Well that didn’t take long. Linear’s launching a code aware agent.

Jason Kealey@softwareengineering.ca · 5mo ago

Any fun AI tools to recommend that take a ticket from Linear, checks out the code and rewrites the ticket with architectural/technical guidance and planning (change these files in this way) without actually implementing it ?

Any fun AI tools to recommend that take a ticket from Linear, checks out the code and rewrites the ticket with architectural/technical guidance and planning (change these files in this way) without actually implementing it ?

Is using 67 AI agents better than 12 or 4? My LinkedIn feed is full of these humble brags.

I’m hiring four technical leaders for a new AI company in the multi-unit space. The team • Two cofounders, both exited CEOs • Backgrounds in data and analytics and multi-unit operations • Backed by top-tier NYC VCs

Anyone got open source alternatives to vanna.ai for text to SQL? The SQL part is pretty good but the plotly charts it recommends are wonky.

Vanna.AI - Personalized AI SQL Agent

vanna.ai

I’ve also been playing with dbt - and considered sqlmesh instead. Chose to go deeper with dbt as I feel like sqlmesh’s real value shines when you want to avoid transforming the data both in dev and prod. … and I’m just prototyping stuff locally to play with different open source BI frontends.

Last week I did some experimentation with unstructured.io to extract content out of some pdfs. Also played with github.com/getomni-ai/z... as a more lightweight option. Overall, vision models do a much better job than classic OCR (ex: tesseract) on tables in docs.

Here’s a decent overview of the data pipeline orchestration tools on the market. dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/p/review-of-...

Review of Data Orchestration Landscape

... and honest one ...

dataengineeringcentral.substack.com

I spent some time this week playing with some tools to setup a data pipeline for simple BI and data science. Played with airbyte, dbt, duckdb and metabase. Planning on trying lightdash next week. Trying to avoid hosted data warehouses and use open source for the full chain.

Interesting compensation model.

Geoff Roberts@geoffroberts.bsky.social · last yr.

Haven't shared @outseta.com's "build your own adventure" compensation model with BlueSky yet. 1) Everyone is paid based on a salary of $210k per year 2) Everyone can work anywhere from 1 to 5 days per week 3) Everyone earns equity on the same terms as the founders www.outseta.com/posts/outset...

I published some notes on OpenAI's new text-to-speech and speech-to-text models. They're promising, but like other LLM-driven multi-modal models they appear to suffer from the prompt-injection-adjacent problem of mixing instructions and data in the same token stream simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/20/...

New audio models from OpenAI, but how much can we rely on them?

OpenAI announced several new audio-related API features today, for both text-to-speech and speech-to-text. They’re very promising new models, but they appear to suffer from the ever-present risk of ac...

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Love that #econsky is here. A few years ago, I started listening to podcasts about the economy during my runs and I feel like it massively helped me learn more about how the world works.

Mark Cuban@mcuban.bsky.social · last yr.

#econsky. Add it to your feed

It’s surprising how much N, and how much separation you need to detect something like a 10% difference in A/B testing results. And a 10% lift in something (e.g. conversions) is pretty large. The math:

Easy statistics for A/B testing and hamsters

A/B testing tools often lie about whether something is “statistically significant.” Here’s an extremely simple, mathematically sound formula to compute it for yourself.

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Has anyone here attempted to use the most recent multimodal models to build a replacement for Azure Document Intelligence or Amazon Textract? (Something that works on arbitrary forms.)

This tariff chaos is an opportunity for Canadian entrepreneurs, but also bad actors. Looked online for new places to buy furnace air filters. Found a Canadian manufacturer. Great price. Sells retail and wholesale. Problem? I have no idea if they’re legit.

I like seeing this kind of data being shared. I wonder if that first filter includes applicants from other countries with zero related qualifications for the in-office role.

Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · last yr.

Actual numbers on what it took a seed-stage startup to hire their first two founding backend engineers (full-remote) It's good to know as a candidate: this is the type of competition you might have. And as a founder: this is how much time investment it can take to make a hire

Apparently @profanity.accountant counts swear words instead of beans.

This isn’t a rhetorical question, genuinely curious: Does Amazon make any money when someone buys a dozen CR2032 batteries for five bucks with free next day shipping in a big box? My best guess is no, but the drop shipper paid monthly fees for the privilege of having items in the warehouse?

Exa Websets — Search, but good It's an agentic search, like DeepResearch, but instead of producing a 70-page treatise it just gives you a list of pages you never would have found on your own blog: exa.ai/blog/websets... try it: websets.exa.ai

Exa

The Exa API retrieves the best, realtime data from the web to complement your AI

exa.ai

It's weird talking to CTOs on both ends of this spectrum. One end has their inbox flooded with junk applicants. The other barely has any applicants for legit roles. Factors: full-remote vs hybrid, tech stack, AI vs no AI, sexy startup vs regular ol' company.

Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · last yr.

Talking to a startup founder of a 5-person, seed-stage company, hiring a sr BE dev: They tell me LinkedIn job postings don’t work for them Job postings they put out were overwhelmed with hundreds of applications: most clearly AI-generated (and submitted?). None any good

338 is at an Idiocracy-level of ads. <slowly backs away>

This was an interesting read for a few reasons. 1) to Vicky’s point, it appears we’re re-inventing the wheel with an inefficient generalist tool 2) but I’m seeing it as empowering for generalist engineers - as long as they can map complex problems to fundamentals drive.google.com/file/d/1DsIs...

Vicki@vickiboykis.com · last yr.

Every day we get closer and closer to OG information retrieval , imagine spending billions of dollars to do the same thing that Tf-IDF did noperator.dev/posts/docume...

This is a crazy paper. Fine-tuning a big GPT-4o on a small amount of insecure code or even "bad numbers" (like 666) makes them misaligned in almost everything else. They are more likely to start offering misinformation, spouting anti-human values, and talk about admiring dictators. Why is unclear.

Within the last six weeks, if stored in optimal conditions, this asset class has appreciated about 60% in the USA. Follow Charles for more investment insights.

Charles@charles.dardaman.com · last yr.

Stock markets going down, but I can rest easy knowing I have uncorrelated appreciating assets

Claude Code a terminal-based code agent that understands your code base and completes tasks, PRs, etc. this looks extremely advanced. i may stop using Cursor 🤔 docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/agen...

Claude Code overview - Anthropic

Learn about Claude Code, an agentic coding tool made by Anthropic. Currently in beta as a research preview.

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Surprised/happy to discover a French Canadian character in White Lotus s3. I’m guessing she’ll end up an outright horrible person like all the others in the show. 😂 #quebec

I’ve helped a few friends improve the quality of their legacy systems. Each time, I started by focusing on their data. From the db, I reversed engineered business rules… and compared that to what they told me the rules were. …and uncovered several bugs that had gone unnoticed.

Always a good laugh when a leadgen company InMails me about ‘challenges’ I must be facing… at the company I sold years ago. For a business built on outreach, you’d think they’d have better QA.

Today I learned some people pay a subscription fee for their bed. And that their bed has a backdoor letting the company ssh into your home network. Swell! www.reddit.com/r/technology...

From the technology community on Reddit: Silicon Valley’s Favorite Mattress, Eight Sleep, had a backdoor to enable company engineers to SSH into any bed

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Can’t believe I’m about to watch some hockey tonight. (By “some”, I mean it’ll be the only 4 minutes I’ve spent watching hockey since WordPerfect was a thing.) #4nations