Business idea for hotels: complementary cannabis edibles in the hotel minibar, but Doritos and other snacks cost 2x more.

I will write a generous angel check to anyone making this real:

I still find it pretty insane how good LLMs are at writing SQL

I spent 15 years writing optimised SQL and for anything more than simple-ish joins I go straight to ChatGPT

My only skill now is knowing what queries it produces are unsafe to run or clearly wrong (which is rare)

That moment when you watch someone go from AI skeptic to AI evangelist when they see it do something they 100% didn't expect should even be remotely possible is really something to behold.

I was today years old when I realized I might be a 'personality hire'.

The Innovator’s Eclipse
Engineers who propel the frontier of automation may find themselves ironically eclipsed by the advancing shadow of their own creations, as new technologies render their roles redundant

Chatting with your data using prompt to SQL and iterating on ideas with your data is something that feels almost... alien. Something about not constantly switching context from 'write SQL' mode to 'analyze result' mode makes interacting with data tremendously more efficient.…

If you thought AI hallucinates, what happens when a SWE has to talk to a PM who has to interpret the users question and give it to a SWE who has to interpret the PM interpreting the users question.

Just let an agent interpret the user's question and convert it to SQL and provide…

Fully autonomous AI written code is going to be written once, used once, and disposed. Once this is achieved, the whole notion of tech debt as we know it utterly goes away.

Reminds me of when Bezos suddenly started hitting the gym, tbh

True story, my start in software development was working for PKWare, where I wrote a zip shell extension for PKZip for Windows in late 1995/early 1996.

And a 400B model coming soon. Hold onto your seats...

We need to see if Devin the AI developer can pass the interview with Kevin the AI developer interviewer.

Super cool work from my friends at TrueFoundry: Cognita, an open-source, modular & production-ready RAG framework ctt.ec/x_MQ3+

Software is becoming ephemeral, made just-in-time by agents.

In this world, 'is it a monolith or microservice' is asking the wrong question. If a generated function that computes what you need to know is all you need at any given time, what exactly are we storing in git?

Sounds like the guy I met once who said, confidently, 'we don't allow open source in our linux based server farm'

I say this to LinkedIn with love as a huge fan of AI. 'trite low effort congratulatory response as a service' isn't it, please reconsider the design of this feature.

My most effective debugging technique in 30 years of professional software development:

Turning off the computer and talking a walk

(or to gen Z ppl out there, touching grass)

Why not just straight to assembler?