Dustin Getz

Screenshot of a web-based object navigator targetting the JVM management interface, to reflect out the process classpath and navigate into the contents of an uberjar. This application is defined in about 200 lines of Clojure (.clj) for the java reflection (for some simple parsing and weaving together of a set of queries that relate but were not intentionally built to relate), and absolutely no frontend code. The navigator UI is fully abstracted away by a saas, the UI is not in the same process as the JVM being interrogated, it is remote. They talk via a reverse websocket with the Electric wire protocol. For more info see clojure.net "Network your REPL", a new experiment from Hyperfiddle.

“every failure has a moment where you saw it and looked away. that moment is the reason”

@QiaochuYuan @algekalipso anyone who says feynman can illuminate anything has only read the first chapter of his books

no, goddamnit, feynman was just wrong, some ideas are genuinely irreducibly complicated. i know mathematics it would take literally years to explain to a layman, which is literally why graduate school exists as an institution, to do that high-level mathematics takes place in a very sophisticated language where every concept is defined in terms of other concepts which are defined in terms of other concepts etc. etc. etc. and fully unraveling all of these concepts back to what a layman would be familiar with takes potentially thousands of pages depending on the subject. and i'm not talking about stuff with no applications, this is the level of effort it would take to fully explain all the math that goes into the standard model of particle physics, eg other subjects are also like this! you might question whether some of these subjects are mostly fake, towers of theory disconnected from reality, but that's a different conversation entirely. the towers of theory actually do exist and require actual effort to climb

incredible

Ok, I've had enough of this. I'm relieved that I never actually adopted RSC and at this point I'm convinced I never will. I'm now firmly in the camp of "RSC was a bad idea." The problems weren't made up. But this solution is not good.

Two months ago I posted that “Our rough math suggests that the VC investors’ gross profit on 3 LLMs currently equates to ~70% of ALL VC profits from the previous decade.”** That was with Anthropic valued at $380B post…. Let that sink in… 😳🤑🚀 **VC profit from ‘15-‘25 = annual gross exit value - capital deployed (pitchbook data).

@fjzeit @onehappyfellow great answer

@onehappyfellow i received shareholder value, does that count? :)

@millettjon what?

@dustingetz The law of why we can't have nice things.

2021, 5 years ago

But the tl;dr version is that the model proved a result that in my assessment would have made a perfectly reasonable chapter in a PhD thesis. It did this in a total of a couple of hours, with a few prompts from me that contained no mathematical input whatsoever.

@ItsWillHenry @cixliv by “first hire is a lawyer” you just mean “use Gunderson” right?

@cixliv Redacted

Second-time Founders is my favourite gender : 1) no deck until someone asks three times 2) first hire is a lawyer 3) distribution for the product before the product exists 4) "we don't need a big round" and means it this time 5) replies to every customer email personally because they know what ignoring customers cost them last time 6) sleeps 8 hours and ships faster than everyone else 7) the only person in the room who isn't impressed by the term sheet Second-time founders are the best breed of founders

ClojureScript 1.12.145 is out, featuring async/await. clojurescript.org/news/2026-05-0… #clojure #clojurescript

yes this, i would emphasize that you need more than one super connector angel, though one is a good start, you need a half dozen, how many did you have to generate the 60 meetings? the trouble is generating them all at once for deal heat, a fan out rolling approach can generate 60 meetings slowly over 3 months but that is not how rounds close. You almost need to have a flubbed round under your belt (i have one) that generates the network to find your key angels, which primes the next round for success

a fundraising tactic i used that nobody tweets about: don't pitch vcs first. pitch founders first. here's why: one investor told me 95% of their deals are warm intros. cold email is basically a gamble. if you want to maximize your odds, you need a network that can warm intro you in. if you're like i was, you don't have one yet. but you can build it. i spent months building real relationships with founders of well funded startups on linkedin / in-person events. they all had strong vc networks. i turned as many of them as i could into pre-seed angels. the week we opened our seed round, i asked each of them to intro me to their vcs. within a week: 60 vc meetings booked.

@eric23332 @dearmadisonblue Not all lies require coordination -- just common interest

@dearmadisonblue I follow a lot of what people are saying in the AI world, in and out of major companies. Overwhelming sentiment is that AGI and big changes to the world are likely (though not definite) within the next 10 years. I don't think they are all somehow coordinating a lie.

So, my problem with this is, Altman basically admits he's been running a confidence game for years about this singularity stuff, then pivots when it becomes inconvenient, and people don't seem to care all that much

To be a frontier founder is to constantly question if you wasted the prime of your life while simultaneously being unable to stop because if your hypothesis is true it will usher civilization into a new economic era

@jdegoes classic programming tools (pre cloud) is a good answer, my answers were classic excel and word, visual studio .net classic, iphone classic and macos classic which all fit the same category. And perhaps the only answer?

@dustingetz Neovim is very reliable. No idea how much it cost to build.

do people even know what reliable software looks like anymore

@copeaux_dodo i recall a book, cannot find the source, defining “photon” precisely as “absorption/emission event”, it IS the event. Under this interpretation the event is nonlocal, i.e. the two coordinates are synchronized, i.e. God chooses / superdeterminism.

.@martinmbauer I have a dumb question. Could it be that the photon doesn't exist, that the electromagnetic field in and of itself is not quantizied but that only the emissions and absorption are quantizied ?

@jiriknesl I also do not require reviews from my leads, requesting a review from another dev is just one tool available to them to help them perform their responsibilities. I am not the committer, they are. That's what "lead" means!

@jiriknesl code review is a zoom call, when devs ask me to review their PR i ask them to get on zoom so we can review it together. This goes both ways, and folks really appreciate it when I show up with a prepared review that respects their time.

I gave vibe coding another chance. Yesterday, I sent 55 PRs. I told my colleague to review all PRs and approve/reject in Linear. He managed to review 5. This way, am I going to need 11 developers to check work of 1 vibe coder, so I don't lose quality. Or what is the plan?

@SamKaru_ @jiriknesl >depth of human-driven reviews "LGTM"

@jiriknesl You have to accept that you cannot do the same depth of human-driven reviews. Use agentic coding to bolster your test suite and use code review agents to make up the difference.