Weeknotes no.5 – a buzz-ing tech bubble 🐝
is a weeknotes blog post actually late, if you can just backdate the article? 👀
anyways, we had a couple of team workshop days in person in our office. while i really enjoy working remotely, it’s always nice to see everyone in person to work on new plans and projects.
i finally also had some time to run exo labs on three macs locally. exo is a tool that lets you easily connect multiple macs so they can share computing and memory power to run larger ai models in a shared environment. i wasn’t fully committed to enabling RDMA (some special shared memory over thunderbolt) yet, so performance wasn’t crazy, but great to play with it.
also just published a quick guide on migrating github repos to tangled .
links, tools, and articles
just three things worth noting:
- 🚀 “DRIVE is a framework for measuring engineering organizational health in the age of AI.” cortex.io/drive
- Delivery: Are we shipping fast and is it sustainable?
- Reliability: Are we delivering on our promises to customers?
- Initiatives: Are our org-wide engineering investments making progress?
- Vigilance: Are we actively defending our systems and managing our acceptable risk?
- Efficiency: Are we allocating resources to the right problems?
- 🐝 jack from twitter launched buzz
- a slack alternative with agents and git that runs on nostr
- reading from people using it, this seems to be touching a nerve
- while nostr is not without its critics, this seems like a smart way to build on top of it
- smart that agents are getting their own identity instead of borrowing the one from the creator like in most other tools
- 🍰 i have noted in past weeknotes how i’ve become a huge fan of pi as a coding agent harness and i still am