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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 03/10/2026

Not my urge, subtweeting a vendor that just shipped their own markup language instead of using YAML and like jsonschema 🙄🙄🙄

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 03/10/2026

The software engineer’s urge to create Yet Another Yet Another Markup Language (YAYAML).

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 01/10/2026

Omg YES! DE is hard to share but I love how duckdb and object storage etc are making it easier and easier!

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Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Sidenote: this all illustrates an recurrent fascination of mine -- how often the blocked to good work is never having gotten to see "what good looks like" like if you've never seen a of datamart or an orchestrator, this feels reasonable. And DE has far fewer public examples than DS 12/

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 30/09/2026

Guy who names his images in downloads before attaching them to Slack

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 30/09/2026

I too no longer believe in the Easter bunny

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 27/09/2026

Got my first custom Slack emoji of me made. You better believe that’s going in my perf review 😎

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 24/09/2026

I never got a dopamine hit or flow state in coding. Maybe I never dug deep enough, could be a personal failing. But I do get a dopamine hit from a beautifully designed process, a boring and functional architecture. Basically I was AI native before it was cool

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 22/09/2026

I mean that’s kinda funny. If you were using Fable 5.1 for this stuff I have a bridge to sell you

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 22/09/2026

Eh I’d push back some on this. Very different fine tuning BERT vs. having a general classifier that Just Works (and has world knowledge). It’s not just that it’s approachable and has good defaults as the Prophet case was. But overall agree about the vibe of AI “discovering” things

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 21/09/2026

Maybe it’s because I’m not a designer and if I was I’d hate it like text but .. isn’t a UI the one place where “average” (in this case: de facto universal) exactly what you want?

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 21/09/2026

I really don’t get the hate for slop UI elements because they’re slop. Text? Deep hate, because it’s an expression of intent from the author (and because standardization is often a bug not a feature). But like isn’t the intent of a red callout box the same everywhere?

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 19/09/2026

The siren song of stored procs with a sqlagent has sunk many a data team

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 19/09/2026

If GitHub Actions didn’t suck they’d be an incredible DX for exactly this

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 15/09/2026

The carcinization of data tools continues apace

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 14/09/2026

Carrie and Lowell is Sufjan’s best album, but Age of Adz is my favorite, and it’s not particularly close

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 07/09/2026

A ton of this usage is for tool calls / things that are managed from the harness (eg Codex) so I don’t think I agree that it shouldn’t seep in?

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 07/09/2026

This is all true but I would add some of the major devs that OpenAI acquired are Rust devs, lots of tooling, including Pi, are made by folks with deep Rust experience. You’d think if there were benefits they would prioritize it / it would seep in

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 07/09/2026

Right? Feels natural but no LLM or coding harness I’ve seen does this. Why?

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 06/09/2026

Will LLMs make the Lindy effect permanent?

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 06/09/2026

🎯 that’s exactly my point. I think agents will find higher level abstractions useful in similar ways that humans do

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 06/09/2026

Why not? Would be faster etc. like if it just wrote Aasembly

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 06/09/2026

I really want Cloud Agents to be easier to work with but the auth story is very very hard (having your own VM in the cloud is definitely a solid solution)

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 06/09/2026

I think it’s interesting that agents write Python all day long in their cycles. Maybe that’s because of training data, maybe that’s because humans made them that way in the process or within the harness. It’s hard to say, but I think it’s an observation in tension with that prediction

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 06/09/2026

I’ve seen people say that agents will make high level programming languages obsolete. Like why should Python et al exist if LLMs could just write Rust, C or even Assembly?

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 04/09/2026

As a forward deployed engineer I endorse this. It feels so good to drop into a customer and have real solutions to their problems

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 04/09/2026

Amazing examples of what the level of data engineering is on average at many, many, many organizations

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 04/09/2026

When I see you putting typos in your slop posts

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 03/09/2026

“Still punk as fuck” I whisper as I run Fable 5.1 on Codex

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 03/09/2026

The best way to learn something is to be Wrong on the Internet. The second best way is to be Wrong on the Company Slack

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 30/08/2026

Oh love this! Threads also has this thing where it auto-makes threads out of long posts which is very helpful, and Twitter tells you where the part of your post gives over the limit (helpful for copy-paste)

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 30/08/2026

One of my life’s greatest joys is seeing my kids enjoy things I enjoyed as a kid. Recent example: checked out 2 beautiful adaptations from the Epic of Gilgamesh and read them to my 4 year old yesterday. He enjoyed it so much he asked to read it today 🥹

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 28/08/2026

I tried using AI to compile raw materials — numbers, data, brief technical snippets and .. it sucked! Wrote it all myself. I think that method has promise but today was not the day

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 28/08/2026

Short, to the point technical reports are both a flex and a sign of deep respect. “I would have written a shorter letter but I didn’t have the time” has never been more true.

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 26/08/2026

Me to Claude’s editorializing

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 25/08/2026

When your summary of someone's point is longer than their point, doesn't matter if it's AI or not, it's slop

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 25/08/2026

He looked me up on LinkedIn and I sent a connection request saying “there can only be one”

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 25/08/2026

Youngest daughter (1.5) is obsessed with Moana and so now are we all. People singing Moana, songs playing on Alexas, the whole thing. And I’m not complaining, I missed these songs

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 24/08/2026

Everyone’s skills are redundant and bloated, except mine, which are perfect and you should absolutely use

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 24/08/2026

Can’t tell if this is an LOTR or business reference and my feed is a very special place

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 22/08/2026

Introducing Rare: a new social media app that uses biometrics to verify that it’s your own two thumbs that made that dumb point

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