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Software, Product, Design - there will be some dad stuff too and other random thoughts. Leading AI Dev tooling at Canva

Melbourne, Australia
Joined August 2011
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Huge congrats to the teams who worked on this!!!
Introducing Canva Craft 🚀 Extraordinary image generation is now available to everyone, powered by our first frontier model built specifically for design. With Craft, Canva is now the world's second most advanced AI lab for image generation on @DesignArena's global leaderboard. See what it can do 👇
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Never met anyone with a second brain that performed exceptionally better than their peers…
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The skateboarding… 😜
The worst part of my hand issues is all the random unsolicited advice I get about “handling your carpal tunnel” Don’t lump me in with these lazy nerds with awful typing habits. My issues come from skateboards, not keyboards.
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PR trains are just long lived feature branches pretending not to be naughty.
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Graduating from worktrees to pods and it feels so good to dev without worrying about system resources!
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I wonder why nobody talks about the value they delivered to customers or increase in revenue from all their PRs…
SpaceXAI engineer, Lauren Tan: "I shipped 1000 PRs last month. I'm at almost 800 already this month and we're on the 12th I woke up today and 20 had already landed. I reviewed them on main, after the fact" In a 1-hour session she walks the exact trust curve, from micromanaging one agent to auto-merging thousands of PRs a month this is worth more than any $500 agentic engineering course watch it today, then read how to build the same agent fleet in the article below ↓
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TIL Jev is short for Jevthaniel
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As someone using frontier models every day - they all seem to be so terrible at writing. It’s hard to believe so much of the narrative of them killing jobs when getting things done requires effective communication.
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Tried not eating six hours before my basketball match and ran all game, usually I sub off in the first 6 mins - what else should I know about sport that people have been hiding?
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Where we’re going we don’t need worktrees
Every harness stores their worktrees separately. Wouldn't it be nice if you could combine all of your conversation history & worktrees in one spot?
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With all the crazy things going on this is probably one most crazy things.
Crazy that salesforce employs 80,000 people and is worth $200B all to maintain a list of people who mostly don't want to hear from you.
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He has nothing to lose, companies will keep buying GPUs either way.
JUST IN: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declares AI doomer predictions are “made up.”
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It was either finish university and get married or play wow and die alone
Me : Life is going amazing. Blizzard : Hey would you like to get back into Heroin? Me : I mean... I do have a bit of free time...
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Anyone else resent the term software factory, we just spent the last decade escaping the feature factory! Factories reproduces the results of upfront design. Software development is continuous ongoing design and requires judgement and interventions at all levels and all points
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The boy who cried wolf - when it actually gets dangerous nobody will believe them.
2019: “GPT2 is groundbreaking in two ways. One is its size, says Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s research director. The models “were 12 times bigger, and the dataset was 15 times bigger and much broader” than the previous state-of-the-art AI model” theguardian.com/technology/2…
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It is very clear to me now that most engineers have never worked in high performing teams based on their approaches to AI systems of work.
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Some people just have bad taste...
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Wayne Allan retweeted
Replying to @dhh
dhh I'm begging you bro use arch and a tiling wm
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Haven't been impacted by a hallucination in a while - thanks for reminding me glean
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