Phillip Carter
@phillipcarter.dev
just a computer boy who likes ML and PL and OpenTelemetry
work: salesforce, past @honeycomb.io and microsoft
play: computers, backpacking, snowboarding, hiking, kayaking
https://phillipcarter.dev/
work: salesforce, past @honeycomb.io and microsoft
play: computers, backpacking, snowboarding, hiking, kayaking
https://phillipcarter.dev/
Instead of working on a PRD I'm watching this great video www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QI5...
Are The Witcher 3's Rivers Realistic?
YouTube video by Any Austin
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November 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Instead of working on a PRD I'm watching this great video www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QI5...
Back at work from parental leave part one to do what I was born to do:
Increase value for shareholders.
Increase value for shareholders.
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Back at work from parental leave part one to do what I was born to do:
Increase value for shareholders.
Increase value for shareholders.
IDK what to make of this but my take on the fact that most people can’t distinguish between AI-generated poetry/music and human-generated will ultimately raise the value of human-generated content and be the thing that finally breaks the monopoly of spotify, meta platforms, etc.
November 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
IDK what to make of this but my take on the fact that most people can’t distinguish between AI-generated poetry/music and human-generated will ultimately raise the value of human-generated content and be the thing that finally breaks the monopoly of spotify, meta platforms, etc.
Something we’re about to see in the US is the tech barons vs. the oil barons. For AI and more (eg streaming), tech needs more energy than big oil can deliver. And they know nuclear and renewables cheaply meet their needs.
November 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Something we’re about to see in the US is the tech barons vs. the oil barons. For AI and more (eg streaming), tech needs more energy than big oil can deliver. And they know nuclear and renewables cheaply meet their needs.
Perhaps, but these mobile gambling companies are predatory and with no real regulation in place they use all the little growth hacking tricks and gamification learned from social media and gaming to put young people (and others) into insane debt
“The youth are so into gambling/meme stocks because they see the economy just doesn’t work for them and want lotto ticket payoffs”
Also with better wage growth at the lower end than any generation has at the high end.
Maybe it’s just that young people like gambling!
Also with better wage growth at the lower end than any generation has at the high end.
Maybe it’s just that young people like gambling!
November 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Perhaps, but these mobile gambling companies are predatory and with no real regulation in place they use all the little growth hacking tricks and gamification learned from social media and gaming to put young people (and others) into insane debt
Of you think you’re pushing a little too much into your database with things like “logic in stored procedures” then boy lemme tell you about Salesforce, a 42 billion dollar company whose primary revenue driver is quite literally UIs layered over a massive OracleDB transaction system
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Of you think you’re pushing a little too much into your database with things like “logic in stored procedures” then boy lemme tell you about Salesforce, a 42 billion dollar company whose primary revenue driver is quite literally UIs layered over a massive OracleDB transaction system
mahomes and his pals have no idea what’s coming
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
mahomes and his pals have no idea what’s coming
I am constantly in awe of how complicated it is to set up:
- Modern web app with multiple environments driven by git branches
- Auth via some provider
- Good developer experience (e.g., can use the app as it is in prod, but in any environment)
- No exposed secrets, admin login backdoor, etc.
- Modern web app with multiple environments driven by git branches
- Auth via some provider
- Good developer experience (e.g., can use the app as it is in prod, but in any environment)
- No exposed secrets, admin login backdoor, etc.
November 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I am constantly in awe of how complicated it is to set up:
- Modern web app with multiple environments driven by git branches
- Auth via some provider
- Good developer experience (e.g., can use the app as it is in prod, but in any environment)
- No exposed secrets, admin login backdoor, etc.
- Modern web app with multiple environments driven by git branches
- Auth via some provider
- Good developer experience (e.g., can use the app as it is in prod, but in any environment)
- No exposed secrets, admin login backdoor, etc.
Two extremely interesting areas right now:
1. Hardware and software innovations for inference --> how many orders of magnitude can we drop energy requirements to compute tokens?
2. LLMs for data interpretation --> do what LLMs did for coding, but for data analysis work
1. Hardware and software innovations for inference --> how many orders of magnitude can we drop energy requirements to compute tokens?
2. LLMs for data interpretation --> do what LLMs did for coding, but for data analysis work
November 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Two extremely interesting areas right now:
1. Hardware and software innovations for inference --> how many orders of magnitude can we drop energy requirements to compute tokens?
2. LLMs for data interpretation --> do what LLMs did for coding, but for data analysis work
1. Hardware and software innovations for inference --> how many orders of magnitude can we drop energy requirements to compute tokens?
2. LLMs for data interpretation --> do what LLMs did for coding, but for data analysis work
I still can’t believe us on the left got football in the national divorce. Absolutely incredible cultural victory
November 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I still can’t believe us on the left got football in the national divorce. Absolutely incredible cultural victory
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ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*
people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*
Reposted by Phillip Carter
This turned out to not really be true, btw. Using AI-generated data for training is now a very common practice.
But public discourse lags way behind the actual research
But public discourse lags way behind the actual research
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
This turned out to not really be true, btw. Using AI-generated data for training is now a very common practice.
But public discourse lags way behind the actual research
But public discourse lags way behind the actual research
Great understated gag
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Great understated gag
Man the last passage of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road hits hard.
A whole book of despair and the horrors of environmental collapse, then we get a paragraph about trout and showing how sophisticated and wonderful the natural world truly is. Hits so much harder than the movie ever could.
A whole book of despair and the horrors of environmental collapse, then we get a paragraph about trout and showing how sophisticated and wonderful the natural world truly is. Hits so much harder than the movie ever could.
November 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Man the last passage of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road hits hard.
A whole book of despair and the horrors of environmental collapse, then we get a paragraph about trout and showing how sophisticated and wonderful the natural world truly is. Hits so much harder than the movie ever could.
A whole book of despair and the horrors of environmental collapse, then we get a paragraph about trout and showing how sophisticated and wonderful the natural world truly is. Hits so much harder than the movie ever could.
I don’t schedule meetings with people across timezones, I architect time across continents.
November 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I don’t schedule meetings with people across timezones, I architect time across continents.
RFK immediately shimmying away is so fucking funny dude
holy shit -- one of Trump's toadies just passed out and the White House event is brought to an abrupt end
November 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
RFK immediately shimmying away is so fucking funny dude
I'm not a fan of Meta or anything but this headline is very different from the meat of the article. This is from a self-audit of the impact of scams and their measures to prevent them, which is not really a wholly solvable problem!
(Reuters) - Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.
$META @reuters.com
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
$META @reuters.com
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I'm not a fan of Meta or anything but this headline is very different from the meat of the article. This is from a self-audit of the impact of scams and their measures to prevent them, which is not really a wholly solvable problem!
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Please Implement This Simple SLO
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November 6, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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I think Vivek Ramaswamy might be one of the funniest people in politics. Co-founded DOGE only to get booted out right as it got started. Got lambasted at Turning Point for the audacity to not be white. Completely shut out of the current admin’s gang of friends. It’d be tragic if he wasn’t so awful!
November 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I think Vivek Ramaswamy might be one of the funniest people in politics. Co-founded DOGE only to get booted out right as it got started. Got lambasted at Turning Point for the audacity to not be white. Completely shut out of the current admin’s gang of friends. It’d be tragic if he wasn’t so awful!
Phase one is complete. Now for phase two:
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Phase one is complete. Now for phase two:
Ah Christ, I’m gonna have A Take on here aren’t I…
…we’re really not doing nearly enough to curb the spread of extremely high THC concentrates and it’s absolutely getting people addicted and harming them
…we’re really not doing nearly enough to curb the spread of extremely high THC concentrates and it’s absolutely getting people addicted and harming them
November 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Ah Christ, I’m gonna have A Take on here aren’t I…
…we’re really not doing nearly enough to curb the spread of extremely high THC concentrates and it’s absolutely getting people addicted and harming them
…we’re really not doing nearly enough to curb the spread of extremely high THC concentrates and it’s absolutely getting people addicted and harming them
You know, 200lb sled pushes do a number on me after two months of baby-induced activity decline. Feels so good to get wrekt though
November 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
You know, 200lb sled pushes do a number on me after two months of baby-induced activity decline. Feels so good to get wrekt though
Rest in piss, dick cheney
November 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Rest in piss, dick cheney
Finally created my first story on Instagram. It is this picture set to Blur’s Song 2
November 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Finally created my first story on Instagram. It is this picture set to Blur’s Song 2