Stachu Korick

Building @darklang.

My name backwards is uh cats.

[Stachu Korick @StachuDotNet]

Hi there!

I just published 2 blog posts on Darklang. Give them a read?

[Darklang @darklang]

We've just shared an overdue update on our journey. This past year, we've been reimagining Darklang, focusing on a new CLI runtime and embracing AI.

[Matt Silverlock 🐀 @elithrar]

“in the next week, I’ll do a whole month’s work. and no one will know.”

incredible piece.

every senior *anything* should read this. PMs, designers, consultants, finance VPs (et al) are not immune to this spiral. you can prevent it happening to you if you can recognize it first.

[Stachu Korick @StachuDotNet]

I went to a rock-skipping competition this weekend. https://t.co/rtlFoQftWv

[Stachu Korick @StachuDotNet]

Over the past few years I've gotten pretty good at playing pool/billiards. I captain an amateur league team and we did so well in a medium-size local tournament that we're being flown out next week for a huge multi-day amateur tournament in Vegas. Excited!

[Stachu Korick @StachuDotNet]

I love central Vermont, but miss living in Philly where there was an active social IRL tech scene. I'm sure there are people out there, likely need to start a new group and gather folks. There's some stuff in Burlington, but an ~hour commute is annoying.

[Stachu Korick @StachuDotNet]

DM me for a free @darklang sticker mailed to you. Limited to 20 people in the US, for my convenience. Software/content releases coming soon. I'll be in Spain and France in the next weeks - if you're in en route I'd love to chat software and give you a sticker.

[Stachu Korick @StachuDotNet]

@GeoffreyHuntley @gradient_sky @darklang working on it :)

[Stachu Korick @StachuDotNet]

(separate userscripts make it so I don't see any of LinkedIn's normal UI on a daily basis)

[Stachu Korick @StachuDotNet]

I've been playing the LinkedIn daily games for a while now. I wanted a quick way to view my 'rankings' across the games in a quick glance. I made a stupid hacky bookmarklet. I click it in my bookmarks bar, and get a pretty table a few seconds later.

[Stachu Korick @StachuDotNet]

Source: https://t.co/m42YYUzVLb (only includes the games that I do daily)

[Steve Yegge @Steve_Yegge]

I was chatting with my buddy at Google, who's been a tech director there for about 20 years, about their AI adoption. Craziest convo I've had all year.

The TL;DR is that Google engineering appears to have the same AI adoption footprint as John Deere, the tractor company. Most of the industry has the same internal adoption curve: 20% agentic power users, 20% outright refusers, 60% still using Cursor or equivalent chat tool. It turns out Google has this curve too.

But why is Google so... average? How is it that a handful of companies are taking off like a spaceship, and the rest, including Google, are mired in inaction?

My buddy's observation was key here: There has been an industry-wide hiring freeze for 18+ months, during which time nobody has been moving jobs. So there are no clued-in people coming in from the outside to tell Google how far behind they are, how utterly mediocre they have become as an eng org.

He says the problem is that they can't use Claude Code because it's the enemy, and Gemini has never been good enough to capture people's workflows like Claude has, so basically agentic coding just never really took off inside Google. They're all just plodding along, completely oblivious to what's happening out there right now.

Not only is Google not able to do anything about it, they don't seem to be aware of the problem at all. I'm having major flashbacks to fifty years ago as a kid at the La Brea Tar Pits, asking, "why can't they just climb out?"

My Google friend and I had this conversation over a month ago. I didn't share it because I wanted to look around a bit, and see if it's really as bad as all that. I've been talking to people from dozens of companies since then. And yeah. It's as bad as all that.

Google is about average. Some companies at the bottom have near-zero AI adoption and can't even get budget for AI. They may have moats and high walls, but the horde is coming for them all the same.

And then there are a few companies I've met recently who are *amazingly* leaned in to AI adoption. One category-leader company just cancelled IntelliJ for a thousand engineers. That's an incredibly bold move, one of many they're making towards agentic adoption. In my opinion, that company is setting themselves up for a _huge_ W.

As for the rest, well, it's the Great Siloing. Everyone's flying blind. With nobody moving companies, no company knows where they stand on the AI adoption curve. Nobody knows how they're doing compared to everyone else.

Half of them just check a box: "We enabled {Copilot/Cursor} for everyone!" Cue smug celebrations. They think this is like getting SOC2 compliance, just a thing they turn on and now it's "solved." And they don't realize that they've done effectively nothing at all.

All because of a hiring freeze.

[Stachu Korick @StachuDotNet]

@billandhisclips @geoffreylitt We're still around! Working a bit more quietly than we should. But excited to get some releases+press out soon.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

OK, well. I ran /autoresearch on the the liquid codebase.
53% faster combined parse+render time, 61% fewer object allocations.

This is probably somewhat overfit, but there are absolutely amazing ideas in this.

[Dane Knecht 🦭 @dok2001]

It’s Next.js Liberation Day.

The #1 request we kept hearing: help us run Next fast and secure, without the lock-in and the costs.

So we did it. We kept the amazing DX of @nextjs, without the bespoke tooling, built on @vite. We’re working with other providers to make deployment a first-class experience everywhere.
Next.js belongs to everyone.

https://t.co/2A3pHnQLfp

[Stachu Korick @StachuDotNet]

To the latter point, there's a good small community around custom software. If interested, read up on the xteink subreddit.

[Stachu Korick @StachuDotNet]

The xteink x4 is, by far, the best rink device for reading on the go that I've found.

I've done a lot of research in this space to come to the conclusion. It's tiny, fast, and comfy. Any time I have a spare minute and want to read a page, I take it out of my pocket and read.

[Stachu Korick @StachuDotNet]

Qualifiers: it's only good for text-centric reading (no images or diagrams), and it's basically necessary to install custom firmware such as crosspoint.

[Stachu Korick @StachuDotNet]

@jreuben1 @Miezhiko misc: when I joined Darklang, my interest was born of it being "cloud+dist F#" as a long-time F# fan :) It's grown since then, and I'm excited for the more modern applications (WIP).

FWIW you may appreciate this (slightly outdated) list: https://t.co/1Yq80k5aw6

[Markov @MarkovMagnifico]

how my codebase written entirely with claude code runs

[joshpuckett @joshpuckett]

Tailwind's lost 40% of their web traffic, a bunch of revenue, and yet has 300%+ growth in npm installs and usage at all time highs.

An incredibly raw, honest take from one of our industry's best on the realities of running a business in the midst of the creative destruction AI is bringing.

Worth a listen, the whole way through.

[Stachu Korick @StachuDotNet]

Reminds me of this old slide by @ScottWlaschin

[Erik Meijer @headinthebox]

As everyone is going crazy about Ralph, I keep wondering, why it is even necessary. It seems reasonable to expect from an AI coding agents that it loops automatically until it has finished what it was asked to do.