CTO and Co-Founder of getsona.com (backed by Felicis, Northzone, Gradient and more), #ElixirLang programmer, Photographer, MX5 / Miata enthusiast (IRL & iRacing!). Excited by what 2025 has in store for AI & Neovimhttps://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.ukhttps://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.uk/post/3mdn5ydeplf2iFascinating concept; that a lot of applications are structured as "inboxes" which creates the psychological effect of "needing to action everything" even though there is no practical obligation https://www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obligation30 Jan 2026 11:08 +0000at://did:plc:cithvo4635er4xfduykch264/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdn5ydeplf2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.uk/post/3mdlavvuzkp2qNow obsessively looking for other places this phenomena might occur; restaurant occupancy by hour due to queue depth perhaps?! https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-mysterious-pattern-math-and-nature-converge-20130205/29 Jan 2026 16:55 +0000at://did:plc:cithvo4635er4xfduykch264/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdlavvuzkp2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.uk/post/3mdi52iv3xb2cGreat piece on how the space you live in is far more than just "a space" and how living well in a space is closer to "sailing the building" than just existing https://www.scopeofwork.net/how-to-sail-a-building/28 Jan 2026 11:08 +0000at://did:plc:cithvo4635er4xfduykch264/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdi52iv3xb2chttps://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.uk/post/3m6wbz33wwt2wBees have a concept of time, cool! https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/science/bees-visual-stimulus-study-scli-intl01 Dec 2025 11:08 +0000at://did:plc:cithvo4635er4xfduykch264/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6wbz33wwt2whttps://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.uk/post/3m6vzszqxzc2m"How do you know the motor is running at full speed?" "You hear a gear grind sometimes" An imperfect but really useful model for thinking about how hard to push.01 Dec 2025 08:41 +0000at://did:plc:cithvo4635er4xfduykch264/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6vzszqxzc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.uk/post/3m6uewovxwz2bInteresting potential revision on attachment theory, e.g. that closest childhood friends may have as much impact on attachment styles as primary caregivers; https://nautil.us/childhood-friends-not-moms-shape-attachment-styles-most-1247316/30 Nov 2025 16:55 +0000at://did:plc:cithvo4635er4xfduykch264/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6uewovxwz2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.uk/post/3m6ruhr7b7j2fAI is messing with startup economics from a lot of different angles, e.g. cost to build product, size of product it's reasonable to build, type of value added etc. Interesting piece on what it means for B2B sales; https://a16z.com/need-for-speed-in-ai-sales-ai-doesnt-just-change-what-you-sell-it-also-changes-how-you-sell-it/29 Nov 2025 16:55 +0000at://did:plc:cithvo4635er4xfduykch264/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6ruhr7b7j2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.uk/post/3m6p3b5c3ts23I can't quite work out why there's so much effort going into trying not to believe that LLM's are good at writing high quality code? Engineering is still awesome, it's just a very different job to six months ago28 Nov 2025 14:18 +0000at://did:plc:cithvo4635er4xfduykch264/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6p3b5c3ts23https://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.uk/post/3m6oqmcghnv2wI've been gradually converted from "Event Sourcing is basically never the answer" to "Event sourcing MIGHT just be the answer sometimes", anyway this post is a super clear introduction to how it works; https://skoredin.pro/blog/golang/event-sourcing-go28 Nov 2025 11:08 +0000at://did:plc:cithvo4635er4xfduykch264/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6oqmcghnv2whttps://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.uk/post/3m6mtjv5if22bWell worth reading Gate's latest letter on climate strategy in full; https://www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-page-topic/reader/three-tough-truths-about-climate interesting thinking on how we approach large scale problems27 Nov 2025 16:55 +0000at://did:plc:cithvo4635er4xfduykch264/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6mtjv5if22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.uk/post/3m6jpojjs6c2aContinually surprised by the range of things you sort of think LLM's won't be good at but it turns out they are; https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/21/apple-research-llm-study-audio-motion-activity/26 Nov 2025 11:08 +0000at://did:plc:cithvo4635er4xfduykch264/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6jpojjs6c2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.uk/post/3m6hsm32ub22wOK it's a 153 page PDF but the Opus 4.5 System Card is really interesting; https://assets.anthropic.com/m/64823ba7485345a7/Claude-Opus-4-5-System-Card.pdf in particular multi agent combinations seem to be giving the types of bump we used to get from thinking tokens whereas the benefit of thinking tokens seems to be waning.25 Nov 2025 16:55 +0000at://did:plc:cithvo4635er4xfduykch264/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6hsm32ub22whttps://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.uk/post/3m6hekys5m22gResearch suggesting that human brain cells have some level of "pre-configuration" for behaviour that allows interpretation of the world around rather than starting from an entirely blank slate; https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/11/sharf-preconfigured-brain/25 Nov 2025 12:43 +0000at://did:plc:cithvo4635er4xfduykch264/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6hekys5m22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.uk/post/3m2gsdnljy22vJust discovered; github.com/sunlei/zsh-ssh which is one of the fastest dev quality of life experiences I've found in a while! #zsh super smooth fzf based auto complete of the SSH hosts in your `~/.ssh/config` https://github.com/sunlei/zsh-ssh05 Oct 2025 09:36 +0000at://did:plc:cithvo4635er4xfduykch264/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2gsdnljy22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.uk/post/3ly64x7rkfs2iSo it turns out in iterm on macos you can hold down option while highlighting and then you will _always_ be able to select text and copy it using system clipboard. I don't know how many thousands of hours this would have saved me. iTerm is awesome.06 Sep 2025 12:02 +0000at://did:plc:cithvo4635er4xfduykch264/app.bsky.feed.post/3ly64x7rkfs2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.uk/post/3lxcut6sbao2vgpt-oss:20b combined with open web UI is wildly good, like “I’ve stopped using Claude as my day to day bounce ideas off good” and then open chat UI’s OpenAPI spec approach to tool calling has me questioning why I’m using MCP. So that’s a thing.26 Aug 2025 15:55 +0000at://did:plc:cithvo4635er4xfduykch264/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxcut6sbao2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.uk/post/3lxcmn7vpnk27Stuff I believe about LLM’s which you’d be justified in calling me crazy for, but I think are true all the same; https://www.talkingquickly.co.uk/unreasonable-things-i-believe-about-llms/26 Aug 2025 13:28 +0000at://did:plc:cithvo4635er4xfduykch264/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxcmn7vpnk27https://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.uk/post/3lqoov776cn22Great and entertaining piece on how wild AI skepticism about coding feels once you’ve seen it working! https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/03 Jun 2025 06:44 +0000at://did:plc:cithvo4635er4xfduykch264/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqoov776cn22https://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.uk/post/3lpo2htrkk22gStill hearing a lot of “LLM’s are good for scaffolding” [as opposed to writing complex code] which is like 10% of what they can do. We need better ways to push people past the “wow” moment of realising what they can actually do. Ideas appreciated! #elixirlang21 May 2025 07:13 +0000at://did:plc:cithvo4635er4xfduykch264/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpo2htrkk22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.uk/post/3lp2ay3jlkk2aAny #elixir devs who are as ridiculously excited about agentic / vibe coding as I am and going to be at #elixirconf #elixirconfeu in Krakow this week? If so let's hang out, I'll be there with the Sona crew!13 May 2025 10:17 +0000at://did:plc:cithvo4635er4xfduykch264/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp2ay3jlkk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.uk/post/3lovjy4x2sx2kTIL; if you leave a set of Bluetooth headphones which are turned on and connected to your phone in the cup holder of a 2006 Mazda MX5 and then leave the car and lock it with the phone they’re connected to in your pocket. The alarm will intermittently go off! Top 5 bug for sure.11 May 2025 13:14 +0000at://did:plc:cithvo4635er4xfduykch264/app.bsky.feed.post/3lovjy4x2sx2khttps://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.uk/post/3looad2xwm22eAI coding is the most fun I've had building software in a decade. Things that should take a week take an hour... It's really hard to see a world where 80%+ of code isn't written by AI 12 months from now; https://talkingquickly.co.uk/vibe-coding-is-real08 May 2025 15:33 +0000at://did:plc:cithvo4635er4xfduykch264/app.bsky.feed.post/3looad2xwm22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.uk/post/3ljrw2fd7pk2nI'm blown away pretty much daily by some little detail of @obsidian.md. Combined with Excalidraw it's now my tool of choice for the workflow "sketch some things on an iPad and then write commentary to turn them into a document for distribution on a laptop"07 Mar 2025 11:34 +0000at://did:plc:cithvo4635er4xfduykch264/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljrw2fd7pk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.uk/post/3ljjwuef2lk2jThe concept of "AX" (Agent Experience) here https://biilmann.blog/articles/introducing-ax/ really resonates. E.g. there are now three paradigms we have to design for; people (UX), API (DevX) and Agents (AX). As a side effect, good UX tends to equal good AX so thing agents are going to drive better UX. #ai04 Mar 2025 07:27 +0000at://did:plc:cithvo4635er4xfduykch264/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljjwuef2lk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.uk/post/3lilskqomy22dSuper excited that Sona is sponsoring and hosting London's #ElixirLang meetup next week! https://www.meetup.com/elixir-london/events/306171674/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events20 Feb 2025 07:50 +0000at://did:plc:cithvo4635er4xfduykch264/app.bsky.feed.post/3lilskqomy22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/talkingquickly.co.uk/post/3lii6k3xa2k26Cool! Now you can run Python from within Elixir; https://github.com/livebook-dev/pythonx at Sona we’re doing more and more LLM work in #ElixirLang so being able to “call out” into the Python ecosystem could be huge18 Feb 2025 21:14 +0000at://did:plc:cithvo4635er4xfduykch264/app.bsky.feed.post/3lii6k3xa2k26