Chetan

Building the flare part @ Cloudflare

[Chetan @rawalc]

@paulg Good catch, @paulg. I'm going to be careful using AI going forward.

Would you like to use a more formal tone? 👍 👎

[Chetan @rawalc]

@EscanorReloaded We're at the peak of the Gartner hype cycle on this. Trough of disillusionment following inflated expectations. We will reach enlightenment and productivity as society adjusts to real productivity gains that I have seen from AI.

[Chetan @rawalc]

The analysis on smiling retention curves from a16z indicates that most AI companies will grow revenues from older cohorts of users.

My observation is that retention picks up post M3 because of AI actually delivering on value as the models get better.
https://t.co/513fAjYrVX

[Chetan @rawalc]

@KaiXCreator kimi 2.6 is decent

[Chetan @rawalc]

You need outcome maxxing, not tokenmaxxing.

Tokenmaxxing by definition is output, not outcomes.

Outcomes drive the business forward.

Output without measurable outcomes only drive Anthropic and OpenAI forward and your company backwards.

[George Pu @TheGeorgePu]

Uber stopped hiring to save money.

By April they'd blown the entire AI budget anyway.

5,000 engineers on Claude Code.

Up to $2,000 a month. Each.

Now the COO can't tell if any of it worked.

A salary is a number you control.

Tokens are a number that never stops.

They didn't cut the cost.

They rented it from Anthropic - forever.

[Chetan @rawalc]

I am writing code I would have never otherwise written.

No surprise others like me are too.

As the world gets more creators it also needs more QAs.

AI will explode the job market.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Q: How are job postings for software engineers rising rapidly despite AI agents automating coding?

A: Because there’s far more code to manage than ever before. We’re already seeing a 14x YoY increase in GitHub commits, and it’s accelerating.

AI has dramatically lowered the cost of writing code, so it’s now being used across far more businesses, applications, and use cases.

We’re at the beginning of a massive productivity boom driven by the proliferation of bespoke software throughout the entire economy.

Coding has been AI’s breakout use case this year. The fact that it’s increased demand for software engineers — rather than decreased it — should call into question the entire “AI will cause mass job loss” narrative.

[Chetan @rawalc]

@JakeKing oh well, so is token burn

[Lee Robinson @leerob]

You might believe you should spend less time thinking about code because of AI.

I strongly disagree! We’re watching this play out live where tons of AI generated code becomes a liability.

At the end of the day, an engineer needs to be responsible / on call for code that gets shipped to production. If you don’t understand the system you’re trying to debug, you’re probably going to have a bad time.

Yes, AI can help with all of this, if you set up the proper systems. You can have agents triage prod logs, look at errors, etc. You can speed up parts of the investigation, but an engineer needs to make the call. There might be serious customer or financial implications from that change.

I expect the trend continue for trimming dependencies, vendoring code so you can modify it directly, preferring simpler systems with fewer abstractions, and spending waaaay more time thinking about system design and code maintenance.

I’ve said this before, but it’s a great time to get familiar with CS fundamentals and some of the history behind what great software looks like. Many parts will be different in the coming years as AI progresses, but also a lot more than people realize will stay the same.

[Chetan @rawalc]

@antigravity please add some cheap models so I won't run out of tokens so easily. Highly quantized Gemini, Ollama, Kimi - for when I want to do basic file operations without burning through the Gemini Pro tokens.

[Chetan @rawalc]

@akashtdev @antigravity just to throw our day off into a wild spin

[Chetan @rawalc]

@antigravity Hey Google, I was so happy with my folder structure and files shown in a VS Code style IDE. How is this useful when Antigravity is looks exactly like just plain Gemini web interface?

[Chetan @rawalc]

@CherryJimbo Will be interesting to see if the engineered website experience can still push up the numbers - the website may now be positioned for agent discovery than humans.

[Sunith l vibecoder | Jiobase.com @sunithvs_]

got the @cloudflare bill for https://t.co/0pwq5CqFYx

$5 subscription + $6.02 invoice.

here's what that $11 paid for:

2.82M unique visitors 248M total requests 2TB of data served 364GB cached 1,600+ developers' apps kept alive

and survived a 200M+ request DDoS attack. you can see the spike on the graph.
cloudflare blocked it. the site never went down.

$11. that's it.

and to everyone who bought me a coffee during this: thank you. genuinely. you didn't have to. but it meant everything.

[Dane Knecht 🦭 @dok2001]

Got a sneak preview for @Cloudflare Connect in Las Vegas, out first global conference! Going to try an experiment. I'm arranging a small group lunch with me for first 5 people to sign up with code "DANE" are in! 🍽️ https://t.co/xjGGKRe4Z2

[Chetan @rawalc]

Hey @convokeai - May I please get early beta access to your super cool AI Scheduling tool? https://t.co/rhNPWqMOWw #scheduling #calendars #ai #BetaAccess via @convokeai

Generated by AI?

[Chetan @rawalc]

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[Chetan @rawalc]

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