Steve Costa

Eng Leader @databricks | Previously @confluentinc & @awscloud

[Ali Ghodsi @alighodsi]

@databricks has the fastest and lowest latency on Kimi K3 (max)! Great job by Databricks AI team!

https://t.co/Q3Zw2oNGHE

[Steve Costa @stevencosta]

There are many opinions flying around about the merits (or folly) of tariffs. But I found this interview with ⁦@nfergus⁩ to be one of the more informative takes on the issue. https://t.co/vWFOdGPUaj

[Steve Costa @stevencosta]

https://t.co/r9Loj711PQ

[signüll @signulll]

the r1 drop should be setting off alarm bells in the entire western capitalist apparatus.

for the first time in a while, i’m genuinely afraid the u.s. is losing its dominance—its influence, its capacity to innovate, & its ability to outcompete on a global scale. the core issue isn’t just regulatory capture or bureaucratic inertia. the real problem is also the managerial class: a bloated, risk-averse, overpaid, over glorified layer that’s systematically dismantled the mechanisms that once made the u.s. competitive. meta is a great example of this (look at what happened with llama)—that’s with a founder running it, now imagine google where there is a professional manager running it & 5k vp’s underneath.

meanwhile, china is surging ahead. it’s not just drones or now a world-class ai model; it’s the entire ecosystem. robots are building other robots at scale. their tech is cheap, effective, & ubiquitous. the world’s supply chain—its manufacturing core—is de facto chinese.

china isn’t just catching up; it’s scaling the future. if the west continues down this path—short-term thinking, managerial inefficiency, & a refusal to prioritize strategic innovation—it risks becoming irrelevant in the face of a system designed for precision & long-term dominance. this isn’t just a challenge; it’s an existential threat to western economic & technological leadership.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Engineers like this are rare and deserve to be celebrated. Most of what we all do every day only works due to their great skill at their craft

[Confluent, an IBM Company @confluentinc]

Confluent Cloud is now 10x faster than #ApacheKafka, thanks to the Kora Engine!
This means:
⭐10x faster data delivery
🌟Consistently low latency across various workloads
💫Auto monitoring & mitigation for any infra hiccups impacting latency
Learn how -> https://t.co/KQqOfJpBOQ

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Only 66 years from first flight to landing on the moon, but now half a century has passed since the last moon landing.

That cannot be our high water mark as a civilization.

Humanity should have a moon base, cities on Mars and be out there among the stars!

[TRIGGERnometry @triggerpod]

"We are in the fight of our lives" - the speech the world NEEDS to hear right now.

Check out @KonstantinKisin's speech at @jordanbpeterson's @arc_forum 2023 👇

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

HOW EMPIRES PERISH

“At the opening of the twentieth century there were five great Western empires—the British, French, Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian—and two emerging great powers: Japan and the United States. By century’s end, all the empires had disappeared. How did they perish? By war—all of them. …

“America survives as the sole superpower because it stayed out of the slaughter pens until the other great powers had fought themselves near to death and avoided a cataclysmic clash with a nuclear-armed Soviet Russia. …

“Yet, today, America’s leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers to ruin—from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new “crusades,” to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.”

— Patrick J. Buchanan, “A Republic, Not an Empire” (1999)

[Steve Costa @stevencosta]

ChatGPT and #datastreaming can work together for any company. Check out our latest blog to learn a reference architecture for using GPT-4 and streaming to build a real-world production application. https://t.co/15Rlp3MlIm

[Sam Altman @sama]

2023: $30,000 to get a simple iPhone app created, $300 for a plumbing job.

i wonder what those relative prices will look like in 2028!

the likely coming divergence between changes to cognitive work and changes to physical work could be quite dramatic.

[Steve Costa @stevencosta]

This is the best article I’ve found on GPT-3. https://t.co/UI7g93pthv

[HashiCorp, an IBM Company @HashiCorp]

In this new tutorial, learn how to use HashiCorp #Terraform and the @confluentinc provider to create a Kafka cluster and topic. https://t.co/TFqs0oNz6j

[Spencer Shumway @spencershum]

If any of you were curious about what I've been working on over that last year at Confluent, check out the Confluent Q3 launch bundle that is headlined by the latest feature my team just released- The Confluent Terraform Provider!
https://t.co/yaR8SNa39v

[Steve Costa @stevencosta]

@collision That was a great interview. This really stood out for me: “It’s not about whether you’re right or wrong. It’s about how much you lose when you’re wrong and how much you make when you’re right.”

[Steve Costa @stevencosta]

https://t.co/SWRf38dyK2

[Steve Costa @stevencosta]

https://t.co/rVnIfgHUQj

[Steve Costa @stevencosta]

“It is the fire in the eyes, the ferocity of speech and action that is the physical manifestation of seriousness. It is the belief that God or the universe has bestowed upon you an immense task that no one else can accomplish but you.” https://t.co/fjETRMlUQ9

[Steve Costa @stevencosta]

“The ceaseless pursuit of force multipliers is the only possible route to superlinear productivity improvements as an organization grows.” - https://t.co/JpjvphZMKp

[Bloomberg @business]

Putin's invasion of Ukraine has the entire world order hanging by a thread.