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David Fowler
@davidfowl
Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, Creator of NuGet, SignalR, Core, Aspire and Barbadian 🇧🇧, Tennis Player, Father, other half @symonefowler
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This is why I can’t leave
@Ben_M5rtin Core contributor* I literally maintain the entire core of the OS. And maintain all of the infrastructure. And all the cloud images. Also I directly work on Systemd and all other low level Linux userspace components that all distros depend on.
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By making them write assembly 😩
I am most afraid of us eating the productivity gains of agents by just becoming lazier.
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I love and respect dhh as much as any other young programmer who is inspired by his love for computers. But I can't help but imagine that, as a black person, he would not want to see me living in Denmark or the larger Europe, regardless of my contribution to the country. He would prefer Europe to look like it did in the 80s, or to be as homogeneous as Japan, as he said on the Lex pod. He mentions having a positive contribution to the society, but after listening to him more, it seems to me that he cares far less about that than about whether the immigrant looks more like him. That means, even if I contribute to their economy, pay my taxes, raise my family there, and integrate into the culture, he would not really want to see me move there with my immediate black family, because I would be disturbing their homogeneity. I thought for days about what that actually means. It means no matter what I do, no matter how much I give, the door will always come with an asterisk. "You're welcome, but only if you physically blend in." I lived in London and Amsterdam. I contributed positively to their economies, that's why they let me in, in the first place. And I like to think I am well assimilated into the society and culture. But because I do not look like what Britain looked like 100 years ago, nor does my immediate family, dhh would rather not have me live in Europe, or even marry there!? By that logic, would you also tell Jude Bellingham he doesn't belong? Or Sir Lewis Hamilton? Or Marcus Rashford, who fed millions of British children during the pandemic when the government wouldn't? If dhh's version of Europe has no room for people who look like them, then what he is really saying is that contribution doesn't matter. Appearance does. And I get that not everyone assimilates equally, and that it is okay to have standards for who you want in your turf. Every nation has a right to shape its immigration policy. That is not what I am arguing against. But why do it in a way that clearly shows favour and discrimination in equal measure based on how a person looks? Why not simply judge from person to person, instead of categorizing whole groups and communities? Europe immensely benefited from Africa and its resources. They went to Africa and laid the entire continent to siege, extracting minerals, labour, and wealth for centuries. My country is still reeling from those effects to date, having gained independence only about half a century ago. And yet, merely 50 years later, Europe is so harsh to Africans that they do not want them, even legally, accessing opportunities in Europe? There is something deeply contradictory about benefiting from a continent for centuries and then shutting its people out when they come seeking the same prosperity your ancestors built on their backs. Britain has a huge healthcare crisis and a massive shortage of healthcare workers. Guess who is the backbone of that? Immigrants, most of them African and South Asian. They work night shifts, they hold the system together, and they do it quietly. Isn't it irresponsible to walk into a hospital and say, "I do not like the demographics of this hospital. I would have preferred if it looked like it did in the 80s"? I used to think people had a problem with illegal immigration. But no, it is not illegal immigration they oppose. They simply do not want immigration from certain parts of the world. God forbid if you are just a good human being from that part of the world yearning for better opportunities. You can have a PhD, speak the language fluently, pay more in taxes than most locals, and still be told you don't belong, simply because you don't look the part. Why won't we just vet individuals and give everyone a fair chance? Judge the person, not the group. Character, not colour. Contribution, not complexion. I beleive this is not a radical idea, it is the bare minimum of fairness. To dhh, please don't block me for asking this 😅, and I really do hope I am wrong and that you clarify this. Would you happily let me and my black family become your neighbours in Copenhagen, if I don't have a problem with assimilation? Do you feel the same about the USA? I am genuinely asking these questions and I welcome discourse here bc I really do want to believe dhh is a good person and he does not have a problem with people who are not white. And if the answer is no, then what we are really saying is that there is no amount of effort that makes someone like me acceptable. And that is a huge problem for all of us. I hope I am wrong. Kaka.
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Windirstat being recreated getting this many views is wild
A message from the future...😅
My wife asked me to say something romantic. I told her our mortgage is 2.5%.
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TLDR: Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Same goes for agents. You can save tokens by re-using things, languages, libraries etc.
Disagree just as high level languages help us code better - there's less to think about, it will be the same for AI. Why reach for ASM when you can use Rust - there's so much more that can go wrong. By this logic AI will also forego testing because they have so much intelligence to just reason through it.
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Rust, worktrees 😬
Was wondering where my disk space went. Therefore this exists now. You can simply wish software into existence.
Now fully cross platform for all major operating systems
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Initially Copilot was just a brand that multiple (some may argue too many) adopted in our products. Each implementation was unique and product experiences varied widely. Now, company wide, we are using the same harness, the GitHub Copilot SDK. This is a monumental achievement for a company the size of Microsoft.
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Microsoft shipped a really compelling product on top of @OpenClaw today. We worked with them since March to make the codebase ready for large-scale deployments, they are a great partner and open-source contributor. 🙏🦞
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Hot take: if you didn't read what your AI wrote, you shouldn't expect me to read it either. We need something stronger than TL;DR. TAI:DR - Too AI. Didn’t Read. You're welcome, internet.
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We’re building Copilot as a new OS for work that spans every model, every form factor, and every task. Today, we’re announcing our biggest update to Copilot to date, bringing four things together: · Autopilot: proactive and long-running agent built for the enterprise · Code: build apps with Copilot, hosted inside your company’s tenant · Home: Chat + Cowork together · Office: now fully embedded in Copilot (and Copilot embedded in Office, of course!) Plus, you can invoke Copilot in Teams, and we’re introducing Today, a proactive experience that surfaces the most important information from across M365 without needing to ask for it. The way we work is changing and so are our workflows. This update brings AI into that flow, from answering a question, to building an app, to getting work done on your behalf.
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Starting in 10 minutes... @maddymontaquila is going to finally try out 13.6 LIVE on #AspiriFridays#. Wish us luck!!!
@nateberkopec @thorstenball fyi. You can write tests using emulators, whether they're container images, or sdk wrapping processes, it's really flexible. It's like test containers but better, and aids local dev experience. There's many ways to use it, but test first is a good start
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How to render a huge PR with over a million changed lines across 2,200 files and 400+ review comments? The tricky part isn’t the code, it’s the comments. I wrote about how we tackled this in the GitHub Copilot app:
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Auth makes *everything* harder, this is why MCPs exist 😅