Reposted by Josh WillsDavid Crawshaw @crawshaw.io · 07/03/2026thought about making an /r/its-so-over subreddit, but couldn't find my reddit login. it was easier to build a sub-reddit: its-so-over.exe.xyz 0121
Reposted by Josh WillsPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 28/02/2026I swear to Christ I think I would vote for a candidate who just used capitalization correctly 762969172
Reposted by Josh WillsSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 10/01/2026Sprites.dev by @fly.io is a very cool new thing: it solves two of my pet problems at once, developer sandbox environments for coding agents and a JSON API for executing untrusted code I wrote more here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/9/s...simonwillison.netFly’s new Sprites.dev addresses both developer sandboxes and API sandboxes at the same timeNew from Fly.io today: Sprites.dev. Here’s their blog post and YouTube demo. It’s an interesting new product that’s quite difficult to explain—Fly call it “Stateful sandbox environments with checkpoin... 810017
Reposted by Josh Willsjake @yetanotheruseless.com · 04/12/2025It's funny. I started my career in tech as a software tester, where I wrote tests for devs writing code. Now, a quarter of a century later, as I write unit tests and agent evals, my career will likely end as I write tests for... LLMs We all testers now! Suckit devs!?! 491
Reposted by Josh WillsPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Normally the creators of beloved children’s cartoon characters would not need to disavow the U.S. Secretary of Defense, but ours is a drunken miscreant, a loutish boor with the dignity and nobility of a counterfeit butt-plug 1054506966
Reposted by Josh WillsSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 22/10/2025I gave a talk last night about "Living dangerously with Claude", on the joys and perils of --dangerously-skip-permissions and how critical it is that we run coding agents in a sandbox so that we can unlock their full potential simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/22/...simonwillison.netLiving dangerously with ClaudeI gave a talk last night at Claude Code Anonymous in San Francisco, the unofficial meetup for coding agent enthusiasts. I decided to talk about a dichotomy I’ve been struggling … 411212
Reposted by Josh WillsJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 21/10/2025joining the war on the dodgers. *sigh* on the side of canada 2442730
Reposted by Josh Willspetey @peteypayless.bsky.social · 23/09/2025the US if Tylenol actually caused autism 3132332918
Reposted by Josh WillsPhillip Carter @phillipcarter.dev · 03/09/2025just don't have time to vibe code this feature boss, I'm in too many meetings 1141
Reposted by Josh WillsM.G. Siegler @mgsiegler.com · 13/08/2025Ah yes, raising $34.5B at $20B post to buy Chrome. 081
Reposted by Josh WillsPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13/08/2025vibe coding is too manual. the new hotness is aura coding, where you just dress like a software developer but don't actually do anything 2551656
Reposted by Josh WillsDavid Crawshaw @crawshaw.io · 12/08/2025We are knee-deep in studying the developer experience around containers, because if agents are going to be maximally useful, they need to be in a box. What we have discovered so far: sketch.dev/blog/in-prai... 0192
Reposted by Josh WillsChris @chris.blue · 04/08/2025ZeroFS has a website now :)zerofs.netZeroFS DocumentationThe filesystem that makes S3 your primary storage. Mount S3 buckets as local filesystems with NFS or 9P or use them as block devices with NBD. 0124
Reposted by Josh WillsNathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 04/08/2025America needs to take open models more seriously. Just this summer the early lead in open model adoption of Llama & co has been overtaken by Chinese models. With The American Truly Open Models (ATOM) Project we're looking to build support and express the urgency of this issue. 34113
Reposted by Josh WillsRandy Au @randyau.com · 02/08/2025So now that the BLS is effectively useless and compromised, who are the data vendors most in position to publish approximately similar datasets 🤔 4185
Reposted by Josh WillsDavid Crawshaw @crawshaw.io · 31/07/2025Right now Lean is very much the classic "first learn mathematics then learn Lean", but this hints at some interesting future, where mechanical proofs are approachable enough (at least at the basic levels) that it can be a way to teach proofs: adam.math.hhu.de#/g/leanprove... 131
Reposted by Josh WillsPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21/07/2025The time to write your “why do people mourn when a famous person dies? People die all the time, your parasocial relationship with the dead person is illusory and illogical” skeet is immediately after you go back in time and hand your father a condom 3895266
Reposted by Josh WillsSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 03/07/2025Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw. 63880157
Reposted by Josh WillsDJ Patil @djpatil.bsky.social · 02/07/2025So much wisdom that Gen. McChrystal shares in our interview. Lessons he's learned the hard way. What character & patriotism means, being on the front lines as your enemy uses new technology, how that tech is going to impact all of us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACGa... @cwclub.bsky.socialyoutube.comGeneral Stanley McChrystal | Choices That Define a LifeYouTube video by Commonwealth Club World Affairs (CCWA) 052
Reposted by Josh WillsSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 02/07/2025Can Claude Sonnet 4 write x86 assembly? I ran an experiment today and got Claude plus Claude Code to build, run and debug a pleasing Mandelbrot fractal in assembly, compiled via Docker on my Mac Full details, including prompts and Claude Code transcript, here: simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/2/m... 513112
Reposted by Josh WillsJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 01/07/2025What voters think nativism will mean: stop giving benefits to others, so you can focus resources on citizens What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others 15086391966
Reposted by Josh WillsAlmog @almog.xyz · 01/07/2025One day I'll open a coffee shop dedicated to the not-insignificant intersection between database nerds and coffee snobs. Until then, enjoy this comic. 1395
Reposted by Josh WillsSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 30/06/2025Microsoft open-sourced a sizable chunk of the GitHub Copilot VS Code extension today (MIT licensed) - I did some spelunking to try and find the LLM prompts that make it all work simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/30/...simonwillison.netmicrosoft/vscode-copilot-chatAs promised at Build 2025 in May, Microsoft have released the GitHub Copilot Chat client for VS Code under an open source (MIT) license. So far this is just the … 013615
Reposted by Josh WillsJA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 29/06/2025If your tech optimism doesn’t make room for existential dread, you’re not paying attention. But if your pessimism doesn’t make room for existential astonishment, you’re missing the plot. We are apes with code. That can be terrifying. It can be transcendent. It’s OK if it’s both. 512723
Reposted by Josh WillsJD Long @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com · 26/06/2025Whipping up a little summer treat: 5143
Reposted by Josh WillsHannes Mühleisen @hannes.muehleisen.org · 19/06/2025I’m very happy with this poster the @tigerbeetle.com team made for my #ducklake talk today at #systemsdistributed - make it so! 4455
Reposted by Josh WillsDavid Crawshaw @crawshaw.io · 08/06/2025Some recent experiences programming with agents. crawshaw.io/blog/program... 0247
Reposted by Josh WillsAngie Jones @angiejones.tech · 03/06/2025so good! fly.io/blog/youre-a...fly.ioMy AI Skeptic Friends Are All NutsMy smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding. 139819
Reposted by Josh WillsTobias Müller @tobilg.com · 30/05/2025Welcome to the age of $10/month Lakehouses! How to build and run a Lakehouse on top of @cloudflare.social R2 , Cloudflare Containers and Neon Postgres, all backed by the new DuckLake "SQL as Lakehouse" format, via @duckdb.org. tobilg.com/the-age-of-1...tobilg.comWelcome to the age of $10/month LakehousesNo, this article is not about buying properties close to lakes... 4449
Reposted by Josh Willssarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 09/05/2025[Karoline Leavitt saying the Librarian of Congress was fired for having books in the library] Wow that's the worst thing I've ever seen *refreshes feed* [The mayor of Newark is being held at an unspecified facility] Wow that's the worst thing I've ever seen 16089471903
Reposted by Josh WillsPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 08/05/2025CEO of Nabisco criticizes Cookie Monster 862773412
Reposted by Josh WillsJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 06/05/2025LEGO OLENNA TYRELL IN 2030 GAME OF THRONES REBOOT VOICED BY CHRIS PRATT IN THE STYLE OF MARIO: tell cersei. i want her to know it was-a me 2639425
Reposted by Josh Willsshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/05/2025now you’ll have time to work on your serve, dillon #dubnation 1626513
Josh Wills @spite.vc · 02/05/2025"Who would like to supervise the Claude agent who will be implementing this task?" -- me just now in eng planning 1270
Reposted by Josh WillsSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 01/05/2025Two new books have been announced that, embarrassingly for the authors and publishers, fail spectacularly to understand what the term "vibe coding" means. The whole POINT of vibe coding is that you don't need to be a software engineer to do it. simonwillison.net/2025/May/1/n...simonwillison.netTwo publishers and three authors fail to understand what “vibe coding” meansVibe coding does not mean “using AI tools to help write code”. It means “generating code with AI without caring about the code that is produced”. See Not all AI-assisted … 3612721
Reposted by Josh WillsSwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 25/04/2025LLMs have use cases for skilled people. I know a Principal Engineer building internal convoluted tooling that produces actual results. Of course they're building it for us, for our tooling suite, on our datasets they're an expert in, for moonshot early attempts at figuring out what's happening. 71296
Reposted by Josh Willswint @dril.bsky.social · 24/04/2025every day without a Pope is another knife shoved directly into my skull . this is kony 2012 all over again 10287251103
Reposted by Josh Willsmr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 24/04/2025put differently, you can count on AI to automate boilerplate and toil, but if you think AI is going to solve your hard problems, you’ll be disappointed AI coding done well forces you to think more, not less 0212
Reposted by Josh WillsSy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 23/04/2025The most important thing for you to know as a software engineer is that if you destroy the computer with a hammer it cannot hurt you anymore 25796196
Josh Wills @spite.vc · 23/04/2025I don't know who needs to hear this but you shouldn't vibe code changes to coredns in the production k8s cluster 5270
Reposted by Josh WillsBrandon Rohrer @brandonrohrer.com · 23/04/2025The killer app for AI is turning meetings that should have been an email into an email. 082
Reposted by Josh WillsDuckDB @duckdb.org · 22/04/2025📈 How large can DuckDB scale with its out-of-core capabilities? We have been testing DuckDB with the TPC-H queries on increasingly large scale factors and found that all 22 queries completed on the scale factor 100 000 data set – equivalent to 100 TB in CSV format – on a single AWS EC2 instance. 13210