Sam Willis

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Sam Willis

@samwillis

Building Agents & composable sync primitives @ElectricSQL. Sync Engines, Durable Streams & AI. Started https://t.co/pDO5k5EX42, co-creator of @tan_stack DB.

London UK Katılım Mayıs 2007

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Sam Willis@samwillis·27 Ara

My overriding thought going into 2026: Problems you thought were out of reach no longer are. Pick a problem 100x harder than you thought possible to tackle alone, and run with it. Start now. AI will catch up and make it possible.

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Sam Willis@samwillis·1d

The last couple of weeks with Fable & Sol continues to confirm this. The discourse that we are "slop" factories is wrong. Slop is a stepping stone to the finished product, it's a POC, it's the underpainting on the finished picture. You're probably not being ambitious enough!

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Sam Willis@samwillis·2d

@martindonadieu Absolutely. Excited to land this! Posting a brief comment on it.

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🧞‍♂️Martin Donadieu - oss/acc@martindonadieu·2d

@samwillis Can you look at PR I made fable work on replication, I need this badly:)

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Sam Willis@samwillis·3d

Three weeks ago PGlite crossed 10 million weekly downloads. Today it just crossed 11 million! It grew 10% in three weeks 🤯

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@igalklebanov 🫶

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Igal Klebanov@igalklebanov·3d

@samwillis legendary tech.

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Andreas Kling@awesomekling·3d

If you're a married programmer and your wife isn't using at least one of your custom apps daily, you're missing out on one of the most rewarding experiences in programming. Build wifeware!! 🤓

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Sam Willis@samwillis·3d

@awesomekling Just showed this to her, and she said I "git commit, but don't wife commit" 😬

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Sam Willis@samwillis·3d

@awesomekling Back during Covid we started racing each other doing a sudoku over a morning coffee. It was so obvious to turn it into an app - we played it every day together for a couple of years. Slipped out of the habit, need to change that...

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Sam Willis@samwillis·3d

He'd have also hated the manual swapping between general chat, coding, and work modes. All this needs to melt away behind a single prompt box. I'd even argue the concept of chats sessions goes away. The "agent" you talk to should abstract that all away.

sunil pai@threepointone

steve jobs would’ve hated model selector drop downs and the discourse around comparing versions and thinking levels

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Oliver Medhurst@CanadaHonk·6d

Porffor is now self-hosted, meaning it compiles itself with itself! Not only is this a huge compiler milestone generally, it is also great for dogfooding and also unlocks some fun things further in the future. This is made possible by Porffor's new rewrite, reducing its lines of code by >50% and making C output up to 5x more efficient! Here you can see the stats before and after the rewrite for Porffor itself:

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good week for some announcements I think

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Sam Willis@samwillis·8 Tem

@AlemTuzlak @tan_stack And what an incredible year! 🔥🚀

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Alem Tuzlak 🇧🇦@AlemTuzlak·8 Tem

In a few days it's going to be exactly a year since I joined @tan_stack as a maintainer 🤯

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Sam Willis@samwillis·8 Tem

@appfactory @boristane Or put the database in a sandbox!

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Peter Pistorius@appfactory·7 Tem

@boristane We need to combine them. Put a sandbox in a database.

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boris@boristane·7 Tem

sandbox founders are the new database founders

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Sam Willis@samwillis·7 Tem

@BenjDicken I think it's very doable, but it misses the key thing that makes Postgres attractive - the extension ecosystem. I believe it's more compelling to take Postgres as a base and fix its issues. I think swapping parts to Rust can also make a lot of sense, but doing it incrementally.

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Ben Dicken@BenjDicken·7 Tem

I'm curious what it would take a talented engineer to build Postgres from scratch in 2026. Not a slopfork. Written in Rust, from the ground up, and fixing the mistakes of the original design (process per connection, table bloat, schema catalog). Who wants to burn some tokens?

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Sam Willis@samwillis·5 Tem

I need GPT5.6 to launch on Monday...

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Sam Willis@samwillis·5 Tem

What thinking level are you using Fable at? I'm beginning to think that setting it to "Low" is most optimal. It moves much faster and creates a better feedback loop, without really loosing any intelligence. Kind of wish there was an easy way to combine with GPT5.5 though.

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Carlos Baquero@xmal·3 Tem

Can we merge latent spaces as we merge CRDT replicas? It works for two replicas with a CRDT-like design, and we can do federated querying without exposing the query to the LLMs that process the source data. Abstract and link in thread.

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Sam Willis@samwillis·4 Tem

If you've been waiting for a vote of confidence in TanStack Router (with SSR) this is it! Love seeing awesome people succeed, huge moment for @tannerlinsley and the TanStack team 🚀🎉🫶

Tanner Linsley@tannerlinsley

👀 TanStack powered @X ya'll

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@tannerlinsley @X 🔥

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