Distinguished Engineer at Google. Previously NASA Nebula Technical Lead during the creation of OpenStack. Opinions are my own.

San Francisco
Joined June 2010
1/ I got nerd-sniped by a C++ compiler course 13 years ago and quit when the next step turned into a tedious parser refactor. A few months ago I handed the old code to Codex. It finished the refactor in about an hour.
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1/ Update from my agent-built c++ compiler project: I've had multiple end-to-end runs that reach self-hosting with no-human intervention. One was good enough for me to completely replace my reference implementation.
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2/ With post-run optimizations I'm within 50% of the performance of gcc/clang. Further runs will hopefully bring that down. Lot's to learn here about long-horizon agentic work. See all the details in medium.com/@vishvananda/agen…
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8/ My current read: agents handle tedium well. They also take the easy path. Humans need contracts and gates that make that path land in the right place.
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9/ I wrote the whole thing up in four parts, including the repos if you want to run your own agent through the suite: medium.com/@vishvananda/i-sp…
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If you’ve ever wanted to know more about 12-Factor, this is the episode of Code[ish] to listen to! Let special guest @vish tell you more and get to the heart of 12-Factor. 🎙️
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#Sponsored On this episode, Ryan chats with Vish Abrams,  chief architect at @heroku, about the work that needs to be done after you’ve creating your dream app with vibe coding, and the security and scaling considerations that come along with it. stackoverflow.blog/2025/06/2…
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Please visit the Heroku blog for a thorough explanation of our recent outage on June 10, 2025: bit.ly/43XPFdW
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AI tools are changing the development landscape, with developers acting more as directors than manually writing every line. Listen to this @software_daily podcast to learn more from Chief Architect @vish on #AI tools and the “vibe coding” techniques. bit.ly/3EHx39s
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Amazing conversation with @SavIsSavvy and @pnashawaty . Thanks for having me!
Day 3 of #KubeConEU is LIVE! 🚨 Join @theCUBEresearch’s @SavIsSavvy and @pnashawaty with @Heroku’s @vish, as they discuss how AI is going to create more developers instead of replacing them. 📺 Tune in NOW for more insights from #theCUBE at #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon EU! thecube.net/events/linux-fou… #RapidDeployment #AICoding
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🚀 Our next-gen #PaaS simplifies cloud-native, AI, and agentic capabilities for developers. Built on leading cloud infrastructure, it accelerates app deployment and scales effortlessly. 💻🌐 sforce.co/3D0lWar #CloudNative #AI #DeveloperTools
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Just posted a roundup of recent work on #12factor and what we are planning next: 12factor.net/blog/december-m…
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When in Vegas 💜 #Heroku
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