Abhay

The next time you’re prioritizing, create estimates first! Let me explain why: (1/n)

@samlambert 100%

If we held an event where we dug deep into PlanetScale's architecture to show you why we are so resilient would you attend?

@diptanu @kellabyte I was thinking of Oxia: streamnative.io/blog/introduci…

@bothra90 @kellabyte Yeah I think it was something on top of TiKV if I remember correctly.

I get a lot of questions about why Kubernetes isn’t the right foundation for sandbox infrastructure. It was built for stateless micro-services with predictable traffic patterns, and databases that run forever. Sandboxes are different, they’re high-throughput like batch jobs and stateful like databases. You don’t want your vibe-coding agent to install all your app’s dependencies, download code, etc. every time it starts. You want the sandbox, with the agent in it, to start immediately, with code, dependencies, agent memory preserved from the last session. Doing this with Kubernetes at scale is hard, and even with a lot of hacks it would be working around warm pools.

@diptanu @kellabyte Didn’t someone write a scalable replacement for etcd?

@kellabyte Well lol I didn't want to dump on etcd. Kids these days don't know what etcd is Kelly :D

@AcquiredFM @igordownunder ASML?

@igordownunder There's a good chance that this company is incredibly important to you personally, but you rarely think about it. The founder has proven that less does indeed lead to more. (Dropping Monday)

@AcquiredFM any hint on new episode ?

Kubernetes Secrets are not encrypted. They are base64 encoded. We have been calling them secrets for ten years and the auditors have not caught on.

Bill Gates helped make personal computing mainstream. Sergey Brin dramatically expanded access to information. Jeff Bezos gave the world quick & cheap access to goods. AOC gets a taxpayer-funded salary to do political theater. Yes, it is possible to earn a billion dollars.

@rakyll I love Go, but I think the problem is that Go makes concurrency too easy to use as a tool

People of pi. I'm removing Gemini CLI and Antigravity logins from pi. Welcome to 2026, the year of the end of subsidies.

Go provides lightweight threads and a variety of synchronization capabilities as core language features for convenience and a unified library space. Go never claimed that concurrency is easy.

Kubernetes isn't a scam. People don't just realize what it is, and what it brought to the world. What Kubernetes did to the world is to teach and bring Control System theory to the masses. With control system, you could run software at scale like never before. If you design your software in closed feedback loops, you can have, just like a machine, an ongoing stable system running for 7/24, that can self recover and steer itself. People trying to use other orchestration systems, had to work and implement all of it themselves. And most of them didn't had proper primitives, so it was very brittle. With Kubernetes, you have /status, the reconciler/controller-runtime framework, requeues and CRD's. If you use all of these together, you can build a feedback loop, and apply control systems knowledge. And with Google's push, it became the winner. There is a really nice book about it: "Designing Distributed Control Systems: A Pattern Language Approach". It's actually about machines, not software (like how to build proper big machines that can run 7/24). But if you read it, you immediately see how the patterns in the book described, are actually primitives used by Kubernetes ecosystem.

@nipun_s6t @vishalmisra I’ve switched almost entirely to Codex, who I also find to be more intelligent

@vishalmisra That's my biggest sticking point. Yesterday I wanted CC to work non stop for all 6 hrs I was out hiking Muir woods. But it called quits after an hour.

I have noticed this as well in the past few weeks - Claude Code is very keen to “call it a day and resume tomorrow?”. I think this is deliberate post training - there is a lot of token/cost pressure on Anthropic is what I surmised.

Now I understand the full picture. The cleanest fix is... But actually, the real fix simpler... Actually wait. The best fix: Now the real fix. Actually, let me reconsider. OK Key finding: Wait I need a hardware device I can physically punch to stop the agentic session.

This resonates with what and many others have been feeling. Codex is a very high IQ colleague where as Opus tries hard to seem intelligent, but given hard problems goes in circles or simply gives up.

@clairevo What’s your take on Alpha schools?

I have experienced private, parochial, and public for my kids. 90% overlap on academics. Public is 10x more resourced. Parochial best sports. Private wins on PX (parental experience.) Great teachers in all, meh teachers in all. Know what you’re paying for if you go private! It (in my limited experience) is not differentiated academic outcomes.

@threepointone Without a human/agent in the loop, doesn't codemode enable one MCP tool injecting malicious prompts into the next one? I am thinking something like SQL injection attacks.

code mode: let the code do the talking (aka, after w/i/m/p) wherein I ponder the implications of every user having a little coding buddy, and every "app" being directly programmable on demand. sunilpai.dev/posts/after-wi… lmk what you think.

Everyone is talking about the impact of closing the Strait of Hormuz on oil and gas. I haven't seen much discussion of the war's impact on helium. Most people think of helium as being a fun gas you use for children's balloons. But helium is actually one of the most important industrial gases, used in rockets, MRIs, quantum computers, and most importantly, in the production of semiconductors. Qatar produces ~30% of the world's helium as a byproduct of its natural gas wells, and that supply is now cut off from the global market. 🧵

sent this to the team today everything great comes from being able to delay gratification for as long as possible and it feels like we're collectively losing our ability to do that

Feature stores have a new name! “Analytical Context Databases” doesn’t roll off the tongue though.

@MarcJBrooker @undef_obj @DominikTornow I’ve found that impossibility theorems are useful on occasions to catch yourself when going in circles

@undef_obj @DominikTornow Did you know that Rice's theorem makes all formal methods impossible, and so we may as well not try? (/s)

The CAP theorem is arguably the most cited yet most useless theorem in computer science

@kasparfp @kellabyte @MarcJBrooker @DominikTornow PACELC is a good framing for that conversation

@kellabyte @MarcJBrooker @DominikTornow I’ve always preferred the framing “when a partition happens, what do you choose to do?”