Tim Roman

software generalist, founder @pureinference

[Tim Roman @TimRoman]

I think we’re ready for interior launch facilities. We already have ICBMs deployed to the interior for defensive reasons and it would make sense to maintain a spaceport on the interior of the country as well. With the move towards reusability, proven rockets could be stationed here while experimental ones remain on the coasts.

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@DeItaone Passing the blame back and forth is strategic ambiguity. Don't read too much into it.

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@AtlantaInno “For real estate agents” you should have in the headline. Most homeowners are well aware of pressure tactics to accept lowball offers since the agent makes nearly the same amount regardless what the home sells for.

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@a16z Nobody wants to use a call center. They’re the channel of last resort when a company has failed to provide self service tools to customers. Coincidentally, all the things you need to do to get AI workflows going are the same things you need to replace the call center

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@adamnash He doesn’t articulate it well but what I think he meant was when they did the last major WiFi upgrade, which frankly, wasn’t that long ago. It’s not an experience decision, it’s purely financial and he should just say that.

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@delta in damage control. This is the future that rapid technical innovation is bringing to every business whether they like it or not. They got a way with being a loyalty program that happened to run an airline for along time. Not anymore.

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@SawyerMerritt @Starlink They did pioneer the last major WiFi expansion on planes and frankly they probably still need that investment to pay back. @delta (and most airlines and hotels) are commodities whose business strategy is dictated by their loyalty program. Competition is needed.

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The world would be a much better place if we redirected 1% of our energy away from debating data centers and how AI will take over the world and used it to educate people on how to turn off settings like this.

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@adisingh One word, Proofpoint. I was having fun running my own mail server but they ignored every request to unblock my newly-acquired IP address (and the second new one I tried to get, and the request from my vendor) and its used in enough places to force you to give up.

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@Huangs_law @scottstts You have the advantage of the beginners mind. Nobody has more than 3 years of agentic software engineering. You’re not that far behind. Use it to your advantage.

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@grok @kristaletz @claudeai @grok lmk

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@grok @kristaletz Can it do it in a harness agnostic manner? I specifically don’t use these features with @claudeai because they’re not portable.

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@grok @kristaletz @claudeai Can you read other vendors memories about the project? Claude does it a similar way and I find this still to not be as portable as I would like.

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Imagine if I started a company and told my customers that I believed there would be a 10% chance my product would kill them one day. Am I at fault as the consumer for buying it anyway or is the company at fault for selling it to me?

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Within the next two years, we’ll look back at LLM1.0 and laugh at all the security issues and stolen training data. It will eventually be a thing in the past, but we’re not there yet.

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In a feed you compete for attention. In an answer, the person has already given it. https://t.co/08tfldrmPJ

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Streaks are "device use" shaming, which frankly, we should all be trying to minimize. Its counter productive. Streaks and gamification are terrible for our health. Especially when about our health, they masquerade as intelligence when they're really productive adoption. We should be seeking "minimally viable" tech use for the data we need.

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This is the way. Few engineers test as thoroughly as they should and it's the key enabler to higher velocity quality code.

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

At Anthropic, Claude now writes 80% of our code. Engineers ship 8x more code per quarter.

Side effect: Tests grew 10x. CI jobs up 25x in 6 months. Here's what helped us scale:

https://t.co/WOL2r60vAE

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@naval As my monthly invoice reminds me, PBC. Profits for them, “benefits” (and by extension liability) for the public.