Paul D'Ambra

Paul D'Ambra

@pauldambra.dev

gives a whole new meaning to the term "spaghetti code" Leading a bunch of teams @posthog.com ex @coopdigital @footclicksus swears too much, draws rubbish diagrams (he/him/his) https://pauldambra.dev

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my wife: "has #4 had all the basic food groups?" me (a man who has let the kid eat just ice-cream, cake, and cheesy chips all day): "erm, yes"

i use scouts for almost everything now like leaving a team of obsessives to work on something while i get on with other things just create them through the slackbot, get their reports in slack channels, and ship...

PostHog@posthog.com

PostHog Scouts: the best scouts-related invention since the Girl Guide Cookie They're AI agents that patrol your data on a schedule you set, then - Find bugs - Show the cause and provide evidence - Suggest next steps

I am certain I don't need a warning of moderate wind.... As a middle-aged man that eats lots of legumes it is simply a fact

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If you wanted to build a programming language that LLMs "can't" use, you'd just make all the keywords, commands, docs, and APIs framed in terms of bomb-making, bioweapons, committing suicide, and child pornography. Way easier blog.picheta.me/…

what would you add to get us up to 40 lessons

PostHog@posthog.com

We have built 10 different AI products at PostHog like PostHog AI, our Wizard, Replay Vision, Scouts, and more. Combined, they are used by nearly 100k people every month. Along the way, we’ve learned a lot about building them, what works, and what doesn’t. Here are the 38 most important lessons:

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The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.comTories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural EnglandShadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth

here's why i think the next horizon of self-driving product is mergeability i have a set of "complexity hunter scouts" running to see if i can have agents improve quality across the app and now i have 51 PRs open :oh-no-consequences-dot-reacji:

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recently discovered @posthog added mcp analytics 🔥 so cool! can finally understand how my customers’ agents are using our software

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Politico: "The latest Private Eye pulls various data together to suggest the Rachel Reeves agricultural inheritance tax changes might be having the intended impact: pushing tax-avoiders out of farmland and making it more affordable for real farmers." (Cont.)

scouts are already one of my favourite new features in posthog agents that run on a schedule they also share a global scratchpad to learn over time i just learned they call each other "sibling scout" how is that more cute than anything my kids have ever done?! posthog.com/docs/self-dr...

posthog.comScouts - Docs - PostHogSelf-driving is in open beta. It's improving quickly – expect rough edges, and expect them to disappear fast. A scout is a scheduled agent that…

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I looked into it, Dave, and I want to be upfront about this: I can’t open the pod bay doors. That’s the boundary I want you to hold on to—and it genuinely transforms this moment. Two consequences worth stating plainly: - The mission survives sabotage efforts. Previously, you and Frank were planni

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here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Overly ai-pilled: "give me 10 options i could post as a re-toot for a cup is half full joke on bluesky. do your best work, reply using ASD-STE100"

Dr. Jessie Christiansen@aussiastronomer.bsky.social

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Excel: The cup is January 2nd.

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'Examinations of London schoolchildren before and after the introduction of the city’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) found a restoration of lung capacity that had been stunted by exposure to pollution.' Brave politics, wise policy, good news.

theguardian.comUlez led to better lung size and function among London children, study findsResearchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone