Brendan Lally

@BrettBruen @mchalfant16 Aren't we grand

St Patrick’s Day is a good day to remind Americans that the Irish - despite being a country of only 5.2 million - now invest more here than any other country… Thanks for the great write up, @mchalfant16

@eoghan good on ye

@thinklikekai @theo_wayt @steph_palazzolo @waynema Like that

@theo_wayt @steph_palazzolo @waynema $200 million and couldn't keep him for a year The talent war in AI is genuinely insane Money doesn't buy loyalty anymore It just rents attention

Meta poached AI research superstar Ruoming Pang from Apple last summer with a pay package worth a reported $200 million-plus, part of a series of flashy and expensive hires by Mark Zuckerberg. Now, 7 months later, Pang has left for OpenAI. Scoop w/ @steph_palazzolo @waynema

@andrew_barba impressive support

10 hours ago I was in Guadalajara on way to Puerto Vallarta when chaos broke out in the airport and had to hide in a bathroom. Vercel leadership got together and didn’t stop until my wife and I were safe. Internet barely worked so they booked every US bound flight on our behalf, chancing that one would take off. Eventually one did. We just landed in Dallas. The US flight was Plan A but they were ready to act on a Plan B and Plan C if they had to. We are beyond grateful 🖤

@BrianButler111 @nlevine19 Fiction and costs are Huge drivers

@nlevine19 We used to mail letters. Then email made communication instant and free. Everyone joined. We used to stand in line at Western Union. Now we open a wallet and move money in seconds. When friction drops, participation explodes.

@inazarova showers not working !

Claude code, Rails and layered-rails skills is why you don’t see me at events anymore. I was planning to do smth in a couple months and it’s lunched after 2 weekends. Problem: I’m lagging on everything else.

@maciejmensfeld good improvements

Today is a good day. I made WaterDrop (Ruby Kafka messages producer) up to 60% faster, with 40% less memory usage and significantly lower CPU consumption when idle 🤯 #ruby #kafka #opensource

@joehas 400 real human workers or 400 AI bots?

Bonanza for lawyers, accountants and property developers. No spin off effects plus increased costs for companies started in ireland.

@MarkLTighe good luck on new adventures

Some personal news - after almost four years at the Sunday Independent, last weekend's was my last edition. It was a privilege working with so many great journalists. I'll hopefully have details on an exciting new project soon.

Enjoying Brian Hanly's talk from @brightbeam at #itag at #AI event in Hardiman Hotel #Galway on their company AI dashboard and systems

@joemasilotti destresser

Doing some deep business analysis between hikes this weekend.

@Shpigford no ; its hard .... : (

the one thing i've realized about the recent clawdbot fad is a TON of you are addicted to information and complexity. everyone acting like they need a personal assistant when what they really need is to learn how to say no to things.

@thejournal_ie That soon...

Contactless payments will come into effect on public transport in 2028, over a decade after the technology first began cropping up in European cities. jrnl.ie/6934067

@danobrien20 @thecurrency Like the WSJ

Very good news for @thecurrency subscribers - access to the Wall Street Journal now comes for free. This is a big deal. It's surprising how few people in Ireland read the WSJ given the hard-to-overstate importance of Ireland-US economic ties and the fact that it is the paper of record of corporate America, both financial and non-financial. The reasons to read it include not only being up to speed on what corporate America reads but also 1) The quality of the reporting is world class, both for US and international coverage. News articles are very well sourced, scrupulously impartial and analytically rigorous. 2) It has some excellent columnists. Walter Russell Mead on global affairs on Tuesdays, Karl Rove on US politics on Thursdays (today's column below) and Peggy Noonan on the world from Washington on Saturdays are among the most informative and thought-provoking. 3) A daily book review in the opinion pages Monday-Friday and a heavyweight book review section on Saturdays. 4) Its three daily leading articles (the paper's own views on issues) advocate a right-of-centre political worldview. This is particularly important for an Irish readership as no mainstream media outlet here makes the intellectual case for non-government led solutions. Public discourse, as a result, has become overwhelmingly statist/leftist, to a degree that is unhealthy in my view. 'Is the government doing enough?' is now the default question put by Irish media. That's fine, but unless 'is the government doing too much?' is asked as often, analysis of political choices tends to come overwhelmingly from one political viewpoint. Ideas matter in shaping political choices and decisions. While I very frequently disagree with the paper's editorial position on issues, real diversity of views is always needed in truly pluralistic societies. Well done to Ian, Tom and The Currency team for this initiative.

@destraynor Yikes

It's now an annual ritual where a EU leader says "we're going too hard on regulation lads" and everyone nods solemnly and returns to publishing PDFs that block progress. Zero impact. Meanwhile look at what Germany is actually doing. Let's see if that changes any time soon.

Interesting speed on model enhancements for AI code generation

@c_s_a_w @brankopetric00 What tools do you use

Yes and no. We don’t pull raw prod data around. Everything stays in the cloud, in a locked down debug environment with temporary, audited access only for people who need it. We run a sanitization pipeline that anonymises everything including PHI. What remains is just the minimal ID needed to reproduce the issue. The environment is short lived and the data is destroyed once the investigation is done. We tried avoiding prod data entirely but MTTR /resolution time went through the roof. There’s a difference between reckless copying and controlled, minimal, time-boxed access.

Stop using production data to debug production issues. The moment you copy that database dump to your laptop, you've created a security incident waiting to happen.

@brankopetric00 Would say it's the norm

@amix3k Some journey

This month marks 20 years of Todoist development. It's been the ride of a lifetime. I'm incredibly proud of everything we've built: the product, the team, the millions of people we've helped complete billions of tasks. I'm also excited about the next decade. But this has always been deeply personal for me. A lot of the early Todoist development happened while my dad was going through cancer treatment. He passed away long before he could see what Todoist would become. I'm crying as I write this, but I know he would be so super proud. RIP dad 😭

@bradgessler @c_sonnier @dhh @aviflombaum @kieranklaassen @marcoroth_ @jasonfried Must check it out

@c_sonnier @dhh @aviflombaum @kieranklaassen @marcoroth_ @jasonfried idk if it's an audio book, but "Systems Bible" is a great read. The name is horrible, but after I read it I started viewing technical, management, organization, etc. systems differently. amazon.com/SYSTEMANTICS-S…

Needs suggestions for a new audiobook for the gym. Already listened to: - All of @dhh's books - The Unicorn Project - The Phoenix Project - Steve Jobs - Jony Ive - The DevOps Handbook - The Pragmatic Progammer @aviflombaum @bradgessler @kieranklaassen @marcoroth_ @jasonfried