Adam Pippert

I find it hilarious that people talk about building their business on X, like outreach is the only part of the business that matters. YES, you need customers, and YES, you need to evangelize, but you ALSO need a good product that will provide a good value to happy users.

@AGuyReborn @trashh_dev I think we all do.

@AdamPippert @trashh_dev I do wish Macs still had expandable ram. Bought 16 on an M1 Pro and would love to put 8x in there now

i’m ready to put my dotfiles on a real computer now. framework seems overpriced. thinkpad is the move yeah?

@billyjhowell This would be geologically better to have in central or southern Oregon. Less weather risk, plenty of Bortle 1 sky. What does it take to start one of these?

Just learned about the concept of a “telescope ranch” in Texas. People pay to have their $10,000+ telescope rigs set up in the middle of TX to avoid light pollution. Every night the roof rolls back off the warehouses. Then you can remote in to your telescope and use it from anywhere in the world.

@theo Why would you not want to experience a better driver?

Never taken a Waymo or any other self driving car. Held strong for 6 years. My friends in SF look down on me for it, but I will not cave.

Just like today, the workloads that affect people like your mom get build by someone or something else. It’s not like you expect her to architect her own house, raise all her own food, or sew her own clothes unless she has those skills. It’s easy to extrapolate lived experience.

@stan_info you cannot make my mother "move into agentic AI" ... the disconnect to the real-world is huge in AI Twitter

there are ~2M software engineers in the US there are maybe 40 million (and growing with vibe coders) in the world and it creates significant compute constrain on GPUs imagine when entire world moves into agentic AI we either need to get a lot more efficient intelligence, per byte or i don't know

@LastInfluence @teodorio It’s definitely different, just saying Oregon is less different than many other places around North America. Portland in particular has tight streets, cycle-heavy neighborhood streets, progressive policies, and relatively mild weather much like Paris.

@AdamPippert @teodorio I actually did spend a summer in that area. Corvallis. And you're right. It is gorgeous. Doesn't compare for me to European greatness, but that's actually personal bias since I'm from there. I feel a sort of sibling rivalry with Americans when comparing our great cultures.

There is NOTHING better on this Earth than European summer. Literally nothing. I get it now, the literature, civilizations, wars, all stems down from gentle UV light, mild 39 degrees and fermented grapes.

@cnakazawa This is like saying “college is a grift, because the public library is free”… you pay for guidance, not knowledge. Anyone can go look up things on the internet or ask a model what to do. Not everyone can know what’s worth asking.

People teaching AI must be the biggest of all tech education grifts. And there has been a lot of tech ed grift. A $200 codex subscription is all you need to change the world. Don’t listen to anyone who says you need a course.

@usr_bin_roygbiv I am saying it is not their responsibility to do so. Being better career wise is probably true, but CS degrees are not for learning the infrastructure trade (despite years of us doing so to the contrary).

@AdamPippert that's not the point of my post. I'm saying you are genuinely better off career wise working in IT and learning these things on your own time than going to school if they are wasting your time and not teaching you this.

you should know data structures, algorithm design, how a database works, C, compilers, assembly, git, unix based OS stuff and filesystems 100% and if they aren't teaching it drop out and stop wasting your time/money. Get an IT job or something around actual engineers

@LastInfluence @teodorio you laugh, but there’s a reason why French wineries are buying property in ribbon Ridge, and if you’ve ever spent a summer in the Pacific Northwest, you know you never wanna go back east for summer ever again.

@AdamPippert @teodorio 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@AnalogEnjoyer My parents built their house with two dishwashers. For them, it makes sense. My mom runs a television program out of her kitchen, it’s a quasi commercial set up. For someone who grew up eating cubed toast as cereal and sleeping on lawn furniture, it’s quite a come up.

Multiple replies about why two dishwashers is actually quite logical and useful. Of course it is. The point is that we are so spoiled that we are unable to tolerate things that were normal quite recently. How many Americans would be able to live without a dishwasher today?

@ankkala You mean Fedora Hummingbird Linux?

Idea: eliminate server side supply chain by making backend as a "bare metal" bootable image that runs inside a virtual machine. Be your own OS and everything else

@StefanFSchubert I prefer “explain it to a sales rep”.

That’s a terrible rule, have you met a five-year-old

@aubreystrobel I used to live in Las Vegas, and never have I ever met a culture that was so distant from higher ed.

growing up in arizona and spending summers on the jersey shore, i’ve noticed one major cultural difference east coasters are extremely proud of their colleges. they wear the gear everywhere. and not just ivy league schools, like every small regional college has a loyal fan base. in AZ/the southwest - almost nobody cares that much.

@LukasHozda They are great for kids. Neither of mine have managed to break my Model M, and they’ve broken plenty of other things in this house.

Model Ms are some of the best feeling keyboards with a standard layout, period. They sound great and they weigh a ton (IIRC the Model Fs were even heavier) They are still being made by Unicomp, who was former IBM workers that purchased the machines to make these

@jjackyliang AI labs are emulating the telecom industry for some reason, and acting like they invented some new thing. It will be a fad like everything else they steal and pretend they invented.

what with all this obsession of "member of technical staff"???

Honestly, AI asks quite a bit from you as a user. You have to know how to ask for what you want, you have to be skilled enough to create guardrails around any critical use cases, and you have to have access to the best versions of the tools to have the best outcomes. It’s too much for many people.

Seriously, why do people hate on AI so much?

@BenittoJD @wahab_twts I am writing my own OS specifically because of this problem. I am going to start from scratch and just write what I want to write for a handful of use cases and let the agents take care of the rest. github.com/AdamPippert/An…

I used to think that previously we had 500 MB of RAM. Look at the PS3; the legend itself has around 256 MB of RAM. I think that we engineers became more lethargic and were not concentrating on those because it was kind of unlimited. We could have more compute, and compute became cheap. Now we are going back to square one. Compute is becoming expensive. RAM prices are through the roof, and graphics card prices are through the roof. I think we will come to a point where we need better engineers so that we can do better memory management and make applications lean and mean.

Modern laptops are insane. 8-core chips. 32GB RAM. AI acceleration. Still opening Chrome takes 4 seconds.