Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.
We're dealing with a major malicious attack on @rubygems right now. Signups are paused for the time being.
Hundreds of packages involved - mostly targeting us, but some carrying exploits. The team has been on this for hours. More details to follow once we're through it.
#ruby
FFmpeg is moving to Rust 🦀
Our use of C and Assembly in FFmpeg has been an unacceptable violation of safety.
FFmpeg will be running 10x slower - but we're doing it for your safety.
All your videos will appear green - safety first, working software later.
Pretty fascinating that in England the moment a person opens their mouth, you can read their entire life story. Where they went to school, what their family is like, their economic background, everything.
A friend of mine says he literally can’t date in London anymore bc the second a girl speaks, there’s zero mystery. He already knows her postcode, her school and her dad’s job. It’s over before it starts.
In Poland, none of that exists. People speak the same regardless of where they grew up, where they went to school, what they do for a living. A homeless man and a university professor can sound nearly identical.
Nobody can tell that I basically grew up in London. Nobody can tell I haven’t lived here in years. There are no accent clues and no class markers, no education giveaways, nothing.
So getting to know someone here is a completely different experience. You actually have to be curious. You have to ask and you have to discover a person the old-fashioned way bc nothing about the way they speak is going to hand you the answers.
Pretty cool
we as software engineers are becoming beholden to a handful of well funded corportations. while they are our "friends" now, that may change due to incentives. i'm very uncomfortable with that.
i believe we need to band together as a community and create a public, free to use repository of real-world (coding) agent sessions/traces. I want small labs, startups, and tinkerers to have access to the same data the big folks currently gobble up from all of us. So we, as a community, can do what e.g. Cursor does below, and take back a little bit of control again.
Who's with me?
https://t.co/PmRz0vURni
So let's start from this post to tell you about my journey with the LLMs and the new Redis data structure I'm implementing right now. Vector Sets were hand-coded, this time I decided to use Claude/Codex as a helpers, and guess what? The work I had to do was huge. Thread:
I know there is some overlap between open source and anti-AI activists, but I have a hard time reconciling it. My million+ open source LOC were always intended as a gift to the world. Yes, I would make arguments about how it would strengthen our communities, and the GPL would prevent outright exploitation by our competitors, but those were to allay fears of my partners to allow me to make the gift.
AI training on the code magnifies the value of the gift. I am enthusiastic about it!
Some people do look at open source as a tool for social change, career advancement, or reputation building, but those are all downstream of the gift.