Austin Spires

I don't need to have an opinion on everything.

Hemingway predicted what happens next

before you waste a lot of time in therapy trying to understand men, consider that Napoleon got volunteers to man a battery position with an almost 100% casualty rate by simply renaming it "the battery of not being a little bitch"

@chacon As long as it has a double album with karaoke versions

Asked ChatGPT to create a 90s country music album cover for me as a joke, but now that I see it I'm thinking I really should probably record this and go on tour.

@braelyn_ai Unfortunately...

its feels like wave upon wave of grifter is moving to san francisco and diluting the city that i’ve loved. its impossible to see the genuine nerd past the grift anymore

@yishan We've had welding automation for decades. We still need more human welders and fabricators than ever.

Welding is really hard and if we can build automation and robots to do it, it will be a big win for everyone.

@jmitch I have a xtienk 3 in the mail, and crosspoint was a huge reason why. Congrats

Proud to announce I've officially acquired CrossPoint, the amazing open source firmware for xteink devices. I've been a core contributor and maintainer since January but this is a big step forward for the future of the project. We are expanding outside of just supporting xteink devices now

@devahaz Couldn't even clear the table off first

Can tell these people are fake quirky by the sloppy execution of the concept

@JustJake Subsidizing kids education is always a good thing

My hot take is this is good More automation means less required labor, which means more beautiful things People get baseline needs met, rich subsidize, and the “middle class” becomes a safe area to swing for the stars ✨

@jmitch When you listen to his interviews it's kinda clear that Dario never encountered production software operations before accidentally building one

It's kind of absurd how Anthropic can say all our jobs will be gone in a year while simultaneously going down multiple times a day every day

Posted: The New Middle Class of Software Builders lukehefson.com/2026-05/the-ne…

Learn to Ode.

Forward deployed engineers, or equivalent, are about to become one of the most in-demand jobs in tech. And one of the most important functions for AI rollouts. Deploying agents is far more technical of a task than most people realize, often far more involved than deploying software. Software generally works the same way every time, and generally for the past few decades has been updated versions of an existing technology or concept (which basically means easier for the enterprise to update their workflows on a newer system). With agents, you’re actually deploying the equivalent of work output within the enterprise. The customer is effectively using you as a professional services provider for a task, which they expect to get solved nearly end-to-end now. This means you need to actually deeply understand the business process as a vendor, and get the customer from the current to the end state seamlessly. Companies need help figuring out which models will work best for their workflows, they need extensive evals setup often, they need change management support for workflows, they need to get their data setup for the agents, and constant tuning of the agentic system for their process. Massive role in tech now. And another example of the kind of highly technical work that AI is creating.

Customer service matters

Happy “Black Helicopter Day”, if you’re observing it… 46 years ago today, May 11, 1980, was Henry Hill’s final day as a goodfella, and it was an absolute marathon of errands, paranoia and bad decisions.

@GergelyOrosz @thescottleese I had a reporting change when I was on paternity leave, and I was summoned to a phone call via text -- I'd logged out of email and no one checks their phone calls anymore. So technically I got the heads up via a text before the call.

The notifying over text message (instead of the corp email) feels off, I will say Unfortunately, communicating mass layoffs efficiently and promptly (and not stretching it out) is considered the most humane... to the 80% NOT impacted, to know that they are safe and not worry for a long time in the future (which is what would happen if layoff news to those impacted would be delivered more carefully, say 1:1 conversation. Saw this play out as well at a previous job where one by one, those laid off were called into the office with HR and their manager told them face to face. It was more personal, but I can tell you incredible stress throughout the office...

Zoominfo laid off 20% of workforce this morning. Some of whom were told via text and one of whom was a pto. Classy.

@chacon All the abandoned domain names worldwide are about to finally have a use

also pretty interesting how i took a personal project i abandoned due to lack of time 15 years ago am and now can have an agent modernise it in a way that would have been impossible a decade ago

Crazy how much development is changing. Kid was sick today, so again spent all day on the couch. With my one good arm, I wrote a bunch of features for my personal project. Literally a single thumb did more work today than i’ve done in months sometimes in the past.

I genuinely don't understand the hate on the new Starfox reboot. Even if it reuses a bunch of the old map structures the ability to tell a richer story is going to be extremely cool. youtu.be/VPdobtLUa2Y?si…