Galen K

Engineering leader. Family guy. Musician.

[Galen K @galenio]

@rauchg The dream is to only author changes that matter to actual users.

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

1. Oh shit, AI can do my job better than me
2. Software engineering is dead!
3. I can vibe code as much slop as I want!
4. Oh, things are not going well. Fable/Sol/Opus all suuuck
5. But what if I constrain the agent? Put it in a straitjacket?
6. Oh, the results are pretty good now. How do I go deeper?
7. *Orders 12 software engineering books from Amazon*
8. Software engineering is alive!

[Galen K @galenio]

@GergelyOrosz Assuming that's the future source of training data maybe there's hope for humans after all?

[Galen K @galenio]

My synopsis after watching the AI Buyer Pitch Teardown @ SF Tech Week: “Great idea, frontier models made it possible to sorta do that in-house, also have you thought about security?”

No matter how novel the idea it keeps coming back to security.

[Galen K @galenio]

Last week’s question: can a single agent listen for signs of poor system health (Sentry errors as a starting point), detect a problem, spin up a test environment and reproduce the issue, and push out a fix? The answer: yes, obviously, that can be done.

[Galen K @galenio]

@golm @nyergler @FoxNews @realDonaldTrump @JoeBiden Don’t forget Georgia and Arizona. It will get biglier!

[Galen K @galenio]

@cdbaby thanks for explaining over DM. All good now!

[Galen K @galenio]

@cdbaby I think you have a bug on your site. I'm unable to edit track titles for an unsubmitted release.

[Galen K @galenio]

@DistroKid your help center claims that stores don't allow artist name changes, but @spotifyartists contradicts this and says metadata updates need to come from you. Can you help?

[Andy Matthews @commadelimited]

Greetigns, I just found out that Eventbrite is laying off 45% of their workforce and I’m one of them.

Obviously We’re in strange times but I’m currently looking for a new position. Preferably based in Nashville, or remote-friendly.

Here’s my resume: https://t.co/joPYSNNfyD

[mat honan ☀️ @mat]

I try not to use Twitter for stuff like this but... Here we go

My wife works for @SutterHealth which has a Kafka-esque process to donate PPE (dare you to try) despite efforts by the staff - which has also been told not to talk about it on social media.

But hey, I can.

[Galen K @galenio]

Huh? Aren’t these supposed to be grounded?

[Galen K @galenio]

@PGE4Me I understand if the weather prevented replacing this crooked utility pole, but can you please clean up the no parking signs?

[Galen K @galenio]

It’s not a trip to our Argentina office if I’m not carrying baby clothes for the expectant engineer.

[Galen K @galenio]

Does it count as a trip to Nashville if you don’t eat hot chicken?

[Galen K @galenio]

I feel like I’ve learned a lot over the past decade, but the most impactful was seeing that there are great software engineers all over the world, not just in Silicon Valley. https://t.co/lhjfG1tuSm

[Galen K @galenio]

@sfmta_muni is the 67 not running, or is it just not being reported on NextBus?

[Galen K @galenio]

Glad to be repped by @SenFeinstein who will vote AGAINST the appt of extremist @SenatorSessions for #AG

[Galen K @galenio]

Andy Grove's death reminds me that everyone that is or wants to be any kind of a manager should read his book "High Output Management".

[Galen K @galenio]

@bryan_mayes @asheeshlaroia I cancelled all meetings! Come whenever!