Nic

Here for the AI talk.

[Nic @fastchicken]

@karrisaarinen Otherwise, I kinda agree. 10x should mean people have a bunch of time to review everyone elses PRs... but it usually means people writing more PRs... which seams a bit selfish.

[Nic @fastchicken]

@karrisaarinen Linear has also been key in some of this - just being a LOAD more organised, project breakdown not one big blob of tickets etc.

[Nic @fastchicken]

Oh THATS where it came from! I couldn’t find anything in XProtect logs. Rebooting fixed it - I had a similar issue with a CSV file Id downloaded. (And codex)

[camsoft2000 @camsoft2000]

Well done Apple with the own goal. Xcode's bundled Codex executable moved to the bin as malware 🤦‍♂️

[Nic @fastchicken]

@camsoft2000 Oh THATS where it came from! I couldn’t find anything in XProtect logs. Rebooting fixed it - I had a similar issue with a CSV file Id downloaded.

[Nic @fastchicken]

There’s something about the more thoughtful and considered European attitude which I get - maybe it’s my Steiner / Waldorf school background, IDK.

It’s just interesting. To me anyway.

[Nic @fastchicken]

Observation: since coming back to Twitter for the AIs (thanks @josh_robb ) and starting from zero, I’ve made a habit of following frequently, and UNfollowing just as frequently.

If someone might be interesting, follow them. If someone isn’t, remove them.

[Nic @fastchicken]

The observation is those who’ve stuck. It’s almost all Europeans, not Americans or SV.

@GergelyOrosz, @karrisaarinen and the Linear folks, @Dimillian, @thorstenball and the Amp folks. @mitsuhiko @badlogicgames and @steipete . @julianharris (hi! Been a while)

[Nic @fastchicken]

Google then dropped the Gemini SKU (so we were not paying for it), included it in Workspace, and… couldn’t / didn’t change the workspace cost as that was under 36 month contract.

Definitely a win for us.

[Nic @fastchicken]

Something I’ve not seen mentioned.

We were basically required to subscribe to Gemini to get decent workspace pricing. G+WS for less then just WS on its own.

No brainer for cost. We didn’t USE Gemini much tho.

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

.@GoogleAI's subscription bundle is arguably the most successful consumer subscription in history.

They bundle Gemini, NotebookLM, Nano Banana, Veo 3, and terabytes of storage—with 150M+ subscribers generating many billions in revenue.

Here's the story behind how they designed the bundle, their unconventional freemium strategy, and many lessons learned: https://t.co/spmq8mSbpk

[Tuomas Artman @artman]

Today is a hard day. I shared this note with the @linear team today: We’ve made the difficult decision to increase our workforce. This is not a cost-cutting exercise or a reflection of anyone’s performance. We’re simply reimagining every role for the agentic AI era. We’re hiring. We’re sorry about that.

[Nic @fastchicken]

@sqs Thanks! I'll do that now (I'll get the whole org on)

[Mario Zechner @badlogicgames]

recommended reading. strongly so.

> And these layoffs will continue till we learn to use AI. Till we learn to convert AI-tokens into outcomes and not just input.

[Nic @fastchicken]

@thorstenball They always resonate ❤️

[Nic @fastchicken]

@thorstenball 1000% this

[Nic @fastchicken]

Finally something which can make my M4Pro/48GB turn the fans on

https://t.co/DPFvj6vHRm + Qwen32B (4bit) in llama-server, looking for security issues in our codebase...

[Nic @fastchicken]

@DanielW_Kiwi He has a history of it. All over geekzone etc too

Very often gets things fixed when CS fails (tho really that’s a shit way to do it, not scalable, but at least it’s an option)

[Nic @fastchicken]

@thorstenball Can’t wait :)