Damien C. Tanner

Building your AI computer in the cloud @usetoyo. Prev founded @pusher, @thoughtbot

[Thorsten Ball @thorstenball]

An internal Slack post I shared with the Amp team a few weeks ago:

Building software is learning.

https://t.co/gasUel9aAv

[Damien C. Tanner @dctanner]

@rja907 Really interesting notes. Thanks for sharing. I’m going to make it next year. I’m so please in person is back!

[Damien C. Tanner @dctanner]

@threepointone Very nice ride.
Once upon a time I built this fully electric machine.

[Damien C. Tanner @dctanner]

Latest model releases have been a real let down. Haven’t felt any real step change improvements. It feels like the labs are having a hard time wrestling the best of intelligence. Each release is not really better but just ‘different’ in some helpful but also counterproductive ways.

[Mario Zechner @badlogicgames]

this has been my experience as well. there definitely were improvements, specifically wrt shell based computer use, but also regressions, especially in the last 3 version bumps of flicker and gerpertee corp.

the last step change was 3.x to 4.x in flicker land, probably mostly due to them getting all coding sessions from april to october 2025 via CC. similar timeline with GPT and Codex.

at least in my line of work, no big jumps after that. the benchmark increases mean literally nothing in the real world.

i suppose we have a data problem now. only so much you can RL into those damn things. and with ralph loops/swarms/agents reviewing agents/whatever, you get less and less human signal to improve RL, would be my uneducated guess.

also very hard to capture design/system thinking in RL would be my guess.

all that said: if we are at the top of the S curve now, then i'll take what we got. plenty useful, even if it won't replace me fully nor partially anytime soon.

[Damien C. Tanner @dctanner]

Recently been feeling a need for a ‘Human Reviewed’ badge for infra providers and critical libs.

If I’m using your thing for critical infra. I want it to be extremely solid and safe from the temptation to slop.

[Samuel Colvin @samuelcolvin]

This is peak 2026 - 180 retweets, 1.3k likes, 1.2 bookmarks, not a single issue on the repo.

So I looked at what's actually in here. I was not impressed.

Since none of you will go to github anymore, here's a screenshot of my questions.

https://t.co/CRYkkCArw5

[Damien C. Tanner @dctanner]

@whoiskatrin See you there. All agent work pauses next week.

[Damien C. Tanner @dctanner]

@samuelcolvin @zeddotdev Be both know who’s really writing the code here ;)

[Damien C. Tanner @dctanner]

@samuelcolvin @zeddotdev The other thing I would love (but probably is best in Zed itself) is a rendered markdown editor, aka Notion but for files on my computer.
The future of docs and sheets is .md and .csv

[Damien C. Tanner @dctanner]

@samuelcolvin @zeddotdev Sam you legend. Ever time I open a csv I have been thinking ‘why can’t Zed just have a table vie’

[Damien C. Tanner @dctanner]

@threepointone @jonas @zebassembly @dillon_mulroy @nevikashah @thomas_ankcorn @JeremyMorrell @msmps_ I want all of this too thanks you please

[Damien C. Tanner @dctanner]

@JerryCap CSU data center capex is way too low to justify that kind of valuation

[Damien C. Tanner @dctanner]

@badlogicgames It’s the most calm editor around.

[Damien C. Tanner @dctanner]

@badlogicgames Is there a newsletter/email feed too? That’s how old skoll I am.

[Damien C. Tanner @dctanner]

@threepointone @mattzcarey @whoiskatrin Postgres would be great if it also solves the max turn size issue

[Damien C. Tanner @dctanner]

@mattzcarey Always tastes so good fresh

[Damien C. Tanner @dctanner]

@TidefallCapital Masterpiece, thanks 👌

[Damien C. Tanner @dctanner]

@atelicinvest I agree. As an engineer, I would pay 10x for a 10x better model and would use it 10x more than I do currently for coding.

[Damien C. Tanner @dctanner]

@BradoCapital @CSUnerd Thanks for sharing! Gutted i couldn’t make it in person but will aim to next year.

[Damien C. Tanner @dctanner]

@ryancarson We need to get you into @usetoyo

[Damien C. Tanner @dctanner]

@bookercodes @mattpocockuk Sent you an email @mattpocockuk 👍