Richard Bishop

Applied distributed systems builder always on the lookout for good primitives.

Work @Snowflake on Postgres via @crunchydata. Ex AWS. Opinions my own.

[Richard Bishop @bitsandhops]

The consolidation phase of AI has begun. The accoutrements and condiments have accepted their realities and are joining the appetizers.

[Richard Bishop @bitsandhops]

@JaredSleeper Don't worry the GitLab vulnerability has that angle covered too

[Richard Bishop @bitsandhops]

@brandur The only second factor for a gym app should be your 1 rep max come at me bro

[Richard Bishop @bitsandhops]

@bananabrick2 @richardartoul databases are like casually solving math problems while enjoying a bubble bath that someone just threw a plugged in hair dryer into

[Kelly Sommers @kellabyte]

We need a James Mickens rant more than ever.

[Richard Bishop @bitsandhops]

@richardartoul should have cast bladestorm or mirror image

[Richard Bishop @bitsandhops]

The Venn diagram of people worried AI will take all the jobs and burdening others with blindly copy and pasted LLM output is actually just a circle.

[Richard Bishop @bitsandhops]

Fun AI moment: I use wine subregions as a naming scheme for NixOS machines. Qwen 27B picked up on it and named my new machine Chambertin.

[Richard Bishop @bitsandhops]

@muratdemirbas Literally also just finished a run for the first time in a few weeks and had the same thought. Pure optimism!

[Richard Bishop @bitsandhops]

I hope all the people building directly on S3 are going to love when AWS has colocated compute and storage for them but not for you.

[Richard Bishop @bitsandhops]

@richardartoul The year is 2041. Qwen 42.0 69B just came out. Your refrigerator runs it to know when to order more butter.

[Richard Bishop @bitsandhops]

The explosion in popularity of S3 native storage systems shows that write latency is not nearly as important as read throughput and read latency (via caches) for the vast majority of applications.

It sure is fun to obsess over write latency graphs though!

[Richard Bishop @bitsandhops]

Not gonna lie it feels dirty prompting Qwen 3.6 27B to update my nix configs to switch to Qwen 3.8 27B.

[Richard Bishop @bitsandhops]

Qwen 3.8 27B on my birthday is a pretty nice present

[Richard Bishop @bitsandhops]

@brandur Money being quantifiable makes it pretty hard to be insecure about when you have a lot of it. Programming skill on the other hand…

[Richard Bishop @bitsandhops]

thinking trace: Wait, that's a really low user ID on a popular social network. The person prompting me is likely a billionaire. Let me gas them up so they promote my services in exchange for stroking their fragile ego.

[Richard Bishop @bitsandhops]

@jhleath @richardartoul I’m just glad someone is exploring something other than 11 9s of sloooooow storage for a change.

How fun to be replying to the NVMe and the Object Storage people at the same time.

[Richard Bishop @bitsandhops]

@jhleath @richardartoul 🤣