Pierce Freeman
@piercefreeman
Founder @ MonkeySee 🙉 ML/Systems @ Stanford http://pretrained.fm🎙 http://mountaineer.sh🏔️ http://envelope.dev📬 http://saywhat.ai💬
The provosts at MIT are over the moon that their OSS license won out over the other guys Why was Stanford not even in contention huh??
Not even the Dos Equis guy was interesting enough for @danielgross to follow them The gauntlet has been thrown down. Who's the first on the following list
Becoming convinced that the winning vibe coding framework/platform will bake in strong security defaults that cannot be changed under any circumstances We added foreign keys to dbs - not because we don't trust prod code - but because we recognize everyone messes up eventually…
To have this little security you would have to actually fight the default platform behavior. By default Firebase buckets are "locked." You'd have to very intentionally set it to public. And it will scream at you and warn endlessly when you try to do so.
my love language is restarting xcode to pick up dependency changes
We will hit an inflection point in the next 3 years where 1T models become so blazing fast you will barely remember waiting ~10mins to get some of these replies
Had a "screw this refactor I'll just write a library" kind of Sunday
If Stripe owns US 11,709,659 (Systems and methods for a code-generation tool for software) I wonder the licensing they hash out for Stripe alumni like the Stainless team The Stripe best practices to startup pipeline is strong, which makes me think they have a common process
I think we’ve taken putting logos on your promotional ads a bit too far Next up: “people at Anthropic wear these socks”
I genuinely don't know how people use "login with [provider]" buttons. I have ~10 email addresses. How do I remember which one I used five months ago for a random service? Please just let me signup with a username/password
For how obviously social media is driven by incentive schemes, I'm surprised that we haven't seen more creative thinking around /engineering/ good incentives The crypto space does this all the time. Literally the whole point of most projects is to come up with some novel method…