Adam Hevenor
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A nice side effect of @superwhisper: it forces me to think a bit before I speak, and to form clearer, more coherent sentences. As someone who vomits words at the speed of Coltrane and Malmsteen, I find this very helpful.
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@daleverett If you can find some homies that are long time posters that really helps. Befriend a yc alumn or something before your campaign
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Somehow after nearly 60 years the db remains the most interesting piece of software IMO. I don't think Stonebrakers End of an Era paper bifurcation of OLAP and OLTP will hold up. New hardware (nvme) seems likely to collapse it but it'll take another ~30+ years due to incentives.
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The boring version of your data pipeline is often the best one. Parquet → S3 → DuckDB → BI tool. No distributed compute, no DAG framework, no orchestration complexity. It works reliably until it doesn’t, then you actually know why.
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@bentlegen Agree with this and at the same time am increasingly thinking tin foil hatting all my own deps is probably good.
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The lesson of diffs[dot]com and OpenTUI and libghostty is that the ceiling for cool software we can make is still capped by the availability of high quality libraries
We should be producing more libraries
Ben Vinegar@bentlegen
unpopular opinion, less code is still good, replacing well-documented/tested libraries with what-will-become unmaintained codegen is not better
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Skills should be:
- Concise
- Responsible for one thing, not multi-step
- Composable
- Progressively disclosed
- Harness-agnostic
What else? Or - what did I get wrong?
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Yep, have relegated opus to mostly front end work.
Siqi Chen@blader
honestly claude code / opus 4.7 feels barely usable compared to codex / 5.5 at this point for any kind of long running / complex engineering work
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i know people have lots of different planning harnesses and stuff, but I just organically drifted into having my agents collaborate on rfc's with backing GH issues and it's surprisingly easy to manage.
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15k+ followers and I legitimately think ive looked at every single profile who’s followed me
I plan on doing the same thing to 30k
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@doodlestein the load-bearing needs to stop -- but it's not bad for rfcs. it's out of hand in my repos too. definitely need this style rule in my docs.
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lol, Claude knows my preferences but is still irresistibly drawn to "load-bearing" slop terminology like a moth to a flame:
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@boristane agents are happiest to deploy through CI I have found. If you have CI in place they're DTP (down to push) without much coaxing I find.
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thats it i am going to RL a qwen model just to build ascii diagrams
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When I wake up in the middle of the night, I want to fully optimize my waking moments and get as much done as I can. That’s why I have Codex projected above my bed at all times.
It’s the only way.
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new in turbopufer: the Fuzzy filter
typo-tolerant substring matching with a configurable edit distance, so you can puff (or puf) even when you spell it wrong
docs: tpuf.link/fuzzy
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If you're not taking advantage of frontier models having unbelievably rich knowledge of essentially ALL of modern mathematics in your software engineering and optimization work, you're leaving a LOT of juice on the table! You don't need to understand it yourself, just verify it.
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dangerously close to the last few features needed to replace even the trickiest queries from gen-1 search engines...
turbopuffer@turbopuffer
new in turbopufer: the Fuzzy filter typo-tolerant substring matching with a configurable edit distance, so you can puff (or puf) even when you spell it wrong docs: tpuf.link/fuzzy
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Literally remember conversations with ctos about moving from pine cone to turbopuffer back in the day.
Nuts.
Simon Eskildsen@Sirupsen
turbopuffer crossed $100M run-rate in March. 19mo after $1M. Profitable & <$1M raised. Cursor・Anthropic・Notion・Cognition・Harvey・Bridgewater・Ramp・Linear・Legora・Superhuman・Atlassian・Granola We’d be nowhere without them. We work like hell to exceed their expectations.
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