Eric Conner

Working on Vivian.

[Eric Conner @eric_conner]

Agree. Always think “is it possible that your experience is not representative?”

[Eric Conner @eric_conner]

@paulg @mimassi Defining something as “your life’s work” though is often too high a bar for anyone to get started on anything though, so it’s a tough balance. And often it seems with startups the most important thing is actually starting.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.

I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).

It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.

The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.

We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.

I worry.

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Another awesome photo

[Eric Conner @eric_conner]

@staysaasy There is a whole progression to certifying tricks on snow starting in aerated pools and foam pits.

[Eric Conner @eric_conner]

@wbmtnops any update on the alpine?

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

A horse meeting a dolphin in crystal clear waters

[Eric Conner @eric_conner]

@ChShersh “There are languages people complain about and languages no one uses.”

Ease to startup matters for usability. See also PHP. Useful things have been done in both languages.

[Eric Conner @eric_conner]

@DanielleMorrill @MisterMorrill @Levels what I do / would do:
- Lift weights.
- Eat enough protein. (Most people think they get way more protein than they do— track it for some days to actually see)
- No alcohol.
- Focus on performance first, weight loss second (I.e. running a half marathon in a certain time, etc)

[Eric Conner @eric_conner]

@Duderichy I think the closest you might get would be Nick Bare. Sub 2:40 marathon while close to those lifts.

[Eric Conner @eric_conner]

@Austen I muted this emoji also:👇

[Eric Conner @eric_conner]

@officialhambly Pajar Boots.

[Eric Conner @eric_conner]

@chamath I guess you’d probably still eat less doing that given the inconvenience of it.

[Eric Conner @eric_conner]

@chamath Wouldn’t the correct test be to import all of your food from Italy for 8 weeks while you’re in the US?

Do an experiment, maybe?

[Eric Conner @eric_conner]

@stclairashley Why is the explanation not covid. 2020 was an outlier year and many ways.

[Spoon & Tamago @Johnny_suputama]

competitive daydreamers gathered in Tokyo today for the “2024 Space-out Competition”

Heart rates were checked and anyone who laughs, talks or dozes off was eliminated during the 90 min competition.

[Eric Conner @eric_conner]

I heart internet usability.

[Eric Conner @eric_conner]

@DrBPHealth Americans 100% do not eat the same thing. lol.

[Eric Conner @eric_conner]

@bentossell Why do you need to download the docs to do this? They are probably already in chatgpt or you can just add them to the context.

[Eric Conner @eric_conner]

@Robert_A_Berger @perplexity_ai I have used GPT for Sheets to do this via https://t.co/Wh3kRrRcpU

[Eric Conner @eric_conner]

Organizational chaos monkey. Random 2 employees get the day off each day.