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CTO of @InfluxDB (YC W13), founder of NYC Machine Learning, series editor for Addison Wesley's Data & Analytics, author of Service Oriented Design with Ruby.
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Paul Dix retweeted
The contagion of fear
bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09…
I think the embedded evaluators formalized by government need some sort of name so we can refer to them.
Hmmmm.
Perhaps The Turing Police?
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.
Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.
You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…
Paul Dix retweeted
Boston’s @ApacheDataFusio meetup last week was a blast. Huge thanks to @andrewlamb1111 and to Pratibha Rana + @datadoghq for bringing the community together.
A special thank-you to @pauldix for years of visionary support for DF (and for believing in @Bauplan_labs!): review in 🧵
Looks like my "End of Programming" post got some coverage by @ThePrimeagen. I think it's fair coverage and I agree with his points. From the end of his video "technical expertise is going to be a gigantic differentiator".
I couldn't agree more. Agentic AI currently provides leverage for the humans operating them. The more knowledge and expertise you have, the greater the impact of that leverage.
A senior programmer with specific knowledge about a hard problem they're solving will run circles around a junior programmer (or non-programmer) vibe coding without any idea what's going on.
Although what constitutes hard will continue to be a moving target as the AIs get better at building all the things.
Here's the full video: youtube.com/watch?v=Eg5bygoM…
Here's my post if you haven't read it yet: pauldix.com/the-end-of-progr…
Oof, these code examples are rough. Maybe we still need to review that code, at least from Astra.
Astra is really, really cool but I cannot current trust it for my present day engineering. At least until I have adjusted. Some random thoughts including code samples of what I recovered from my traces. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9/7/as…
Hey @Cloudflare it looks like other people in your Discord are having the same problem. You broke your paying customer onboarding. You've charged me, but still have me on a free plan. I really would like to not dispute the CC charge.
My post: discord.com/channels/5953179…
@Cloudflare help, I've tried to sign up for a CF account and upgrade to paid, but can't. Your AI says I can't ask for human help because I'm not on a paid plan and I can't get on a paid plan because your flow broke and is now in some inconsistent state where I can't do anything to actually sign up to give you money. I have a valid payment method entered. No clue why this failed as it was on a new account signup and all I tried to do was upgrade to paid.
@Cloudflare help, I've tried to sign up for a CF account and upgrade to paid, but can't. Your AI says I can't ask for human help because I'm not on a paid plan and I can't get on a paid plan because your flow broke and is now in some inconsistent state where I can't do anything to actually sign up to give you money. I have a valid payment method entered. No clue why this failed as it was on a new account signup and all I tried to do was upgrade to paid.
Might as well amplify this response because people seem to be either hiding from reality or completely missing the point...
You're not paying attention to what's in front of you. Do you think the exponential increase in software being pushed to GH was created by an exponential rise in computer programmers signing up and pushing code?
No, it was created by AIs. And what happens in an exponential growth curve? The vast majority of what is measured (in this case code) is created in the later stages of the curve.
Sometime next year (if not this year), there will be more code in the world that was created by AI than created by humans.
You can feel any way you want about this, but it's an unavoidable reality.
Most code is created by AIs and even more in the future will be created by AIs.
That doesn't mean that the world won't need people trained in software engineering and computer science. It doesn't mean that we won't need people with deep expertise. We will need them. More computer scientists than ever before.
They just won't have to type the characters to create lines of code (i.e. programming).
More big moves in the database world: ducklabs.com/news/2026/08/26…
DuckDB is great software, congrats to Hannes and the team. Good to see that it's still going to be permissive, free open source!
I think the release of Bun 1.4 marks the end of programming as we know it. Anthropic and OpenAI developers live in the near future and if we pay attention, it's what's coming for the rest of us by next year: pauldix.com/the-end-of-progr…
Great to see DataFusion get a callout on this #rustlang post about the next gen trait solver. Over 8x faster compilation for DF! Now @andrewlamb1111 and team can ship even more awesome DataFusion improvements faster. blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/2…
This is just the beginning. I suspect most of that is being driven by people doing side projects. Most developers in their day jobs haven't been unleashed to produce the hundreds of commits per week they could be doing. Tons of process lag to unwind still.
I'm not commenting on Rust vs. Zig. I'm more commenting on the fact that AI wrote 1M LOC in 11 days and within a few months that code is running in production on millions of developer machines and it all "just works".
Software development is changed forever. And it's magical.
This is an excellent read. I thoroughly enjoyed its thickness. No notes.
experimental-history.com/p/i…
So Bun 1.4, the first official release of the big Rust rewrite, is out. Seemingly better in basically every way, proven out through millions of Claude Code installations running for the last few months. Will be interesting to see how it does in a broader set of use cases.
Either everything coming from the naysayers is pure cope, or they get a big "I told you so". My bet is on the former, and this will become a seminal event in the history of the rise and fall of the computer programmer as someone who types in code and reads it line-by-line.
But I predict it'll still take years for enterprises and more risk averse places to catch up. We have at least another decade ahead of people doing it the old fashioned way and getting paid for it. It just won't be the leading edge where the most productive people are working.
An interesting look into how @wesmckinn and team are doing engineering at their new startup: wesmckinney.com/blog/agentic…
Hundreds of PRs per week with three people. This is the way.