David Teather

SWE in NYC. OSS cited by Yale & the UN
(4M+ downloads). security vulns covered
by Vice & The Verge.

[David Teather @david_teather]

trying to be more active here, I'm David

built TikTokAPI (3M+ downloads, cited by Yale/the UN), found security vulns in YikYak covered by Vice.

SWE in NYC, getting deeper into systems and compilers for fun.

down to grab coffee in NYC, always open to meeting new people

[David Teather @david_teather]

dont really get the hype

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but tbh their guardrails were better than I thought they’d be even if the demo bugged out a few times for me

[David Teather @david_teather]

went to the elevenlabs nyc tech week pop up, and if I ever have to argue for a discount with an AI again I’m leaving tech and going to live in the woods forever

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in the future all the apps with “enterprise” feeling ui is just going to be done through mcp/cli

got mcp access to PagerDuty and you’re telling me I can now query the incidents I was involved in? then easily tie that to like slack incident threads

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any good nyc tech week events for engineers, maybe systems related?

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@karpathy wow

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@posthog @convex I guess I gotta try convex again

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Never thought I’d want to download the datadog app

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@rudybanerjee @temporalio or else

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@rudybanerjee @temporalio name me 3 temporal usecases to recap

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related but anyone know if there's standard conventions for like cli agent permission model? I sort of just made a middleware command like "{binary} ro list" so I can just allow the agent to do "ro *" and deny anything else
but a use could just do "{binary} list" which seems ok

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I feel like AI is crazy bc you can just get tired of going through an internal tool ui to do everything and in like 2 hours you have a beautiful cli

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@claudeai @SpaceX didn't someone like call this yesterday

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@rudybanerjee yeah you can, rolling back a already committed transaction will just return an error you can discard.

I was mostly psuedocoding, but in prod you might want to log only rollback when the returned err != nil, and if the rollback itself fails then log it

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went down a rabbit hole on psql advisory locks after some system design at work, wrote up a blog post

https://t.co/G7vyZ369OD

[David Teather @david_teather]

be a menace, hit API endpoints with a few ‘undefined’s, ‘nil’s, or even ‘null’s. page an engineer

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@OpenAI engineers the last few days #Sora2

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@cognition_labs Can Devin please fix https://t.co/jYZ86oCBAA 🤔

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Shoutout to #CampusExpert @david_teather and his team for rocking the finals at MIT's Battlecode 2024! They battled through strategy & code, landing an amazing 13th place out of around 400 teams by navigating through challenges with style and a flock of 🦆 https://t.co/V0Cmzx50dW