Jamie

@shoshanaberger That it is possible or the content?

Epic

@vodangkhoa873 @mitchellh @Nek__12 It's exactly what zero-sum means. If you pack the red sweater, there's less room for the blue

@mitchellh @Nek__12 Of course it’s zero sum. As there are a finite number of things that you can pay attention to. And again I don’t think that’s what “zero sum mentality” means. When you choose what to pack in your suitcase, do you call that a “zero sum game”?

Mind boggling to me that I can make a thing faster and there's always people that ask "but why?" What kind of mentality is that? The pursuit of excellence does not need justification. Also, I find in so many cases, we can't know the impact of an improvement until we do it. For example, one I've talked about before: Ghostty's high IO throughput has enabled terminal program (emulator and TUI) fuzzing at a speed thats incomparably fast to prior solutions. This has resulted in upstream patches to resolve issues in popular projects like btop, tmux, and more. Speed enabled that anecdotally example that lifted the tides of adjacent communities that don't rely on Ghostty technology at all. I didn't predict this. Make things better because they can be better and let the results naturally play out.

@louispilfold Congratulations! It's so fun! When you get a bit more control over it then doing a forward roll while you are up in support position (slowly) and then doing the final part of the muscle up again to get back to support. That one looks cool!

Small non-tech life boast: I did a muscle up on gymnastics rings yesterday for the first time! I wasn't even seriously trying, I just wanted to demonstrate the technique to someone. I was completely unable to do it a second time 😅

@evancz I'm here and enjoy programming 🇩🇰

I have been off Twitter for a while... Are "people who enjoy programming" actively using Twitter these days? Have people switched over to bluesky? I made bsky.app/profile/acadia… but I don't have a good sense of how people redistributed after the ownership change here.

@JoshiAbhyudaya @paulg It's easy to throw them into any Speech To Text tool nowadays and have high quality audio. Chrome/Edge even have it built-in to the browser that you can ask for an audio version

@paulg Are you planning to release an audio version of your essays? Not sure I have seen them yet. Would be super helpful for busy founders to listen on the go.

I strive to make my writing unsummarizable, in the sense that it has so little fluff left in it that if you take any words out, as summaries by definition do, you lose a lot of interesting ideas.

@paulg Even LZ4 can't compress your writing!

@jabbadabadu @anujcodes_21 My thoughts exactly

@anujcodes_21 Anthropic recorded this May 2025 and released on Youtube August 2025.

🚨 Anthropic just showed a 24-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude. Taught by the people who built it. Free. No registration. No paywall. I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes. Watch it and bookmark it now.

@louispilfold Go with @mitchellh to where he ends up

The frequency with which GitHub goes down is starting to become a real hindrance. This blows. I'm quite fond of GitHub.

It's crazy how @GeminiApp can't create a @GoogleWorkspace spreadsheet.

@artman The model might be capable, but I've tried coding with it, and it's just difficult to use in a CLI as an agent

It's kinda crazy how Google is incapable of getting developer mind-share. For all I know Gemini is a great model for coding, yet I know literally not a single person that uses it as their daily driver. Seems like Google is missing one Satya to make them cool and used again.

@mitchellh The agents doing the GHA part to stay sane resonate so much. I hated doing them before, but now I am investing much more into the CI

Btw, for Ghostling (libghostty demo), I didn't write a single line of... anything. Agents wrote 100% of everything you see incl. Nix flakes, CI jobs, etc. I reviewed every line of code manually and constantly nudged the agents in the right direction. I used a mix of Opus+Codex. Note: libghostty itself is of course heavily hand written (with agent assistance all over too, though). I'm just talking about Ghostling itself. Even for CI setup (GitHub actions), I had the agent sit in a `gh` CLI loop watching failures, fixing, pushing, fixing, pushing, etc. Doing GHA with agents are the only way I stay sane, honestly. I just re-read the full main.c from top to bottom and I'm very satisfied. I would've done some things differently but if an engineer I worked with PRed all this, I would've accepted it. Its good enough. Some people have pointed out the commenting is over the top and indicative of AI. This is actually my personal comment style, and I told the agent to comment heavily (its even in the AGENTS.md, look for yourself!). Anyone who has worked with me professionally or in OSS knows that I comment everything all the time.

@shahyn_kamali @sama A simple `if (true)` would suffice

@sama Billion dollar app idea: AI that reads billionaire tweets before they post them and says 'this is going to make you sound incredibly out of touch, are you sure?'

I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took. Thank you for getting us to this point.

@rtfeldman Yeah I think it's a weird disconnect. I agree with you that I see it personally as a huge boost, and so must the others, but why aren't we seeing better software, faster?

For what it's worth, I use LLMs constantly for coding. Personally, I think they've been great for the projects I've worked on. Globally, the results seem to speak for themselves: to the extent the needle has been moved, I can't point to it having moved in a positive direction.

In the past 3 years, I haven't noticed any uptick in release speed for software I use. If productivity is increasing, I can't tell as an end user. I have noticed decreases in uptime, increases in bugs, and a HUGE increase in people bragging about how many PRs per day they land.

@modisulak @rtfeldman I don't entirely agree. I have a large speedup in brownfield

@rtfeldman the gains are real but they're in greenfield. the software you use is mostly legacy codebases where AI barely moves the needle. the bragging is coming from the other category.

@gleamlang Yay!

Gleam v1.15.0 is out now! gleam.run/news/upgrading…

@TheGingerBill @oxcrowx I think he is arguing for some people to create a VM or Docker-esque runtime that has this abstracted and they would deal with it. I don't see how people will be able to compile it further to their architecture without the source code though (and making the necessary OS changes)

@oxcrowx The problem isn’t compiling for a specific architecture. The problem is dealing with how each OS does things differently and you cannot abstract that away perfectly. Write once run anywhere is a myth.

Software distribution is messed up. I don't want to compile the same thing for multiple OSs. It'd be nice if we could compile a portable IR that runs on a VM (like Java, C#), and if users want highest performance, they can compile the IR to native executable, on their machine.

@ChShersh Generational beauty

People will tell you that Haskell is elegant. And it's true. This is some real Haskell code I had to work with.

@cmuratori @ThePrimeagen The only one watching me code is the creepy project manager that wants the feature yesterday

@ThePrimeagen IDK. People watch you because they like watching you do stuff - that's what being a streaming personality is, right? So you should code the way you want to code! The product is the show, not the code, so who cares how much code is produced? What difference does it make?

its crazy... what the hell is happening to me i feel guilty for not vibe coding. i could be _producing_ so much more if i did... this token anxiety is real

@ThePrimeagen Bring down the YouTube cartel! @_andrewthecoder is on to something, @ThePrimeagen is definitely in a cartel with the other high traffic YouTubers! Let's shed some light on this! #YouTubeCartel

@ThePrimeagen @_andrewthecoder @ThePrimeagen it's not a clique it's a cartel

@_andrewthecoder brother what the hell are you saying? my time, like everyone elses is limited and i can only connect with a few. who is this youtube clique you are accusing me of? i hang out with no one but my fam you goof