Derek Collison

There is another idea that continuously return in my head recently: we should not stop writing code by hand. But this code will be like poetry. Small programs that are outstanding either because of style or new ideas introduced. Code you may print and frame on your wall.

Very much agree!

Always been proud of our approach around security and that it needs to be a first class citizen through out @nats_io

Can agents build production-grade infrastructure? At @resonatehqio, we use deterministic simulation testing to enable agents to design and implement production-grade durable execution on @nats_io. My @aiDotEngineer talk is live. Link in replies.

Connecting a single edge device or site to your NATS hub takes five minutes. Designing a fleet that still behaves when five devices become five million... that's where things get interesting.

wonderful tribute to @om on @Hodinkee, one of his favorite sites, by one of his favorite people @benjaminclymer 🙏hodinkee.com/articles/in-lo…

I’m gutted. I loved OM so much, he is and always will be family to me. instagram.com/p/DaBi6t8Scn1/…

Just learned of this today at a meeting. So sad to hear. I enjoyed our interactions from the early days of GigaOm and of course with @trueventures.

For folks looking at using their @nats_io system with @ClickHouseDB oneuptime.com/blog/post/2026…

@antirez @ziglang I agree with you @antirez - and I think the folks over there will adopt in their own time and in their own way. Love your content btw!

Could I (respectfully!) question that? I believe that today people that, in the long term, will not embrace AI, will create projects that will not survive long term. I'm all for writing code by hand for artistic reasons (think at poetry), but as models get more powerful, the no AI policy will condemn every large project to irrelevance soon or later.

The most interesting part here is that folks can disagree and still respect and support one another. I’m a big believer in AI as well but also support @ziglang and Andrew. This world needs more acceptance of differing views.

Agree..

@mitchellh That’s awesome @mitchellh

My family is donating another $400,000 to the Zig Software Foundation. Zig is exceptional software. I use AI every day. Zig has one of the strongest anti-AI policies in open source. We disagree on some things, but respect doesn’t require agreement. mitchellh.com/writing/zig-do…

@gwenshap @breckcs Yep good stuff

Re-reading @breckcs excellent “Predicting the future of distributed systems”. First, I highly recommend reading it, if you haven’t already. The writing is dense (I ended up highlighting almost every sentence), yet clear and engaging. Very clearly written by a human with experience and a point of view. Second, it is interesting how it aged. It was only written two years ago, but it preceded the age of agentic coding. The first prediction, about object storage becoming the dominant substrate for all databases and data workloads is going strong. More and more systems re heading there. The second prediction, about a new programming paradigm, does not seem on track. I don’t see any trend toward unifying the non-business-logic parts of the apps. If anything, if see more and more divergence. Probably thanks to coding agents making it seem cheap to pick whatever random library, and cheap to migrate off if it didn’t work out.

@patrickc From one Collison to another - I like Isdin

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The team at @synadia continues on its roll around Agentic AI. Since release we widened the agent fleet, hardened the foundation, and shipped a whole new learning repo. What landed: 3 agent channels are now shipping: Flue, OpenCode, and DeerFlow. A 4th, Codex, is feature-complete and in review. Examples reached full TypeScript + Python parity, plus a from-scratch deep-research agent. A completely new public repo, synadia-agents-labs that is a hands-on, runnable, heavily-commented examples that teach the Agent Protocol (5-line echo agent → LLM agents that call tools, remember things, reach edge sensors), in both TS and Python, running on your laptop (local Ollama or hosted OpenRouter, no cloud needed). It's structured as a course: self-paced examples that progress in complexity, plus a guided 10-step workshop. It is the getting-started material the main repo doesn't carry. github.com/synadia-ai/syn…

@simonklee Much appreciated - but I’m not in their league..

@derekcollison … Derek on there somewhere. I've always enjoyed reading your code. Learned many performance tricks from the NATS code base over the years.

As the software engineering space continues to evolve at blistering pace, I wanted to reflect on who I looked up to as the best programmers from my career. Here is my list. 1. Fabrice Bellard 2. John Carmack 3. Dave Cutler 4. Justine Tunney 5. Sanjay Ghemawat 6. Jeff Dean 7. Fedor Pickus Comment and post your list.

I am amazed at how many signups we have already for the basics, means the ecosystem is continuing to grow! If you want to learn what @nats_io is all about, feel free to sign up - no charge.

Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor. It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. anthropic.com/institute/recu…