Matt Barrio

Proud SRE Lead. Utahn by Birth, Texan by Choice, San Franciscan by nature. Now, where did I put my wand?! I'm gonna be late for class....

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Mind boggling to me that I can make a thing faster and there's always people that ask "but why?" What kind of mentality is that? The pursuit of excellence does not need justification. Also, I find in so many cases, we can't know the impact of an improvement until we do it.

For example, one I've talked about before: Ghostty's high IO throughput has enabled terminal program (emulator and TUI) fuzzing at a speed thats incomparably fast to prior solutions. This has resulted in upstream patches to resolve issues in popular projects like btop, tmux, and more.

Speed enabled that anecdotally example that lifted the tides of adjacent communities that don't rely on Ghostty technology at all. I didn't predict this.

Make things better because they can be better and let the results naturally play out.

[Matt Barrio @mattbarrio]

@ThePrimeagen @saltyAom I get what you’re saying - but have regulators actually make policy or commissions to regulate frontier models and labs. This admin is out for Anthropic cause it won’t play their game.

[Matt Barrio @mattbarrio]

@paulg @JesseArreguin wasnt perfect and Berkeley is no bastion of lean process & permitting, but he was a huge reason we have this building boom. It didnt change overnight but local gov made it work. Its why Im excited to see what @DanielLurie is able to do with a more moderate board

[Sergey Nazarov @sergeynazarovx]

We used to go to a special website, ask strangers for help with programming, and get humiliated in return

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

I think some people are misunderstanding me here.

I am 100% confident that LLMs alone will get you a hot steaming pile of absolute shit and it has played out again and again.

What irks me is that a bunch of normies were sold that this is PhD level intel and that they have 0 worries and this is the future old man, get with it.

They go off, sell a product to REAL customers and then absolutely get wrecked.

There will be a whole bunch of people that will continue to get wrecked because an entire class of people cheer them on and more so CEOs of the worlds largest companies tell them they are correct.

I can imagine that we will see quite a few lawsuits in the coming months / years due to this.

[Matt Barrio @mattbarrio]

@bhalligan @jack

[Matt Barrio @mattbarrio]

We’ve literally pushed refineries out of the state via terrible policy, and taxed the shit of oil. Then state politicians are like “look what oil companies are doing to the state!” “Look at the war!” … anything but looking in the mirror.

[Rep. Ro Khanna @RepRoKhanna]

Trump's immoral and reckless war in Iran has shot up gas prices in my district to nearly $6 a gallon.

Stop the war, stop exporting our crude oil, and pass my windfall profits tax on Big Oil to give Americans a rebate for their gas bills.

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

Running a company:

2020: can you survive a pandemic?

2021: still here? we’re going to give all of your competitors $100m series A rounds.

2022: wow, you made it? okay, all engineers cost $600,000/year now.

2023: nice job! okay, SVB failed and we’re going to take away your bank account.

2024: a survivor I see. but can you pivot from ai to crypto to defense tech back to ai-enabled defense tech in a 12 month period to stay relevant?

2025: unfortunately all of your competitors have raised $2b series B rounds. oh and only 500 engineers are relevant and they cost $100m/yr each.

2026: well, well, well. you’re still in business? let’s deploy the thunderclap of godlike LLMs from the heavens so all of your customers can rebuild your app in 2 hours. can you survive?

[Matt Barrio @mattbarrio]

Not me jamming to @billieeilish #birdsofafeather while doing this…

[ⱤɆ₳Ⱡ ฿Ɇ₦ @AtRealBen]

Do it 😭👌🏻⚡️

[Pokémon Aesthetics @PKMN_twt]

Me too Pikachu

[Christy 💕 @Christy4Change]

Accurate

[Matt Barrio @mattbarrio]

@elonmusk I don’t think there is enough appreciation about how insanely cool of a feat this is.

[Matt Barrio @mattbarrio]

I just laughed really really hard at this. #truth

[Bryan Bischof fka Dr. Donut @BEBischof]

too real

[Larsen Cundric @larsencc]

The gap between "works in a demo" and "works at scale" is about 4,000 commits.

[Matt Barrio @mattbarrio]

Maybe one of the top issues we are facing in Cali. Yes, we need clean energy, but wiping out our refineries is not the way to get there.

[Ashley Zavala @ZavalaA]

Now:
California Energy Commission Vice Chair Siva Gunda on refinery closures and state set to rely more on imported fuel:

“This is not going to be a smooth transition.”

His candid remarks kick off a California Senate hearing on the situation 🧵

[ja3k @ja3k_]

Software engineering is like Tetris now in that you have to go faster and faster until you die

[Matt Barrio @mattbarrio]

Development with AI doesn’t care about code ownership or service management… who knew removing the human aspect would lead to this!?

[Swizec Teller @Swizec]

Leadership: "AI is so good it writes almost all our code"

Status dashboard:

[daz @MetamateDaz]

Gen Z does not understand that the economy used to be so good that if you had a roommate people genuinely thought you might be gay.

[Matt Barrio @mattbarrio]

VLANs are institutionalized discrimination!

[TracketPacer @TracketPacer]

i love dns it always works great for me 👄✨

video was created by the luminary genius @citiesbydiana