Rustam X. Lalkaka
@lalkaka
sorcerer. used to make magic @cloudflare. now I make memes and talk to machines. building firetiger.
Proud and optimistic for the future at Wisconsin, with Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau stepping up to lead the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences. This is good news for the UW campus and Wisconsin tech ecosystem. news.wisc.edu/tom-erickson-s… @WisconsinCS @wiscdb
this is/was an unsung part of what makes @Cloudflare special — the internal blog and culture around it is amazing, and the story telling it encourages is what feeds the lauded public blog
A bill passed by the NYS Legislature requiring two-person crews for all subway trains would not only leave NY in the past—no other major transit system requires this—it would also cause immediate service cuts wherever trains operate with one person now, including on the G and M.
agree with most of this, and also think that folks building SREs, but AI, are building faster horses. the game has changed, and we need to rethink what debugging and operating software will look like from first principles.
Fresh from my talk at @arizeai Observe last week: We're at an inflection point in software engineering. AI is completely changing how we build and operate apps. Here's how observability needs to evolve... 👇
A Brief Visual History of Function Calling and MCP On June 13, 2023, OpenAI introduced function calling, describing it as “a new way to more reliably connect GPT's capabilities with external tools and APIs.” Remember those GPTs? Anyway, at its core, this simply meant that OpenAI…
For high-growth startups, every minute shaved off contract negotiations = faster revenue. @crosbylegal combines AI’s speed & intelligence with the safety of lawyers to review contracts in under an hour. Proud to partner with @Ryanjdaniels & @jsarihan sequoiacap.com/article/partne…
Today we’re introducing Crosby, a hybrid AI law firm that helps rapidly growing businesses execute faster. Contracts are connection points. They allow companies to transact with one another and create economic growth. But while every aspect of business has sped up, the way we…
in all seriousness if folks out there are building agents with this sort of polyglot mix i'd love to hear how you are handling RPC.
does GPT stand for Go Python Typescript
I mentioned this on @BG2Pod. Enterprise customers need to declare if they support “open data” or “closed data.” And customers should move away from “closed data” vendors as fast as possible.
Exclusive: Salesforce is blocking enterprise AI rivals like Glean from using Slack data for their applications. Read more from @kevkubernetes and @steph_palazzolo 👇 theinformation.com/articles/sales…
mamma mia youtube.com/live/BqmpkUdMt…
Kilauea Message 2025-06-11 13:08:31 HST: Lava fountains from the north vent are now reaching heights of more than 1,000 feet (305 meters).
have been using exponent quite a bit over the past few months. already a better experience and more capable product than v0 etc for my vibe coding congrats on the launch @sthupukari !
Introducing Exponent, a highly capable programming agent. You can get early access today to start using Exponent's clean, developer-focused UX for any software engineering task from exploration to deployment.
It was very fun to help test and improve the Predicted Outputs API. Give it a go, it's really fast. Try it out in Exponent too: exponent.run
Introducing Predicted Outputs—dramatically decrease latency for gpt-4o and gpt-4o-mini by providing a reference string. platform.openai.com/docs/guides/la… Speed up: - Updating a blog post in a doc - Iterating on prior responses - Rewriting code in an existing file, like @exponent_run here:
Tim Walz confirmed YIMBY icon
Last year, Governor Walz signed legislation to study legalizing single-stair apartment buildings up to 75' tall and to retroactively exempt Minneapolis' pro-housing 2040 Plan from environmental review.
Yup. The “we have lots of protections for code releases but fewer for config releases” issue bites again. Especially tricky for security companies where you want to get new configs (like security signatures of new threats) out as fast as possible.
there are strong parallels here to blog.cloudflare.com/details-of-the…, an outage I saw @Cloudflare. There were robust safeguards/phased rollouts for binary releases, but less gating for config changes. Speed vs correctness tradeoffs in a security control plane are hard to get right 1st time
it is the time of the year that engineering interns start putting changes in production 🙃
Wtf? The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was entirely full of null characters. How does this happen?