Robert Chandler

Software engineer, musician, follower of Jesus

[Robert Chandler @Ro_Cha_]

@alyssaleann We have done this ad-hoc with a single YouTube video here and there. 2 y/o loves Mr. Rogers and classic Winnie the Pooh, and borderline ignores screens… if anything she hates them, because her mom and I are still working on our own screen time haha

[Robert Chandler @Ro_Cha_]

@jordienr Ideas are all we have left

[Robert Chandler @Ro_Cha_]

@nexxeln agents for gambling addicts

[Robert Chandler @Ro_Cha_]

A bad look, but fits the pattern across labs… progress at all costs and we’ll figure out the consequences later. It seems obvious that if AI is going to accelerate science, energy should be a top priority.

[Financial Times @FT]

Anthropic strikes $3.4bn deal to generate gas-fired power for data centres https://t.co/OC7LUD8I8z

[Robert Chandler @Ro_Cha_]

@Shpigford @conductor_build I do love amp though. I certainly don't do anything crazy, so for the most part it's pretty seamless.

[Robert Chandler @Ro_Cha_]

@Shpigford @conductor_build I love vibe coding, but it's because they're all vibe-coded.

[Robert Chandler @Ro_Cha_]

@MasonSalisbury2 👁️👄👁️

[Robert Chandler @Ro_Cha_]

@mitchellh I worry for these people, frankly

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@ThePrimeagen https://t.co/TwJBftetS1

[Robert Chandler @Ro_Cha_]

The craziest part of so many hot takes from important people is how braindead they are, not just tone deaf. Like, memory is adjacent to compute is adjacent to the user not because it’s efficient, but because of fundamental physics. GPT 7 overcoming the speed of light, yet, sama?

[Robert Chandler @Ro_Cha_]

Like if you want to rent my RAM and you deal with the latency, let me know and we can folding-at-home the future of humanity, sure.

[Robert Chandler @Ro_Cha_]

The craziest part of so many hot takes from important people is how braindead they are, not just tone deaf. Like, memory is adjacent to compute is adjacent to the user not because it’s efficient, but because of fundamental physics. GPT 7 overcoming the speed of light, yet, sama?

[Pubity @pubity]

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes people owning RAM is wasteful, and that it belongs in data centers instead.

"From a global allocation perspective, actually, it’s quite terrible to have everyone have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer."

[Robert Chandler @Ro_Cha_]

@MasonSalisbury2 Just like they taught us at ASU

[Robert Chandler @Ro_Cha_]

@MasonSalisbury2 There is no social media meritocracy. Alas, the rich get richer. Not even scraps left for me.

[Robert Chandler @Ro_Cha_]

SoftwareFactory? Yeah I know java

[Robert Chandler @Ro_Cha_]

@ibuildthecloud I see people say this all the time but I find that text on macOS is awful. On external monitors, at least, it’s not just that it’s fuzzy or scaled oddly, but there’s like a weird soft halo around it? Regardless of font smoothing settings. On windows it’s just crisp for me always

[Robert Chandler @Ro_Cha_]

Software also exists as a subfield of software… but there‘s no reason for everyone currently in Software to write core infrastructure, dev tools, and the one millionth agent harness.

[Robert Chandler @Ro_Cha_]

Software isn’t dead, it’s now a subfield of every other field. The domain expert is the developer. Software is an implementation detail of whatever a professional needs to get their job done.

[Robert Chandler @Ro_Cha_]

Software isn’t dead, it’s now a subfield of every other field. The domain expert is the developer. Software is an implementation detail of whatever a professional needs to get their job done.

[Robert Chandler @Ro_Cha_]

@rblalock I accidentally made a software factory with a single prompt yesterday, just one-off for a random set of tasks. Made me wonder if the difficult last 10-20% is even worth it?

[Robert Chandler @Ro_Cha_]

@mitchellh Shoot, they all said no

[Robert Chandler @Ro_Cha_]

@mitchellh Just sent this to like 4 different agents asking "Would this approach help us here?"