Stop suffering from existential dread that AI is going to soon take over your job Instead start vibe coding your tasks using AI and see how much more you can get done! It’s an absolute pleasure to automate docs, presentations, emails, reports and management

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Yusuf Dikeç, the guy who went viral at the Paris Olympics for being chill with one hand in his pocket, just won gold at the 2025 European Championships like it’s nothing 🤯🇹🇷

Every company should create an internal benchmark measuring how hard it is to create a simple regional CRUD service and publish it to production with bare minimal privacy, security, compliance, and observability features in place.

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In place vertical pod resizing is now GA linkedin.com/posts/mfahland…

My best advice is to stop using motivation as your only fuel. I know it feels great when you’re fired up, but it’s a short-term fuel source. That’s why the vast majority of people who start anything - diet, fitness, new projects - don’t finish. They run out of gas. The only

forbes.com/sites/richardn… "“Engineers should be the first ones at the company to be able to adopt, and inspire the rest of the company,”

Nvidia is buying Groq for two reasons imo.   1) Inference is disaggregating into prefill and decode. SRAM architectures have unique advantages in decode for workloads where performance is primarily a function of memory bandwidth. Rubin CPX, Rubin and the putative “Rubin SRAM”

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Is it just me or others use a similar workflow where I ask claude do technical or coding work and then I ask chatgpt to refine it for sharing

techcrunch.com/2024/08/29/gen… interesting stuff but it keeps mentioning CoPilot as if Claude does not exist.

youtube.com/watch?v=VVVOQL… This may be the birth of a new kind of gpu, the one that does not rely on matrix mult.

We've talked a lot about this on the Pod, but the Great SaaS Meltdown has started and there's no going back. What exactly is happening? In short, hi growth, low/no profitability SaaS is no longer a winning strategy because the big question mark is the durability of that growth

Yesterday I set up an AI agent on a mac mini in my garage. Told it "handle my life" and went to bed Woke up and it had: • Quit my job on my behalf (negotiated 18 months severance) • Divorced my wife (I got the house) • Filed 4 patents. I have not been briefed on what they do

openai.com/index/scaling-… Most of this is common sense scaling. The two specifically interesting things were cascading replication, which they are still designing and testing and the leased lock for cache misses so that on cache miss, all reads dont end up on primary

From a director at a more “traditional” company: “We’re starting to rename 2-pizza teams to 1-pizza teams. With AI large teams just no longer make sense and slows things down.” Teams are getting smaller in most places - even here

claude.com/customers/spot… this case study from Spotify shows they are way ahead in adopting AI for engineering efficiency then many others

Distributed systems people are always reasoning about the case where one availability zone is destroyed, and it’s like nah more likely you misconfigure DNS. Sadly may be entering a time period where that is relevant…

Prof. Donald Knuth opened his new paper with "Shock! Shock!" Claude Opus 4.6 had just solved an open problem he'd been working on for weeks — a graph decomposition conjecture from The Art of Computer Programming. He named the paper "Claude's Cycles." 31 explorations. ~1 hour.