Avi Press

“Another CEO with AI psychosis”. Founder @scarf_oss. Board @HaskellFound. Open source usage analytics.

[Avi Press @avi_press]

While I'm giving incomprehensible PL takes:

I've been building a mac + ios app recently, and finding swift development to be surprisingly pleasant. (I have not had to open Xcode yet)

It compiles fast and still has a rich type system (so I'm told, wouldn't know myself).

[Avi Press @avi_press]

@borkdude Jokes aside I love lisp too

[Avi Press @avi_press]

@borkdude And wait 15+ seconds just for the runtime to start?

[Avi Press @avi_press]

@DavidSacks Sounds like we should be making it easier for great people to immigrate here and stay here then

[Avi Press @avi_press]

@TravisMWhitaker @ThePrimeagen @terminaldotshop I can't chill out anymore, I live in constant fear of runtime errors now.

[Avi Press @avi_press]

Oh boy here we go https://t.co/JUGfnY9kHJ. Just starting to watch this now @ThePrimeagen

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

@TravisMWhitaker @avi_press @terminaldotshop I cannot wait to read the white paper about how this will work

[Avi Press @avi_press]

@tutaj_olek @ThePrimeagen Mostly this:

But also we process a lot of data and Python has a fantastic data ecosystem.

[Avi Press @avi_press]

ocaml is a great fit on paper but no one on our team is an expert with it. Purely about our team nothing against ocaml.

The initial tests we did with Python just made for a much easier development loop for our purposes so we moved forward with it.

Perhaps another language would have been better but for a CRUD backend any language will work at the end of the day.

[Avi Press @avi_press]

@TravisMWhitaker @ThePrimeagen @terminaldotshop I know you’re joking around and respect your technical opinions, but how about leaving Haskell out of your death threats? Or even better, just not making them?

[Avi Press @avi_press]

@tritlo @ThePrimeagen If adjustments are actually made, that will make for excellent PR!

[Avi Press @avi_press]

@josecalderon @ThePrimeagen Agreed! I also think the fact that Haskell would then become so associated with cryptocurrencies for some people is also not ideal for marketing.

[Avi Press @avi_press]

Wow I'm really impressed by this breakdown of my blogpost! Thanks for sharing @ThePrimeagen, great video.

[Avi Press @avi_press]

Oh boy here we go https://t.co/JUGfnY9kHJ. Just starting to watch this now @ThePrimeagen

[Avi Press @avi_press]

@tomjaguarpaw @kerckhove_ts Yup. And it’s fine to charge per hour, but then I expect the vendor to get the project done much faster today than it would have a year ago.

[Avi Press @avi_press]

If you are a software consultancy who has not yet adjusted pricing to account for the last 3 months of LLM capabilities:

Wake up, your business has already started dying.

[Avi Press @avi_press]

Impressed to see this, it’s a big deal! Especially given how new flakes are. The US government is not quick to adopt good tech outside of defense.

[Determinate Systems @DeterminateSys]

FlakeHub has achieved FedRAMP High Authorization and is listed in the FedRAMP Marketplace 🎉🏛️🔐

This makes Determinate platform features like secure Nix packages, binary caching, and private flakes available to U.S. federal agencies and orgs handling Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).

Nix's reproducible builds, sandboxing, and other supply chain features make it uniquely well suited for the highest-stakes environments and we're thrilled to finally bring it inside the FedRAMP boundary. Read more using the link in thread 🧵🔗👇

[Avi Press @avi_press]

@angerman I made an editor-agnostic successor to emacs org-mode. Turns out to be excellent for agent management so now I’m running almost all of @scarf_oss’s operations on it. https://t.co/uUh4ykbcKJ

[Avi Press @avi_press]

"Hey I know you haven't employed anyone in <state> for 3 years, but omg! Your unemployment tax rate has changed like it does every year! I had to make sure someone delivered this news to you by hand".

[Avi Press @avi_press]

I continue to be amazed at how much physical mail even small a company will get. 99% of it useless garbage, especially most the of the ones from the government.

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

This is the beginning of the end of the AI luddite movement and it’s long overdue. AI is a generational productivity tool for all fields, and companies whose decisions get co-opted by AI haters will become entirely unviable as competition whizzes by with better products.

[Avi Press @avi_press]

@domenkozar A few years ago couldn’t imagine how I could find time to write code with all my other responsibilities at @scarf_oss. Today I’m doing it with fewer people than when we first raised, while also shipping code every day again.