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Peter Morelli

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Co-founder and CEO @bitdrift.io I like to build things, fast. 📍 San Francisco

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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 06/10/2026
🎙️ It's our favorite time of week, it's new episode release day! Hear how @crawshaw.io started Tailscale, why he made his way to the US, what he's up to now as CEO of exe.dev, plus the unexpected result of a recent HP printer purchase 😱 Full episode here: bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
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beyond the noise - David Crawshaw: From Tailscale to exe.dev, and Why AI Agents Need Their Own Computers
David Crawshaw joins Matt Klein to discuss founding Tailscale, building exe.dev, and why AI agents need real computers.
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Matt Klein @mattklein123.dev · 28/09/2026
Today @bitdrift.io is really excited to open source blob-stream: a Kafka alternative for no fuss, low cost high volume streaming. I wrote in depth about what blob-stream is, why I made it, and how I made it. blog.bitdrift.io/post/blob-st...
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Announcing blob-stream: a Kafka alternative for no fuss, low cost high volume streaming - bitdrift Blog
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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 22/09/2026
Hear @randyshoup.bsky.social talk growing up in Silicon Valley, going to Xerox PARC with his dad, working at Oracle, Tumbleweed, two stints at eBay, and more in our latest episode of Beyond the Noise Plus, his hot takes on the impact of AI on eng jobs. Listen here👇 bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
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beyond the noise - Randy Shoup: He Grew Up Inside Xerox PARC, Then Built eBay's First Real-Time Search Engine
Randy Shoup joins Matt Klein to discuss growing up around Xerox PARC, building eBay's first real-time search engine, running App Engine at Google, and what the AI boom means for engineers and technica...
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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 18/09/2026
Matt Klein sat down with Joe Beda, CTO at Stacklok, to discuss questions like: -Will AI follow an S-curve or Moore's law? -Why is K8s open source? -How will startups fare in a world of hyper fast development w/AI? Check out their takes: bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 08/09/2026
🚨 New beyond the noise episode! The legend @h.olysh.it talks (literally) shipping Internet Explorer on physical CDs, co-creating Kubernetes, standing up Google Compute Engine, Google vs. Microsoft culture, and more. Full episode here 👇 bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
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beyond the noise - Joe Beda: K8s, Culture, and Code That Survives Contact
Joe Beda, co-creator of Kubernetes and CTO of Stacklok, joins Matt to discuss the cultures behind Microsoft and Google, building Kubernetes, burnout, and the future of AI infrastructure.
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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 31/08/2026
Why is my conversion rate dropping? What sounds like a simple question almost always results in a wild goose chase that will drain hours of your day. With the bitdrift CLI and an agent like Claude Code, you can offload the investigative work. Learn how: blog.bitdrift.io/post/agentic...
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Agentic investigation with bitdrift: Why is my conversion rate dropping? - bitdrift Blog
Let your agents query reality. Use the bitdrift CLI with your agent of choice to answer questions about your mobile app with full-fidelity observability.
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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 26/08/2026
🎙️New Beyond the Noise! Charity Majors talks vibe coding, burnout, founding Honeycomb, the changing world of observability, and more. Catch the full episode here: bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
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beyond the noise - Charity Majors: AI and the End of the Three Pillars
Charity Majors, co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, joins Matt to discuss how AI is reshaping observability, engineering practice, and the three pillars model.
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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 19/08/2026
Mobile observability doesn't have to suck. bitdrift AI gives your agents full-resolution, unsampled access to what's actually happening on customer devices, without waiting for app releases. Start giving your agents the context they need: buff.ly/A8b5Wwm
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Introducing bitdrift AI: agentic mobile observability
bitdrift AI is a real-time, full-fidelity observability system that lets AI agents query mobile user behavior and act on it autonomously.
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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 13/08/2026
bitdrift has joined @clickhouse.com House Mates program as its mobile observability partner. Our new integration pairs bitdrift's on-device capture with ClickHouse-powered storage, connecting the full mobile session to backend traces in one path. Read more: blog.bitdrift.io/post/clickho...
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bitdrift brings mobile observability to ClickHouse
bitdrift joins ClickHouse’s House Mates program with a mobile observability integration, bringing mobile-native telemetry, tracing, and debugging to ClickStack.
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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 12/08/2026
🎙️New Beyond the Noise! Dillon TenBrink runs the edge platform behind 2,300+ Home Depot stores. At that scale, you can't "sling all the metrics all the time." Why constraints force better observability discipline: bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
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beyond the noise - Inside Home Depot's Edge Platform with Dillon TenBrink
Dillon TenBrink, distinguished engineer at The Home Depot, joins Matt to discuss the edge platform that powers retail at scale, observability with limited bandwidth, and AI's impact on engineering.
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Peter Morelli @pmorelli.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
My 3 went from 3-4 days to 1, but it’s back again. Didn’t monitor firmware though.
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Peter Morelli @pmorelli.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
one of the most beautiful places in the world.
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Peter Morelli @pmorelli.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
They split out the AI part (HyperAgent) a few days before.
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Peter Morelli @pmorelli.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Congrats!
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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 30/07/2026
One prompt to instrument your mobile app. Install the bd CLI, add the bitdrift skills, then ask your agent to add the bitdrift Capture SDK and instrument the user journey you care about. Full walkthrough: buff.ly/VR2ikZx
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How to use AI to instrument your mobile app for observability
Learn how an agent can read your app, decide on a best approach, add the right instrumentation, and wire up the SDK in a single pass with bitdrift.
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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 28/07/2026
🎙️ New Beyond the Noise! Cedric Beust has been in mobile since the early Android days, now Head of Mobile at JPMorgan Chase. He's here to talk about the gap most mobile teams are still fighting. Spoiler: it's not crashes. 🎧 Full episode: bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
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beyond the noise - Cedric Beust: Mobile's Hardest Problems Never Change
Cedric Beust, creator of TestNG, early Android team member, and the engineer behind the original Android Gmail app, joins Matt to trace 20+ years of mobile from the inside — from J2ME feature phones…
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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 15/07/2026
We're speaking @droidcon.bsky.social Orlando! Miguel Angel Juárez López and Jackson Hardaker take the stage tomorrow at 10:55am. 🎤 WebViews were a black box for too long. This talk breaks down how Android and Frontend engineers can team up to fix that. 📍 See us at Booth 21. More:
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bitdrift at droidcon Orlando 2026
Meet bitdrift at booth 21 at droidcon Orlando, July 16-17. Live demos, our WebView observability talk, swag, and a raffle.
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Peter Morelli @pmorelli.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
on my way to @droidcon.bsky.social orlando! Stop by @bitdrift.io's booth (21) to chat with me, or go to @murking.bsky.social and @jacksonhardaker.bsky.social's talk on WebView Observability in Android. bitdrift.io/conferences/...
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bitdrift at droidcon Orlando 2026
Meet bitdrift at booth 21 at droidcon Orlando, July 16-17. Live demos, our WebView observability talk, swag, and a raffle.
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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 14/07/2026
🎙️ A silent bug at Tinder quietly dropped analytics data, with no crash or error to flag it. Aaron He (Tinder) and Matt Klein talk through why bugs like this are some of the hardest to catch in mobile, and why it still happens today even at scale. 🎧 Listen now: bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
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beyond the noise - Crash-Free Isn't Enough: Inside Tinder's War on App Hangs
Aaron He, Director of Engineering for Tinder's Client Platform team, joins Matt Klein to trace a decade of mobile engineering at scale, from writing Xamarin apps in C# to native Android, and into…
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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 01/07/2026
🎙️ New Beyond the Noise is out! From coding bootcamp to a $250K hackathon win to building the AWS Swift SDK, Nicki Stone has had quite the journey. Now she's a Principal Engineer at Amazon, unifying 50 networking stacks and using AI to write specs instead of code. Listen today: buff.ly/PR7AgQs
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beyond the noise - Nicki Stone: On-Device ML, Monorepos, and Amazon Scale
In this episode of Beyond the Noise, Matt talks with Nicki Stone, a Principal Engineer who oversees development of the Amazon Shopping App. Nicki's path there runs through a finance desk where she…
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Peter Morelli @pmorelli.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Saw this fun one on twitter: someone FOIAed the last decade of dog licenses in SF, and created this site: thedogsofsf.com
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The Dogs of San Francisco | 51,379 licensed dogs
Names, breeds, colors, neighborhoods, ages, and adoptable matches from San Francisco dog-license data.
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sophie alpert @sophiebits.com · 25/06/2026
got frustrated recently at work about people writing using AI instead of using their brains! here's my take on it: sophiebits.com/2026/06/25/t...
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There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text
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Peter Morelli @pmorelli.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This… did not age well.
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Peter Morelli @pmorelli.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I’ve been using it for the past month or so. I really like it, still a few rough edges. Moving fast though!
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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 11/06/2026
Hatch builds a sleep app. With bitdrift, they now have full visibility into every user's device on demand, and crash investigations are 30-50% faster. They're catching issues before they interrupt the nightly sleep routines of millions. Full case study: buff.ly/MnF6to0
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Peter Morelli @pmorelli.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Wow. Just wow.
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Peter Morelli @pmorelli.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This game giving me a heart attack
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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 02/06/2026
New episode of Beyond the Noise 🎙️ Ryan Cooke, Director of Engineering at Pinterest, on getting metrics IPO-ready, why they ripped out Bazel on iOS, and where AI tooling is: an agent shipped a 3-week migration in 10 hours for one engineer and stalled for another. 🎧 Hit play: buff.ly/27kZtdG
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beyond the noise - Invisible Work That Keeps Pinterest Running with Ryan Cooke
Matt speaks with Ryan Cooke, Director of Engineering at Pinterest, about the hidden infrastructure work behind resilient Android, iOS, and web apps — from image loading experiments to metric-quality…
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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 29/05/2026
Mobile observability's unglamorous prerequisite: getting the SDK in your app correctly. bd-instrumentation is an agent skill that handles the full bitdrift Capture SDK integration for iOS and Android. Read the full post: blog.bitdrift.io/post/skill-t...
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AI-driven instrumentation with new mobile SDK skill
New agent skill handles installation and instrumentation of the bitdrift Capture SDK. bd-instrumentation, bd-cli and bd-docs empower agentic mobile observability.
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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 19/05/2026
🎙️ New episode of Beyond the Noise! @migueldeicaza.bsky.social, founder of GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin and a legend of the open source movement, joined @mattklein123.dev to talk about open source, mobile, and what it takes to build things that last. 🎧 Listen now: bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
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beyond the noise - Miguel de Icaza: GNOME, Mono, Xamarin, and No Sign of Stopping
Matt sits down with Miguel de Icaza, co-founder of GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin, to trace his arc from true-believer GNU fanatic to pragmatic entrepreneur — and his current chapter betting on Godot and…
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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 05/05/2026
New episode of Beyond the Noise 🎙️ 18 years at Google. Now building CI/CD at Vercel. Jay Gengelbach joins to talk scale, mobile observability, and one of the wildest bug stories you'll ever hear. Catch the full episode:
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beyond the noise - The One-Second Surge: Debugging a Billion-Device Edge Case at Google with Jay Gengelbach
Jay Gengelbach walks through the story of a mysterious spike in server errors that hit exactly at the top of every hour across Google Now/Discover’s massive mobile footprint — and the creative fix…
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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 30/04/2026
We just shipped OTel-compatible distributed tracing for Capture. When something breaks, you get the trace for that session, not a random sample that may or may not have caught it. Learn more: buff.ly/JZmzNib #opentelemetry #observability
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Announcing OpenTelemetry mobile tracing (that actually works) - bitdrift Blog
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Peter Morelli @pmorelli.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
If you’re building a mobile app, you need to check this out. We’ve already had customers beta test this and 10x their defect fix rate, in less than a week. We’re very excited to see what you can do with this. Go directly to bitdrift.ai to learn more and install.
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Let your agents query reality
Give AI agents real-time access to unsampled mobile observability data so they can investigate crashes, performance issues, and user journeys directly from customer devices.
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Peter Morelli @pmorelli.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
This isn’t just some AI lipstick slapped on top of an existing product, but a ground up rethink of what it takes to give AI agents real-time access to millions of connected devices so they can find and resolve issues before users notice them. No sampling, no waiting on multi-day releases.
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Peter Morelli @pmorelli.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Today, we’re announcing the first release of bitdrift.ai. We’ve been working our way toward this all year, rearchitecting both our underlying client SDKs and our powerful workflow engine, releasing a new public api, and a revamped CLI. blog.bitdrift.io/post/query-r...
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Query reality: Mobile observability, now accessible to AI
New: bd skills that teach AI agents how to use bitdrift’s mobile observability platform so they can find and resolve issues before users notice them.
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Peter Morelli @pmorelli.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Thanks for this, it’s a great write up! I had been looking for iOS terminals that support mosh (moshi looks nice too.)
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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 23/04/2026
When a sleep app breaks, it's the middle of the night. Hatch couldn't reproduce many bugs, so investigations often went nowhere. 🔍 With bitdrift, they see what happened on any device: → 30-50% faster debugging → 2-3 hrs/week saved per QA Read the full case study:
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How Hatch Sleep app uses bitdrift for mobile observability
Hatch turned to bitdrift for real-world mobile observability to understand every user session, across every device that's running their sleep app.
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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 21/04/2026
🎙️New Beyond the Noise episode! JP Simard (SwiftLint, Realm, Ramp) joins Matt Klein to discuss why devs are moving beyond IDE-first workflows, how Ramp’s tiny teams ship apps fast, whether AI enables "architect once, implement everywhere," and the iOS vs Android ecosystem split. Listen now:
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beyond the noise - JP Simard on Swift, Open Source, and Escaping the IDE
Matt sits down with longtime iOS engineer and open source creator JP Simard to talk about the mobile gold rush, Swift tooling, and what modern AI-assisted cross-platform development might look like.
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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 20/04/2026
Introducing the bitdrift Public API: making observability programmable. Create and manage workflows in code. Retrieve unsampled sessions on demand. Integrate bitdrift into your deploy pipelines and on-call workflows – no dashboard required. Learn more: blog.bitdrift.io/post/public-...
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Introducing the bitdrift Public API: For programmable observability and beyond - bitdrift Blog
Agents query reality with the bitdrift Public API, enabling programmatic access to admin, workflows, charts, issues, and captured sessions via the bitdrift CLI.
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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 13/04/2026
bitdrift is live on AWS Marketplace! 🎉 ☁️ Mobile teams can capture unlimited telemetry at lower cost, store only what matters, and resolve bugs faster. No app update required. Get started fast with full‑fidelity mobile observability: blog.bitdrift.io/post/aws-mar...
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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 09/04/2026
Thanks Austin! ✨ Great evening with the mobile community at the Mobile Engineering Summit: lightning talks, a panel on performance, reliability & AI, and the kind of energy that makes it worth doing again. Stay tuned for our next Summit in a city near you! 🙌
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Peter Morelli @pmorelli.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Congrats! That’s great news!
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Peter Morelli @pmorelli.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Ah, congrats, that’s awesome news!
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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 07/04/2026
The Capture SDK is now running in 1B real-world environments! 🎉 Traditional observability tools send large volumes of data to centralized systems. Capture stores data on-device, giving mobile teams control over what gets sent and when. Read how we got here:
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bitdrift turns 1,000,000,000 - bitdrift Blog
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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 06/04/2026
🎙️ New Beyond the Noise: our first two-guest episode. Lauren Darcey & Eric Kuck (Infinite Retry Labs, ex-Reddit) on mobile at scale: why your team is already on-call without knowing it, the systemic issues you only uncover at millions of users, and so much more: buff.ly/zCtX1uM
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beyond the noise - Lauren Darcey & Eric Kuck: Lessons From Reddit's Android Platform Team to Infinite Retry Labs
Lauren Darcey and Eric Kuck join Matt Klein to share their journey from the early days of mobile development through scaling Reddit's Android platform, to building a kid-centric platform at Infinite…
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Peter Morelli @pmorelli.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
there's a general antipathy to AI here that's really unfortunate. see attie's release and response from a lot of users. plus network effects, and the ability to post long "articles" are other inputs. Maybe starterpacks + attie and ai hater blocklists would help if you provide that at signup.
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Matt Klein @mattklein123.dev · 30/03/2026
New episode is live with one of my role models, @kelseyhightower.com. This is a great chat about the impact of AI on our industry. Check it out!
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