Sam B

Software engineer, conference speaker and hacker

[Sam B @samb_tech]

Slides from my talk at GopherCon UK '26

https://t.co/wec7csaTjr

[Sam B @samb_tech]

@InsiderPhD I'm using an open weights qwen model. I wouldn't say my system is working perfectly, but it isn't the model's fault.

[Sam B @samb_tech]

@rob_heighton This is why I didn't use hard mode when I solved Wordle with an ML model. It's actually less hard, in terms of how clever you're allowed to be.

https://t.co/wec7csaTjr

[Sam B @samb_tech]

My GopherCon UK talk, on machine learning

https://t.co/8l6kTMDOVB

[Sam B @samb_tech]

@thsottiaux using claude because of bureaucracy, our supplier onboarding process, and frankly they're better at enterprise sales than openai. woudn't even crack my top 3 if it were up to the engineers to decide.

[Sam B @samb_tech]

@InsiderPhD It isn't too late already?

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@gopherconuk Awesome talk Sadie 🥳

[GopherCon UK @gopherconuk]

Post-lunch pick 🍽️

Dave Cheney's back on the Google Track with his talk Numbers.

And on the loveholidays Track, Veronika Volokitina digs into one definition of valid.

Where are we landing?
#gopherconuk26 #golang

[Sam B @samb_tech]

Gophercon UK talk done! Slides going on my blog on Friday

[GopherCon UK @gopherconuk]

Lunch done, back for more 🍽️

On the Google Track, Sam Burns pairs Go with CUDA to build a neural net from scratch.

The loveholidays Track has Haseeb Majid building with Go and HTMX.

And on the King Vault Track, Daniela Petruzalek is vibe-coding a 2D game with Gemini.

Decisions, decisions.
@danicat83 #gopherconuk26 #golang

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It is hilarious to me that this actually saved my conference talk ����️🎙️

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

That's right, GPT-5.6 Sol is awesome and can be used pretty much anywhere, including in the CC harness.

To celebrate this, together with the fact that I'm not going anywhere... I have reset usage limits for all paid users of ChatGPT Work and Codex.

Have fun out there!

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@albinowax oh cool!!

[Sam B @samb_tech]

@airkatakana @hopes_revenge Wait how do I know if I'm a bot? Questioning this now

[Sam B @samb_tech]

@airkatakana Claude sounds pretty annoyed with you

[Sam B @samb_tech]

@0xLupin Where is the blog?

[Sam B @samb_tech]

@albinowax Where is the video going to be?

[Sam B @samb_tech]

@KentonVarda Oh that's so cool

[Sam B @samb_tech]

@InsiderPhD I'm so on your side on this one

[Sam B @samb_tech]

Proposing a new lower bound on the n=17 square packing problem, with help from GPT 5.6 Sol:

https://t.co/HG3AOnNUYy

[Sam B @samb_tech]

writing a machine learning system to play word games. wish me luck...