dougEfish

I am fish and I like fish

[dougEfish @EfishDoug]

@LundukeJournal Your post says nothing. Looks like you reached your desperation phase of your journalism career.
The only issue I had while using uutils was with atuin. but it is actually a bug with how atuin used printf

[dougEfish @EfishDoug]

@brankopetric00 Can you share any example config setup for an organization?

[Stanislav Kozlovski @kozlovski]

VCs, please stop funding this slop. We’re entering clown world with the amount of AI building we’re seeing. 🤡🌎

All I see in the data infra space is companies building infrastructure for AI Agents with the obligatory buzzwords like A2A or MCP.

Who is productionizing these AI Agents?

Two years of marketing hype in, I have literally only seen ONE talk about an AI "Agent" in prod. It's by Uber and it's used for code generation. First off - it's a dev tool and second - it's not even an agent, it's a workflow.

Who honestly thinks the future of software architecture will be hundreds of AI Agents talking to each other, similar to microservices today?

Does anyone ACTUALLY believe this is what the world will be in 5 years?

Can they comment here and share their perspective?

The data is pointing to the opposite.

• We haven't seen any major LLM advancements since GPT-4.
• All frontier model companies are grossly unprofitable with no sustainable path.
• A lot of investments between big tech are circular (recycling revenue)

Even in a winner-take-all model, OpenAI is burning $5 BILLION a year.

Anthropic, the number two, is looking way, way worse regarding its revenue model.

What happens when the funding stops?

Companies chasing investor interest via shiny narratives are missing the forest for the trees - we, the engineers, need practical solutions.

That's what's going to last.

Fortunately, I see two trends growing quietly behind the spotlight (the sloplight?) of AI.

They will most certainly survive a dot-com like crash if that were to happen.

They are:
• Small Data
• The “Just Use Postgres” Renaissance

The common theme between both?

Simplification.

♦️ Small data is the cure for the Big Data hangover that tech collectively went through in the 2010s. It’s the group realization that:

• organizations don’t use that much data
• hardware is getting really, really good

Most applications will never see a terabyte of data, even if they’re successful.

Snowflake and Redshift-published data showed that 99.9% of real-world queries fit on one node. 💡

And the nodes are becoming super beefy. AMD released a 192-core (!) CPU this summer. 2025-era SSDs can do 5.5 million random reads a second and 28 GiB/s sequential reads.

Embedded and simple systems like DuckDB are going viral for a reason.

♦️ Postgres is doing to data infrastructure what the monolith comeback is doing to the microservices architecture.

It’s the group realization that Postgres can handle 80% of companies' needs. And it does it with 20% the effort.

It’s not the extreme view where "when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail".

👉 It’s the extremely reasonable and practical application of reducing the amount of system sprawl in your organization when that sprawl isn’t warranted.

Instead of MongoDB, Redis, an AI Vector database, Snowflake and Elasticsearch - you can use tsvector, pg_mooncake, pgvector, unlogged tables and jsonb in Postgres.

Life becomes significantly simpler when you don't have to manage 5 different systems. There is a ton of organizational overhead in having to:
• learn their nuances/configs/gotchas,
• learn their UIs and terminology
• learn how to deploy and upgrade them safely
• build operational expertise
• write runbooks for them
• debug them
• test them
• find, hire and retain talent that understand them
• keep up with their ecosystems
• etc.

Paying this organizational overhead for zero significant gain is not worth it.

It's all common sense.

[dougEfish @EfishDoug]

@TheGuySwann 9.7 on a hot wallet, no thanks.

[Stephan Livera @stephanlivera]

Picture a city with a strict limit on how much graffiti can be painted on a designated public art wall. Because the space is so restricted, some artists start spray-painting their work on nearby buildings, creating permanent damage that’s costly to clean. To reduce this, the city decides to expand the art wall, allowing more graffiti in a space designed for it, where it can be easily painted over or removed without harming the city’s infrastructure.

The city doesn’t support unchecked graffiti, but by expanding the art wall, it redirects the activity to a less harmful place. Similarly, removing OP_RETURN limits in Bitcoin Core channels spammer's data into pruneable, provably unspendable outputs, minimizing pollution in the UTXO set without endorsing spam itself.

[Solana Developers @solana_devs]

Introducing Confidential Balances Token Extensions 🛡️

Confidential Balances are now live on Solana mainnet — the first ZK-powered encrypted token standard built for institutional compliance without sacrificing sub-second finality.

Everything devs need to know 🧵

[dougEfish @EfishDoug]

@Frances_Coppola How should the US do that to a sovereign nation's labour laws?

[dougEfish @EfishDoug]

@DocumentingBTC @River Biggest waste of capital allocation. Worse than govt spending.

[dougEfish @EfishDoug]

@solana @FTDA_US What is the token address/mint?

[dougEfish @EfishDoug]

@BitcoinPierre @DeblancBenny Clearly you never used lightning

[dougEfish @EfishDoug]

Where are the dev forums / discord channels for low-level Solana questions?

[dougEfish @EfishDoug]

@CupOJoseph Let me make sure I understand this, validators steal SOL from users, which then causes the asset they stole to crash in value? Great plan.

[dougEfish @EfishDoug]

@RBReich Who is your research analyst? Fire them. He/She gave you garbage information. Unlike the traditional financial markets, which literally has a concept named "dark pools," defi is visible for all to see money flows and liquidity.

[dougEfish @EfishDoug]

@RBReich Actually, they lobbied for the opposite. That want regulation, albeit to squash competition and gain regulatory capture.

[dougEfish @EfishDoug]

@Attis_gaming This is nonsense. Games won't be a thing on crypto for a long long time.

[dougEfish @EfishDoug]

@mert Near's founder states 'Blockchains Cannot Scale Without Sharding'. I tend to agree. What is @toly response ?

https://t.co/OA5lLXi1Kn

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

Blue states seem to care more about euthanizing squirrels than arresting burglars and drug dealers

[dougEfish @EfishDoug]

@solscanofficial How about you read the memo program output? Design a standard memo tag syntax.

[dougEfish @EfishDoug]

Does anyone know of a service that can decode solana programs? I want to create a rules engine to restrict what my wallet will execute.

[dougEfish @EfishDoug]

@RBReich Again Mr. Reich, it was the government that allowed a monopoly to form under their unwatchful eyes.