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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 03/06/2025

PSA: SF Ruby is hosting an AI hackathon… and I’ll be there too! Rails has always been the go-to framework for solo developers. So here’s the big question: *exactly* how much further can we take Ruby specifically with LLMs? Let’s find out!

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 13/03/2025

claude code is very very bad at writing tests and will always try to make the job easier for itself by cheating, BUT it’s very very good when it can iterate against a good set of tests, so perhaps this means tdd is the best way to program with an assistant

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 25/12/2024

How would you go about optimizing an existing large codebase to incorporate generative AI?

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 22/12/2024

Sure, there are a lot of non-programmers sharing opinions about the future of programming right now, but to be fair, programmers have had plenty of big opinions about the future of non-programming jobs these past few years (?) too. How the turntables.

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 20/12/2024

OpenAI never lost the Mandate of Heaven.

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 14/12/2024

A tsunami warning and a tornado warning in just 10 days. Is that something that often frequently in SF? Asking, well, for myself.

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 14/12/2024

Leaning towards “good” more often than not now—especially o1 pro.

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 14/12/2024

Everybody who complains about Ciri being the main protagonist in The Witcher 4 just lost all their credibility in complaining about games being “woke.”

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 12/12/2024

Prediction: The more OpenAI wants to get out of their deal with Microsoft, the more we’ll see an inflation of the term AGI being thrown around.

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 06/12/2024

o1 vibes based on my feeds: sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe shit

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 05/12/2024

OK, I didn’t expect a tsunami warning today.

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 05/12/2024

If you caught my presentation yesterday at SF Ruby & AI, here’s a quick summary. I talked about Lammy, my LLM library for Ruby that’s simple to use and treats prompts as programs rather than plain strings.

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Introducing Lammy

An LLM library for Ruby

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 04/12/2024

Another SF Ruby starting soon!

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 01/12/2024

Just wrapped up preparing my talk for next week’s SF Ruby & AI event. Now I can look forward to it with peace of mind!

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 30/11/2024

It’s not a primary one but definitely one of the main three—alongside Twitter and newsletters.

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 28/11/2024

This 👇 Open protocols are at greater risk for spam.

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 28/11/2024

I remember how inspired I felt when Paul Graham said, “MUSTAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRDDDDDD”

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 27/11/2024

I’m fine with my posts being scraped.

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 26/11/2024

Interesting. I didn’t expect that they would need to be trained specifically for each type of reasoning to perform it.

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 25/11/2024

Wow, this is a pretty impressive idea.

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 24/11/2024

Just came across DeepSeek—it really showcases the thought process of a reasoning AI, something OpenAI's o1 doesn't quite do. This got me thinking about test-time compute this week.

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 22/11/2024

No one warned me that just a few days of rain in SF could lead to flooding lol

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Irina Nazarova @inazarova.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Join the next #SFRuby at @sentry.io on Dec 3 to learn about Ruby&AI from @tonsoffun.bsky.social @kamil.fyi and more. We also have a (non-strict) BYOC policy this time: bring your own 🎅🎄 cookies! Who's ready to join me and bake some?=) lu.ma/q7fwrtj2

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SF Ruby presents: Ruby&AI, December 🎅 edition @ Sentry · Luma

Hey, Bay Area builders and tinkerers! From GitHub and Stripe to Chime and Stackblitz, Ruby powers teams that go HUGE with less. Join us as we re-kindle the SF…

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 22/11/2024

Re: Google having to sell Chrome. Many have criticized this decision, but for the first time in a while, there could be genuine buyers in the market who aren’t part of Big Tech like OpenAI or Perplexity. I’m not so sure this is a bad thing.

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 22/11/2024

I’m watching a podcast by @pragmaticengineer.com about the software development process at Linear. It’s great to see that we at @plane.com follow many of the same practices, like the goalie system and work trials, because Linear is such an inspiring example.

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Linear: move fast with little process (with first Engineering Manager Sabin Roman)

YouTube video by The Pragmatic Engineer

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 20/11/2024

Testing writing tools from macOS 15.1. Hello, could you please confirm that Siri is now functioning correctly?

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 18/11/2024

Friends are telling me Windsurf is now better than Cursor… but I just switched from Cursor to Zed a few months ago. How am I supposed to keep up with new editors every half a year? They used to be simple—you pick one and stick to it for 10 years.

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 17/11/2024

Anyone using custom GPTs in ChatGPT for anything fun or productive?

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 16/11/2024

They should have just kept building the tension leading up to the fight but never gone through with it. #tysonfight

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 16/11/2024

I’m team posts > skeets, if anyone’s wondering. Still mourning tweets, though.

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 16/11/2024

I swear that 80% of Interstellar’s cultural impact comes from its soundtrack and the way it visualizes black holes.

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 15/11/2024

Wow, I just realized the December SF Ruby Meetup is only 18 days away. I'll be presenting Lammy, my lightweight LLM library for Ruby. Time to start working on the presentation and polishing the code to make sure it’s ready to show!

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SF Ruby presents: Ruby & AI Meetup in December @ Sentry · Luma

Hey, Bay Area builders and tinkerers! While Ruby may not dominate the headlines, it's the silent force behind the Bay Area's most successful startups. From…

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 15/11/2024

Another great starter pack. I’m amazed at how effective this simple onboarding feature is. Kinda crazy Twitter never thought of it.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 15/11/2024

Current status - Importing 17 years of Tweets into BlueSky github.com/marcomaroni-... (minus replies and RT's and dumb stuff)

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 14/11/2024

If you’re looking for a good starter pack of startup founders, here’s one. Looking forward to seeing more verticals in the future! Developer tools is a great start.

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 14/11/2024

Great essay on how domesticating LLMs shows we too RLHF ourselves into producing mostly inoffensive slop. open.substack.com/pub/qchu/p/c...

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Core dump

I’m getting disgusted by language.

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 14/11/2024

Is there a starter pack for startup founders and investors?

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 13/11/2024

Bloomberg reports that all three major AI labs are encountering limits to scaling. It might just be BS, so we’ll have to wait and see. Personally, though, I think maintaining the current pace of progress might be challenging.

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I’m not, like, a Bluesky evangelist or anything. I’m not even sure it’s gonna stick for me here. But one thing that dropping the other place for now made clear is just how much my brain spent the last few years getting slowly frog boiled by an algorithm designed to poison you for anger engagement.

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 12/11/2024

A big issue with X is the “new” algorithm. Personally, I'm not overly political, so when the election frenzy kicked in, I muted around 100–200 political keywords from both sides—terms like “Trump,” “Harris,” and so on.

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 12/11/2024

Getting my REAL ID tomorrow, took only two months to get an appointment lol

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 11/11/2024

I’m here for the 90k, iykyk.

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 11/11/2024

It turns out more people left Twitter than I had thought. (Not engagement farms, but actual people.)

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Irina Nazarova @inazarova.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

On Dec 3, before everyone leaves for Xmas we meet at the friendly @sentry.io HQ to talk about Ruby&AI: tools, experiences, patterns for leveraging AI inside our Ruby and Rails apps, with Justin Bowen @tonsoffun.bsky.social, Kelsey Pederson (Capsule), Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi (Plane) and more!

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 11/11/2024

Learning more and more about this app. I just added a custom handle. Really cool! This place really has some early Twitter vibes.

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 10/11/2024

I’ve been really enjoying the starter pack feature so far. It’s super easy to follow people and there are so many different topics to choose from.

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Kamil Nicieja @kamil.fyi · 10/11/2024

Hey folks! I’m just trying out the blue app.

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