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Brendan O’Leary ✅
@brendan.fyi
DevRel at @kilocode.ai Ex-GitLab. Ex-Board Member CNCF 1x developer 👨💻 4x dad 👦🏻👧🏼👦🏻👧🏼 https://boleary.dev
Grok Code Fast being free for so long really revealed a whole untapped market desire for low-cost (free) agentic coding support. It will be fascinating to see when the paid version drops how the market reacts. We've already seen new free tiers invented. What else will happen?
We should replace "Myers-Briggs" and the like with "What is your favorite and least favorite I Think You Should Leave " sketch.
It's crazy to me how often "first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win" is true
Actual script I wrote because dealing with AirPods with a MacStudio, a MacBook, and my phone is far too much for me to deal with: https://gitlab.com/brendan/formation/-/blob/main/raycast-scripts/switch-to-airpods-raycast.sh?ref_type=heads
I hope Andy Reid gets put at a table with the Haim sisters
Grace Hopper carried wire pieces in her purse to show engineers what a nanosecond looked like. She spent her career making computers speak human. Today I prompted Claude in plain English and got working code back. We're living exactly what Amazing Grace predicted. https://brendan.fyi/grace
Men ought not to play God before they have learned to be men
Hearing Gwyneth Paltrow say "Apache Airflow" was NOT on my 2025 bingo card.
Nobody will remember: - That time you were on the Coldplay fan cam - What song was playing on the Coldplay fan cam - If it was a work trip on the Coldplay fan cam ...unless you act suspicious...then everyone will remember.
I got caught cheating on my wife with an employee on the Jumbotron at a Coldplay concert. Here's what it taught me about B2B SaaS growth metrics 👇🧵
Actually, Cognition AI is going to buy Windsurf for an undisclosed amount after the Open AI $3 billion deal fell through and Google invested $2.4 billion to license Windsurf and took their CEO and other talent.
Something I think people really underutilize is: having AI help you write the prompts for AI. And moreover, prompting the AI to ask you questions that it would have to make the prompt and the output that you're going to get from it better!
In the conjoined triangle of intelligence, speed, and price, what matters most in the AI coding wars?
Is there some way to tell YouTube "please stop showing me breaking news, you are literally the place I go to try and escape doom-scrolling"
Some of y'all don't understand how undetemrinistic LLMs are, and it shows
So glad someone already wrote this so I didn't have to: https://oncilla.github.io/old-man-yells-at/
No one scares me quite as much as people who don't like git rebase and don't like squash and merge. There. I said it.
Sweden had to include a footnote in their GDP data for the quarter Taylor performed there. The impact on growth was so significant that it made it an outlier requiring a footnote.
At least 90% vibe coded this weekend - https://relkit.dev/ It's going to be a set of tools that I find myself using all the time (and just googling every time too) as a Developer Relations Engineer.
Hot take: Claude Code and Gemini CLI are NOT CLI tools. The are React web apps in the terminal.
I honestly don't understand the hype around these "CLI" coding agents - they are just ChatGPT for code in the terminal .. like I expected them to be more like Vim -- but they are further from vim then even VS Code would be. You don't see the actual code...
I didn't touch a computer from June 14th through June 25th. That is easily the longest in my life since at least college but probably longer.
Abraham Lincoln came back from the dead to be a vibe coder. Huge if true.