CTO of @InfluxDB (YC W13), founder of NYC Machine Learning, series editor for Addison Wesley's Data & Analytics, author of Service Oriented Design with Ruby.
I'm off to help build a city in the desert and try to bring some fun to strangers. See you all after Labor Day. Try not to let Skynet slip its leash while I'm out!
You're not paying attention to what's in front of you. Do you think the exponential increase in software being pushed to GH was created by an exponential rise in computer programmers signing up and pushing code?
No, it was created by AIs. And what happens in an exponential
More big moves in the database world: ducklabs.com/news/2026/08/2…
DuckDB is great software, congrats to Hannes and the team. Good to see that it's still going to be permissive, free open source!
I think the release of Bun 1.4 marks the end of programming as we know it. Anthropic and OpenAI developers live in the near future and if we pay attention, it's what's coming for the rest of us by next year:
Great to see DataFusion get a callout on this #rustlang post about the next gen trait solver. Over 8x faster compilation for DF! Now @andrewlamb1111 and team can ship even more awesome DataFusion improvements faster.
