Joe Rowley

just some guy. I love databases, dogs and Donny Hathaway. also healthcare, music, running, and nature.

[interrobang @interro_9]

"but im a white guy working on ai"

you can only fucking lol at something so incomprehensibly ignorant and out of touch

let me get this straight–

you were born and raised in quebec, and had the good fortune to study at mcgill - literally one of the world's best universities - for less than $5000 a year.

then you did graduate studies at waterloo - canada's top school for computer science, and earned a masters in maths and a phd there.

you then went on to move to America, work for Google, and later started your own ai company.

and the narrative you want to weave around your upbringing and training is that you ESCAPED canadian socialism?

so the socialism was good enough for you to grow up safe, have healthcare, receive a literal world-class education that helped you into one of the top technology firms in the world, but is also so bad that america has a moral imperative to ensure you, a technologist working there, should be granted permanent residency.

and if your lack of gratitude for your upbringing wasnt enough, you were promoting a presidential candidate who was vehemently opposed to immigration – while you, an immigrant, were staying in their country with a temporary visa.

i guess you can be smart enough to work on ai and quantum computing but still be dumb enough to not only think these things, but actually post them on twitter expecting sympathy

[Andrew Ambrosino @ajambrosino]

it's important, i think, to resist the temptation to ship garbage

[claire vo 🖤 @clairevo]

I call this the Trashcan Method of AI Engineering:

1. Identify thing you need
2. Build it fast, comprehension be damned
3. Does anyone actually use it? How? Cool write that down it’s your new spec
4. Throw away all old code and rewrite from scratch

Don’t feel pressured to 1-shot maintainable code. Code is cheap, throw it away more.

[Dan Shipper 📧 @danshipper]

if you’re freaking out about Mythos, remember:

Never make any major life decisions within 30 days of a meditation retreat, psychedelic trip, or first encounter with a frontier AI model.

[Joe Rowley @Joer14]

@paularambles Omg I’ve had the same driver before in Berkeley. Gave us ride back from Oakland airport. Was telling me about how Mongolia was good at wrestling and archery in the Olympics.

At the end of the ride (with my wife and baby girl) he said we should have another baby - a boy lol

[Steve Ruiz @steveruizok]

wow!! opus + claude code mobile is letting me reach new lows as a husband and father

[Ally Bell @withtenacity]

god wants us to feed claude

[staysaasy @staysaasy]

Competent people either want total authority, or for other highly competent people to have total authority. Any situation where that falls apart will make them absolutely freak out.

[staysaasy @staysaasy]

Working with a slow engineering team is identical to getting young children dressed
- why is this taking so long
- what is so hard, this doesn't seem hard at all
- why did you stop halfway through and do something completely unrelated
- fine I'm just going to do it myself

[Romy @Romy_Holland]

since becoming a parent i’ve noticed im way more invested in the social contract and participating in the collective project of society.

i want to decorate for holidays because the neighborhood is nicer if people visibly celebrate seasonal things. i am more keen to small talk old people i pass on the street because i feel some duty to share the joy of my small baby with people whose babies are long-grown. im more bothered by crime, more invested in other people’s kids having a nice life.

falling birth rates will cause a bunch of concrete problems, and maybe if we’re lucky we’ll figure out a clever financial solutions. but it’s gonna be a lot harder to solve for the insidious decay of the social fabric that awaits when fewer and fewer people have any real investment in the future.

[Todd Schulte @TheToddSchulte]

Thanks to NPR’s Morning Edition for featuring some more of our impact analysis at ⁦@FWDus⁩. “Some 10.6 million American citizens live with an undocumented person. That's according to the advocacy group https://t.co/zNIMETNNXJ.” https://t.co/dvXS4rmMhY

[Ankur Goyal @ankrgyl]

Every engineer has to pick their personal trade-off between speed and rigor. The great engineers are flexible. The best engineers find ways to operate with high levels of both.

There's no right answer, but certain products, projects, and companies require different balances.

[Jared Palmer @jaredpalmer]

You need to hire people who are constitutionally incapable of watching something be broken without fixing it

[claire vo 🖤 @clairevo]

I just wander around these days mumbling “opus 4.5 is so good”

[Joe Rowley @Joer14]

Images from Nano banana

[Joe Rowley @Joer14]

Just heard Claude the albino alligator has passed. RIP to the legend.

[Joe Rowley @Joer14]

@sdamico 5. Final reason - from purely a financial perspective treating one case of hepatitis or HIV could costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. That’s a lot glass pipes. So saves taxes payers money ultimately.

[Joe Rowley @Joer14]

@sdamico 3. Also giving out supplies serves as a good touch point for outreach/trust building/ treatment.

4. Back to injection - smoking is safer, offers lower risk of over dosing. So lesser of two evils.

[Brie Wolfson @zebriez]

One of the most destructive IC mindsets is their implicit expectation that their manager is there to tell them what to do, push their work forward, be their only source of feedback/standard-setting, get them promoted, etc.

The best ICs take that on themselves!