Mike Shaver

@ShopifyEng @fnthawar @cursor_ai @windsurf_ai @GitHubCopilot Burke

@fnthawar @cursor_ai @windsurf_ai @GitHubCopilot 🏆Top 10 Token Spend... who do you think is on this leaderboard?🤔

I'm seeing a concerning trend in talking to CTOs/CEOs about the cost of tokens i.e. Can I afford an extra $1-10k/month per engineer as they use @cursor_ai / @windsurf_ai / @GitHubCopilot etc? So they clamp down on spending 😬 1. Do not use the default / cheapest models. Yes all the models are getting better, but there is a big difference between the default Cursor model, the small @GoogleDeepMind Gemini Flash and @OpenAI O1 Pro. Splurge for a better model. 2. You might use completely different models for planning and actual coding. Exampe — O1 pro for planning / requirements and then @AnthropicAI Claude 4.0 for coding 3. If your engineers are spending $1k/month MORE because of LLMs and they are 10% more productive, then that is TOO CHEAP. i.e. Anyone would KILL for a 10% increase in productivity for only $1k/month. Totally worth it 4. If you are worried about engineers spending $10k/month on tokens -> I wouldn't worry. If they are spending this much, DM me because I want to know what exciting things they have conjured up to spin up LLMs on. If they are spending this much AND getting value out of it, you are winning (DM me!) 5. Short of tempting Goodharts Law, you could reward your engineers (well, all employees!) for maximal AI spending -> this means they have figured out how to leverage the LLM well 6. The workflow is moving quickly from AI autocomplete to "I am the architect of a team of agents". This means a single person can wield of a team of LLMs to build their code. Makes sense to see your corresponding token bill go 📈 7. Worry about LOC (lines of code), as the current cohort of models is very code verbose. This will hurt you later if you're building for production vs. just prototyping. It will take smart prompting / rules / iterations to build the short / sweet elegant code you actually want 8. My Cursor deployment quickly increased when non-RnD folks started using it to build their workflows. Folks in Support, Commercial, Ops and more can build things now 👊🏽. The last thing I want is to stop these licenses from growing. I know folks @ShopifyEng who were proud to show up on the Top 10 token spend leaderboard due to the valuable work being done

@loopion @LundukeJournal my affiliation with @ladybirdbrowser is about my belief in its mission, and isn't meant as a commentary on Mozilla by contrast now, I *do* have some commentary on Mozilla...

@LundukeJournal When you see Mozilla ex-VP of Engineering like @shaver joining LadyBird, it's a strong signal that something is going into the wrong direction at Mozilla. ladybird.org/posts/mike-sha…

Mozilla has just deleted the following: “Does Firefox sell your personal data?” “Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise. " github.com/mozilla/bedroc…

@carrigmat at that point you might want to get an old Optane 905p for ~$500 instead and get even faster model loading times

And finally, the SSD: Any 1TB or larger SSD that can fit R1 is fine. I recommend NVMe, just because you'll have to copy 700GB into RAM when you start the model, lol. No link here, if you got this far I assume you can find one yourself!

Complete hardware + software setup for running Deepseek-R1 locally. The actual model, no distillations, and Q8 quantization for full quality. Total cost, $6,000. All download and part links below:

I will die on the hill that RTO hurts families with young children the most — and mothers above all when mom is still the default caregiver. Don’t make people choose between their kids and their careers.

@tobi @ladybirdbrowser ❤️

@ladybirdbrowser @shaver One of the best!

We're excited to announce that Mike Shaver (@shaver) is joining our Board of Directors. Mike has an incredible history in the browser and tech world. He was one of the founding members of Mozilla, where he held many roles, including VP of Engineering and VP of Technical Strategy. After Mozilla, he’s held key roles at major web companies, including Engineering Director at Facebook and Distinguished Engineer at Shopify. He’s now on his way somewhere new, which gave us an opportunity to invite him to our board! Mike is a hardcore engineering leader with high standards, and we look forward to working with him as we raise the bar for Ladybird. Please join us in welcoming Mike to the board!

@fyrware_com @ladybirdbrowser I saw this literally as I sat down to get my hair cut and coloured, thank you for a big smile.

@ladybirdbrowser Thank you! I’m thrilled to support Ladybird, and proud to be affiliated with this great project!

@tobi Yeah it's just an unbelievable experience. I need to do the DLC.

Thank you @shaver for the recommendation

@sdamico @ImpulseLabs_ @threadreaderapp unroll

So we (@ImpulseLabs_ ) made the highest performing ... stove. - 3x the performance of induction and ~5x gas (equiv. of ~72,000 BTU/h!). - A nontrivial advance in temperature sensing, transforming cooking. - And it ships this year (taking deposits starting ... today).

@sdamico Will I be able to get it in Canada? Please take my money.

And lastly -- burning gas indoors is only part of the indoor air quality concerns from cooking -- VOCs from oils hitting their smoke points are also a concern. Let me know if you've got any questions -- will try my best to answer.

Doing a quick thread on the backstory here @ImpulseLabs_ We realized that putting battery packs in appliances made it possible to greatly exceed the available power you'd get from the wall -- and could crush other stoves at boiling water, getting pans up to temp, etc. BUT

@bhsharp Canada? Please?

Excellent thread about that stove we're making. I've been cooking on one daily for a couple months now and can't wait to get it in y'all's hands!

@ID_AA_Carmack a man of exceeding taste and refinement, clearly

I didn’t know Terry Pratchett was into Doom!

@bookingcom Customer Service chat on the web site seems to be broken: no ability to send a new message, even though I have an active booking. Is there another way to contact your CS team without a phone call?

@bookingcom The Customer Service chat on the web site doesn't work for me (no option to send a message, even though I have an active booking). Have tried multiple browsers. Is this a known problem?

@bookingcom @bookingcomPA can anyone let me know why I am getting these useless emails automatically?

@jruderman I miss working with you!

I’m glad I got a chance to help Rust out a bit. My success at fuzzing helped make the case that web browser developers needed something better than C++. I participated in discussions when they were figuring out the basics of how to make affine types work well. I submitted corrections to the Klabnik–Nichols book.

I had to leave my job at Mozilla in 2016 because I thought they were on the wrong track.

@levelsio We shipped a lot of shit before it was standardized.

This is exactly why Firefox died Strict adherence to web standards does not go together with rapid innovation Google's browser strategy has always been: ship new tech first, make it a standard later Firefox always lagged behind

@terrajobst I’ve worked on multiple software products used by hundreds of millions or billions of people, built by hundreds or thousands of software developers, and while Jira isn’t a hard “no” it’s a big down side for a potential job. 100%.

A heartwarming news story from 1938.

So, Google Chrome gives all *.google.com sites full access to system / tab CPU usage, GPU usage, and memory usage. It also gives access to detailed processor information, and provides a logging backchannel. This API is not exposed to other sites - only to *.google.com.

@tberman Always jarring, yeah.

Watching people who you know are bad at their jobs turn into LinkedIn thoughtlords is quite a trip!