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cisco801
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About cisco801
Building software since the late 1970s. BBS sysop in the 80s, ran home servers on dual T1 lines in the 90s. Navy veteran (USS Missouri, Desert Storm). Shipped Internet in a Box at Spry before the web went mainstream. Built CMS at MSNBC before "CMS" was a term. Ran a push platform that handled 30M concurrent connections. Now building acoustic intelligence for speech recognition.
Founder at Barbarians, Inc -- software studio for startups.
Las Vegas, NV My blog: https://roamingpigs.com/field-manual/
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What kept Wesnoth alive for twenty years is the same thing that kept BBS door games alive in the 80s: the content was community-created. Trade Wars 2002 was different on every boar…
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I have built both monoliths and microservices over thirty-plus years, and the honest answer is that LLMs make it easier to generate more code, not better architecture. The hard par…
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