Derrick Wippler

Efficiency Evangelist, Optimist, Open Source enthusiast, alumni, Building and Cat Wrangler at

[Derrick Wippler @thrawn01]

Here are the skills I'm experimenting with. I hope they help others in the same way they have helped me!

https://t.co/xeNJyJWcDV

[Derrick Wippler @thrawn01]

This is the most "AI trust me bro" talk I've seen yet. I am all in on AI, but throwing software fundamentals out the window & hoping the AI will get it right eventually is a terrible waste of tokens, money and resources with dubious quality outcomes.

[AI Engineer @aiDotEngineer]

OpenClaw hit 3,000 commits in a single day. 10 to 15 maintainers. All with day jobs.

@vincent_koc (Chief Architect of OpenClaw) explains how the factory actually works.
https://t.co/sljeeqUxrJ

The great refactor: 2 AM, Vincent and Peter at NVIDIA, 60 to 70 agents running between them. 2,700 commits. Close to a million lines changed. 82% of the core codebase touched. Plugin architecture shipped by morning.

The saving grace: overfitted unit tests AI code loves to generate. As long as they went green, they knew they were close.

Knowing when your agent is bullshitting you is the skill nobody talks about.

"It doesn't sound off because of what it's doing. It sounds off because of how it's explaining itself to me. It's waffling."

2025 was about token maxing. 2026 is about not wasting them.

[Derrick Wippler @thrawn01]

@fatih I'm very interested in this. I'm on a project that decided not to use k8s.

I would love to see a use case where k8s shines, in a non obvious way.

[Derrick Wippler @thrawn01]

Source: Instagram https://t.co/pC5gUbrxos

[Derrick Wippler @thrawn01]

Art style and visuals on this game are fantastic.

https://t.co/MHtSewcUrr

[Pablo Fredrikson @PeladoNerd]

https://t.co/zfFpPnJbdr

[Derrick Wippler @thrawn01]

@DominikTornow @devansingaram Yes!

I recently converted my raft based leader election library to use https://t.co/9rCE6IA9Ky and created a simulator for all the possible failures, and have been VERY pleased with the outcome.

Then I used AI to come up with additional scenarios. ✨

[Derrick Wippler @thrawn01]

@devansingaram @DominikTornow Testing as in Oracles, which provide a correctness check on final outcome.
https://t.co/m9aByk9d2M. (Rust borrow check is an oracle, type systems, your surface tests, etc..)

The tighter the oracles, the less room the AI has to guess wrong, and if it does, it gets corrected

[Derrick Wippler @thrawn01]

@GithubProjects https://t.co/QBr5kNvQMx

[Derrick Wippler @thrawn01]

@jamesacowling What about "We have strong opinions, but we don't hold them close to our hearts" ?

"Your ideas are not your identity", is an important cultural artifact.

[Derrick Wippler @thrawn01]

I know exactly what he's doing, and exactly how he feels. Ask me how I know. 😅

I hope he's alright.

[Derrick Wippler @thrawn01]

Anyone else skipping the implementation plan, and just using `/goal` in Claude Code?

I feed it the tech spec and PRD and then magic happens.

[Derrick Wippler @thrawn01]

Is it just me, or does Opus 4.8 feel like a huge step up from 4.6 & 4.7?

I feel like all my software engineering workflows are finally coming together with Opus 4.8. ✨

[Derrick Wippler @thrawn01]

It's hard to underestimate how true this is in the world of AI. Where an AI naturally follows the patterns of the foundation you have laid.

[Naval @naval]

You aren’t starting a company. You’re laying bricks in the foundation of a skyscraper.

[Derrick Wippler @thrawn01]

@mitchellh I've been thinking about this problem a lot. I think you can't outsource systems design outside of prototypes.

Ai hasn't eliminated the hard part of software engineering "systems design"

I wrote a blog post on this topic to get my thoughts down.

https://t.co/Pu8dy3Po6H

[Derrick Wippler @thrawn01]

@carllerche I think you misunderstand, Zig's expressiveness is aimed at producing precise assembly code rather than high-level abstractions.

Its goals are very different from Rust.

[Deva Hazarika @devahaz]

Any of these accounts ripping videos from other platforms and sticking their own watermark on them should be demonetized or suspended too, and in an ideal world they should all be required to credit sources for their content

[Derrick Wippler @thrawn01]

So glad to see this, I started following this account after @elonmusk praised it for its content. But then stopped following it and muted it after I realized it was habitually stealing content without attribution.

@nikitabier comes in and saves the day.

[Derrick Wippler @thrawn01]

@TeenCode6 @rauchg Exactly, decades of research out there hiding under cryptic paper titles, begging for practical application.

Who knows what research actually applies to some problems I'm working on now or in the future.

How much of that research will be trained into AI in the future? 🤷‍♂️