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Very excited to welcome Jennifer Basalone (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferbasalone/) to Sp…#
Very excited to welcome Jennifer Basalone (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferbasalone/) to Splice as a leader in Core Engineering! Jennifer has tremendous breadth and depth of experience and I’m very much looking forward to working with her! Welcome to Splice Jennifer! 🙌 🎉 🍾
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“Also, you can get significant performance benefits by switching from regular MarshalJSON and U…#
“Also, you can get significant performance benefits by switching from regular MarshalJSON and UnmarshalJSON to their streaming alternatives — MarshalJSONTo and UnmarshalJSONFrom. According to the Go team, it allows to convert certain O(n²) runtime scenarios into O(n).”
https://antonz.org/go-json-v2/
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“People generally object when I bring up any academic paper that is more than a week old in a d…#
“People generally object when I bring up any academic paper that is more than a week old in a discussion about AI, but when I do that what I’m illustrating is that the fundamental intuition we need to use these tools effectively is in most cases not new, and is well documented years or even decades ahead of the latest model’s release date.”
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“You can almost feel the “flow” of the first team, the “pushing multiple rocks” vibe in the sec…#
“You can almost feel the “flow” of the first team, the “pushing multiple rocks” vibe in the second team, and the murkiness and ambiguity in the third team. I’ve been on all three of these teams over the years and have even been on teams that felt like all three at different times!”
https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-364-three-team-vibes
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“To that end, two-and-a-half years on, I thought it would be useful to revisit that 2023 analys…#
“To that end, two-and-a-half years on, I thought it would be useful to revisit that 2023 analysis and re-evaluate the state of AI’s biggest players, primarily through the lens of the Big Five: Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon.”
https://stratechery.com/2025/checking-in-on-ai-and-the-big-five/