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An oblique argument for why we should all keep reading long books.

We have been internally testing a bunch of AI code reviewers and we LOVE Charlie ! Can recommend for anyone, even using Ruby nice work by Steve Peak Julik Tarkhanov approves

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You’re an engineer. You’ve got 5 hours. What can you build with a strong AI copilot? Codegen Speed Trials is a fast, focused hackathon to explore what’s possible with AI copilots—brought to you by TheGP, Graphite, Jazz - build backendless apps, Runloop, OpenAI & Anthropic. June 28 @

Charlie + Sentry is live. • Enrich bug reports with full stack traces & culprit commits • Get an instant, step-by-step fix plan • Approve → Charlie ships the PR  Less context-switching, more code shipping.

Agent preview deployments: Vercel 🤝 Charlie

I’ve been using “vibe coding” in a looser sense than Karpathy’s “fully blind” definition, for good reason. The biggest impact of AI tooling that I’ve seen is senior engineers a) using their ability to clearly specify what they want and *build* extremely quickly with LLMs b)

So excited to be one of the judges for the codegen speed trials on Saturday! Let's vibe code ✨

The Codegen Speed Trials have officially begun! 🏁

This was The General Partnership ("TheGP")'s first hackathon and a ton of fun. If AI coding tools keep improving at this rate, we'll need the challenge to be 10x harder for the next one.

I appreciate the honesty.

Will be tuning in for riley tomasek Charlie 👀

"Like a [tireless, ultra-competent, always available] human

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