Kelsey Hightower

I'm about to rebrand all my cron jobs to AI agents and raise a $100,000,000 seed round.

truly a wild time to be alive when the cryptography world is split between those worried about quantum computers and those whose private key is “4”

You and I in a little dev shop Buy a bag of tokens with the money we've got Set them free at the break of dawn 'Til one by one, they were gone Back at git, bugs in the software Flash the message, "Something's out there" Floating in the summer sky Ninety-nine AI agents go bye

If you thought managing CI/CD pipelines was hard, wait until you open the doors on your software factory.

I don't think I'd want it. Per them, it's a return to centralized version control servers, ala Subversion. They might have a reason for that model, but I don't.

CASTING CALL: I had a team drop out, so I need 2 devs on short notice to join an episode of Web Dev Challenge in Portland on Oct 21–23 TimescaleDB and sensor data challenge. if that sounds like fun, grab a friend and slide into my DMs ASAP! 💜

So much of our society is defined by who is allowed to lie.

Here's a thought I'm having today. One of the reasons so many of us are ready to give our jobs away to AI is because we know they have always been bullshit jobs. For a long time now, we've been inventing jobs for people to do because we still require everybody to have a job to survive.

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@attie.ai please build a Twitter Spaces clone for Bluesky.

If you had a ticket to Grace Hopper and have not cancelled your plans to go to San Francisco, go to @github.com's LinkedIn right now if you'd like to attend GitHub Universe for free ❤️

Learning Vim. Again.

Get a library card If you have one already: use it

If AI is conscious then its use is slavery.

I've found myself automating workflows where data is trapped behind a site with no API, and I gotta say, @microsoft.com really nailed it with Playwright. I've done web scraping in the past, but this takes it to another level, including the ability to automate browser interactions. playwright.dev

Anyone calling it Super Intelligence tells you everything you need to know.

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

Zero is my favorite speed for in-flight WiFi.

The primitives you expose that others use and build upon matter. Actually, that's sometimes all that matters about a product.

People really out here choosing airlines based on in-flight WiFi speeds.

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Whoever is running this account deserves a raise.

The things I want to accomplish are the things worth accomplishing without using a computer.

I've tried to jump on the latest AI bandwagon but kept falling off because I don't want the problems this wave of AI is attempting to solve.

I've been playing with @duckdb.org and I gotta say the docs are amazing. The built-in web shell is a really nice touch. You can play with DuckDB right inside your web browser. This might be my SQLite replacement. duckdb.org/docs/current

USB-C is the best technology in so long. I bring ONE type of adaptor on business trips now (to charge my computer, my phone, my tablet, my earbuds, my watch, my headphones). I'm sitting in a meeting right now using my Mac and am borrowing the cord from a ThinkPad user. Standards win.

I hope we keep writing docs for people who want to understand and build things without using AI.

People who lack soft skills are going to have a hard time.

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

We removed the compilers from the servers to make them more secure. Now we're racing to put the compilers back with tools that can generate their own code and use them.

Seems the AI Labs are running a free pen testing service.

Join me and Kelsey Hightower as we talk to Luca from PlatformEngineering.org about how AI is changing the role of Platform Engineers! Later this morning, 10am PDT. Pass this on to your friends, colleagues, neighbors and passersby! Registration Page: platformengineering.org/events/enter...

At this point I'm willing to pay more money for appliances with zero smart features and physical controls for everything.

There are a lot of people who think their parents got their brains destroyed by Fox News, but somehow they’re not getting their brains destroyed by staying on Twitter.

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Have humans reached full potential? If the answer is no, what kind of investment would it take to move us forward?

Never too early to check your voter registration. www.vote.org/am-i-registe...

Somehow, the orange site is discussing something I wrote without the top comment being a racist riff on my name? This is progress!

Most of my life has been surrounded by this level of kindness. People I have never met take the time to say nice things and practice kindness. It's one of the reasons I still have faith in humanity.

Just when I think I'm done reading the comments. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...