Doug Turnbull

I mostly see this tech thing as a hobby My job is to workout 80 mins a day :)

@antoine_chaffin Next thing for me to get excited about blog, etc :)

@softwaredoug Thanks Doug, means a lot!!

That's simply shocking. Great work @antoine_chaffin

I'm giving an Agentic Search workshop at the Applied ML Conference Apr 17-18 Definitely check it out, its quite a stacked schedule appliedml.us/2026/schedule/

@eatonphil I guess its good I never got around to switching some projects away from poetry

what's everyone using for python dependencies outside of pip and uv?

@jobergum @berlinbuzzwords Congrats! See you there :)

Looking forward to returning to @berlinbuzzwords this year! I'll be giving a talk on Agentic Retrieval: Building Self-Optimizing Search Systems.

@tmo_melonmaster @sentdefender They may have been negotiating with the Iranians for passage and that fell apart

@sentdefender They made a complete 180 of their position, what the hell happened? I’m not complaining, just very curious.

The United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Japan have released a joint statement expressing their readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure the safe passage of commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

> Make indexing take half a day, not weeks This was a big deal when I started at GitHub on code search. The old infra could not reindex in a month, and it was perennially on the edge of falling over and ever getting worse because the index kept growing. My first week it had a split-brain scenario that the infra team had to rectify! Imagine having no GitHub code search for a month!

Often underappreciated how improving search infra is the secret ingredient for improving search Make indexing take half a day, and not weeks, you'll experiment more. Try ideas with shadow traffic. Ship to prod more. FFlags + A/B testing. Fewer opinions, more data

Content understanding IS query understanding Better classify / organize your content. Understand queries better from user traffic softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/03/1…

Actually kind of cool map

If coding becomes ubiquitous like writing, then the solution is to teach kids to code at a young age The answer to "no more juniors" is to ensure every highschool grad is theoretically a junior developer Calculators are ubiquitous, we still teach people arithmetic.

The 'chewy decimal system' says a lot about how e-commerce search is organized youtube.com/watch?v=RxMR1T…

@burkov Assuming humans matter, of course :)

@burkov most jobs require writing skills but few of us are "writers" as a job Even if the profession disappears, many jobs will need to understand compute in the same way we understand arithmetic + writing

This is the truth: modern agentic coder AI is better at everything compared to an entry-level coder. **At everything.** This means that hiring an entry-level coder doesn't make any practical sense, unless the organization wants to invest 5 to 10 years into someone learning to code by hand at a level of a mid- or senior-level coder (which is currently still needed to oversee agentic coders). No leader in modern business would invest in an employee education for more than a quarter or, at the very least, a year. No one. Unless we reintroduce slavery, where the slave worker is required to stay with the employer who invested in their education until the debt is paid in full. Which is, of course, ridiculous to imagine, right?

@burkov Nobody should leave HS that isn't what we today would call a Junior developer

@burkov The answer is universal coding education that starts at a young age

@xeraa "Get Token Conference"?

nvidia GTC where every second word (spoken and on booths) is AI, agent, or token 😬 PS: who else is around?

@unclebobmartin Why does it have to be about Trump? Objectively we might have a bad strategy. What we're doing now might just be an incompetent way of deterring / influencing Iran

What many democrat politicians want more than American victory, is Trump defeat. And, in my view, that makes them traitors.

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