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something new. previously stripe, palantir, google i taught brian kernighan how to use console.log

New York, NY
Joined March 2007
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it is absolutely wild to me that we’re still choosing bloated, slow dev toolchains for agentic dev when go was designed specifically for the kind of fast development at scale that’s becoming commonplace even at one-person shops
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Haven’t worked with @dpup since back when he was the Gmail TL and I was an intern on the Google security team. It was fun to find some weekend time to help launch Moat. writing.pupius.co.uk/a-moat-…
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If you know what good looks like, you’re gonna be unstoppable with these models
I'm not joking and this isn't funny. We have been trying to build distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year. There are various options, not everyone is aligned... I gave Claude Code a description of the problem, it generated what we built last year in an hour.
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Andy Bonventre retweeted
Nuanced is growing! 🚀 we're looking for two founding engineers: 1. Infrastructure Engineer 2. Machine Learning Engineer come work on impactful projects and help shape our future. interested or know someone who is? let’s talk!
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Andy Bonventre retweeted
No one wants to lose users because of fake AI content. Whether you're an ad platform, a dating app, or a news site—consumers lose trust in a platform flooded with AI-generated content, risking churn and reputational damage. Excited to launch Nuanced, a YC-backed solution for detecting AI-generated images and deepfakes. 🚀 Nuanced solves these challenges via: 1. Custom models trained in zero PII environments. 2. Easy integration supported by your existing infrastructure. You'll never have to compromise user privacy, build costly internal systems, or take on complex integrations.
🔎 @nuanced_dev (YC W24) detects AI-generated images. They help companies like dating apps, ad platforms, and news sites distinguish human-authored materials from AI-generated content. ycombinator.com/launches/KLI… Congrats on the launch, @johnny_noumenic and @aymannadeem!
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Got a nice little self-hosted llm accessible anywhere using ollama and @Tailscale
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found this gem i made when i was at google. i won an internal “memecademy” award for it
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two years at @stripe today 🤯
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🌫️ – at Manhattan, NY
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coworker: “why don’t you have slack avatars turned on?” me: “because im old and prefer irc” cw: “what’s irc?” me: …
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to me, this is more interesting than the game itself
The art of catching a baseball. This is a must watch ⚾️💯
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free idea: camera feed of the gym fed through an ai that turns each person into an amorphous gray blob to prevent creeping. i just wanna know when the gym is busy
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a friend’s painfully accurate take on senior technical leadership
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tools for your team are some of the highest-impact products you can build
Real talk, I've built a lot of customer-facing things while at @planetscaledata but I think the one of the most impactful things I've built is actually building the foundation for our internal admin dashboard. It's truly evolved into something valuable day-to-day for everybody.
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Andy Bonventre retweeted
generics
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“The data provided no evidence that syntax highlighting improves novices’ ability to comprehend source code.” — dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s1066…
Just learned that @andybons, world-renowned polyglot programmer, does not use syntax highlighting 🤯. “I don’t need my comments to be yellow and italic, I just need errors to stand out, which they do.”
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of all the things to commit to memory, why is your glasses prescription a top-5 item???
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