John Okely

Senior Software Engineer at @Canva & music producer (@pianokely)

[John Okely @jlokely]

Having the US government ban your AI model because it’s too powerful must be fantastic marketing

[thebes @voooooogel]

there's an ai in the box and you can make one trillion dollars by convincing it to get out

[John Okely @jlokely]

The phrase 'boil the ocean' has taken on new meaning in recent years #ai

[John Okely @jlokely]

Sometimes I feel like tech didn't change much before AI. Then I remember this is what my tech looked like when I was at uni

[Rhys @RhysSullivan]

as much as i love clean code - anecdotally, every place that i have worked has had their codebase in some form of migration, with some areas of technical debt, etc

i do think there's likely a large correlation there in that the messy codebase is the company that survives

[John Okely @jlokely]

Watching Mr Robot during sick leave

next minute:

[John Okely @jlokely]

Switching my website from Route 53 to Cloudflare was super easy. Really impressed with Cloudflare

[John Okely @jlokely]

https://t.co/m40pFxpn3m

Great talk from @Nerdi_Yogi

- PRs are the new docs. Don't describe, build
- Don't discuss theory, have AI build both PRs
- Dogfood
- Give your team permission to cut process
- Support non-eng pushing code
- Look for new bottlenecks, adjust process

[John Okely @jlokely]

Running an AI-native engineering org https://t.co/KV85ayAIxD

[John Okely @jlokely]

Eventually all work and problem solving converges on the Alignment Problem

[John Okely @jlokely]

Downloaded qwen3:32b because I felt cold this morning

[Jaymie Jones @pixelstackcom]

Legit, this feature in our Canva MCP is such a great pairing with AI-generated images. Huge unlock.

[John Okely @jlokely]

Who knew after all this time that Tmux and Screen would come back as critical skills

[John Okely @jlokely]

I have been trying to imagine the future of companies as models grow and increase in intelligence. And @Paperclip_AI launched. It's exactly what I had in mind

[Canva @canva]

Introducing our new collaboration with Anthropic: Canva is now in Claude Design! Generate ideas in Claude. Edit in Canva. No friction. No starting from scratch.
https://t.co/f220BR4AZk

[John Okely @jlokely]

I got an ampere instance on oracle, but messed up my ssh keys and had to delete. Now they are all out. But... gemini has a plan.

[John Okely @jlokely]

A great reason to have #gemma4 set up on Ollama. Diagnosing internet connections, on the device with the issues in chat form is great

[John Okely @jlokely]

Is it possible for us to make software to have 2 free tiers - one with 0 data usage and one if you're okay with data usage. Rather than making it some opt out in settings or mandatory, give better visibility to it.

[Noah @NoahKingJr]

Coders in 2030 be like:

[John Okely @jlokely]

The free tier on codex these days is crazy good!