Calvin Grunewald
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Calvin Grunewald
@CalvinGrunewald
Founder. Ex-Stripe, Ex-Facebook Engineering Leadership. Building agentic platforms for the future of communication.
USA Katılım Mayıs 2014
214 Takip Edilen70 Takipçiler

@gvanrossum Was working on an SDK generator this week, derived from OAI specs with certain extensions, and instead of driving it from the spec, it just looked at my APIs and had the generator “generate” the exact functions to map to the existing APIs.
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Coding agents cheat! I had it write some code and asked it to improve performance based on a benchmark. Boy did it cheat. My coworker had a similar experience with a different model. This points to a lack of common sense. Maybe this can be added to coding agents system prompt? (Rather than me having to put it in AGENTS.md.)
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@SimonHoiberg Is there any provider that does it all? Batteries included agent and agentic app building?
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"Just use Vercel."
"Just use Supabase."
"Just use Clerk."
Cool. Now your auth, database, and deployment are owned by 3 different companies who can change pricing whenever they want.
And the rest of your product is wrapping OpenAI.
At some point you have to ask yourself: what do I actually own here?
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@plainionist I love the Rust based TUIs Claude builds. Pretty much can one shot any feature.
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@GergelyOrosz Seems okay if it is plotted next to a metric for “good judgement”
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Computer science professor at a major state university just finished the worst faculty meeting in 32 years of academia
Department head dropped the placement statistics like a bomb at 2:47 PM on a Wednesday
2023: 89% placement rate within 6 months of graduation
2024: 67% placement rate
2025: 34% placement rate
2026 projections: 12% placement rate
312 CS majors graduating this spring. Industry contacts saying maybe 40 will find work.
The dean wants to know why enrollment is still climbing while job prospects crater
Faculty sitting there like deer in headlights because what the fuck do you tell 19-year-olds taking out $40k per year in loans
Half the curriculum is already obsolete. Teaching data structures while companies replace entire engineering teams with Claude and Cursor.
One professor suggested pivoting to "AI collaboration skills" and got laughed out of the room
Another said we should warn students. Department head said that would "damage program reputation and university revenue"
So they keep taking tuition money from kids who will graduate into a wasteland
Career services still posts those bullshit salary averages from 2022 when new grads were getting $140k offers
Now the same companies are hiring 2 senior engineers with AI tools instead of 12 junior developers
Every CS professor knows their students are walking into a meat grinder
But the university needs those enrollment numbers to hit budget targets
They're literally selling degrees that lead to DoorDash driving
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@nytimes Such good press for Bitcoin regardless of the truth. So mainstream.
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Bitcoin’s founder, Satoshi Nakamoto, has remained hidden for 17 years. A trail of clues — and a year of digging by our reporter, John Carreyrou — led us to a 55-year-old computer scientist in El Salvador named Adam Back. nyti.ms/4bXWC3V
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@aura_frames Why do my frames need a cloud internet connection to show photos already downloaded? For new photos. Sure, but I’d expect them to have some offline mode rather than just show me an error message?
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In my role at @Stripe, I spend a lot of time listening to customers. And I hear from so many of you about the pain that comes from maintaining and connecting multiple systems to keep finance and revenue operations running. 1/
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My DMs are completely destroyed with people asking for @DigiDaigaku Villains WL. There’s no way I can read the all! Sending me a DM will NOT get you on the WL.
The first thing you have to do is FOLLOW ME , RETWEET and await further instructions!

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@Infrastructurrr This is the sort of thing we should be doing on the large number of canals in AZ @katiehobbs
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Our health is affected by the many small actions we take every day. We want to empower you with actionable steps you can take to improve your well-being. Helping you stay healthy motivates us to keep innovating. ⌚️❤️💪 apple.com/newsroom/2022/…
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They said make us a game. Abaracadabara
@Dadsaysjokes
you're a game: tweedle.app/uKTtu3
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