR ISP CAN SEE YOUR TRAFFIC. USE A VPN.
YOUR ISP CAN SEE YOUR TRAFFIC. USE A VPN.
The advice is NOT WRONG. The framing leaves out the most important context.
Without a VPN your ISP sees every DNS query you make. Every domain you visit, timestamped and logged. They see the IP addresses your device connects to. They see the volume of traffic, the timing, and the duration of every session. On unencrypted HTTP they see the full content of everything.
What they cannot see on HTTPS is the content. The actual data exchanged between you and a website using HTTPS is encrypted at the TLS layer. Your ISP cannot read your messages, your search queries, your banking details, or the body of any page you visit over HTTPS. That encryption exists regardless of whether you use a VPN.
What HTTPS does not hide is the domain name itself. SNI, Server Name Indication, sends the hostname you are connecting to in plaintext during the TLS handshake so the server knows which certificate to present. Your ISP sees that you visited a domain even when they cannot read what you did there. ECH, Encrypted Client Hello, is a newer standard that fixes this but adoption is still limited.
A VPN shifts that visibility from your ISP to the VPN provider. Your ISP now sees encrypted traffic going to one IP address. The VPN provider sees everything your ISP previously saw. You traded one observer for another.
The accurate picture is this. HTTPS already protects your content from ISP surveillance. A VPN additionally hides the domains you visit and your traffic patterns. Both together provide meaningful privacy. Neither provides anonymity.
The missing variable in most VPN marketing is who you are now trusting instead.
YOUR ISP CAN SEE YOUR TRAFFIC. USE A VPN.
YOUR ISP CAN SEE YOUR TRAFFIC. USE A VPN.
YOUR ISP CAN SEE YOUR TRAFFIC. USE A VPN.
YOUR ISP CAN SEE YOUR TRAFFIC. USE A VPN.
Partially true, but mostly misunderstood.
what your ISP can actually see
Since HTTPS became standard, your ISP can see DNS queries and domain names. not page content, not passwords, not what you searched. they know you visited reddit[.]com at 11pm. they don't know what you read.
what they can sell: your browsing metadata. which sites you visit, how often, for how long. Since 2017, US ISPs can sell this without consent. it's valuable to advertisers.
what a VPN actually does
encrypts traffic between your device and the VPN server. hides your DNS queries and domain visits from your ISP. replaces your IP address with the VPN's.
BUT, the VPN now sees everything your ISP did.
Most VPN "no-log" claims are unverified. NordVPN was breached in 2018 and stayed silent for 18 months. IPVanish handed user logs to the FBI despite claiming to keep none. Hola VPN sold user bandwidth to a botnet. PureVPN provided connection logs to the FBI and so on...
The top-ranked VPN review sites are almost entirely driven by affiliate marketing or owned by these VPN companies themselves!. Vpnmentor and the likes...
When a VPN is actually useful:
— public Wi-Fi: yes. Encrypts your traffic from the network.
— hiding activity from your ISP specifically: yes, with a trustworthy provider.
— bypassing geo-restrictions: yes.
— stopping Google, Meta, or advertisers from tracking you: NO.
— protecting you from spyware or government access: NO.
VPN doesn't solve the problem most people think they're buying it for.
YOUR ISP CAN SEE YOUR TRAFFIC. USE A VPN.
YOUR ISP CAN SEE YOUR TRAFFIC. USE A VPN.
YOUR ISP CAN SEE YOUR TRAFFIC. USE A VPN.
YOUR ISP CAN SEE YOUR TRAFFIC. USE A VPN.
If you're thinking about getting a VPN. Here's how to pick one that doesn't make things worse.
Avoid:
— free VPNs. if you're not paying, your traffic is the product.
— VPNs with no published audit. Claims mean nothing. Third-party audits mean something.
— VPNs recommended in sponsored YouTube videos or affiliate review sites.
Look for:
— independently audited no-log policy. Mullvad have both been audited multiple times.
— open-source clients. you can verify what the app actually does.
— WireGuard protocol. faster, leaner, more auditable than OpenVPN.
— jurisdiction outside Five Eyes countries. Mullvad is Swedish. Proton is Swiss.
best options:
Mullvad(@mullvadnet): $5/month. accepts cash. no email required to sign up. strongest privacy posture of any commercial VPN.
ProtonVPN(@ProtonVPN): Swiss-based. free tier available. open source. audited.
Windscribe(@windscribecom): Feature-rich (R.O.B.E.R.T. blocker, split tunneling, proxies), audited no-logs, generous free tier (10GB+), customizable plans, good speeds.
Remember:
A VPN protects you from your ISP and from network-level snooping.
It does not protect you from Google, Meta, browser fingerprinting, device-level spyware, or physical surveillance.
use it for what it does.
not for what the ad says it does.
YOUR ISP CAN SEE YOUR TRAFFIC. USE A VPN.
YOUR ISP CAN SEE YOUR TRAFFIC. USE A VPN.
YOUR ISP CAN SEE YOUR TRAFFIC. USE A VPN.
YOUR ISP CAN SEE YOUR TRAFFIC. USE A VPN.
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