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This is so fun, and I just learned a couple things from it :) Personally, I find “learning through demystification” really effective. So putting the humor aside, I’d love to see mo…

Out of curiosity: what size do you think constitutes a “team” vs. a “department”? GitHub Next is 18 people (inclusive of all roles), which seems appropriately-sized to be called a …

We (the GitHub Next team) use and love Apache Spark. So we made sure to connect with ASF before releasing GitHub Spark, and confirm they were comfortable with us using this name. W…

If folks want to see what Copilot Workspace looks like, here’s a sample session where I addressed a feature request in an OSS VS Code extension I maintain: https://copilot-workspac…

We definitely intend to explore a VS Code extension in the not too distant future. And we decided to build a web client + integrated cloud terminal, simply because that allowed us …

I can definitely echo the challenges of debugging non-trivial LLM apps, and making sure you have the right evals to validate progress. I spent many hours optimizing Copilot Workspa…

One of our main goals with Copilot Workspace is to help offer a "thought partner"/rubber duck for developers, and potentially even other members of a software team (as you said, PM…

Is this like Weights & Biases for prompt-based LLM experimentation (as opposed to model training)?

> No one interacts with my tweets anymore. Meanwhile, I get response on Mastodon that reminds me of the early days of Twitter, before they betrayed their developer community and hi…

Wow, this looks awesome! I noticed that the sample notebook doesn’t include SD 2.0 by default, and says that it’s too big for Colab. Is that a disk size/RAM limitation? As an aside…

Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy This is a commonly cited book about “strategic thinking”. But despite that, it’s one of the few busine…

True! But you don’t need actors to enable horizontal scaling?

Ah! That makes total sense. Thanks so much for that additional context.

Then how do any of these distributed systems tools/frameworks write a meaningful or concise landing page? Making informed trade-offs are obviously important. But in a world of satu…

Any insights that you’d want to share with someone not using Java/Scala or Erlang/Elixir? I’d love to get the benefits of actors in Node, Python or Go, but I’m not entirely sure wh…

How much of the value in actors do you think is related to the awesomeness of the Akka framework specifically? I only ask since it seems like there’s a decent correlation between p…

Are you using Akka for your explicit actors as well? And could you share the distinction between typed and untyped actors? Is that related to how the caller addresses/accesses meth…

I _really_ appreciate this reply! Naively speaking, when I look at actors, I just can’t think of why they’d be superior to coordinated queues/channels, except for within an arbitra…

Very dumb question: when you say backed by Akka, what exactly do you mean? That you’ve configured a “binding” between Flint/Spark and Akka, which spins up actor instances (Java/Sca…

In the realm of distributed computing, it seems like there are folks that believe very strongly in the actor pattern. However, they generally seem to be pretty niche? That said, th…

Yeah good point! Though I was also thinking about the ability to easily create/edit/delete gists, by means of file system operations. For example, it would be pretty cool if you co…

Very cool! I love using GitHub repos and gists for managing my personal notes/code snippets, and currently use GistPad as an editor-level virtual file system (for VS Code). But hav…

Out of curiosity: what is it about Observable that you don’t care for?

This is awesome! And it’s so exciting to see folks investing energy into this problem space. Out of curiosity: did you add support for multiple backends because you don’t think Git…