Duncan Davidson

Software Dev • American living in the EU 🇺🇸🇪🇺 • Photographer

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@BurakYngn Could be a sales tagline for sure.

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When intelligence becomes abundant, knowing who to trust becomes the scarce resource.

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@xaptronic Definitely what as well as who.

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@film_girl @donasarkar Sometimes they’re all that you need.

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The Java Story documentary is out! It’s so good to see all these people again, even if we weren’t in the same room at the time. https://t.co/O8embDeyiA

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@chadfowler @rich_kilmer You’re at least a decade ahead of me. I’m still trying. 😂

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@chacon Have you seen some of the PR humans make? 🤣

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In the run up to the Java documentary dropping tomorrow, @CultRepo just released this small featurette of how Apache Tomcat came to be as told by your’s truly: https://t.co/xSNAIYde6Z Of course the really important part was what came after it was released and done by a lot of people other than me. But this was the start and I’m glad to tell the story again.

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@dw__3000 It’s the way. If everyone did this, it’d make the whole process 1000x more pleasant and speed things up to boot.

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The bigger essay: https://t.co/XYgLBzqiSP — WDYT? What role do you think a personal website can play in the age of AI agents?

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The personal website has always been shaped by who the reader is and how they access it. In the very early web it was a place where you said, “Here’s who I am.”

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I think AI brings a new chapter. A personal website in the age of AI is not only your digital homestead and a place to publish your work, but also a place to teach the network how it should think of you. A place to say, “Here’s who I am, and here’s how you can understand me.”

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@Mappletons @geoffreylitt That hits me too in general when I talk to AI, even when I’m doing it at my desk in my home office by myself. But I keep reminding myself how weird it was for people to walk around talking on their Bluetooth headsets for a while and hoping that this too will pass.

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@michaelhedgpeth Indeed. These are tools. The outcomes matter more.

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If I don’t use my Codex rate limits at all, does that mean I should downgrade my plan to a point where I can bump into limits at least a bit more often?

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@michaelhedgpeth Uh huh. I had that thought too. The real reason I think is that I have both the Claude and Codex accounts and use them for different things.

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@Stammy @katmetaxas Happy birthday and enjoy the Leica.

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Very sad to hear news that @om is no longer with us. Such a voice. And a great eye. And a thoughtful human being. Rest well. https://t.co/KZQ0KMK2fq