Rachel Chalmers
@rachelchalmers.bsky.social
Investor in AI/ML infra and dev tools @ Generationship
From a good friend who is a loyal and patriotic servicemember
cofax@cofax.bsky.social · 10mo agoI don't talk much about work here, but this morning I listened to The Daily and it enraged me so much. Here's the thing: I once oversaw a project where an outside party spent a large amount of money to rehabilitate a historic property belonging to the federal government. 1/x
Heidi recently chatted with @rachelchalmers.bsky.social of generationship.ai about Progressive Delivery, AI, and user optionality. And Robin Wall Kimmerer, as you do when you're a couple technologists discussing technology. www.heavybit.com/library/podc...
I joined @rachelchalmers.bsky.social for episode 34 of @heavybit.com's Generation Ship podcast. We discussed how AI is influencing software engineering, the role of platform engineering, metrics for assessing performance, and more. www.heavybit.com/library/podc... #AI #DORA #GBGB
Generationship | Ep. #34, Together with Nathen Harvey | Heavybit
In episode 34 of Generationship, Nathen Harvey brings data, humor, and heart to a conversation about AI, DevOps, open source, and developer experience.
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So excited for the rest of you to get to know @ty.energy and @natesesti.bsky.social and their awesome company and product
Heavybit@heavybit.com · 2y agoWe're thrilled to announce the 1.0 launch of @continue.dev, which gives devs the power to build their own custom AI coding assistant with the #governance and #controls that #enterprises need. Congratulations @ty.energy @natesesti.bsky.social and the Continue team! techcrunch.com/2025/02/26/c...
#USpol University leaders: Right now -- this is what the endowments are for. Backfill the research budgets that the US federal government is freezing/pausing. Do it now.
I know I am hammer-meets-nail about this, but this is also one reason I think public opinion data is genuinely important -- to provide even an imperfect sense of how what's happening in anyone's individual feed fits into the broader experience.
I had a walk today and thought about the relationship between civility, discomfort, and abuse. Some of you know that “civility” is one of my hard “ugh” triggers. This thread will explain why.
Fact-checking works, according to Sander van der Linden, a social psychologist at the University of Cambridge: “Studies provide very consistent evidence that fact-checking does at least partially reduce misperceptions about false claims.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Does fact-checking work? What the science says
Meta’s planned shift away from third-party fact-checking on Facebook in favour of a crowdsourced approach has perplexed those who study the spread of misinformation.
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