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My overriding thought going into 2026:
Problems you thought were out of reach no longer are.
Pick a problem 100x harder than you thought possible to tackle alone, and run with it.
Start now. AI will catch up and make it possible.
Sam Willis
@samwillis
Building sync and streams @databricks & @neondatabase.
Prev co-founder @ElectricSQL.
Started PGlite.dev, co-creator of @tan_stack DB.
- Huge announcement, we've joined @databricks and @neondatabase to build sync into the Neon platform. So excited to join such an incredible team! 🚀🎉
- Hammersmith Bridge is the perfect metaphor for what's broken in the UKHammersmith Bridge has been SHUT for 7 YEARS. Why? Governments have REFUSED to take RESPONSIBILITY and FIX IT. The Victorians BUILT the bridge in 2 years FROM SCRATCH. Now, buses can’t cross, ambulances take LONGER, and people in wheelchairs STRUGGLE. NO EXCUSES. PASS AN
- Is ChatGPT optimistically starting generations? It's seems to have gotten incredible fast, with some responses appearing essentially instantly upon hitting send.
- Close, but it's 4 - C - Rust - TypeScript - JavaScript Agents are going to write *a lot* of throwaway code, that's going to be simple JS. "Code mode" is clearly the future, and plain JS is perfect for it.Only 3 programming languages exist: - C - Rust - Typescript There is no reason to use anything else.
