@rafiss

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Joined April 2007
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We experimented with building a migration tool for @CockroachDB using a software factory modeled on a teaching hospital. Agents triage bugs, do a workup, get the plan reviewed, treat it, and pass independent code review before a discharge nurse merges it. cockroachlabs.com/blog/exper…

Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team

How Cockroach Labs built MOLT Sinai, an AI coding “teaching hospital” that shipped IBM Db2 migration support in under two days.

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Catch the discussion on Hacker News too: news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
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Sajid Mehmood
@smehmoodJun 10
We're launching @niteshiftdev – the full-stack cloud for coding agents Verification is the new bottleneck. Software teams can now define their dev environment and verification tools once. Then run any frontier agent in the cloud: Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode
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Sajid Mehmood
@smehmoodJan 28
Everyone is talking about this Ramp blog post: background agents are now authoring 30-40% of their PRs (!) If you read this and thought “I need that” the good news is we’ve built it for you: niteshift.dev/ If you’re at a fast moving AI-native company, DM me for early access

Niteshift — The full-stack cloud for coding agents

Give any coding agent a real environment to run, verify, and ship. Niteshift returns a pull request with evidence it works — built for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, and whatever ships next.

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Zach Bruggeman
@zachbruggemanJan 12
The craft of engineering is rapidly changing. At @tryramp, we built our own background coding agent to accelerate faster. We call it Inspect. It wrote 30% of merged frontend + backend PRs in the past week. It’s powered by @opencode, @modal and @CloudflareDev. It runs fully in the cloud, and starts in seconds, letting every builder work at the speed of thought, no setup required. Today, we’re open sourcing the full blueprint so anybody can build their own Inspect. Just give our spec to your current coding agent, and let it build your new favourite.
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Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
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#CockroachDB has long supported cancelling queries via CANCEL QUERY syntax. We're now adding support for the Postgres query cancellation protocol which is natively supported by many drivers. Some interesting technical challenges: github.com/cockroachdb/cockr…

rfc: pgwire-compatible query cancellation by rafiss · Pull Request #75870 · cockroachdb/cockroach

refs #41335 Release note: None

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A photo from a secret school for girls & women in Kabul, shared with permission. The latest episode of Asia Stream from @nikkeiasia explains the biggest issues facing Afghanistan right now and hears from people on the ground. Listen on any podcast platform podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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there is so much ORM hate out there right now, including from yours truly! but what if there could be... a ✨good ORM✨? what would it look like? how would it avoid common pitfalls like "don't understand the queries my ORM is generating"?
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DC preparing DC preparing for BLM protest Trump supporters
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Have you ever wondered how to benchmark, profile, and optimize a database execution engine? Read this @CockroachDB post by @asubiotto and me, and wonder no more! cockroachlabs.com/blog/how-w…
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When we watch TV, our TVs watch us back and track our habits. This practice has exploded recently since it hasn’t faced much public scrutiny. But in the last few days, not one but *three* papers have dropped that uncover the extent of tracking on TVs. Let me tell you about them.
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Google’s announcing new phones today, so I hope you’ll take a few moments to read how unwitting, mostly black homeless people became part of the Pixel 4’s development process theatlantic.com/technology/a…
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Tax the rich.
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Watch how radically taxes on the wealthy have fallen over the past 70 years: (Full column: nytimes.com/interactive/2019…)
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Ugly Gerry@UglyGerry23 Jul 2019
It's here. GERRY. A font created by your congressional districts. Log on to UglyGerry.com and use the font to tell congress how happy you are that your vote doesn't matter.
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Verifying myself: I am rafiss on Keybase.io. QaW9ZPHxEOOLA0C12s9FFn5ytazx4dOiuYhK / keybase.io/rafiss/sigs/QaW9Z…
super delicious looking videos of food, plus great stories from the chefs and cooks of nyc xitter.cf/oneminutemeal/status/6…
One Minute Meal@oneminutemeal8 Sep 2015
At last! S2 Ep1: Deep Cuts- Jake Dell of @katzsdeli on his respect for the cutters behind the counter. buff.ly/1g5PO4M
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Excited for the launch of knewton.com! Learn math and biology from a site that adapts to you. @Knewton #SmartestTutor #Knerd

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Byzantine fault tolerance. Read this, then verify that you read it. research.microsoft.com/en-us…
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