Nick Selvaggio

Occasional tweets about tech, personal finance, and general positivity. Always learning and exploring. 👋🏼

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Integrated our Jarvis style assistant to @OmarchyLinux... Check it out... kind of makes me want to play with the what is possible with Quickshell:

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@markproduct I feel that. Just pushed this little project live. Always wanted to build this: https://t.co/ac59n2unfz

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I created this super simple daily coding challenge newsletter. Even though AI is writing our code now... a little coding puzzle each morning can't hurt your brain! Feedback welcome... https://t.co/ac59n2unfz

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So happy to have @OmarchyLinux running as my daily driver.

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@dhh Excellent just fixed my dual boot into Omarchy last night... good timing! Love it, thanks,

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@aarondfrancis @laravel We’ve been experimenting with gbrain for this purpose. Have it deployed on our intranet with company and personal assistant access. Still early m but seems to be building nicely

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@dhh Truth!

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@pashov @1nf0s3cpt Awesome, thanks!

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It’s all made up… but you get to make it up… insightful talk by @garrytan https://t.co/qstZxydgmr

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@rosenforge @mattshumer_ Thinking the same. I would imagine posting weights to the public would be pretty shitty for them… clearly that was not the goal.

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@sattyyouneed Learning the basics has never been more relevant… it’s a fundamental skill imho

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@darrenjr Why? I find myself using my editor more and more for just editing secrets in my .env... I have to say customizing my editor is something I actually enjoy... but getting less use out of it lately.

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@eliana_jordan We’ve been building with people using our product. Kind of public but the value build is flowing both ways.

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Anyone making any inroads disrupting enterprise EDI? I would imagine its a hard nut to crack... folks still charging kilo-character fees out here.

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Awesome talks at @LaraconUS https://t.co/BVs9eECkSY

[pash @pashmerepat]

Absolutely beautiful rant about AI in Linux Kernel from Linus yesterday:

I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area
where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level
maintainer.

Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues
with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.

Or just walk away.

AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.

It may not have been that "clearly" even just a year ago, but it's no
longer in question today.

There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will
actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of
those questions. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn't actually used
it.

Yes, it can also be a somewhat painful tool, both for maintainer
workloads and just from a "it keeps finding embarrassing bugs"
standpoint.

But the solution is not to put your head in the sand and sing "La La
La, I can't hear you" at the top of your voice like some people seem
to do.

The solution is to make sure those LLM tools _help_ maintainers
instead of just causing them pain. There's no question on that side.

We're not forcing anybody to use it, but I will very loudly ignore
people who try to argue against other people from using it.

And no, AI isn't perfect. But Christ, anybody who points to the
problems at AI had better be looking in the mirror and pointing at
themselves at the same time.

Because it's not like natural intelligence is always all that great either.

The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology.

Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and
often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a
side benefit, not the _point_ of the project.

This is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been,
and never will be.

In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better
technology, not because of religious reasons.

And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear
of new tools.

Linus

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Thanks you for posting this. It makes a lot more sense. This also tracks a lot more with what we are doing in our business. For example we replaced expensive carrier integration software with our own stack. We have been building a “harness” layer for years… the AI tools are now allowing us to compound on top of this … but we still use vendors for various things

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

One of the best quality of life improvements is the simplest of all: Like more things.

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@benjaminjwhitby @StaniKulechov @0xKolten Was thinking the same thing. 🚀

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@jordankdalton Absolutely. The lines are blurring for sure.