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Aaron / funkytek retweeted
bookmark this post for when ontology becomes the hot buzzword in 3 months
the smartest engineers I know who use AI to build software at scale are all thinking about ontologies
we're now building 10000x faster but systems are not 10000x more correct. When you have probabilistic models touching your system in a world where code is generated at a much faster rate than humans can (or care to) check, you stop knowing whether your system is correct. Some people's answer is human review, some people say its formal verification, and some people say the answer is actually one level down at the ontology layer: a shared, formal understanding of what things mean in your world that enforces what’s allowed to be true.
more writing on this soon but if you have thoughts on this lets yap
Aaron / funkytek retweeted
I just KILLED Palantir!
Foundry lets you build your own company ontology. It uses @helixdb for the s3-backed ontology and @duckdb for transforming and analysing the data.
It's open source so check it out: github.com/HelixDB/helix-fou…
Aaron / funkytek retweeted
the future of enterprise ai is a sovereign ontology, deployed on prem, that grows into the last & final system of record for every company
one final git-backed folder called <my-company.exe>
your entire enterprise as code
Aaron / funkytek retweeted
to all the FDEs and more broadly software engineers:
I think everyone agrees that vibecoded software by non engineers is still far away from production grade for use at any meaningful scale, but why do you think that is? What concretely is the gap that exists in a world where code generation is good and cheap & there are business-savvy people?
Aaron / funkytek retweeted
How much of modern management theory is actually fossilized enterprise software?
Pipelines, workflows, tickets, stages, approvals, dashboards, OKR machinery, org structures.
Software encoded a model of the company. Companies absorbed it. Then managers carried that model into the next company.
Aaron / funkytek retweeted
on ai-native systems
as systems take on better abilities to (machine) learn about their users and environments, we’ll see a shift from static to more dynamic products
recommendations, computer vision etc as ml techniques have been embedded as part of the app layer for a decade+ now
but what about the rest of the stack? what will generative ai-native browsers, operating systems, networks etc look like that are more adaptive and incentive aligned to the user’s short and long term preferences
Aaron / funkytek retweeted
Why do pilots use checklists? Because anything that can be made deterministic, should be made deterministic.
Aaron / funkytek retweeted
Not a fan of being asked if it’s “my first time” visiting a restaurant. It’s not gonna be that crazy bro.
Aaron / funkytek retweeted
I finally built my own self-driving, personal CRM.
After many failed attempts and trying a lot different tools/products, I finally ended up with a system/approach I like built on top of Notion.
The best part: It auto-updates, so data never goes stale.
Aaron / funkytek retweeted
every dev is now either a slop cannon or a slop mop
one ships rapidly while the other follows behind keeping the codebase from falling apart, both valuable
Aaron / funkytek retweeted
Our participation in the syntax generation of software engineering is gone -- and good riddance. However, the rest, and most important part, of software engineering is still in full force.
Aaron / funkytek retweeted
✨ontologies✨
thanks Prof @coyle_frankp, @emileifrem, Jesús Barrasa, @steveonjava et al for reintroducing these concepts to the AI Engineering world
so much value in this talk from @coyle_frankp during @aiDotEngineer World's Fair. Thinking I should start talking more about these things on here. the world is healing
youtube.com/watch?v=Sir59K8Z…
Aaron / funkytek retweeted
a new era of poetry has dawned—and that’s not a backward step: #claudepoems
The dagger without the cloak always gives itself away, and that’s exactly what your system is doing. The dagger earns its keep as a weapon of war but it was never meant to be load bearing. my honest take: dawn the cloak, sharpen the shiv but sheath it until it’s really needed, and place the load where it belongs, not within the data stream, but after the user-facing beat.
Aaron / funkytek retweeted
The fix for this is to say: only report to me in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English
me, begging, crying, on my knees: "Please just use plain english, I don't understand what you're saying."
Claude: "The right fix, and the book's lesson applies: the tutorial rotted as a front door because a front door full of claims always rots. So the new root holds only what's timeless — the thesis and three doors — and every claim lives behind it in the thing that goes red when stale."
Aaron / funkytek retweeted
me, begging, crying, on my knees: "Please just use plain english, I don't understand what you're saying."
Claude: "The right fix, and the book's lesson applies: the tutorial rotted as a front door because a front door full of claims always rots. So the new root holds only what's timeless — the thesis and three doors — and every claim lives behind it in the thing that goes red when stale."
