Fun conversation about Shopify's past, present, and future of Nix use!

Literally two days after I downgrade my pro subscription, 5.2 drops. The pace is insane.

Determinate is shipping up a storm this season, love to see it.

The new bottlenecks of 2026: code review (which will go away as people learn to accept the slop) specification (we'll all realized we under-spec'd) CI suites (which will balloon in size) Human QA (to catch everything else) Inference (once you get beyond the 20x gigamax plan)

man I go to work and do my job building a bunch of software with agents and then I open twitter and find out I've missed another three weeks of development today

Pluribus but it’s just introducing new people to Lakrids by Bülow

Gas Town is so first-week-of-January. What is hot now is Ralph. Hurry up, because the third week is coming fast.

One thing that I would like to tell my past self is to cultivate optimism. Things that go wrong are largely things you cannot influence (and have often unexpected upsides), while optimism makes you more effective at changing things you can.

Claude's native tasks are great but there's no beads_viewer. You can vibe code your own in like a minute though so github.com/burke/claude-t…

It's unreal how much better parakeet is than whisper.

I’ve been wanting to do this for years but never found the time. I’m glad someone finally did it.

All of the things that seem obviously true about how to structure your workflows for agents were true before too; you just didn’t respect your humans’ time.

How has no one started using the term “dopamedia” yet for what social media has become

When the book is written, AGI Day will be in today’s past.

If I were Anthropic I wouldn’t be enthusiastic about pushing early adopters to rediscover other models but what do I know

It feels really obvious to me that the hard problem of consciousness is just disabusing oneself of the notion that there is a problem or that it is hard. Everything around us is emergent from some other layer. That doesn't make these things entirely false, but it does prevent

ironically i am pretty sure a good llm is better at philosophy of mind than this