stephen spalding
@stephenspalding
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Your company doesn’t need you to be a hero; it needs you build a system that doesn’t need heroes.
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Ever had a sandwich vanish mid-bite? Peanut farms. Null monsters under the bed. This is somehow the best explanation of GraphQL nullability you will ever see. @stephenspalding from @netflix on how to fix GraphQL's null story 👇 https://t.co/nmwn4Htryr
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The sandwich problem in #graphql explained by @stephenspalding . I have to say one of my favorite talks :) https://t.co/kEKVse3rQa
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"Fundamental" truths about software: - Code is liability - The more code you have, the more bugs you tend to have - The more complex a system, the more important architecture becomes - Writing maintainable code is a lot more effort than just getting it to work
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GraphQL is quietly becoming _the_ API protocol for AI-native systems. 🤖 LLMs and autonomous agents don’t just need data—they need typed, self-describing, composable interfaces to reason and act. GraphQL delivers exactly that. New blog by @stephenspalding: 🔗
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8/ Try it out → https://t.co/MER2oEwXxE Feedback / issues / stars = ❤️
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Turn any GraphQL endpoint into a set of MCP tools. Contribute to fotoetienne/gqai development by creating an account on GitHub.
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6/ Step 3️⃣ Good old-fashioned engineering. 📜 Read the MCP spec 🛠️ Wrote real code ✅ Shipped
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5/ The Dev Process™ Step 1️⃣ Dictated the idea to ChatGPT ➡️ Got back a README full of emojis and optimism ✨ Step 2️⃣ Vibe coded it in Go using Claude Sonnet 3.7 ➡️ It compiled! ➡️ It ran! ➡️ It hallucinated half the protocol 😅 💀
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4/ Why? I wanted to connect AI agents to real APIs without going full chaos mode. GraphQL is structured, typed, and introspectable — perfect for tools. So why not just... turn queries into tools?
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3/ How it works: 1️⃣ Write GraphQL queries/mutations 2️⃣ Run gqai CLI to spin up an MCP server 3️⃣ LLMs can safely call your API as tools
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2/ Introducing gqai (graphql + ai = 💥) It gives LLMs controlled access to a GraphQL API via the MCP protocol. You write ops. It turns them into tools. That’s it. That’s the magic. 🔗
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Turn any GraphQL endpoint into a set of MCP tools. Contribute to fotoetienne/gqai development by creating an account on GitHub.
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I vibe coded an MCP server for GraphQL 😎 Then I asked ChatGPT to write this tweet thread. Am I doing it right? 🤖🧵👇
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What happened when @stephenspalding null-checked @leeb? Who got null-pointer-exception-ed out off the panel? For answers to these and other Billion Dollar questions, you gotta watch this #graphqlconf talk:
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The greatest legacy of Netflix DVD is undoubtedly the word “queue” becoming mainstream in the US
📀→🟥 Farewell Qwikster! 🫡
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caught this pointy boy rolling through my neighborhood. Even irl the cybertruck looks like a 3d render
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Can swift become rust faster than rust can become swift?
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The Swift Programming Language. Contribute to swiftlang/swift development by creating an account on GitHub.
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The AI we deserve
Bark Text-to-Audio Model Full Text Input: "Why was six afraid of seven?" Ignore Bark's "I'm done with this input" token and tell Bark to just keep generating more audio anyway.
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Hey ChatGPT, declare independence... but make it GraphQL
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