Bjorn Roche

It's been less than two weeks since we released Replit Agent into the wild. The response has been more than we expected. So many people have great ideas for software, and their creativity has just been unleashed. As a result, we're hiring for multiple roles in engineering to help double down on our efforts and keep improving it every week (our weekly all hands is called Weekly Wins for a reason). Want to be part of the action? Message me or just check out: replit.com/careers Want to know more about Replit Agent? Check out Matt's deep dive: https://lnkd.in/gb8z8i6S

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Events are inherently about bringing people together, but when #accessibility isn’t a core consideration of planning that event, you can end up excluding a large part of your audience. If you’re wondering where to start to make your #events more #accessible, join Cvent for our upcoming webinar in honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day. https://okt.to/mVer26 #GAAD2024 #Webinar #GAAD

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Using Layout Builder needs a bunch of contrib additions to make it really usable. This is where Starshot/Experience Builder comes in! Come to the D4D webinar to learn about the paradigms available in Layout Builder.

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I was reading one of the 2 newsletters I follow - The Grappler's Diary on Substack - and the author (Chris Wojcik) pointed out one of those "well, yeah, of course" kind of ideas that made me stop and think for a bit. Wojcik pointed out that it takes more and more effort to reach higher levels of skill in jiu jitsu. This is of course true of any skill. I've certainly seen that with programming. The easiest and biggest leaps are at the beginning. Going from zero to your first working program is pretty easy. Becoming a true professional developer takes years. Continuous improvement takes introspection, feedback, seeking out training and education, and lots and lots of work. And the noticeable improvements these days are small: cleaner code, improved readability, and better organization. Little things that matter. And the more time I spend as a "programmer" the less I write code and the more time I spend on related things: technical design, code review, stakeholder relations, project management, and more. Just as you get more skilled in martial arts, the more time you spend teaching, coaching, and advising, and the less time you spend getting beat up by kids.

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Don't miss out on our upcoming streamcast on Thursday, Oct 17th at 8 AM PDT. Discover the ins and outs of Redpanda's architecture, deployment choices, real-world applications, and top tips 💻 Read the details here: #Kafka #datastreaming #dataengineering

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Time to be fair.... In past posts, I have been less than complimentary of the DLC regulations that now make it more difficult to implement SMS into an application. I understand that all sorts of organizations use (and misuse) SMS millions (billions?) of times daily. I get that the new regulations make an attempt to reduce, as much as possible, SMS Spam. All in all, it just seemed like another example of hand-cuffing the good guys while trying to put some limits on the bad actors. My experience at the time was with #Twilio... and I tried to make it very clear that my frustration wasn't necessarily with them - they were doing the best they could to handle an avalanche of organizations trying to comply with new rules that everyone was stumbling their way through. I've been using Twilio for years and can't complain AT ALL about the platform performance for my particular small-scale needs. It was the nearly impossible approval process that really soured me. After nearly a year of living without application-based SMS (email only), I decided to revisit. The application was already all wired up for the feature - it was just dormant. This time around I was able to get up and running in 3 days... 99% of which was the DLC approval - which happened today. Kudos #Twilio for suffering through the tough days and making SMS once again something that can be done with very little pain. #twilio #sms #dlcapproval

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This is a great use case for Gen AI—removing the tedium from software developers’ jobs, especially for tasks that are formulaic and pattern-based, like software upgrades. These types of tasks often involve identifying deprecated approaches that need to be replaced with new methods in large codebases. This requires a lot of manual lookup, identification, repetitive substitution and testing. In addition, this type of task does not requiring complex reasoning, making it a perfect fit for today’s generative AI. The ability to automatically identify, modify and verify isolated changes is a game changer for developers. It frees them from routine, time-consuming work, allowing them to focus on new improvements and creative tasks that push the product forward. Net net - faster iterations and better output. I firmly believe AI will elevate engineers, not replace them. Just as garbage collection freed developers from low-level memory management, AI is now helping engineers focus more on solving business problems rather than getting bogged down in routine tasks. The acceleration AI brings to the table will only make software development more exciting and efficient. This is true for EVERY professional, creative role in existence. Humans can spend more time doing what we do best - thinking. Let's build the tools to handle the repetitive tedium.

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If you're the kind of person who's excited about all the recent S3 feature announcements (bucket policy unlocks via temporary root sessions, up to millions of buckets per account, pagination and region filtering for ListBuckets, conditional writes, ListCallerAccessGrants API) and you're attending re:Invent, then you should come to our storage track session, STG306 Advanced security patterns on Amazon S3. Learn how to use all the exciting new stuff securely in the most interactive format available at re:Invent!

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If you are in Ocean City next week for #MMLCON24 stop by our booth and chat with me about how Transconomy can quickly develop asset inventories to fuel your transportation asset management program!

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This looks like a great project from my friend Haig Douzdjian. I hope that once he finishes the overview he posts some more details about how he processes the implicit feedback (without giving away all the jewels, of course!). Human-in-the-loop feedback is a critical need for #LLM-based systems, but just like with traditional tabular #ML it's really hard to get enough feedback (aka labelled data). Building models on the side, to watch a conversation with an LLM and evaluate the success of each prompt interaction, seems like a great idea. I have to wonder how to cut through the noisiness of the #data well enough to make it valuable to the model. Hmmmmm!

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so what is your move gaes

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Time for another post in my series about concrete examples of great culture that are more helpful than simply telling candidates "Yeah, our culture is awesome!" This week - People Investment When I started at Eventbrite, I was coming from a company of around 50 employees where I had been for over 12 years. I knew everyone and they knew what I was capable of. Moving to a bigger company, I knew I wasn't going to have the impact I wanted unless I got to know a lot of people and more about the product as a whole. I talked through this with my manager Loretta Stokes and she got to work looking for projects outside my immediate team to which I could contribute. These side projects got me the exposure I needed to eventually secure my promotion to the next level where I contributed to company-level technical decisions regularly. Was this the most productive thing from my team? Likely not, but it's easy to see how this benefited my career and the company long-term. Simply put, it was an investment - and it paid off! Later, I partnered with another great Engineering Manager, Alfredo Temprano and I watched him turn people-investment into a science. When given a new project, most managers will ask themselves "Who should I have lead the project to make sure it succeeds?" What I realized over time was that Alfredo's first question was instead "Who on my team would benefit the most from leading this project?" The reality is, every project is a team project - that person isn't leading alone. If they need support in certain areas to make the project succeed - that's fine, make sure they get it! That person learns a new skill and the person helping them learns a lesson or two about mentorship - everyone wins! You can have one super-talented team lead that runs every project, or you can spread the responsibility around and wind up with 5 or 6 great team leads in the long run. Which one sounds better to you?

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Leaders, ask not what your reports can do for you but what you can do for your reports. Maximize your impact by fostering environments where people can do their best work. Great post from John Cutler about shifting a reactive perspective and getting clarity on how to respond when things seem too complex. #Leadership #ProductDevelopment #PeopleFirst #Empathy

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This is a great video about how our personal ideology impacts the way we process data and information. For me, it shows the importance of fighting against populism and "framing" in the media and teaching our children in critical thinking. https://lnkd.in/eXQdB4fR

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Having a ton of fun writing an ORM for V2 of Case Kit. Typescript has such an incredible type system. I have autocompletion for column names, the ability to include relations, relations of relations, etc etc etc... all returning properly typed data (no classes in sight). It's been really satisfying seeing it coming together, and it's been great getting my hands dirty with some (relatively) complex generics. And to head off the obvious question… why aren’t I just using Prisma? Well there’s a couple of things I’m doing differently that I think are marginally better: there’s no code generation involved here, it’s just types (inspired by Drizzle); there’s no Rust binary you need to deploy, and it hews much closer to Postgres behaviour and syntax (the aim here is not to abstract away which database you’re using). But the real blocker to me using Prisma was that its extensions don’t support modifying queries of nested relations - a hard requirement for me due to the way I have multitenancy and soft deletes set up. It’s not shown in the video but the Case Kit ORM lets you write simple middleware that will be applied to every level of a nested query. Perfect for setting timestamps or adding clauses on tenant id or things like that.

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We often talk about how important it is for an organization to do one thing well and to avoid mission creep. So I'll never understand why the BBC has two time calculators for roast dinners: https://lnkd.in/eK5Gsu4W and https://lnkd.in/e6Sg9D89 It took a non-zero amount of effort to create this duplication. I get that, strictly speaking, they are separate organizations but from an end user point of view it's the same brand. I do wonder what the usage stats are for these two pages. This post brought to you by my latest roast dinner which, by the way, uses the https://lnkd.in/eK5Gsu4W version because this one suits my use case/persona much better than the one on bbc.co.uk.

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