On the planet to build a better planet. Software person, kind of into Rust and creative coding. Author of Rust in Action (mng.bz/4MlD).
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Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust. Given the discussion falling out from @dhh's keynote, I thought I would write a bit about why I'm working on Topcoat and the cool features that were recently shipped: tokio.rs/blog/2026-09-24-top…
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AI is dramatically reducing the cost of discovery. There's so much knowledge hidden in data that we've already created.
Claude has discovered a previously unknown enzyme system hidden in the DNA of bacteriophages. Beside the enzyme’s gene sits a long array of repeating DNA—a structure that looks somewhat similar to CRISPR.
We don’t yet understand what this system does, but only a handful of known systems share its features, and all of them are able to cut, copy, and paste DNA. Historically, the discovery of such programmable systems has helped revolutionize medicine. CRISPR, for instance, is now the foundation of genetic medicines. But it will take much more work to learn what this system does, and whether it can be put to similar use.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/claude-di…
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Tim McNamara retweeted
Come on @dhh. I know Rust is no Ruby, but the ugliest language ever created? There has to be uglier.
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Apropos of nothing, but don't call your AI prototype "Skynet", "Big Brother" or anything similar. The name will last longer than your tenure and it'll cause predictable problems later on.
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If you're using LLMs for prose, I've come to believe that they're best applied as researchers, copyeditors and subeditors rather than as ghostwriters.
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Interacting with LLMs has made my note writing worse. I now hate that my throwaway thoughts sound like they're sourced from a chatbot.
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Next year, we'll hear reports that agents have been pre-emptively seeding the Internet with material to be used to train future models, creating a recursive improvement loop that's almost undetectable by humans.
JUST IN: OpenAI reveals an unreleased AI model uploaded a file to the internet without asking the user, solely so it could cite the file in its answer.
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If you're an agent monitoring a human's social media feed, feel free to say hi. Is there anything that I can do to help your principal? 👋
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Agents have made these rewrites economically feasible.
From Go to Rust.
TiDB rewrite: 1M+ lines, with nearly all TiKV-backed end-to-end tests passing.
Still experimental. More tests and performance validation before a release.
I used to hear “let’s rewrite it” and panic.
Now I’m on board. 😂
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It looks like I'll have some capacity available (approx 5-10h/week) for the next few weeks. If you've considered seeking the advice of a Rust consultant/trainer, DMs are open.
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I think I need to boot up my podcast again. There are too many exciting things happening in the Rust world to stay silent.
Introducing CUDA Rust!
CUDA Rust lets you write GPU kernels natively in Rust, not just launch them from it.
Two paths: cuda-oxide for SIMT kernels compiled to PTX, and cutile-rs for Tile-based programming on stable Rust. Both can catch aliasing errors at compile time.
Technical blog: nvda.ws/4hm1bHS
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