Fiserv VP Architect Fellow Platform Engineering | Founding engineer of Gyft | Former AWS community builder | 🇿🇦
Carlsbad, CA
Joined October 2008
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Michael Brewer retweeted
I have been coding since I was about 9 years old. My first computer was a ZX Spectrum 48K, then a Commodore 64, and I went on to the PC stacks of the 90s.
I studied low-level programming at the University of Cape Town, then started building startups, hiring engineers, and stopped programming for 20+ years during my career. I missed it, and I regretted deviating from where I started in life and my passion for computing for many years. It pained me.
AI has changed all that. Humans are the most inefficient coders today. Those of us with the skills to embrace AI quickly will become 10x+ more efficient at what we already do in all facets of our digital lives.
In just a few months, @trinaryai, we recreated an entire (and complex) computing stack from scratch (and for a fraction of the cost and time - coordination between humans is now just between sub-agents), and this is just the beginning of our journey.
This technical progress means teams within big companies will start to shrink, and productivity will rise.
There will be massive layoffs, but these people will leave to start their own companies, because capital requirements are plummeting across industries too. It's always been expensive to hire and find engineering talent. AI benefits the entrepreneur now more than ever.
It's a crazy world out there, but it's clear to me now that software is a solved problem - hardware is where the real challenge is. I'm bearish on software companies without hardware or network effects and bullish on hardware companies (across the stack) - going forward it's about atoms, not electrons.
The wealth creation effects of AI have barely been unlocked yet but I think we're all going to be very surprised by what happens next...
Michael Brewer retweeted
As promised, my next company is going to be a non-binary company!
Introducing Trinary.ai, a research lab testing and designing a new type of AI inference chip, that will use an entirely new software stack, without legacy binary code.
My co-founder, @ICastroGarcia and I are hoping to build the world’s first native ternary hardware device, developed and built entirely in Austin, Texas.
Check our website and videos below for more information. We don’t have all the answers yet, but we’re exciting about the possibilities that base 3 computing can offer!
Michael Brewer retweeted
Devin now has a Mac
Here are 11 experiments I've run over the past week, as well as open source code for over 100 more native apps.
Build, test, deploy iOS, iPad, and macOS apps in the cloud with just a prompt. ⚡
1. Build and test a multi-platform, multiplayer app in the cloud (iOS, iPad, web)
Michael Brewer retweeted
People who are sharing their take about reliability at GH:
- The COO (owning operations)
- The CTO (engineering)
- The CPO (product)
They are all peers to one another, and a subset of GH staff reports to them.
You know who we don't hear from? The CEO. Because there is none.
Michael Brewer retweeted
Ghostty is leaving GitHub. I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008. I've visited GitHub almost every single day for over 18 years. It's never been a question for me where I'd put my projects: always GitHub. I'm super sad to say this, but its time to go. mitchellh.com/writing/ghostt…
Michael Brewer retweeted
In 2023, we spent $3,934,099 on AWS + other hosting. In 2026, our hosting + support bill is down to ~$1m/year due to the cloud exit. Even including all the hardware buying, we will already have saved ~$4m by the end of this year. And going forward, it's ~$3m/yr in savings 🤑
Michael Brewer retweeted
Maybe the fumble of the decade by @AnthropicAI.
The most popular and fastest growing open source project of all time is not only named after you, but most users are power users of your product.
Instead trying to collaborate or work with him they chose violence 😭
Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our product offerings.
OpenClaw will live in a foundation as an open source project that OpenAI will continue to support. The future is going to be extremely multi-agent and it's important to us to support open source as part of that.
Why do people still tech (influencer) reviewers?
"We expect that when we launch in late 2026 this will be the most powerful combination of sensors and inference compute in consumer vehicles in North America."
-@Rivian
RIP FSD.
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Michael Brewer retweeted
We disrupted a highly sophisticated AI-led espionage campaign.
The attack targeted large tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturing companies, and government agencies. We assess with high confidence that the threat actor was a Chinese state-sponsored group.
Michael Brewer retweeted
A YouTuber named @Theo is demanding that the @FFmpeg project (the open source video encoding tool used across the computer world) kick out a contributor (the person running their X account) — and has offered a $20,000 bounty to FFmpeg if they give in to @Theo’s demands.
Theo, who appears to have a personal vendetta against the person behind the @FFmpeg account, has released a YouTube video where Theo repeatedly screams that the FFmpeg account administrator is a “motherf***er”.
In response, a small number of FFmpeg contributors are proposing a “vote” on whether or not to remove X account access from that contributor (and collect the $20k bounty).
Other FFmpeg contributors are pointing out that @Theo’s actions are those of a bully (manipulating a project and attacking individuals with large bounties, screaming profanities and name calling).
Michael Brewer retweeted
I’m a multi-millionaire thanks to Rails, @dhh, and the great company he keeps. There are many others who can claim the same. This framework and the people who stand behind it literally made my dreams come true.
Let’s ignore the noise and keep building.
Michael Brewer retweeted
This dumb letter, that was never going to go anywhere, hasn't even gathered 50 signatories 😂. Who in the right mind would also sign such an obvious "don't hire me, ever" self-declaration?
The organizer of the effort to kick out the founder of Ruby on Rails is sad because people have overwhelmingly responded in support of the targeted founder (@dhh).
The protest organizer, James Smith, stated:
“So far though, my experience has been that there are many more negative responses than positive.”
“That makes me sad. 😢”
James Smith also stated that the petition is getting angry comments.
“Looks like it’s pissing off the right people,” he stated.
A sample of those “angry comments” is in the screenshots.
Why do people so freely lie. Kind of sad regardless of which side of this you sit on
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Michael Brewer retweeted
How to be a designer:
- Find an arbitrary rule and follow it religiously.
- Be disappointed in someone else’s work.
- Call their problem “simple” without any knowledge of the constraints they faced.
- Insist that it would never have happened in the Steve Jobs era.
How can @Apple mess up a simple corner radius calculation on the new iPhone Air?
So disappointing.
This never happened in the Jobs and Ive era.
