Benjamin Brittain

THIS IS NOT A DRILL. If you package/distribute/maintain root stores or chain verifiers, act immediately. If you know how to remove trust in a root, consider doing it now. Otherwise, prepare to update systems as patches/mitigations come. Go users, update to Go 1.27.3 or Go 1.26.10.

very excited to see this out of A\ this is our thesis at @ersc.io! But we are building a git compatibility layer: ersc.io/blog/what-co... enterprise adoption of new source control is a big ask, so making a smooth bridge from the past to the future is a big part of our offer

Someone just asked "what do you think about this PR?" nice try buddy. That's a distillation attack. Blocked.

JJCon Livestream! www.youtube.com/live/DFjbAsW...

Coming soon to Lisbon near you 👀 #jj-con #git-merge

#jj-vcs interoperability with Git continues to be key. The fact that ERSC can swap out the repo storage to not use Git, *and* can have a migration path to a future, better wire protocol than Git's, while preserving compatibility along the way, is amazing!

My favorite part of being in Europe is the "Reject All Cookies" button

Hey @1password.bsky.social, time to change course.

I left Google and joined East River Source Control almost two months ago. Our redesigned website is now up, including a blog post about me joining: ersc.io/blog/martin-....

qwen-3.8-27b-fp8 is looking pretty darn good.

"taste" being the moat against agents seems like a hell of a dose of copium to me.

"cost per token is meaningless" Are we perhaps struggling to quantify intelligence?

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An update on our availability: ersc.io/blog/ersc-av...

The "S" in AI stands for "Steve"

uh, @steveklabnik.com

@ersc.io is moving with intent y'all. We hear you and are excited to show you what we've been working on soon!

Hotels should provide a map to all the light switches in the room

If I had to drop @jj-vcs.dev I honestly don't know what I would do with myself. The megamerge workflow is so incredibly powerful for me that my brain short circuits trying to do anything else isaaccorbrey.com/notes/jujuts...

amazing

It's cold brew season

The last 5 years have convinced me that aliens visiting Earth wouldn’t be a big news story 2 months later.

we are doing austinsystems.org TONIGHT in beautiful ATX, and it is being sponsored by my work @ersc.io. you can either be there or you can be square, it's your choice 🫵🏻

This is how all my nightmares begin now

I spent an hour today arguing to delay a feature launch, only to realize my fear was a one-way door that existed pre-agents, but now the cleanup project from this category of mistake is much easier. Never ceases to amaze me how radically the assumptions have changed.

@krazam.bsky.social in East Village showing off their new sketch show which drops tomorrow.

I still believe code review is necessary for many reasons, but I don't think I'll be putting code in front of a human without running it through an LLM ever again. It would be inconsiderate to the reviewer not too.

ben in two hours: > issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding former executive teams. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"

yeah who's building this??!?!?!?

$ jj describe -m "Hello, world!"

On the bright side, Gateways are a nice improvement.

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

The #tokioconf speakers and talks just got posted: www.tokioconf.com Ticket sales are open! Since it is our first conference, it is hard to estimate how many people will come. We're starting conservative, only 200 tickets right now.

For Rust people interested in async code at TokioConf, I'll see y'all in April!

Increasingly a fan of "electric bike" as a LLM analogy, it's a powerful force multiplier. I'm also suspicious of people who only ride electric bikes.

Pluribus ending🤌

> in fact, volunteering that an LLM has been used to generate work product is to implicitly distance oneself from the responsibility for the content — and serves as to erode the trust that is essential for teamwork. The whole RFD is great, but I particularly related with this line.

At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars... Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools