I'm a software developer and an SRE https://xitter.cf/t.co/PkEVyLbMrq
Berlin, Germany
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I think the problem a lot of people have with AI agents is that if you accept the code they generate, the quality level of the codebase is hard to prioritise. Yes, we shipped slop in some places, but it was often a deliberate decision on where it was OK to do
my argument is that all code is slop. slop is simply a slur and not a real objective definition. everyone considers code they wrote good and what others wrote that they don’t understand slop
it’s not a useful term for a true discussion on the topic. I’d maybe ask you to define what you mean when you say slop
I regret to inform I’m writing a blog post about the recent DHH, Campfire, Elixir/Rust/Ruby drama (but from a technical point of view, hopefully)
I'm sorry, but you still have to think itsallaboutthebit.com/i-am-s… - I wrote a blog post in the context of recent "you don't have to read code anymore" discussions triggered by DHH's Campfire rewrites in Rust and Elixir
I'm sorry, but you still have to think itsallaboutthebit.com/i-am-s… - I wrote a blog post in the context of recent "you don't have to read code anymore" discussions triggered by DHH's Campfire rewrites in Rust and Elixir
This is a good reminder to anyone going to the gym - a smith machine may actually be more dangerous than a barbell squat, unless it has hard stops you can adjust. If you don't lock it in time, you may be unable to escape from under the bar before it pins you down.
Piotr Sarnacki retweeted
This might give you some idea of what I'm talking about: xitter.cf/dhh/status/21046331080…, a 1:1 vibe-coded clone that handles two orders of magnitude more requests on some of the endpoints. Alsmot all differences listed in the list of known differences would not give Rails any speedup
Been running a beta version of Campfire rewritten in Rust today! The code itself is still ugly as sin, and 6x as verbose, but the conversion was free*, and I never had to look at the Rust directly, so this is awesome 🤩 github.com/basecamp/once-cam…
It's good that these guys are famously terrible at predicting the future
BREAKING: Zuckerberg just described the near-future of computing, and it has nothing to do with screens.
His call: within 5 years, every person on Earth has a personal AI that knows their life, understands their goals, and does the work for them.
Not a chatbot. Not a search box.
An agent that is deeply, intimately embedded in how you live.
When the person building the social layer for 3 billion people says this is where we're going, it's not a prediction.
It's a roadmap.
Is the personal AI agent the most valuable product anyone can build right now?
My dear friend is in need of financial help as she has a lot of trouble finding stable employment. If you can help, here is the link: paypal.com/pools/c/9sqpk9ewC…
While I agree there are situations where changing the architecture improves performance much more than a language switch, I think "almost never" is a big exaggeration and it kinda ignores the fact that often language rewrites are much simpler than architecture changes
They used Fast API, so what could be the gain, you might ask. These were mostly GPU based apps, so they were a thin wrapper over an inference engine. Typically one or two endpoints. No architecture change and in some cases it allowed dropping 20% of servers. It might not sound...
like a lot, but once you have like a 1000 servers and each server costs $2/hr, it adds up.
This is funny cause well into 2000s she wrote her crime book that includes a Polish character named Lechsinka (not a Polish name), who didn't understand the word "detective", which is "detektyw" in Polish. By then, she had all the resources in the world. What's the excuse here?
I agree, but I don’t think it’s only about of software that may cause death. I see a big disconnect between people that write apps and people that write complex systems
An organization with the highest operational bar that basically let AI bots bring down their servers theguardian.com/technology/2…
If you don't know how the principal engineer track works at AWS, and the standards they hold themselves to, you won't understand the significance of this tweet.
Assertions like this are made based on data. At an organization with one of the highest operational bars and most rigor of any large scale platform.
An extraordinary thing to read. What a moment.
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Check out my discussion with @cmuratori on @spacetimedb! Really enjoyed our conversation.
youtube.com/watch?v=ONxwjqFj…
Millenial dad here. To anyone who calls this “gentle parenting”: this is not gentle parenting, this is no boundaries parenting and it’s stupid. I can’t comprehend how can a parent let their kids just break social norms instead of setting healthy boundaries
