Brian Larson
@larsonite
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Cold brew drinker. Engineering at @basetenco
San Francisco
Joined April 2009
If you need an adrenaline rush to wake up from your post-Thanksgiving stupor… we got you. @deepseek_ai V3.2 dropped this week and is now available on Baseten. It’s so smart your mother will ask why you can't be more like DeepSeek. V3.2 is currently on par with GPT-5 all whilst
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Wait a minute… The guy trying desperately to usher in superintelligence at Meta is named Roko’s Basilisk-o????
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Are you kidding me
A guiding principle of data-oriented programming is to make illegal states unrepresentable. Take a deeper look in the fourth part in this series on DOP. https://t.co/nX0u2EcPR7
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Coworking space is playing a Muzak instrumental version of Gangsta's Paradise.
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A lot of y'all who said I couldn't fit this whole starfish in my mouth are real quiet these days.
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I want to pause here and dwell on how weird the run dynamic was. Venture capital shot itself in the foot by pulling their money & broadcasting it (bizarrely?) loudly. There will likely be start-ups who can't make payroll next week VCs should've watched It's a Wonderful Life 4/
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My 6 year old describes working in enterprise SaaS: “So there’s a big boss, who bosses other bosses, who boss other bosses, who boss people, who boss the computers. And the computers boss the customers”.
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Ah. Memories.
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The best part of a microservices architecture is that after a re-org you are now oncall for a dozen tiny services you have never heard of :)
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one day you’re young and cool and the next you’re thinking about b2b SaaS
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🫡 Thanks to everyone who kept this bird site running for all these years. Good luck to everyone moving on - hope you land on your feet and find something new to be passionate about.
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Imagine having to explain to Elon that a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors.
NEWS @TheTerminal with @KurtWagner8 $TSLA engineers have been in meetings with $TWTR product staff today, assessing Twitter's code for Musk and there's been some 'code pairing' between Tesla/Twitter folks as they evaluate it. Story to follow
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