Mike Fridman

technology, landmarks, left joins and Go vibes.
Protocol Buffers for the rest of us @bufbuild

[Mike Fridman @_mfridman]

@jasonfried How’s the toebox width, compared to something like Altra?

[Mike Fridman @_mfridman]

@largedatabank @CockroachDB Good run, congrats!

[Mike Fridman @_mfridman]

@brandur I think so.

Fwiw, I did find a niche use case for it, e.g.,

func (s *State) GetFlag[T any](name string) (T, error)

https://t.co/UX2e4ITgL9

Not sure if it's justified, but might as well if it's in the language.

[Mike Fridman @_mfridman]

@fatih Nice! Signed up for https://t.co/bcbsWY6tRV a while ago, but haven't seen any updates.

Am particularly interested in this project.

[Mike Fridman @_mfridman]

@danveloper Interesting.

[Mike Fridman @_mfridman]

@brandur dude you’re on a roll.

~Nearly~ every company you join gets acquired. Lol

[Mike Fridman @_mfridman]

@thinkwithmark Maybe something silly .. let the user "mark" the page number where they start, then mark the last page when done.

That gives me the time/day of the session and start/end pages, so I can build some neat metrics around reading pace, pages per session, streaks, etc.

[Stitch by Google @stitchbygoogle]

Today, we’re open-sourcing the draft specification for DESIGN.md, so it can be used across any tool or platform. We’re also adding new capabilities.

DESIGN.md lets you easily export and import your design rules from project to project. Instead of guessing intent, agents know exactly what a color is for and can even validate their choices against WCAG accessibility rules.

Watch David East break down this shared visual language in action👇. New capabilities and links in 🧵

[Mike Fridman @_mfridman]

@mitchellh Do you want some of your Go repos back 🙈 hehe

Jk

[Kote @kotecinho]

Braun audio system designed by Dieter Rams. The complete set includes the following P1, T1, C1, CD2/3, A1 and the pedestal.

De Mauricio

[Mike Fridman @_mfridman]

@JustJake Ah the good old days building servers.

This one time supermicro told me to physically unbend a pin 🙈(desperate times, shortages).

[Mike Fridman @_mfridman]

@adamwathan @steveschoger My god, this is exactly what I was hoping y’all would do.

[Mike Fridman @_mfridman]

@rubenhume Proxima Nova

[TigerBeetle @TigerBeetleDB]

We processed a trillion transactions to test TigerBeetle’s scale...

[Priyanka Vergadia @pvergadia]

🤯BREAKING: Alibaba just proved that AI Coding isn't taking your job, it's just writing the legacy code that will keep you employed fixing it for the next decade. 🤣

Passing a coding test once is easy. Maintaining that code for 8 months without it exploding? Apparently, it’s nearly impossible for AI.

Alibaba tested 18 AI agents on 100 real codebases over 233-day cycles. They didn't just look for "quick fixes"—they looked for long-term survival.

The results were a bloodbath:

75% of models broke previously working code during maintenance.

Only Claude Opus 4.5/4.6 maintained a >50% zero-regression rate.

Every other model accumulated technical debt that compounded until the codebase collapsed.

We’ve been using "snapshot" benchmarks like HumanEval that only ask "Does it work right now?"

The new SWE-CI benchmark asks: "Does it still work after 8 months of evolution?"

Most AI agents are "Quick-Fix Artists." They write brittle code that passes tests today but becomes a maintenance nightmare tomorrow. They aren't building software; they're building a house of cards.

The narrative just got honest: Most models can write code. Almost none can maintain it.

[Mike Fridman @_mfridman]

@bentlegen lol, no. There’s an open source cli tool called goose I’ve been maintaining for years.

But pretty sure the goose everyone knows nowadays…

https://t.co/1yZTMF7UM2

[Mike Fridman @_mfridman]

@1vnzh Ha! Congrats man.

[Mike Fridman @_mfridman]

@bthdonohue @rattasupernote Ohhh curious how this goes.

I’ve now watched hundreds of hours on eink tablets from ReMarkable to Supernote to everything in between.

But haven’t pulled the trigger. 😬