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?

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.

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.

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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!

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. 

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...