I fully believe we can never achieve AGI unless we can "gift" AI with the "oh you're about to sleep? here, think about this socially cringe thing you did in high school" thoughts. We could put AI's worst decisions and choices per repo into a REGRETS.md file.

On stream, someone asked, "Don't you find frontend boring after doing it for so long?" My reply: "If you're bored, then you're boring. There is so much cool stuff you can do on the frontend these days." (If you caught the song reference, your knees probably hurt when you wake up in the morning)

The best engineers at Big Tech aren't the best coders. They're the best at influence🎯 @shaundai.com, Engineer at Netflix, calls it the Inception tactic — and it's just one gem from this new GitNation Heroes podcast episode hosted by @cmgriffing.bsky.social! Check it out:

Welp, I'm going to need to use GitKraken's OpenRouter account for GitBench from now on. I'm not made of money.

I just rebooted and let my stream pc update for the first time in ages. This is the most scared I’ve ever been

MOAR GitBench results. Fine tuned a bunch of the fixtures and added effort level. Still mind blowing that Claude costs WAY more for worse results when compared to a "stupid" model.

People are always talking about tokens per day or other vanity metrics. We need a new standard. I propose "You're totally right!"s per day.

As devs, we need our own olympics. This event will be called sessionmaxxing. How close can you get the filling up your sessions token budget without going over? It's like base jumping but for token usage.

If they made a millennial version of The Big Lebowski: Jeffrey: I've had a long day and I just hate the Smashing Pumpkins... Uber Driver: I'm cancelling this ride. Get out of my Prius!

I find it interesting that a study was conducted 6 months ago that evaluated the "You are a ________" prompts and concluded that they don't do anything compared to prompting without them. Yet, we still see popular Skills using that approach and burning tokens for no reason. (BMAD, gstack, etc)

I just heard Flea's "A Plea", and I'm really liking his jazzy Tricky arc. It really feels like a pale Tricky moment.

I am once again shouting out how epic this song is for being a movie reference song. Warning, the music video could be considered NSFW www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Rc...

I'm building a set of LLM Git Evals as some interesting research for @GitKraken.com I was blown away to see gpt-oss-20B outperform Opus. Opus is especially bad at the worktree and submodule tests compared to every other model I've tested so far.

Made pork kebabs again, this time marinating for 5 hours

My mom reminded me of some High School things she saw about me back in the day: - "Lack of effort impedes progress" - "Missing assignments affect grade" - "A pleasure to have in class"

"It's trained on real human writing. I'm sure it understands run-on sentences." - Me (earlier today)

After enough typos, this alias is 100% necessary

I am once again very happy I chose @astro.build for my marketing site for @messijo.com Getting all of this going was pretty straightforward and the markdown is generated at build time. @cloudflare.social Pages middleware saves the day for the text/markdown request problem. The API stuff can wait.

I think therefore I am... usually wrong.

Every once in a while I say something on stream that's a bit inspirational or empowering. I feel like a locally-hosted heavily-quantized Tony Robbins.

If you aren't eating BBQ in a way where you need a shower afterwards, I don't think we can be friends.

If you were to start a company that builds AI models, what would you name the models?

This one goes into how we at @gitkraken.com conducted a study about how devs are using AI. The data is a few months old but still relevant. I look forward to the next iteration to see if the trend stays steady or spikes.

If you're curious, this talk focused on production AI usage. Agentic flows in your actual product, not just how you do dev locally.

The eggs that float have fewer calories

Another widespread outage of service providers on the internet? Can we just understand that whatever AI is doing, the 10x output increase is making EVERY SINGLE THING WE USE worse and less stable?

Another day, another open source maintainer bullied into giving up because of a rude and entitled user (not the OP, but the person that jumped into the thread). github.com/nvim-treesit...

I just came across an AI skill with numbered steps. Here are those step numbers. 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.25 3.4 3.45 3.47 3.48 3.5 3.75 3.8 4 5.5 6 6.5 7 8 8.5 8.75 Care to take a guess which repo this is from?

I would like to personally thank Nestle, Mars, Cadbury, Hershey, et al for making their chocolate so unbelievably bad that I'm not at all tempted to try and make use of the half-off after-Easter sales on Monday.

I was recently on the @freecodecamp.bsky.social podcast. It was fun. A big part of it goes into my life before dev and how I got into it. Big thanks to @quincy.bsky.social for having me on as a guest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajIs...

I was noticing, on stream, that Tanner Linsley lost a bunch of weight and now looks like a thicc Tom Holland. (That is not a slight against him, Tom is young) Then I realized that, after gaining some weight, I look like current day Edward Furlong. Fuck...

As I get older, I realize more and more that the sound I make when I get up and sit down is "the sound of a dying giraffe".

I'm so pumped that @gitnation.bsky.social asked me to host a few of these interviews. It's always so much fun chatting with Ken. And getting to do so with that view? Epic t.co/rCdPNLZakO

Empathy is a 4 letter word when you grow up rich

Can’t deep fry food everyday, I guess. Some baked pacific cod.

I try and do the right thing and name a git remote, "upstream", but AI, GitHub CLI, GitHub itself, and other things think that if I have an upstream I want to make PRs to it. I am now choosing to name my upstream remotes, "salmon". Tooling will ignore it, I will chuckle, everything will be chiller.

Little easter egg in the Ghostty codebase

I'm really looking forward to the Aaron Sorkin scripted movie about all this OpenAI stuff. In a stunning twist, they will get Jesse Eisenburg to play yet another dead-eyed billionaire without a conscience. Poor dude is getting typecast at this point.

You put your lurk up on my stream When I Claude You Claude We Claude

I'm wanting a high level planning and orchestration tool. In agile terms, I want to think in "Epics" not "Features" when it comes to parallel orchestration. ...am I going to have to learn what a polecat is?

Testing a theory

Asking for a friend, is there anything that could go wrong eating french dips every day? For science obviously (or not)?

OMG, Kagi cooked on this one. translate.kagi.com?to=en_us&fro... Translate the LinkedIn slop posts into honest language.

Every AI company: I'll gladly show you profit Tuesday for an investment today!

To celebrate Irish new year, I decided to make fish and chips. Couldn’t decide between Dover sole and catfish so I got a filet of both. (They didn’t have pollock) They also didn’t have any Guinness, so Irish death was a good sub for the batter.

Happy Irish New Year everyone! I forget what year it is though. It's one of these I think. Year of the... - Guinness - Leprechaun - Whiskey - Clover - Brian Setzer - Father Ted Maybe I missed one.

I recently learned about Thanos (thanos.io) in the Grafana/Otel space and I'm mildly upset that it isn't a chaos engineering tool for k8s that just deletes half the nodes and resources in a cluster to see if it can maintain uptime. I might lose sleep over this.

Who out there works at a company that maintains internal forks of OSS repos? Followup: How much time do you think gets spent each day/week/month/etc merging the upstream back into the fork?

I just sneezed so hard, I reset my own context window like an etch-a-sketch

TIL My sink is a generational garbage collector, and certain dishes have a way higher priority for being collected and cycled.