Matt Asay
@mjasay
VP, Developer Platform @Oracle. Formerly @MongoDB, @AWScloud, @Adobe. Arsenal apologist. Weekly columnist for InfoWorld. Daily skier.
"Every vibe-coder is now generating as much technical debt as 10 regular developers in half the time." 😳😵💫😭
A friend asked me to look at their code, and *Holy Mother of God!* He works for a medium-sized company. They are building some sort of internal CRM. They've been vibe-coding some of the new features. They are professional developers. Most, I assume, know what they are doing,…
Tl;dr? I just left MongoDB to join @Oracle. Not yet ready to share all the details but it involves my two favorite things: 1/ helping organizations make tough cultural changes while 2/ ensuring developers can build the best possible applications linkedin.com/posts/mjasay_o…
Huge from @Cloudflare, and consistent with what @eastdakota has been saying publicly for some time: no more free scraping of content cnbc.com/2025/07/01/clo…
The cloud’s Big Three now have some heavyweight challengers, but from very different directions. Cloudflare is winning developers with an edge‑native toolchain, while Oracle is flipping decades of enterprise data into an AI power play. For @InfoWorld. infoworld.com/article/401426…
I am getting tired from influencers with little to no tech industry experience to write stupid stuff like this for likes. As @simonw said: “Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry thanks to the invention of the table saw.”
its over for cs grads. if you are in cs just leave the field. its never been so over. just pivot. go do something else but cs. do it now. its getting out of hand. anything but cs.
One nice thing about joining Oracle is it gives me a regular opportunity to go back home to Stanford. Is there a better campus on this planet? I don't think so....
Great tech. Great CEO. Great @antirez. Lots of great!
The AI and Agentic wave is here! We're growing at Redis and we're looking for the best people to join. For example: VP of Demand Gen. Come cook with us. redis.io/careers/jobs/v…
I'd not considered this, but Zack is right. AWS has *tremendous* internal assets that will feed an LLM beast (for analyzing strategy, authoring 6-pagers, etc.).
AWS has struggled thus far in terms of customer-facing AI, but I suspect there are few better positioned to use AI internally. The corpus of structured internal writing is incredible training data – PRFAQs, design documents, 6-pagers – & docs are actually used to drive products.
Speaking of transfers to other teams...I'm very excited by this addition to Arsenal's...arsenal. :-)
🚨❤️🤍 BREAKING: Viktor Gyökeres to Arsenal, here we go! Verbal agreement in place between all parties involved. Sporting accept last bid from Arsenal for €63.5m plus €10m, agent will reduce his commission. Gyökeres will sign five year deal at #AFC. He ONLY wanted Arsenal. 🇸🇪
LLMs don’t follow scripts—they improvise. That’s why your old-school authorization model won’t cut it. We need security that travels with the AI. I break it down in my latest @infoworld column: 🔐 infoworld.com/article/402123…
And I was there with my wife, watching that magical match with the Arsenal fans. So. Much. Fun.
The guy at the back with the beer glass, dark blue cap and glasses on once scored four goals at Anfield against Liverpool. 🍺
Most people won't understand what a profound quadruple diss this is, Utah style. 😂😂
If nothing else, it's a sign to would-be employees that the CEO can't be trusted and that you should never, ever work for them.
Hypothetical question, inspired by current events: if you’re a CEO and you tell a company: don’t acquire us, just hire me and my top people for half the price. That’s a breach of fiduciary duty to the shareholders right?
There are many reasons I’m proud of the @MongoDB DevRel team I helped build, but among them: its diversity reflects the world we live in, and the world in which we *want* to live. It’s an exceptionally talented team that puts a wide array of experience to work for developers.
"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
AI is easy, right? Just prompt and go, right? That may be true(ish) for consumer-grade AI, but it’s emphatically false for enterprise-grade AI, as @BrendanFalk captured in a thread last week. I tried to capture that conversation for @InfoWorld: infoworld.com/article/401761…
I don't always ski in July (Narrator: he does), but when I do I ski Baldy Main Chute at @AltaSkiArea and bring a neighbor. 🥳
Here’s the reality of building the AI muscle within enterprises. There’s nothing fast or easy about it.
We are pivoting away from doing enterprise AI transformations ("AI-native Palantir"). For now at least. I've shared our key learnings below. I'll share a detailed blog post soon. What's next? We are going to start moving insanely quickly on several other ideas. Stay tuned 😎
Every day that passes, Cloudflare looks more and more like the next big cloud (now with containers)...but with the world's most secure, lowest latency network to deploy applications to. 🤔
Cloudflare Containers are now available in public beta. Deploy simple, global, and programmable containers alongside your Workers: cfl.re/4kNjs06