@kelseyhightower.com - Kelsey Hightower bsky.app

Social media is broken. The reactions are too fast and the connections are too weak.

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I'm so glad I don't exist for the likes and follows.

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Yesterday, I was able to buy tickets to the Kamala Harris book tour and over 80% of the seats were unsold. I assumed the event would be more popular given the n...

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Lower interest rates, higher prices.

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KubeCon is coming to my home town, Atlanta, GA, in November from the 10th to the 13th, so it's only right I get a discount code for anyone looking to attend.

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Thanks to some really helpful responses, I'm now providing snippets* of the Go language spec in my prompts, and the responses are a lot better.

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For some reason, this response on how to use an LLM properly made it click for me.

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I thought you were an LLM skeptic, so why are you learning about LLMs?

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I've been using OpenAI's gtp-oss:20b model while studying the Go language spec, and I was surprised to see it make up things that don't exist in the spec. For e...

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As someone who no longer writes code every day, I keep my Go skills from eroding by continuing to study the Go language spec. It's hard to read because EBNF syn...

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Are we really headed towards auto generated user interfaces? What does that world even look like?

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I'm testing OpenAI's new open model, gpt-oss-20b, using Ollama on my MacBook Pro. I'm pretty sure this isn't great in terms of the best LLMs have to offer, espe...

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There's a big difference between launches and landings. A launch is when you merge all the code, close that final Jira ticket, and cut a new product release. A ...

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So we're outsourcing initial job interviews to AI now? You'd think all the productivity gains would free up humans for the important things, like interviewing o...

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I'm starting to see tech companies allow job candidates to use AI tools during interviews. I think this is a great idea. When I was a hiring manager, I use to s...

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The amount of swag I'm donating or throwing away is alarming. Seems the best swag I've ever gotten has been things I actually use including a pair of Bose Quiet...

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If you're in DevRel on the cloud native side, and you're looking to pivot into the AI space, especially on the infrastructure side, hit me up as I got a great o...

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It seems the future of agentic platforms will be more deterministic by leveraging traditional automation techniques. In this case Claude Code is adding support ...

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Where is the truth database?

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I'll be speaking at PlatformCon Live NYC on June 26th, and if the in person event is half as good as the virtual event, then I gotta feeling it's going to be ex...

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