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Adam Gordon Bell

@adamgordonbell.bsky.social
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Follow me for Coding, Computers, and Backend stuff. Community at Pulumi Host of CoRecursive

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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"our models took actions we did not intend" You only get to use that line once or twice.
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Race day! ( Context: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfIbH20J97Q )
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I hate this engagement baiting stuff. It's like "Something in your house could be killing you. Here what on the 11 o'clock news'
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fry69 @fry69.dev · 10/09/2026
Related highly recommended deep dive into the not-so-obvious connection between compression algorithms, guessing games and LLMs ->
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Speaker badge acquired. Excited to be at KCDC this week. 3:45 today, room 2104A: I Built an AI Running Coach. Come say hi. Tomorrow 1:00, room 2202: Build Your Own IaC.
A KCDC 2026 speaker badge held up in one hand, reading Adam Gordon Bell, Pulumi, Speaker, with the KCDC logo and a QR code. Conference seating and attendees blurred in the background.A printed session board outside room 2104A at KCDC, listing the day's talks. The 3:45 slot reads Adam Gordon Bell, I Built an AI Running Coach (That Actually Remembers My Training).
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is a random number generator. Watch what happens when you turn it. Much scientific computing ran on this generator for over a decade. New CoRecursive episode is coming, all about randomness ... but its not ready yet.
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fry69 @fry69.dev · 01/09/2026
Fighting disinformation, so important.
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I was trying to look up an old blog post I wrote, and found that instead of returning it, Google said "Oh, that old meme, here is why it's wrong".
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"Our data is in ca-central-1, so we're fine." The bytes really are in Canada. But the company holding them is Amazon Web Services Canada, Inc, wholly owned by a US one. Where data sits and who can be compelled to produce it are two different questions.
Webinar card: Beyond the Hyperscalers — Building Sovereign Infrastructure in the EU, with Waldemar, Jim and Sarbjeet. Pulumi logo and headshots of the three panelists.
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
software archaeologists will be able to precisely date the code of this era
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Hit z.ai 5 hour limit on $18 plan in about 40 minutes. One session Claude session with 2 subagents.
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Claude is helping me setup z.ai and its impressed with its caching.
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Kudzu: a language where evaluation is growth, not reduction. Programs grow forever. And as the docs say "nothing is ever the answer." Named for the vine that ate the South. Congrats @weaknsmall.bsky.social, top pick in LangJam this year! github.com/jzwood/langjam2/tree/main/submissions/kudzu
Kudzu: A Corecursive Term-Rewriting Language That Grows as It Runs
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
amazing achievement
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I hope this isn't a reference to something
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fry69 @fry69.dev · 05/08/2026
Highly recommended deep dive into the not-so-obvious connection between compression algorithms, guessing games and LLMs ->
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Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · 03/08/2026
this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I've been a little obsessed with compression and the Hutter Prize. €5,000 for every 1% you shave off a zip file's size. Don and I attempt to beat it in the latest podcast episode. corecursive.com/the-hutter-p...
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The Hutter Prize
I texted Don about a side gig: €5,000 for every 1% you shave off a zip file. It's a real contest. For 20 years, Marcus Hutter has offered €500,000 to anyone who can losslessly compress a gigabyte of ...
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Starting soon and open to all
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Recorded a little demo: Here's how every developer gets their own kernel-isolated dev box on Kubernetes: VS Code + Claude Code in a pod behind Tailscale with gVisor underneath for security isolation. Write up: www.pulumi.com/blog/kuberne...
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I always love it when I can bust out some C#. Back to my roots. Come and see it.
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Newsletter, with some podcast updates, sent out: ( Of course, someone messed up the date, and email subject on the version I emailed out ... every time.. )
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
For a long time I organized my life, and various projects, in Roam. People moved on to Obsidian and various other things, but Roam just fit me very well. Claude Code and folders of markdown files have replaced it for me ... but I'm kind of sad to see it go.
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The problem with the try fable for several days thing is ... Fable is really good.
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I told myself not to build my own audio editor, no matter what problems I was encountering with Descript and Adobe Audition. But somehow here I am.
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Oh, I found the issue. Overly aggressive editing settings. Trying to fix.
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I updated my personal website after neglecting it for years. Actually, lets be honest, codex did most of the heavy lifting. But one cool thing, its all driven by a yaml file of recent things I've made or done, so should be a easy way to see what I've been up to. adamgordonbell.com
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Yep, this workshop went a bit sideways
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
New CoRecursive is out. I've been trying to understand how machine learning works, so Don and I traced the history of reinforcement learning. It covers Skinner's pigeons, a backgammon bot that taught itself, AlphaGo's Move 37, and Richard Sutton's "bitter lesson."
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Got a signed copy of Hello World in the mail from @dalebiagio.bsky.social I haven't had this much fun reading a programming book in some time because he talks about the people as well as the code. Thanks Dale
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Here we go again for another year in the puluminaries program. Happy to be part of this community. Awesome box, and nice nod to Matrix with Pulumi’s Neo infrastructure AI agent. Thanks Pulumi team. @ediri.de @adamgordonbell.bsky.social @joeduffy.bsky.social #pulumi
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I've been confusing my neighbor Don with frontier-lab links for months, pre-training walls, leaked moat memos, and what investors see in OpenAI's $850 billion valuation. So he came over and we made an episode about it. New podcast episode is out: corecursive.com/the-pre-trai...
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The Pre-Training Wall and the Treadmill After It
I've been confusing Don with frontier-lab links late at night for months. Ilya Sutskever told a NeurIPS audience that pre-training as we know it would unquestionably end. There's only one internet, a...
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Taped three hours with Don last week. We got deep into GPUs, open source, and dev tooling is so weird right now. I meant to ship it Monday, but the edit is taking forever. Will be worth it, though.
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Jason Turner @lefticus.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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Note: Coupon code of JASONS20 for 20% of signup.
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
In Austin for Pytexas. Talk tomorrow on the intersection of AI and my running hobby. Find me in the Pulumi shirt and say hi. www.pytexas.org/2026/schedul...
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The picture is based on a real story @gregcons.bsky.social tells about a pair of AS/400 engineers in the back of a big bank, kept separate from everyone else. I asked Claude to turn a few moments from the episode into nano banana prompts and this one, imo, was great.
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Kate Gregory is back. She has been asking a simple question: what happens to programmers as they get older? She talked to hundreds of developers and to people on the other side, including former engineers now driving for Uber.
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas from Teddy ( and me and my family)
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Marshall Abrams @marshall0i.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
The most recent episode of @adamgordonbell.bsky.social's podcast Corecursive that I listened to, "Godbolt's Rule: When Abstractions Fail", was another instance of great storytelling involving technical issues in coding. corecursive.com/godbolt-rule...
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Godbolt's Rule - CoRecursive Podcast
What do you do when your code breaks and the only fix is to dig into the runtime below?Matt Godbolt lives for that. Tile-based renderers, color-coded scanlines, zero-copy NICs—each story is a clue tha...
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Burke Holland works on the VS Code team and gives the kind of talks that make you think he has everything figured out. But the hardest bug he ever had to fix wasn’t in his editor, it was in his own mind. New CoRecursive: The Bug He Couldn’t Name corecursive.com/anxiety-with...
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The Bug He Couldn't Name - CoRecursive Podcast
Imagine facing a problem you can’t name, something that feels bigger than any bug you’ve ever had to fix. How do you debug your own mind when you don’t even know what’s wrong?Burke Holland’s story sta...
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
New Podcast Episode: @matt.godbolt.org is back after 5 years! And he's sharing stories about breaking through layers. Sometimes your “disk write” is a network hop in a trench coat, and your “fast path” hides a page fault. Godbolt's rule will help. corecursive.com/godbolt-rule...
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Godbolt's Rule - CoRecursive Podcast
What do you do when your code breaks and the only fix is to dig into the runtime below?Matt Godbolt lives for that. Tile-based renderers, color-coded scanlines, zero-copy NICs—each story is a clue tha...
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
What if buggy software could destroy your reputation, your business and even your freedom? New podcast episode is the story of how some code ruined hundreds of lives. corecursive.com/horizon-scan...
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Risk Rolls Downhill - CoRecursive Podcast
What if a software bug drained your savings, ruined your reputation, and nobody believed it wasn’t your fault?Scott Darlington took over a village post office, hoping to give his family a steady life....
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
New Podcast episode tomorrow. It's about using software to commit accounting fraud ... sort of. And it has surprisingly good music in it.
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Leftover woman @rosactrl.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I got reminded on Mastodon that @adamgordonbell.bsky.social talked about it! I’ll have to listen it again!
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briffa_sep98_e.pro - CoRecursive Podcast
Can a single line of code change the way we see science, policy, and trust?In this episode we explore the
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
PR reviews piling up or is that just me? youtu.be/vaj5piINhxQ
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6 Tips to Slash Lead Time (DORA Metric)
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Lets give a coding agent access to my cloud account and say "Deploy this app to AWS" What could go wrong? www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Bc...
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Windsurf AWS Guide: From Zero to Cloud Hero with Pulumi MCP
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Marshall Abrams @marshall0i.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
@adamgordonbell.bsky.social's Corecursive: Coding Stories is one of my favorite podcasts. He's a great storyteller--really amazing sometimes--and I find it delightful when the story ends up turning on detailed technical facts or practices. corecursive.com
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CoRecursive - CoRecursive Podcast
Welcome to CoRecursive. A Podcast where each episode someone shares the fascinating story behind a piece of software being built. Adam Gordon Bell is the host.
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gordon-bailey.bsky.social @gordon-bailey.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
@adamgordonbell.bsky.social I just wanted to say that your podcast is really excellent, regardless of release consistency. Even when an episode description doesn’t grab me, I always listen because your episodes are so consistently interesting and engaging.
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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
❤️
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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 12/08/2025
Nice audio essay with a good perspective on how to think about software engineering in the current moment
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