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Jamie Turner

Convex
@jamwt
Co-founder/CEO of @convex. Former Sr. Director/Principal Engineer of Storage & Databases at Dropbox. Shameless startup junkie.
Seattle, WA, USA
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    Jamie Turner
    Convex
    @jamwt
    4h
    AWS will build you five different database products that are really all the same foundation underneath. They ask a very specific question of you: what interface is safe enough for you to trust and buy? So while some of these surfaces are still very 80s-flavored for market
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    Jamie Turner
    Convex
    @jamwt
    6h
    It's hard to run an infra company. It's not like a consumer company where you can go stratospheric overnight. It takes time to get customers. It takes time for people to trust that your stack isn't going to collapse under them and that betting on you wasn't a mistake. The growth
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  • @jamwt
    Jamie Turner
    Convex
    @jamwt
    8h
    come work at convex where we do groundbreaking AI research like this is this a millennium prize problem too
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    Nicolas Ettlin ✨
    @nicolapps
    8h
    I prompt-injected the Waymo AI assistant into writing code for me
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  • @jamwt
    Jamie Turner
    Convex
    @jamwt
    10h
    Getting attached to a particular lab's model on a particular day is like getting attached to a movie in "your" library on a streaming service. Remember when 5.6 Sol was good? Remember when Point Break was on Netflix?
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  • @jamwt
    Jamie Turner
    Convex
    @jamwt
    10h
    On day one, Convex was architected for (among other things) eventual copy-on-write cheap snapshotting. We assumed we'd have built it by now due to customer demand. But we haven't. In practice, with our real customers, it hasn't actually ever made sense for them. Why? 1. If you
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