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Tramale Turner retweeted
I visited Shanghai last week for our first ever @stripe Tour in China!
Many folks I talked to there believe personal AI agents are taking off in the US because everyday life here has too much friction. In Shanghai, the super apps had already sanded it all away, and my agents had nothing to do.
More here: breakingchange.blog/p/shangh…
🤖 Made with AI
Tramale Turner retweeted
🥳 Excited to start revealing what we've been working on in the last few months. First, we decided to reinvent Kubernetes for agentic workloads with statefulness and fast resumption. Secondly, we are building an agentic orchestrator that will be Google's open agentic orchestrator and runtime. github.com/google/ax
Tramale Turner retweeted
I’m excited to finally announce the newest edition my Stanford course 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿. It has been 9 months in the making.
Last November, with the release of Claude Opus 4.5, coding agents experienced a step function improvement in capability. We all felt it. The LLMs were more powerful, could reason for longer, solve harder tasks.
This year’s iteration of my course reflects the 2026 metamorphosis of software engineering.
My core belief is simple: AI-native developers of the LLM era are going to become the most important members of any software organization. I have designed my course to train this next generation of engineers.
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱
First, 85% of my Fall 2025 class material is being thrown out. The Fall 2026 syllabus reflects the core capabilities AI-native engineers must have: agent skills, advanced context engineering, MCP portals, agent-ready codebase principles, agentic code review, security, parallelizing background agents, software factories, and more.
Second, I am going to teach my students how to have software taste. Every student will be required to ship pull requests to production-grade, real-world codebases. The course is collaborating with the top open-source AI repos who will offer support and mentorship to students on how to meaningfully contribute to their projects.
This has never been done before in any university course so I am incredibly grateful to our OSS Partners: @browserbase, @HeyGen, @CopilotKit, @semgrep, @OpenHandsDev, @milvusio, @marimo_io, Pi, @crewAIInc, @warpdotdev, @vercel, @cmux, @arizeai, @UnslothAI, and @anyscalecompute.
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲
I’m fortunate to again have AI software engineering leaders and founders as guest speakers to share their learnings from building top coding agent products. Thank you to @leerob from @cursor_ai, @bcherny of @claudeai code, @EnoReyes of @FactoryAI, @silasalberti of @cognition, @0xine of @semgrep, Rajesh Bhatia of @Cloudflare , @amasad of @Replit, and @eladgil.
All resources will be available online. All classes will be available to the public.
9/22 on Stanford campus. See you in class.
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Tramale Turner retweeted
If you're a staff+ developer, you're bored at work and you've got a little experience writing, come write with me! I pay $300/article on topics in software infrastructure. It's not easy, but it's fun, gets you a little exposure, earns you a little bit, and helps others learn.
Tramale Turner retweeted
introducing cursor profiles!
go claim your handle at cursor.com/profile
Tramale Turner retweeted
Float's @rkhazzam joined @CP24 Breakfast this morning to talk @torontotechweek, playing to win and why Canadian businesses deserve to be on the global stage, not watching from the sidelines.
👇 Watch the segment
bit.ly/4u5YCNs
#TTW2026
ALT CP24 Breakfast hosts sit opposite Rob Khazzam for a TV interview about Float
Tramale Turner retweeted
We are today No. 2 on Hacker News
Go and check our Laws of Software Engineering website: lawsofsoftwareengineering.co…
Tramale Turner retweeted
Realizing that planning cycles need to have ~equal emphasis on "how we work" and not just "what we work on".
The acceleration is real, and if we don't formally redefine roles / responsibilities between eng <> product <> design every quarter, we're already behind the curve.
Tramale Turner retweeted
The founders of FloeDB (@markcusack + Kurt Westerfeld) gave an interesting talk with @CMUDB about their new @ApacheIceberg-compatible query engine. Two key takeaways from their talk:
1⃣ Floe is a hard fork of @YellowbrickData.
2⃣ Floe is building a "catalog-of-catalogs"
youtube.com/watch?v=Kq3csHJq…
Today someone told me that my name sounds like an expensive fragrance they'd never be able to afford.
I'm going to assume that was a compliment, and I receive it fully and gratefully 🙏🏾.
Tramale Turner retweeted
Float's Spring Sign-Up Promotion is here! Sign up before March 31 and earn a $250 signup bonus.
✅ Sign up with the promo code SPRINGSIGNUP by March 31
✅ Load minimum $10,000 CAD into your Float account
✅ Make a purchase before May 1
*Terms and conditions apply.
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Tramale Turner retweeted
Leslie Lamport won a Turing award for his fundamental contributions to distributed systems. For instance, he invented the Paxos consensus algorithm that is a critical component of many distributed systems today. I interviewed him about his work and career. We discussed:
• Why he never considered himself smart
• The stories behind Paxos and Byzantine Generals Problem
• Experiences working with Dijkstra
• Paxos vs Raft Algorithms
• How to improve your thinking
Where to watch:
• YouTube: youtu.be/U719vQz-WFs
• Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7JH…
• Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
• Transcript: developing.dev/p/turing-awar…
Midi Groovebox now in the @dreamer gallery, because you need a little groove in your life.
Tramale Turner retweeted
How to write shared libraries by Ulrich Drepper
akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto…
Tramale Turner retweeted
Adam Ernst is a Distinguished Eng (IC9) at Meta who has built iOS infra that impacted the entire company. He's someone I've always looked up to ever since I first started at Meta. We discussed:
• How to influence engineers
• Why code review is undervalued
• Projects that got him promoted
• Learnings from a major failed project
• Examples of engineers he admires
• Advice for his younger self
His style of influence is one of my favorites; he's the type of engineer that digs deep and solves problems others can't.
He's an engineer who embodies "Talk is cheap. Show me the code." Hope you enjoy the episode and learn something new
Where to watch:
• YouTube: youtu.be/YA_OYJF3Mmw
• Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3KJ…
• Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
• Transcript: developing.dev/p/meta-distin…
Tramale Turner retweeted
AI eliminated the natural barrier to entry that let OSS projects trust by default. People told me to do something rather than just complain. So I did. Introducing Vouch: explicit trust management for open source. Trusted people vouch for others. github.com/mitchellh/vouch
The idea is simple: Unvouched users can't contribute to your projects. Very bad users can be explicitly "denounced", effectively blocked. Users are vouched or denounced by contributors via GitHub issue or discussion comments or via the CLI.
Integration into GitHub is as simple as adopting the published GitHub actions. Done. Additionally, the system itself is generic to forges and not tied to GitHub in any way.
Who and how someone is vouched or denounced is up to the project. I'm not the value police for the world. Decide for yourself what works for your project and your community.
All of the data is stored in a single flat text file in your own repository that can be easily parsed by standard POSIX tools or mainstream languages with zero dependencies.
My hope is that eventually projects can form a web of trust so that projects with shared values can share their vouch lists with each other (automatically) so vouching or denouncing a person in one project has ripple effects through to other projects.
The idea is based on the already successful system used by @badlogicgames in Pi. Thank you Mario.
Ghostty will be integrating this imminently.
