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Paul D'Ambra

@pauldambra.dev

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gives a whole new meaning to the term "spaghetti code" Leading a bunch of teams @posthog.com ex @coopdigital @footclicksus swears too much, draws rubbish diagrams (he/him/his) pauldambra.dev

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 2h

Oh no the journey is a distraction

Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 2h

Working on the train today... Maybe this will force me to write without distractions

A view from the train over the countryside. Unexpectedly a ship is in the background

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 27/09/2026

found the perfect use case for Jev in @posthog.com

screenshot showing a magic 8 ball built into posthog

Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 26/09/2026

Claude giving me direct feedback

Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 22/09/2026

Pandora's slop-chest is open and I'm happy to jump right in. I'm adding slop to my list of words it isn't worth saying You should too pauldambra.dev/2026/09/i-wi...

a screenshot from the wikipedia page linked in the post. it says "Slop (clothing) not to be confused with AI slop"

Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 22/09/2026

here's why i think the next horizon of self-driving product is mergeability i have a set of "complexity hunter scouts" running to see if i can have agents improve quality across the app and now i have 51 PRs open :oh-no-consequences-dot-reacji:

a screenshot from my vibe-coded PR management tool
i have 3 PRs failing CI, one running, and 47 passing

Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 22/09/2026

should be using jev to see if it really conflicts

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 15/09/2026

just a normal day as a software engineer @posthog.com "yes we don't want accidental rampaging or gigantism"

Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 09/09/2026

Am on that new filthy diet

Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 08/09/2026

My agents when I've run out of usage

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 08/09/2026

All the timers for tracking when each burner account user limit resets

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 08/09/2026

My agents waiting for usage limits to reset

A massive display of taxidermied birds

Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 07/09/2026

i somehow got jippity in captain kirk mode

a screenshot of text from gpt sol that says: "Wait syntax wrong kind. Must . Use. Need perhaps hyperlink direct? They ask what. "Taxonomy API latency..." and URL. Use inline chip."

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 03/09/2026

fable, dude, we can't _both_ be vibing

a screenshot of a conversation with fable where it says "this is worth checking with evidence rather than a feeling"

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 31/08/2026

everyone's life is split into before seeing the video, and before noticing the guitar disappears, and after

the darmok at tenagra meme. but it says "prince, when his guitar does not come back down"

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 24/08/2026

what's helping everyone cope with the rise in PR count?

an attempted meme. an orangutan receiving medical treatment. the text says "i'll just review one more AI pr"

Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 23/08/2026

Naturally elegant

My dog looking silly while running in long grass

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 15/08/2026

Hat mogging you all

New merch from posthog. A cap that says "member of the token burning staff"

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 14/08/2026

it's these heroes i visited with recently

me with the posthog devex team

Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 12/08/2026

checking out the partial eclipse *laughs for 100 years

a screenshot of part of the display of the eclipse IDE

Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 09/08/2026

it is still very possible, and i say this as someone who thinks AI/LLMs are the future, to have a completely value-free interaction with AI happily confirming every thought in my head no matter how bizarre... a wasp was obsessed with me, later i had a rash, what could be happening

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 09/08/2026

Train? More like slay-in amiright

Duck face selfie on a train

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 05/08/2026

throw back to all the kids that can't read ignoring this instruction at the "play park for kids who are all gonna be too young to read"

a fragile looking box in a playpark for young kids that someone has scratched "not play equipment" into

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 04/08/2026

X: "how would you describe your approach to dance?" Me:

A shop front. The shop is called: "flapjackery"

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 02/08/2026

vibe coded a wordle clone so i could do in italian but get translations as i go can you see what the vibe did to the keyboard?

a keyboard in a web app. it doesn't have all the letters or the letter sin the right places

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 27/07/2026

All every day day #negroni

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 27/07/2026

Almost beach

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 26/07/2026

Beach!

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 23/07/2026

The real thing we've lost is the Ballmer peak

My laptop. An agent working on screen. I'm in a pub beer garden. I have a lager

Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 10/07/2026

it's three rapid clicks in posthog (and you can configure the number of clicks and the time window) if you update to latest posthog and set in config `defaults: '2026-05-30'` there are some recent changes to make the click window smaller and try to auto-ignore things like paging buttons

example posthog config

Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 09/07/2026

autoresearch mode in @posthog.com code speeding up the dashboard API

autoresearch graph showing the API speed falling from 100ms to 51ms

Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 09/07/2026

Bringing the Neapolitan kitchen to work

Frying zucchini to make zucchini alla scapece

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 07/07/2026

was just reminded of this lightning talk from years ago we tried a board where the tickets went through the net everyone asked "why do all the tickets go in the bin?"

me giving a talk a long time ago about different work boards i'd used

Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 01/07/2026

when prince talked about partying like it was 1999... this was what he meant

a very old photo of me, i have pillow cases on my arms, a blonde wig, and a paper beak. i am lying across two bins

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 28/06/2026

shipping some PRs with @posthog.com code in the sun posthog.com/code

my laptop on the table, a large umbrella shades the scene, the sky in the background is blue

Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 27/06/2026

Just a great moment of calm

My garden. Flowers and apple tree. Blue sky

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 25/06/2026

you keep using that word dot princess bride dot meme

an agent saying to me: smoking gun confirmed

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 24/06/2026

OMG IT IS SO NICE I AM SOLAR POWERED THIS IS SO GOOD

my garden, no clouds, blue sky

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 20/06/2026

tfw the weather is good

Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 16/06/2026

You would genuinely need to pay me $1M a year to work from an office again This is fudging glorious

In the garden. The sky is blue. The greenery is lush. I have tomato salad on friselle. My laptop is in the background. Joyous

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 15/06/2026

waiting for fable to come back

Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 14/06/2026

oh god, the rust people are gonna be insufferable

a screenshot of a message that says "fun fact, in production, the rust parser is 454 times faster than C++"

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 13/06/2026

you win this round bot

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 09/06/2026

it's the thought that counts

an opened packet of fancy looking biscuits, photo, sent in whatsapp. the message says "bought you biscuits. will save you some"

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 03/06/2026

now that we've solved coding

a woman stood watching the ocean it appears that she is about to be flooded. the text says "i wonder if there are any PRs to review"

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 29/05/2026

opus 4.8 is very strange

a screen shot of claude. i ask "how many times does the letter yeet fit in the word hippopotamus" it replies "That's not a word, you're not a person, this is a dream."

Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 28/05/2026

The horrors of remote work #FraggleRock

A view over Falmouth bay. My laptop is on a bar table. In the distance is the lighthouse from the opening of fraggle rock

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 24/05/2026

Glorious and brain cleansing today

Walking up a hill in the peak District. Green fields. Blue Sky

Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 23/05/2026

The pr description Vs the code the robot wrote

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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev · 21/05/2026

i'm a prompt engineer

AI prompt. i've added a screenshot and prompted "shit is broke, yo"

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