Karim Fanous

@AstasiaMyers The entire SDLC is based on push vs pull and portions of it are now being disrupted by coding agents, which break this. Another factor is having humans + agents in the SDLC results in a tug of war b/w pull vs push and GPU vs human-speed. This converges on human + push.

This is a push vs pull failure. GitHub is push-based: every PR demands maintainer attention. That worked when contributors were scarce. AI Agents broke that. Now contributions are infinite → attention isn’t → repos become queues. Push models optimize for contribution throughput. Pull models optimize for maintainer attention.

@peter_godman +1

This year the vibe-coding set will end up with sprawling disorganized codebases impossible to reason about in a context window, and their agents will end up crawling around in circles. Well-organized codebases will thrive with agents. This is why you see so many green field success stories.

@SaaSletter @matt_slotnick @BucknSF @loungeriffs @atelicinvest @TheRealJunto @obsidiancap1 @TechFundies Thanks for having me on your podcast @SaaSletter - some very interesting questions for sure!

@matt_slotnick @BucknSF @loungeriffs @atelicinvest @TheRealJunto @obsidiancap1 @TechFundies Good names. Just wrapped a podcast with @GenerousLantern (SVP Eng StrongDM, writes cummulative.io -> really, really re-inforced value of takes from those very close to technical realities of AI.

recommendations please? my answers would be inherently biased... lol

@alighodsi NoSQL really meant "No SQL" NLP FTW

I now constantly get questions about the SAAS meltdown, role of AI, system of records etc. I don't have an answer to all these. But I do know that we saw an acceleration in our business in Q2, Q3, and now finished the year with accelerating Q4. The question is, why? Short answer: AI. But the underlying reason is subtle. We are growing fast because we are finally removing the biggest bottleneck in data: the technical barrier to entry. For years, if you didn’t know SQL, Python, you were locked out of the value chain. That has changed fundamentally with the 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲, and it is the "secret sauce" behind our recent momentum: • 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐞: Analysts can query data without any SQL. I use this every day myself. • 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐞: Builds end-to-end AI models for you, similar to Cursor for ML on your data. • 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐞: Write Spark pipelines, does plumbing, troubleshooting. We've been talking about DATA + AI democratization, but generative AI finally enabled it in a way that wasn't possible before. That's why we're seeing a market response. Take 𝐋𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬. We launched this serverless engine for agents and apps recently. At 8 months into its journey, its revenue is already 2x what our Data Warehouse product was at the same stage. All this taken together, we ended up with the following stats for Q4: 🚀 $5.4B Revenue Run-Rate, growing >65% YoY 🚀 $1.4B AI Revenue Run-Rate 🚀 FCF Positive for the year 🚀 NRR >>140% databricks.com/company/newsro…

I wrote about the most ambitious form of AI-assisted software development I've seen yet - Strong DM's "Software Factory" approach, where two of the guiding principles are "Code must not be written by humans" and "Code must not be reviewed by humans" simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/sof…

A genuinely radical approach to software development with AI, without any human intervention. Even if this approach doesn’t work for many cases, I think we need more leapfrogging visions for how to redo processes with AI: factory.strongdm.ai See also: danshapiro.com/blog/2026/01/t…

@LegacySiu Messi vs Boateng

Guess the goalscorer Level: Impossible 95% will fail

@LegacySiu Toni Kroos

Guess the Goalscorer Level: Impossible

opus 4.5 marked the jump from sde1 to sde2. i’m having a lot of fun and getting a lot of shit done but i’m also realizing we’re going to be the last generation of software engineers

@Hragy I wonder if there's a study on heroine addiction for an extending period of time and its impact on the brain, logic and common sense. RFK ought to read that one first...

Same in Egypt, majority of male babies done in first week and many given paracetamol, , very small incidence of Autism too, in science we have correlation vs causation… The shame is that many will believe this gossip like science! Coming from the secretary of health! Shame!

@Hragy I watched him once playing for Brazil after they won the 2002 WC. Also watched him with R. Madrid. Salah is good, but even he will tell you R9 is a different beast. Not comparable!

@GenerousLantern Yes- did I tell you that i watched him in Eindhoven for 6 months when he was a teenager in 1994? With PSV. But guess what? Mo Salah scored more goals

On the international pitch…

@tommyunger @peter_godman Claude FTW

@peter_godman Have you tried using the claude/vscode integration? Both the code quality and user experience stand above the others.

I'm pretty sure I'll pay for all this later.

HTTP 402

@hhhypergrowth All those 9s are now gone. Down to 3 now...

Google Cloud had an outage for about 3hrs $GOOG tomsguide.com/news/live/goog…

@Hragy Use ChatGPT to review and edit :)

Being driven across Cairo , reviewing an article that I will discuss now, after a very busy morning, am getting too old for this- should be spending more time with my dogs!

@Hragy I love that beach! I used to descent through the cave opening through the top of the reef, just 10ish meters from the shore. Turn left and do a wall dive and back. Early 90s diving!

@GenerousLantern Yes

Today we celebrated Easter in Ras Mohamed , far from buildings, hotels and people, it was wonderful, some underwater pics to follow, look at the majestic Osprey…

A year ago, LLMs felt like amateur coders. Today? They’re game-changers—not just writing code but supercharging dev workflows, including code reviews. But which LLM does it best? I put 5 to the test in the Battle of LLMs: Code Reviews. 🔥💻 #AI #LLM tinyurl.com/2dumt755

Markets are DeepSink today #DeepSeek