Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 2hIt seems to me that software _development_ was always seen as a cost-center. 000
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 3hאולי זה שלירוקים קפצה האנטישמיות עד כדי כך שהירוקים האירופאים ביקשו מהם להרגע? לי זה נראה פשוט כאילו נתנו לסודעטים לכתוב את ההצהרה, וקיבלו בדיוק מה שאפשר לצפות ממי שזו הפעם הראשונה שהוא נאלץ לחשוב על סכסוכים. 250
Reposted by Shay 🥙Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 5hand if we're talking about responsibility, it feels to me somewhat irresponsible when my peers (as they often do!) stick their heads in the sand about this subject, wishing for computers to remain pure personal playgrounds of skilled programmers, without acknowledging how they function in the world. 142
Reposted by Shay 🥙Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 13hI mean, I have never had non-dread-filled feelings about computers. the idea that there was some utopia of good software-writing time before LLMs seems odd to me. it has always been a train wreck. now it's an industrial train wreck with exciting power tools. will the bug backlog grow or shrink? idk. 151
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 04/10/2026Waymo to SFO is annoying tho - afaik it can’t drop you directly at the terminal. And East Bay doesn’t have service yet. Waymo got the approval to run service here in August, so I hope it’ll start soon 000
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 04/10/2026Your experience is pretty much in line with everybody else but Tesla’s owners. Understandable: human trait not to accept you’ve been had for large amount of money. 021
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 03/10/2026Thinking about it some more, I don’t know how he prefers to label himself, in regards to his Israeli, Palestinian & Arab origins. And I don’t expect him to publicly discuss any while employed, so labeling him such is a guess on my part. 010
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 03/10/2026Worse, those 2% are not equally distributed: there are significantly less Israeli Palestinians or Arabs in leadership roles, even if one of the most successful executive in big tech today is an Israeli-Palestinian. 110
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 02/10/2026אולי הכלב שלה ריאקטיבי (למרות שבד״כ כשזה קורה לי, זה מלווה בהתנצלות) 100
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 01/10/2026…with some intelligent behind-the-scenes engineering to handle each differently. 3. And congrats to the CF team on those launches 🥂. Not yet a direct competition to my (obvious) choice cloud-hosted event streaming provider*, but a sizeable competition. * confluent.io/cloud-kafka 000
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 01/10/2026And yes, one would always perform better: we can only abstract, not cheat reality. Hence having two different products (CF K2 and CF Queues) makes technical sense. But I can't help but imagine a single product with 1st class support for both use cases… 100
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 01/10/2026Telling customers "you're holding it wrong", even when true, isn't how I roll. In practice, every queue would have to evolve to support streaming workloads, and every event streaming system would have to evolve to support queue semantics. 100
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 01/10/20262. Queues and streams differ, but most of their users couldn't care less: to me it seems like most pick one and then use it for both*. * ofc, the nature of my job biases me towards evaluating failures than successes. So may be just skewed pov. 100
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 01/10/2026The hidden cost* is in latency: even S3 express can only be so fast. Yet most would never run into that issue. Everyone wants low latency, but most use cases don't really need it. Some still over-engineer. * aside from the usual "it costs to get data out of the zone" billing. 100
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 01/10/20261. Most of the time, no matter what you build, if you're on a cloud, object storage is the solution: cheap, globally available, infinitely-scalable, extremely reliable, strongly consistent (some CSP), and simple to use key-value store. If the answer isn't "use postgres", it's likely "use obj store" 110
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 01/10/2026I have some thoughts™ on the newly released Cloudflare Basin and K2. I'm not vain enough to start a newsletter, so I'll try to write them in this thread. Obv, my own personal opinions, not representing my employer, etc. Nothing novel, just maybe nit visible to folks not working on such systems. 100
Reposted by Shay 🥙Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 01/10/2026waking up every day in 2026 like: 1147981106
Reposted by Shay 🥙Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing 14237881252
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 01/10/2026לידיעת הצופים: ככה הוא נראה כשהוא לא מאוד מתרגש. מאוד מתרגש כולל קפיצות, זריקת צעצועים באוויר, ושירה אדירה כאילו היה 100% האסקי. 150
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 01/10/2026טיבי אוראטור מצוין, אבל נדמה לי שרק מהנייר. בהחלט עולה על רוב הקולגות שלו, שגרועים גם כשמתכוננים מראש, אבל חבל שכשזה מגיע לקרב יריקות מילולי, הוא מאבד את זה תדיר (״צריך פסיכיאטר״). 120
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 30/09/2026It was also (to me, when I read it in '98 or '99) quite novel with its treatment of gender, I wonder if a reread will make it love this book more or discover stuff to hate, that I didn't realize was a problem 27 years ago. 000
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 30/09/2026Was mentioning Greg Egan's Distress, and realized that book is more topical than ever, with its plot of doomer cultist trying to stop an AI-assisted physics breakthrough. 110
Reposted by Shay 🥙Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026BAY AREA: this nice, modern, fully working gas stove is yours FREE if you can pick it up from Fruitvale (Oakland) in the next four hours There is also a window air conditioner, a queen-size bookshelf headboard, and an adorable sewing table. All free, but ask in the next HOUR 012
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 29/09/2026At least publicly, Cory always seemed to overdose on his own supply for years, which i postulate made him more popular but much less effective. Hence nothing new from him. 001
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 29/09/2026East bay frens, fyi (sadly, can’t go myself)theuctheatre.orgDescendents / The ChatsSep 29, 2026 at The UC Theatre 000
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 29/09/2026We had "this will allow everyone to write their own software" moments before, all ended with a whimper. The tech was never this impressive before, but serious q, if I may: what signal suggests to you today is the day it'll finally happen? Asking as I am yet to see why this is not "just" better. 000
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 29/09/2026“A use-after-free bug in the transporter passangers reassembling code” 020
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 28/09/2026Just spotted in south Berkeley. Disinterested human in the front seat. 010
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 28/09/2026I want to think experienced people that do feel like they need AI items on their resume can also could get hired into less abusive employers? 010
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 28/09/2026What I don’t get tho is who is signing up for this: the JD often lists experience needed, those aren’t entry level “break into industry” positions. I could maybe get a 1st hire that’s promised mountains of equity, but this ain’t that either. Who says yes to this? 130
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 28/09/2026Half full glass: they disclosed the 699 on the cold email; I’ve heard of multiple than would only disclose this mid-process 1110
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 27/09/2026Y’all talking about the creeps weekend, but I literally have them in my neighborhood. I pass by the hotel they bought when walking my dog. It’s across the street from a middle school. Why aren’t Berkeley NIMBYs up in arms about that instead of replacing a crumbling 7-11 with apartments? 010
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 27/09/2026I hope you won’t mind if I’ll steal this analogy to explain other things that requires multiple alignment 170
Reposted by Shay 🥙Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.ironholds.org 17748271
Reposted by Shay 🥙Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026As a former pretentious little shit who grew out of it, rationalists (et al) annoy the piss out of me because they are adults with the mentality of tweens - they are somehow still convinced they are the greatest geniuses who have ever walked the earth. It is the worldview of an arrogant baby. 372483295
Reposted by Shay 🥙Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up. 532630265
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 27/09/2026The dudes with robes and pointy hats in the audience for the sleep show are giving me unseen university vibes. 020
