Founder @replicatedhq. Creator of https://xitter.cf/t.co/3ut3ZG58mk. Techno-Optimist. Father of 3.

Austin, TX
Joined March 2007
OpenAI goes on-prem! On the latest @BG2Pod, the Head of Engineering of OpenAI Platform revealed that they're doing on-prem deployments of their leading models. The future of AI is self-hosted.
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morning the loss of sunflight.org/, a true gem of a service for those of us with strong opinions about minor inconveniences.
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maybe SI should just = Software Intelligence
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Punchy twins = Two punchy sentences. One mindless slop cannon. Once you hear it, you see it everywhere.
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Most AI-engineering-wisdom-of-the-week is just naive 20-somethings getting slapped in the face with lessons the vets avoid from 30 years of software engineering mistakes.
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Then: Only a poor man sells land. Now: Only a poor company sells internal data.
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I'm interested to hear what happened over @pulley maybe the business wasn't working at venture scale, but seems like it could almost certainly run profitably...
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Seems like it should have been possible, but maybe they just wanted out
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How much more would you be willing to pay if Amazon offered a version of Prime that picked up boxes that haven’t been broken down whenever they delivered a new packaged? 2x, 4x?
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So if you self-hosted Metabase you likely didn’t have it on the public internet & are safe. If you used Metabase SaaS, you were likely hacked and you didn’t know it.
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this looks pretty dope, trying to get chat or claude to use a browser is a disaster...
Today we're introducing Hark Handoff Handoff has been independently verified as the best internet-use model ever built, outperforming ChatGPT 5.4 & Opus 4.8 While others focus on coding, we focus on everyday life: ordering food, booking flights, shopping, & navigating the web
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We switched off of Claude ($60k/month bill for a 20 person eng team wasn't sustainable) and have been mixing & matching OSS models (and subs). This should make that much easier for everyone else.
Today we’re announcing Not Diamond Code, the world’s most powerful intelligent model router for long-horizon coding agents. Not Diamond works with any gateway or harness, including Claude Code, to select the best model and reasoning effort for each step, reducing costs by 20-65% without impacting quality.
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Loom charging for every user is dumb... trying out Google Vid Screen recorder. Has anyone made the switch?
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12-factor agents, RPI, context engineering, harness engineering... now there is a product
At HumanLayer, we’re on a mission to solve the AI slop code problem. In 2025 we open-sourced our Research, Plan, Implement framework, now deployed inside fortune 500s like Block and Uber - places where shipping slop is just not an option And that was just the beginning. Today, we’re opening access to HumanLayer - an Agentic IDE, collaboration platform, and building blocks for your software factory. HumanLayer enables engineers solving hard problems in complex codebases to: > move 2-3x faster across the entire SDLC (not just coding) > maintain rigorous standards for system architecture and program design Hundreds of engineers at companies of all sizes are already using HumanLayer to ship fast without sacrificing quality. I'm excited to invite you to try humanlayer today at humanlayer.com, and I'm even more excited to see what you build. @0xblacklight and I are deeply grateful to our team, our customers who give us so much incredible energy and feedback, our investors who have always been in our corner, and our friends and family who have supported us along this crazy journey if you're a staff or principal engineer trying to make AI coding work at scale for your team, we'd love to hear from you as @swyx likes to say - let's make this the year of no more slop
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me connecting lawyers to accountants:
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I feel like i should be shorting Qualys stock simply for this username/tenancy solution
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It is wild how many SaaS products require you to remove users & THEN remove a "seat" or "license" in order to reduce your bill. Claude, Duo, OpenAI... is this a default pattern for one of those auth/sso platforms?
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this guy gets it ;)
AI is bringing on-prem back. The last decade of enterprise software was defined by one massive shift: everything moved to vendor-cloud SaaS. In 2026, the number of security breaches is skyrocketing across the board: Supply chain attacks, model attacks, vendor platform compromise. With Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT-5.4-Cyber, AI security has become the #1 requirement for an AI purchase, especially ones that touch PII or PHI. I’ve spoken to 10 CIOs and CISOs in the last week, each one of them told me they must bring the AI to their data, not the other way around. They are unwinding shadow AI and taking back control to secure their data and network as the top priority. The ones fighting back will be the heroes within their organizations. Not all CEOs understand the security risks at play, so it’s on the CIO and CISO to hold the line, even when unpopular. For startups this means you must shift accordingly: whether you call it bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC), self-hosted, cloud-prem or on-prem, this is the only enterprise-ready deployment model for AI. For CIOs, don’t let vendors force you into using their vendor cloud solution, you can have your cake and eat it too.
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I'd love to give OpenClaw access to my email... except for OTP & password resets. Do we need a standardized email header for these emails so inbox access can be deterministically scoped?
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set up a new loom account and it takes 5 minutes for atlassian to provision it... "Our robots are working on your Atlassian Cloud site." this seems like a step backward
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