Kit Merker

Software Executive and Investor, mostly focused on infra software enabling AI, cloud, data, security, and reliability.

[Kit Merker @KitMerker]

@chaotictransfem The agents will invent their own tools and languages which will be indecipherable to mere humans

[Chainguard ⛓️ @chainguard_dev]

Stopppp, we're blushing ☺️

@G2dotcom's Fall 2026 reports are in, and Chainguard was recognized in SEVEN different categories. We'll leave it to our customers to tell you why 👇

[Varunram Ganesh @varunram]

Had dinner with a tier 1 VC in NYC and we were chatting about Bending Spoons and he goes "The Bending Spoons guys are PE guys, they value businesses on EBITDA. In VC we value businesses on VIBEITDA, so its quite different"

(posted with permission)

[Chainguard ⛓️ @chainguard_dev]

"With Chainguard Libraries, I'm looking forward to being able to sleep at night and not have to worry about the ongoing malware supply chain attacks." — Kevin Fuller, CISO at @PropioLS

Propio trusts Chainguard to prevent AI-driven supply chain attacks (and deliver better sleep 💤). Here's their story: https://t.co/0EAPbVizN8

[Kit Merker @KitMerker]

Hey @ramp and @toast — why don’t you guys work it out to make expensing meals seamless?

[Ari Hoffman @thehoffather]

DocuSign founder Court Lorenzini warns the Democrats' "Millionaire Tax" is coming for the income of ALL WASHINGTONIANS within 2 years

"Regardless of your political affiliation, I encourage all WA State voters to fully understand the issue as you cast your ballots. This is being billed as a 'millionaires tax', but make no mistake - this is a state income tax that will be expanded to everyone if it's allowed to go into effect. EVERYONE will be subject to this income tax within a year or two if it isn't repealed.

WA State has historically made up for the lack of a Statewide income tax by taxing our consumption (gas taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, B&O taxes, etc). NONE of those taxes are going down or being reduced - I-645 is just MORE taxes for everyone.

We have an opportunity to repeal the WA State Income Tax

Vote YES on I-645 to stop the Income Tax"

[Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon @bkheywood]

Does the Seattle Times understand that the legislature explicitly removed the safeguards on public pension retirement funds AND benefits to make them subject to the unconstitutional income tax?

More specifically this was repeated 11 times in the unconstitutional income tax law targeting each of 11 public pension retirement income systems.

The tax is coming for your retirement money and the Seattle Times is not only OK with that, they endorse it….

Shame on you Seattle Times

Vote Yes I-645 Repeal the unconstitutional income tax and protect your retirement income.

https://t.co/W5q3L752Dx

[Let's Go Washington @letsgowa]

The income tax is a foot in the door to tax all incomes, not just income after one million.

[Joe @JoeKennewick]

Add this to the list of lazy reasons to vote against an initiative.

I can rip this lazy argument apart from a few different angles… 1) It will affect everyone soon. Why else is the DOR building a huge enforcement division and why did they refuse to put in language that the tax won’t expand in both rate and income level? 2) People will leave. It’s already happening. 3) It’s unconstitutional. 4) If you think keeping the income tax will somehow fix Washington’s out of control spending, you are delusional.

[Jason Rantz on Seattle Red @jasonrantz]

DocuSign founding CEO breaks with Democrats, warns voters the income tax is coming for everyone within two years https://t.co/VgwSlLOgU7

[Chainguard ⛓️ @chainguard_dev]

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[Joe @JoeKennewick]

In Washington State, there will be three initiatives on the ballot on November 3rd. None of these are “MAGA” initiatives. That’s just a lazy way for opponents to talk negatively about the initiatives.

What are the initiatives?

I-645 - Repeals the income tax. Our state spending is absolutely out of control. We don’t need an income tax. We need to cut spending.

I-638 - There are biological men and boys competing against girls in sports. That’s wrong. This stops it.

I-001 - Parents rights. Olympia thinks that they know how to parent your kids better than you. Don’t let them.

These three are common sense initiatives that push back against radical policies in Washington. I expect there to be a lot of support for them on both sides of the aisle.

I also expect these to be challenged in court which makes voting for good Supreme Court candidates crucial.

Those are:
Dave Larson
Davis Stevens
Todd Bloom
Scott Edwards
Sean O’Donnell

[Superman @thesupermannx]

China published the most uncomfortable paper on vibe coding.

ETH Zurich tested 100 developers in a controlled, commercial-grade vibe coding environment to see who actually succeeds.

The findings are brutal.

The researchers tracked computer science achievement, written communication skills, and general cognitive reasoning.

They wanted to see what actually predicts vibe coding proficiency when you never touch a line of source code yourself.

Two major predictors emerged.

Written communication proficiency mattered. The ability to structure thoughts and articulate intent unambiguously in text directly impacts what the AI builds.

But that wasn't even the main takeaway.

Computer science achievement was a massive, dominant predictor of success.

Even when researchers controlled for general intelligence and reasoning skills, CS background still heavily dictated who built working software and who completely crashed.

In fact, CS knowledge contributed roughly twice the unique predictive variance of writing skills alone.

Why? Because vibe coding isn't about writing code. It’s about debugging logic.

When an AI agent builds a complex application and quietly breaks an edge case under the hood, a non-technical user looks at the glowing UI and assumes it works.

They don't know what questions to ask. They don't know what logic to challenge. They lack the mental models to recognize architectural catastrophe.

You can prompt your way past syntax.

You cannot prompt your way past a fundamental lack of engineering intuition.

The hype told us that learning to code is dead because language is all you need.

The data just proved the opposite.

To truly master the vibe, you still need to understand how the machine thinks.

[Kit Merker @KitMerker]

@WomanDefiner India and china numbers are wildly inflated.

[Kit Merker @KitMerker]

@DandyGeorgism Is this going to affect the lake / gulf?

[Kit Merker @KitMerker]

@chudbastard There are between 10k and 20k VPs at BofA according to Google. This basically an entry level title in banking.

[Kit Merker @KitMerker]

EI EI OH

[John @ionleu]

DI

[Kit Merker @KitMerker]

@skyler_fs I was foreman on my first jury, second time I became the shadow boss of the foreman I hand picked the blue haired LOTR larper and convinced everyone he would be a great leader. It is a real slice of society! I stand by both convictions.

[Kit Merker @KitMerker]

@JoeFernandez Ask them about the hardest project they ever did and then feign a heart attack

[Kit Merker @KitMerker]

@johnternus What phone case do you use? Or do you go caseless?