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Paul Dix

@pauldix

CTO of @InfluxDB (YC W13), founder of NYC Machine Learning, series editor for Addison Wesley's Data & Analytics, author of Service Oriented Design with Ruby.

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Had a great time at #GrafanaCon today catching up with a bunch of old friends and Grafanistas. And thanks for having on the stage to present!

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So Gemini 2.5 Pro and the 1M token context is absolutely insane. I started by throwing 300k of a big Rust crate into it. I've been iterating since then in the same window. It's up to > 500k now and it's still on point, takes corrections, and remembers what I've said.

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Whoa, right when Gemini 2.5 Pro was starting to be my favorite pair programmer (replacing Sonnet 3.7), I now have another teammate to interview...

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Update on this. I've already caved and signed up for Claude Max 20x usage over Pro account. Don't rate limit me, bro

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My talk from Data Council is up! Building InfluxDB 3 Core: Real-time columnar DB and processor on object store: youtu.be/8A4RO3ruKfU?si…

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Congrats to the Bloomberg Beta team on the new fund. If you're looking for pre-seed or seed, I can't recommend them enough. If you have the chance to work with Roy E. Bahat, Karin Klein, or James Cham you should take it. 12 years ago Bloomberg Beta was our first "institutional"

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I've been using Ghostty (ghostty.org) for my terminal for a little bit and I must say it's a great experience. Great work Mitchell Hashimoto! I'm not a huge terminal guy, but I installed and it picked up my bash_profile and just works. Zero learning curve to start. Now I

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We are looking for someone who knows what they are doing around Databases and enjoys intellectual challenges to help coordinate / design / complete a proper subquery decorrelation framework in ApacheDataFusion . Please email / discord / slack me if that is you.

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My talk from #GrafanaCon is up! It's a deep dive into #InfluxDB 3 Core, our open source release. Thanks to the team at @Grafana for having me present and for putting together such a great event! grafana.com/events/grafana…

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So Claude Code + Opus 4 is magic. I think software development will never be the same. Every developer will be spending their time planning, supervising, correcting, and reviewing agents. They will not be writing the bulk of the code they produce and are responsible for by hand.