Mark Wilcox

Full stack serverless | Ex-Tech Director @TheDistanceHQ | Ex-Developer Tools Analyst @SlashDataHQ | Tech strategy nerd.

[Mark Wilcox @sorcery_markw]

@mmuruganandam @claudeai @AnthropicAI @OpenAI Read the announcement they plan to restore it to the subscription plan as soon as capacity allows. They’re probably having to back off on training runs to let us all try it.

[Mark Wilcox @sorcery_markw]

@martin_casado Open models would work too if they were easy to host with low latency at similar prices.

Ag some point the open models will be good enough for most things. Opus 4.8 / GPT 5.5 are almost good enough at coding. I don’t see everyone switching to Mythos if it’s 4x the price.

[Mark Wilcox @sorcery_markw]

@martin_casado If there’s such a ton of pricing power why have frontier prices come down so much as open models got closer?

We use frontier models to code and that’s likely dominating spend in the industry now, but who uses frontier models in automations? Gemini Flash Lite is great for us!

[Mark Wilcox @sorcery_markw]

@lpolovets Your understanding that it’s mostly from developers is flawed. Claude Code is not even a majority. When they were at $14b run rate earlier in the year Claude Code was $2.5b of that. Developers are often the biggest individual spenders in an enterprise, but they also a minority.

[Mark Wilcox @sorcery_markw]

@nikitabier Is this a joke about AI development speed?

If you’re serious, our reviews are faster than they’ve ever been. Faster than Google Play most times and often around 2h. Key point though - set to autorelease rather than manual or you seem to end up in a significantly slower queue.

[Mark Wilcox @sorcery_markw]

@aidan_mclau To believe subjective experience is an epiphenomenon and there is no hard problem seems like a valid position, but isn’t denying it exists denying your own lived reality? It’s certainly denying mine. I can’t know you have qualia, but mine are the only way I know anything directly

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@newsandpics @geoeverything @lumensmith11 @BrumCityGuy @idruprofen Abilities vary, some are less common than others and also have high value to society. It doesn’t make the people with those abilities better, but it makes sense that they get paid more to use those abilities rather than use other talents they may have that society values less.

[Mark Wilcox @sorcery_markw]

@newsandpics @geoeverything @lumensmith11 @BrumCityGuy @idruprofen However, compared to other professionals with a similar level of training, the doctors are paid really poorly. Partly because they feel called to the profession and are willing to work for less than they could get elsewhere, and partly because the NHS employs most of the doctors.

[Mark Wilcox @sorcery_markw]

@newsandpics @geoeverything @lumensmith11 @BrumCityGuy @idruprofen Thus the NHS has enormous power to set wages for doctors, nurses & cleaners.

Absolutely there is some privilege involved in being able to train as a doctor in the first place, but also most people would never be able to get onto the course or complete it regardless.

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[Mark Wilcox @sorcery_markw]

@peterpme React Native is an abstraction on top of the native platforms. Expo is an abstraction on top of React Native. Now when stuff goes wrong I need to understand 2 abstractions. Google “The law of leaky abstractions”. I get why prebuild, but I don’t think it’s a good solution.

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@bitandbang I scrolled through a lot of replies and didn’t see this one: https://t.co/IkZ4Txc8nR - it gives you Postgres and ElasticSearch capability and 75 requests/s on the free tier.

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@mijustin I think the latest number from @SlashDataHQ is 31.1M. I used to be involved in the calculating of that number and a lot of different sources go into it. I think it’s the best estimate out there, but you have to define “software developer” the number of professionals is a bit less

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@BKLYNSTICKUP @VitalikButerin This is a con… amount remaining on the site is random. If it was real it’d all be gone by now. Do not send ETH here.

[Mark Wilcox @sorcery_markw]

@Mat__Savage @rothgar @swyx Disney tried and failed miserably at building their own streaming service from scratch. They bought the core tech for the replacement (Disney+) as part of the MLB Advanced Media acquisition. Streaming is hard.

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@_Felipe @LukeChannings @gzoechi @mitsuhiko @pcwalton Yes, I know the reasons. I spoke with the Flutter PM when it was still very early. It was technically possible for them to use JS/TS and they did have some valid reasons to prefer Dart. I still believe they underestimated the power of sticking with a language devs already knew.

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@LukeChannings @gzoechi @mitsuhiko @pcwalton TypeScript could have been compiled to native for mobile. Indeed the Appcelerator team have been doing that with JS for many years now. Flutter's biggest competitor, React Native, is using JS/TS without AOT and does not struggle for performance on modern devices at all.

[Mark Wilcox @sorcery_markw]

@LukeChannings @gzoechi @mitsuhiko @pcwalton Curious in general calling an opinion on likely adoption misinformation. Technically Dart has some advantages, in terms of community adoption TypeScript had many more, and continues to have. The Dart compiler already existed, and there was almost certainly some not invented here.

[Mark Wilcox @sorcery_markw]

@mitsuhiko @pcwalton Kind of the other way around - Dart came first, then they made Flutter after the web community didn’t want it. Same PM. I’d bet Flutter would have scaled a lot faster if they went with TypeScript.