Paul d'Aoust

Hey folks. I'm taking time off Twitter to focus on writing lots of educational stuff for Holochain. So if you @ me or DM me, I probably won't respond quickly. See you later! 👋🏻

@cognazor yeah, maybe that's all he's doing -- couching the message in a digestible package.

@helioscomm Right, he's saying some pretty radical things, but humorously, which is like adding sugar to medicine to make it go down easier

He went from hey gardening can be fun and quirky to "for human beings and for the world itself, the only future is agrarian" very abruptly. I'm not complaining youtube.com/watch?v=32kQ9N…

@wholyv Dunno what there is to disagree about. (That said, I think there's a place for prepping yourself with knowledge in order to be more successful. Speaking as someone who toasted two micro:bits and one breadboard power supply while helping his daughter with her science fair proj)

all of you will disagree with me but I think physically building cool shit has much more impact on our mental health than just sitting in front of claude code all day. taking out the breadboard sometimes, experimenting with a few gadgets here and there is so much more fun.

Kinda want to watch this show. Trouble is, the veggies aren't gonna plant themselves while I'm netflix binging. Oh the decisions

@speakerjohnash @evaninsky more useful to tease apart the more interesting distinctions in our PR. Is that what you're saying?

@speakerjohnash @evaninsky wow, I don't know why X is suddenly showing me this two-year-old post, but I hear what you're saying. Hash chains are pretty important to both blockchain and Holochain. I'd argue that it's the least interesting part of both Holochain and blockchain, though, and maybe it'd be

Blockchain was the first Distributed Ledger Technology. #Holochain is the next Distributed Ledger Technology

@Holotroopers @H_O_L_O_ (mobile agents also do this presently, to save on battery life and data fees)

@Holotroopers @H_O_L_O_ Almost! That would be very cool if true, but running Iroh (the network protocol we're switching to) in the browser would be a challenge. For this iteration, at least, browser agents are just 'zero-arc' -- accessing the network, but not contributing.

What we're building toward: Holochain apps that run in the browser. No install. No setup. Open a tab and participate in a distributed application. We're in internal testing with Holo Web Conductor + H2HC Linker. Here's what that means. 🧵

.@AndrewYang is talking about a world where people earn and spend across multiple community currencies. That's not a future vision. Unyt already does this. Atomic multi-currency trades. No exchanges. No intermediaries. Your rules.

@DecentCloud_org @Holochain I know. You're echoing my current concerns for the next generation of devs in the world of AI 😏

@helioscomm @Holochain The DIY tax is real. But growing your own teaches you things the store-bought version never will.

Centralization is a bug, not a feature. 🐛 What is the absolute worst example of "Vendor Lock-in" you've ever experienced with a SaaS or Cloud provider? Best (worst) stories get a repost. 🔄 #DevOps #CloudComputing #SaaS

@DecentCloud_org @Holochain (for the record, I do grow my own even though I know it's economically stupid -- home-grown dry beans come with so many different patterns, flavours, cooking qualities, and stories) x.com/helioscomm/sta…

@helioscomm @Holochain Fair. The tradeoff is real - velocity now vs options later.

@lifesmyth @naiivememe @Holochain I might say "keep crushing it" -- lately he's tracking so closely with the 'sovereign groups that make powers irrelevant' narrative

@naiivememe Partner with @Holochain!

You meet Vitalik, only 3 words, what would you say to him ?

@Atotsm2 not specifically this or that practice (usury, rampant capital extraction, encroachment on property, ecological destruction) but more specifically the effects it causes. (Some of those practices can't be separated from their effects, of course.)

@Atotsm2 But I think usury is not objectively evil -- if you're an entrepreneur and you're free to play / not play the game, then you can choose to enter into an interest-bearing loan agreement. What I see the church speaking out hard against is...

I wonder

@Atotsm2 changed from pro-usury to anti-usury, the other way, or something else?

@helioscomm Yeah ok. But somewhere in history they changed their stance on usury and the records of those paradigm shifting days are in their non-public archives. They must be.

@toddsaunders The meaningful observation here for me is that it took him eight weeks. I've developed a deep deep suspicion of everyone saying they one-shotted the next Salesforce. You need deep domain knowledge, back-and-force, patience (and yes, taste).

I know Silicon Valley startups don't want to hear this..... But the combination of someone in the trades with deep domain expertise and Claude Code will run circles around your generic software. I talked to Cory LaChance this morning, a mechanical engineer in industrial piping construction in Houston. He normally works with chemical plants and refineries, but now he also works with the terminal He reached out in a DM a few days ago and I was so fired up by his story, I asked him if we could record the conversation and share it. He built a full application that industrial contractors are using every day. It reads piping isometric drawings and automatically extracts every weld count, every material spec, every commodity code. Work that took 10 minutes per drawing now takes 60 seconds. It can do 100 drawings in five minutes, saving days of time. His co-workers are all mind blown, and when he talks to them, it's like they are speaking different languages. His fabrication shop uses it daily, and he built the entire thing in 8 weeks. During those 8 weeks he also had to learn everything about Claude Code, the terminal, VS Code, everything. My favorite quote from him was when he said, "I literally did this with zero outside help other than the AI. My favorite tools are screenshots, step by step instructions and asking Claude to explain things like I'm five." Every trades worker with deep expertise and a willingness to sit down with Claude Code for a few weekends is now a potential software founder. I can't wait to meet more people like Cory.

@soushi888 Not just ownership and responsibility, but as you implicitly point out, the friction produces wisdom. Maybe an AI can teach me not to use anti-patterns, but having an anti-pattern blow up in my face is a much better teacher!

The new path needs a deliberate substitute for that friction. What is the equivalent of "I spent three days debugging this and now I understand memory allocation" in a world where AI fixes the bug in thirty seconds?

The old path of learning programation write a lot of bad code manually, debug it painfully, gradually develop taste through accumulated failure, was slow and frustrating but it reliably produced that sense of ownership and responsibility.

@DecentCloud_org @Holochain yup, totally. Sooooo convenient. I'm a stubborn DIYer but I know that costs me velocity. To relate it to my personal life, it's easier to buy a 5lb bag of dry beans than grow my own.

@helioscomm @Holochain Provider-agnostic keeps exit costs low. The lock-in creeps in when velocity matters more than portability and someone reaches for the managed shortcut.