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Grace Hopper carried wire pieces in her purse to show engineers what a nanosecond looked like. She spent her career making computers speak human.

Today I prompted Claude in plain English and got working code back. We're living exactly what Amazing Grace predicted.

https://brendan.fyi/grace

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Brendan O’Leary ✅ @brendan.fyi · Aug 2

Hill I will DIE on:

Jesus Christ Superstar *slaps*

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Brendan O’Leary ✅ @brendan.fyi · Jul 27

Men ought not to play God before they have learned to be men

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Brendan O’Leary ✅ @brendan.fyi · Jul 26

Hearing Gwyneth Paltrow say "Apache Airflow" was NOT on my 2025 bingo card.

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Brendan O’Leary ✅ @brendan.fyi · Jul 24

Dear Posthog: You're amazing

That is all

Brendan O’Leary ✅ @brendan.fyi · Jul 17

Nobody will remember:
- That time you were on the Coldplay fan cam
- What song was playing on the Coldplay fan cam
- If it was a work trip on the Coldplay fan cam

...unless you act suspicious...then everyone will remember.

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Brendan O’Leary ✅ @brendan.fyi · Jul 17

I got caught cheating on my wife with an employee on the Jumbotron at a Coldplay concert.

Here's what it taught me about B2B SaaS growth metrics 👇🧵

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Brendan O’Leary ✅ @brendan.fyi · Jul 14

Actually, Cognition AI is going to buy Windsurf for an undisclosed amount after the Open AI $3 billion deal fell through and Google invested $2.4 billion to license Windsurf and took their CEO and other talent.

Brendan O’Leary ✅ @brendan.fyi · Jul 11

Something I think people really underutilize is: having AI help you write the prompts for AI.

And moreover, prompting the AI to ask you questions that it would have to make the prompt and the output that you're going to get from it better!

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Brendan O’Leary ✅ @brendan.fyi · Jul 10

In the conjoined triangle of intelligence, speed, and price, what matters most in the AI coding wars?

Brendan O’Leary ✅ @brendan.fyi · Jul 8

Is there some way to tell YouTube "please stop showing me breaking news, you are literally the place I go to try and escape doom-scrolling"

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Brendan O’Leary ✅ @brendan.fyi · Jul 7

Some of y'all don't understand how undetemrinistic LLMs are, and it shows

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Brendan O’Leary ✅ @brendan.fyi · Jul 1

So glad someone already wrote this so I didn't have to: https://oncilla.github.io/old-man-yells-at/

Brendan O’Leary ✅ @brendan.fyi · Jul 1

No one scares me quite as much as people who don't like git rebase and don't like squash and merge.

There. I said it.

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Brendan O’Leary ✅ @brendan.fyi · Jul 1

Sweden had to include a footnote in their GDP data for the quarter Taylor performed there. The impact on growth was so significant that it made it an outlier requiring a footnote.

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Brendan O’Leary ✅ @brendan.fyi · Jun 30

Goals are:

- Free (though may need limits on things like AI if I integrate any AI for instance)
- No sign up needed (for most tools, again yada yada AI) but sign up gives you benefits (save stuff, etc.)
- Open source - the code is here: https://gitlab.com/brendan/relkit.dev

Brendan O’Leary ✅ @brendan.fyi · Jun 30

At least 90% vibe coded this weekend - https://relkit.dev/

It's going to be a set of tools that I find myself using all the time (and just googling every time too) as a Developer Relations Engineer.

Brendan O’Leary ✅ @brendan.fyi · Jun 30

At least 90% vibe coded this weekend - https://relkit.dev/

It's going to be a set of tools that I find myself using all the time (and just googling every time too) as a Developer Relations Engineer.

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Brendan O’Leary ✅ @brendan.fyi · Jun 29

Hot take:

Claude Code and Gemini CLI are NOT CLI tools. The are React web apps in the terminal.

Brendan O’Leary ✅ @brendan.fyi · Jun 27

I honestly don't understand the hype around these "CLI" coding agents - they are just ChatGPT for code in the terminal .. like I expected them to be more like Vim -- but they are further from vim then even VS Code would be. You don't see the actual code...

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