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Patrick DeVivo
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Patrick DeVivo
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software engineer in NYC. prev mergestat.com and augmentable.dev. Now @powersetres.
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    Patrick DeVivo
    Powerset Research
    @patrickdevivo
    Jul 31
    I'm surprised there's not more hype for @GoogleDeepMind's Gemma 4 It absolutely flies on @cerebras and has been just as good for certain research tasks (and orders of magnitude faster and cheaper) than OpenAI models we were using
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    Patrick DeVivo
    Powerset Research
    @patrickdevivo
    Jun 5
    switched from Claude Code to Codex CLI today and am experiencing this in real time. I can’t articulate exactly why…it’s just better Less sycophantic? Feels more comprehensive? 5.5 seems to just miss fewer things
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    Nick Schrock
    @schrockn
    Jun 5
    Underreported story in AI Eng: Just how much better it is to work with gpt 5.5 than Opus 4.8. It's smarter *and* has a decisive speed advantage. The speed difference also underrated.
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    Patrick DeVivo
    Powerset Research
    @patrickdevivo
    May 24
    the job of software engineer is so clearly no longer about directly managing code, but managing the systems and rails for AI tools to ship the best possible codel, given the domain and its constraints
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    Patrick DeVivo
    Powerset Research
    @patrickdevivo
    Apr 22
    I think there are interesting use cases for sandboxes that have nothing to do with AI code execution. If you can isolate tenants and pin them to their own compute, that’s a pretty powerful primitive for multi-tenant software generally. CI/CD systems, per-tenant queries with
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    Patrick DeVivo
    Powerset Research
    @patrickdevivo
    Feb 27
    1/ If history is any guide, I think the end state of agentic coding is something far more declarative than imperative (relative to where we are today). We’ve headed far in that direction, but there’s probably more to go…

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