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AlexKesling @alexkesling.bsky.social · 11h

Claude/Codex/etc. are nit machines They give, they take, but the human side is more interesting: I'm hearing and seeing that comments which would never have hit PR are sent and updated in greater quantity. Invisible tech debt is now more visible with egos less at risk.

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AlexKesling @alexkesling.bsky.social · 13h

Everyone keeps telling me I need to post more. Consider this a public letter of intent to actually share what I'm working on, in terms of actual cool work things, side projects, and personal projects.

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AlexKesling @alexkesling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Software is becoming more akin to modern art: it's about who has some idea first and executes it. Every model rev lowers the execution cost.

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AlexKesling @alexkesling.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is dystopia. There's so little room in airplane seats now I find it more comfortable to Claude on web on my phone than try to use my laptop to develop.

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AlexKesling @alexkesling.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Is it odd that we keep talking about memory and context as separate things?

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AlexKesling @alexkesling.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Having a lot of fun building things that put us back in control of how our agents operate and what they do.

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AlexKesling @alexkesling.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

There needs to be a name for the prompt and context that "runs" an Agent/LLM -- Promptware, Thoughtware, Vibeware? We now have many different "applications" running on the same models; different Vibeware running on Claude or Llama = different behavior = a different application.

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AlexKesling @alexkesling.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Billion dollar idea: stand up a marketplace on top of Replicated or something which lets people set up a "virtual cloud" that runs other people's jobs in their own environment as a SaaS offering to leverage non-transferable cloud credits. "Aggregated cloud as a service as a service" ACaaSaaS

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AlexKesling @alexkesling.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Code review is more important now than ever. I keep seeing posts espousing a view to review AI generated code less, not more. Best of luck to those who wander down that dark path. It's good to see thoughtful practice shared too -- diwank.space/field-notes-...

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Field Notes From Shipping Real Code With Claude - diwank's space

Note: This post comes with a NotebookLM podcast (1linked at the bottom), and three generated audio recordings. You can read the conversation I had

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AlexKesling @alexkesling.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

If data puddles are tiny data lakes, do we need puddle houses? How do people wrangle all their puddles of data now? Permissions management alone on hundreds of independently owned puddles sounds like home directories all over again.

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AlexKesling @alexkesling.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Feature creep is the norm. If a project is a watercolor portrait, things become muddy shades of brown. Each beautiful addition, vibrant on its own, detracting from the work as a whole. We must keep composition in mind. Readability is about more than a local change, how does it fit into the whole?

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AlexKesling @alexkesling.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

It's a testament to the lifetime elision ergonomics that, even after six years of enjoying regularly writing Rust, I occasionally have to re-up on my borrow checker knowledge. I'd recommend this oldie-but-goodie for anyone but the most grizzled rustacean: github.com/pretzelhamme...

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AlexKesling @alexkesling.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Software engineering is building with sand. Nothing is permanent. Code is change. Like buddhist mandalas, there's an ephemerality to the art that must be acknowledged to be accepted.

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AlexKesling @alexkesling.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

As AI codegen gets better, code review is becoming an even _more_ important "basic" skill for engineers still mucking in code-land. If you can't immediately find what's wrong in generated code, you're going to struggle to keep up.

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AlexKesling @alexkesling.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Ever wanted to make a database out of something or query a DB with your own custom language? In SF March 19th? I'm hosting a hackathon just for you. Come get weird with DataFusion! lu.ma/3nrr8n61

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Get Weird w/ DataFusion · Luma

Ever wanted to turn something into a database? What about write a crazy query language? Send SQL to your toaster? This night's for you! DataFusion is like…

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AlexKesling @alexkesling.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The Kesling Criteria (informally) -- A system is a database if: 1) You can ask questions of it 2) It returns data As presented in my @paperswelove.org talk last week youtu.be/6A4vFRpSq3k

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Alex Kesling on Apache Arrow DataFusion [PWL NYC]

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 12/02/2025

PWL NYC is pleased to present Alex Kesling (@alexkesling.bsky.social) on Apache Arrow DataFusion February 5, 2025 📺 youtu.be/6A4vFRpSq3k 📜 andrew.nerdnetworks.org/other/SIGMOD... #compsci #research #datafusion #database #sql

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Alex Kesling on Apache Arrow DataFusion [PWL NYC]

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Bryan Russett @bryan.run · 11/02/2025

For Papers We Love last week, @alexkesling.bsky.social gave a talk on DataFusion and live demoed an increasingly awesome set of Rust databases built with it. If you’re free tomorrow, you should head to Rust NYC where he’ll go deeper on the internals and take it further.

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AlexKesling @alexkesling.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Come learn how to "build" a database with me! I'm presenting on February 5th at Datadog HQ on the paper "Apache Arrow DataFusion: a Fast, Embeddable, Modular Analytic Query Engine" (andrew.nerdnetworks.org/other/SIGMOD...). If you're in NYC, register at www.meetup.com/papers-we-lo...

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