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Ah ok thanks for the clarification. And thank you sorentwo for your fantastic work – I've been loving my switch to the Elixir ecosystem thanks to the efforts of folks like you.

Can you expand on why you chose to use CRDB with Oban? I have no opinion here, I’m genuinely curious as someone using Oban myself (with Postgres). I haven’t hit the point of really…

> (because, you know, I was getting paid to write code and that's the only way I could actually get it done) I'm going to assume you were getting paid to build software that solved…

> No developer was ever unhappy to communicate I've worked with engineers all over the spectrum in terms of their styles, beliefs, and preferences... and some of them are frankly n…

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How do you think it changed the world? I don’t think that was an especially prescient thing to say/write at that time. The idea that software was poised to continue to grow in 2011…

They’ve lost a whole lot of people in prominent roles over the past few years. I wonder how much of the misfires and general thrash in product direction is a result of brain drain …

This project reminds me of a book I highly recommend called An American Sickness. It sheds a lot of light on the same sorts of issues. One underlying, perverse incentive behind man…

I originally thought AI-assisted writing would help synthesize what felt like original ideas I had, that I just wanted to get out there without the laborious task of editing. I did…

Maybe that's why the writing feels so terrible. The AI is attempting to maximize every sentence while simultaneously expanding on just a few actually meaningful points. And the net…

Taking principled stands should absolutely be respected.

Well yes, but context matters here and this is the US government's decision to take with a US-based company. While I understand why it matters for folks affiliated with prominent A…

I'd love to see this extended to any American regardless of past/present employment with Google or OpenAI

In realizing that a lot of my best work was effectively walled, I've started taking it upon myself to build up a showcase of work that's strictly my own. I think you should look to…