Engineering leader in AI platforms. I write about AI-assisted engineering and leadership, then worry that it sounds too much like a 🤖. Database guy at 💙
Wellington, NZ
Joined March 2009
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Just watched @traskjd 's chat on the AI Corner podcast. youtube.com/watch?v=l2AUzTuF… Very good take on how to pragmatically eat a shit-sandwich. 😉 Jokes aside, thanks, good listen, A++ would trade again.
If you ever worry about being left behind regarding the current state-of-the-art with AI engineering... just wait a week or two. It'll all be brand new again. 😅
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Opus 5.5 does feel a little better in terms of writing with less "Claudisms". The way I noticed was by pasting text from it into a doc to continue editing, and the built-in spelling/writing assistant started highlighting a lot more "corrections" and suggestions.
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Had a really fun chat with @ankitxg recently about platform teams and how AI is changing what we do. 🎙️
Platform teams used to build paved paths for developers, now developers have bulldozers and they're building their own roads.
It's really been a pleasure talking to David Curlewis, who leads AI platform teams at @canva and likes to talk about engineering concepts in vidid analogies.
So we discussed what happens to platform teams now that developers can use AI to build their own tools and what happens when some vibe-coded tool becomes mission critical.
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I want a new option for meeting attendance; rather than being added as an attendee or optional-attendee, I want an option for "async-attendee" whereby I am added to the invite but don't attend, and get the AI summary (or transcript for my agent to ingest ideally). K thanks!
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I get asked how I use AI for "non-dev work". The agents and memory systems get glazed eyes; "it briefs me on my day every morning" gets interest. The bit that often impresses people is stupid-simple to get started with: curlewis.co.nz/posts/two-pro…
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Super-secret pro-tip that 9/10 dentists agree on: nobody knows what the fuck they're talking about. There is no single best way to use AI in your job, and anyone who says otherwise has snake oil to sell you.
New post: curlewis.co.nz/posts/on-not-…
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I've noticed Fable is *much* more likely to save memories than any previous model. I wonder how much of Fable's perceived capability is due to it managing memory/context better? 🤔
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We taught the machine to write by feeding it our writing. Now sounding like myself gets me flagged as the machine. So I'm done scrubbing my own "AI tells".
New post: curlewis.co.nz/posts/who-tau…
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Building software got cheap. Anyone can spin up their own tooling in an afternoon now, so what's the point of a platform team?
Wrote about what I'm seeing, plus the one problem I haven't cracked. curlewis.co.nz/posts/what-ha…
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David Curlewis retweeted
Good read, I think Dave and I would get along just great. I’m also firmly in the camp of AI is great and we should all be using it but we need better measured outcome-oriented analysis of it. curlewis.co.nz/posts/lines-o…
Been enjoying my AI morning briefings from @gethuxe - but it's pretty jarring how the speakers flip-flop between mostly-US accents to randomly-heavy-Aussie accent for a few sentences, then onto a generic-light-NZ accent, and back to US. 😂
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In May 2022, 5,000+ #DevOps professionals shared details about their teams and practices, and the results are in! Check out @GitLab's #DevSecOps Survey here. Interesting read for my DevOps mates 👍 sprou.tt/161Qt6c2XqB
We're hiring again!🤖 Looking for another .Net engineer to join our Platform team. Do you understand cloud infrastructure, love writing solid code, R&D'ing new platforms & services, supporting other devs, etc? ➡️gettimely.com/careers/net-pl…
Screen bug update: the 🐜 has (I think) expired and wedged itself near the middle of my monitor. Annoyance factor; a solid 7/10. #bugreport – at Lower Hutt City, New Zealand
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