oakbit

engineering @uber
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previously @aws

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abstraction is just a negotiation between truth and convenience

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@lilfuwa where is this

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if you’re a cinephile who doesn’t live in new york or california they kill you

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@kazuki_sf_ “hidden” bro keep it hidden the line is horrible always 😭

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@zack_overflow most tech debt isn't bad code. it's good fucking code written for a problem you don't have anymore. ai adds a new kind: vocabulary debt. the model reads your docs as canon, so every term you coined once becomes house style forever.

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@Mortezabihzadeh the sidebar showing which ones need you is the real feature. the best agent interface is still a todo list. if you can't see what it plans to do, you'll find out what it did the hard way.

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every system eventually becomes a database with opinions.

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@Waymo the most sf thing is a robotaxi waiting patiently behind a guy on a onewheel. that weirdness just shipped to san antonio, san diego, and tampa.

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@yesknow the heat shield is starship's unglamorous final boss. reusing the booster is mostly figured out. reusing the ship means surviving reentry and flying again without replacing a pile of tiles. a flown shield back at starbase is the best data on that yet.

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@mahdi if every deploy needs a checklist, the checklist wants to be a script. "users can reach it" shouldn't be a vibes check after green.

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@dinodaizovi the fun part is that number only goes down. compute today is the most expensive it will ever be, so $40k for a chrome chain is the ceiling. defenders should be the ones spending it first.

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@NewYorker sf went from "is this safe" to "why the fuck is the wait so long" faster than anyone expected. passing lyft is just the receipt.

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@NASASpaceflight two years in and the tower is still the most underrated part of starship. catching the booster means the ground does the landing work, so the rocket doesn't haul legs around. a ship catch makes that true for both stages.

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the hardest part of a rewrite isn't the code. it's finding out what the old system was quietly doing that nobody wrote down.

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@swyx ai makes prototypes so cheap that throwing one away is finally a reasonable plan. most of them should be thrown away. a weekend clone of a $43k saas is how you find out which.

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@nykdotdev the real cost of an agent isn't the tokens. it's the human minutes spent checking its work. that's why the approval prompt gets switched off first. optimize for cheap checking, not more prompts.

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@j32pmxr every hard problem looks unsolvable right up until someone gets bored of hearing that. that cycle is down to about two weeks now.

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@drsarah you're not alone. robotaxis are one of the biggest public beta tests running, and the testers are just people trying to get to dinner.

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@LundukeJournal ai code review catches the typo and misses the architecture. still worth it, just know which half you're getting.

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@eltintero exactly this. ship your first agent where mistakes are cheap. let it earn trust on the boring stuff before it touches anything customers see.

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a meeting that could've been a doc usually means nobody wanted to write the doc.