Nick Selvaggio

Absolutely beautiful rant about AI in Linux Kernel from Linus yesterday: I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer. Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away. AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one. It may not have been that "clearly" even just a year ago, but it's no longer in question today. There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of those questions. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn't actually used it. Yes, it can also be a somewhat painful tool, both for maintainer workloads and just from a "it keeps finding embarrassing bugs" standpoint. But the solution is not to put your head in the sand and sing "La La La, I can't hear you" at the top of your voice like some people seem to do. The solution is to make sure those LLM tools _help_ maintainers instead of just causing them pain. There's no question on that side. We're not forcing anybody to use it, but I will very loudly ignore people who try to argue against other people from using it. And no, AI isn't perfect. But Christ, anybody who points to the problems at AI had better be looking in the mirror and pointing at themselves at the same time. Because it's not like natural intelligence is always all that great either. The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology. Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the _point_ of the project. This is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be. In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons. And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools. Linus

Thanks you for posting this. It makes a lot more sense. This also tracks a lot more with what we are doing in our business. For example we replaced expensive carrier integration software with our own stack. We have been building a “harness” layer for years… the AI tools are now allowing us to compound on top of this … but we still use vendors for various things

You takes an ambiguous news item, inflates into a "historic signal," dismisses competitors and ends with the pitch. There was no announcement that Starbucks is "moving off IBM and Microsoft." What exists is a leaked internal presentation, reviewed by Bloomberg, showing that Starbucks is developing its own alternatives to two specific tools: a Microsoft system that monitors inventory and an IBM product that manages maintenance. Moreover, that software could roll out by the end of next year, depending on test results. In other words: an experimental project, narrow in scope, conditional. Attributing daily drops in IBM and Salesforce stock to a leak about Starbucks is a post hoc fallacy. Worse: Salesforce doesn't even appear in the story. One company testing the replacement of two tools becomes "the largest companies in the world are done paying for software." LoL Starbucks is not abandoning big tech: its "Green Dot Assist" virtual assistant, built on Microsoft's Azure OpenAI platform, is still expanding. Have you ever tried building a corporate brain, not one that runs locally on your machine, but one for a mid-sized or large company? Because the difference isn't one of degree, it's one of kind. Running something like Karpathy's wiki locally works great: one user, data that's yours, zero permissions to manage, no consequences if it leaks, you're just talking to yourself. That's why the demo is so convincing. The personal use case eliminates, by construction, everything that makes the problem hard. In a corporate setting, every one of those shortcuts disappears. Anyone who thinks "you just index everything" has never sat through the meeting with the CISO. Source: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Starbucks spends $400 million a year on software. Yesterday they announced they're moving off IBM and Microsoft to build their own custom systems in-house. IBM dropped 3% and Salesforce dropped 4% on the news. And honestly this is, unequivocally, the biggest signal I've seen since OpenAI and Anthropic launched their consulting arms back in Q1. The largest companies in the world are done paying for software that half fits how they work. We saw this coming about a year ago. Moved everything we build off Airtable and low-code tools and went fully custom. Already paying off, and it's only going to compound from here. This is the opportunity right now. You get all of a company's data into one system. You build out a single operating system for the entire business. You cut out bad, redundant processes. Then you layer AI on top of it, under the correct processes. That's the core of AI consulting. Helping companies actually operate better. There are a lot of fly-by-night offerings circulating right now when it comes to Ai Services. For example, 'second brains'. Throwing scattered data into a second brain while the processes underneath stay broken does nothing. The companies who will absolutely destroy their competition over the next 5 years are rebuilding how they work from the ground up. Starbucks is showing you what other companies will be doing over the next several years. Your job is to position yourself to facilitate that process for as many companies as you can.

One of the best quality of life improvements is the simplest of all: Like more things.

@benjaminjwhitby @StaniKulechov @0xKolten Was thinking the same thing. 🚀

@StaniKulechov @0xKolten What are Abundance Assets?

Aave expanding beyond crypto.

@jordankdalton Absolutely. The lines are blurring for sure.

@direct I agree. I do wonder though what the leap will look like form them to finally become “senior” though. The bar is going to get nuanced.

Anyone else notice the sudden radio silence on 'AI is going to replace junior developers'? What happened to that narrative? 😅

@markproduct Curiosity.

Founders, what's one word that keeps you going?

@majidmanzarpour @threejs Dope! Thanks for sharing prompt 🤘🏼

real-time procedural dungeon generator in @threejs, built with Fable 5 👇

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@kylegawley I think it will commoditize before the big guys can squeeze. Many alternatives emerging.

Token costs will be unaffordable for small devs when the funding ends We're already seeing evidence of that with CoPilot People who were paying $50/mo then suddenly it's $5k/mo Build as much as you can now, the party won't last forever Learn to code if you can't already If your small business is dependant on AI you're going to get cooked

Stoked to be an @aztecnetwork sequencer!! 🚀🚀🚀🚀

Gorgeous books from @welchlabs... trying to promote some summer learning in my home!

@sflorimm Still does but I think our harnesses and tooling around the LLM just keeps getting better.

nobody talks about AI hallucinating anymore. why?

@sflorimm Not sure if it about more or less… it’s def different and output is way up. The core issue is what to focus on to add the most value. Attention is still finite. 😵‍💫

Haven’t met anyone working less after adopting the AI.

@twilson63 @rauchg Awesome name! I like the idea of signed messages for agent to agent communication.

@direct @rauchg Very Cool, I am building zenbin.org and creating the zen stack zen bin (agent publishing) zen inbox (agent messaging) zen brain (agent memory) zen vcs (agent git) zen is becoming multi-agent primitives to coordinate and produce across harnesses.

HTML is so back. Drag and vercel.com/drop

@twilson63 @rauchg We built mystack.co and have been using it with our clients. It’s been working well… pretty simple. “Build and host on my stack” 🤘🏼

@rauchg letting agents publish html would be a boss move!

@Brennan_Lup I think the fundamentals are more important now then ever.

Be honest devs, is coding still worth learning in the AI era?

@asaio87 The key is 0 users.

Nobody wants to admit it but "vibecoding" works until your app has actual users. Then you discover what senior engineers have been getting paid for.

@javif4_ The future is bright! God bless 🤘🏼

I'm 40. Single. No kids. It's 6:49 AM. I'm talking with Claude Code. This machine is building my first app. Watching videos on youtube of teenagers making 100K per month with apps they've built in 2 days. Everything is getting weird. This is not what I expected or I was told my life to look like. But I do love how it looks. Good Morning!

@kylegawley Banger 😂

I cancelled my $10/mo Calendly subscription and vibe coded my own with Fable for $12,000