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Last update: 2026-02-18

Jake Gold

jacob.gold

Infra eng leader, SF Bay Area. Helped launch and scale Bluesky. Prev: Nuro, Docker, Google, and founder. Obsessed with history, computers, and open systems. Happy to chat: j@jacob.gold

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Actual Followers

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Actual Following

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Actual Follows by date

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Liking others

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Own posts

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Top 5 Most Liked Posts (14 days)

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Apps that get DNS verification functionality wrong really cause a lot of pain for their users. Having explained the problem a number of times, I finally decided to write it down so now I can just share a link.

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It's counterintuitive, but Bluesky could be bigger than X/Threads in ~18 months of a change that fixes retention. The non-replicable act of bootstrapping the network already succeeded! Now we're just a product change away (e.g. adding subcommunities, modal video/image feeds) of exponential growth.

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IMHO this is nothing like Elon's highly deceptive robotaxi/robot demos which were remotely operated. When a Waymo gets stuck, which is a small % of its driving time, a remote assistant can click waypoints on a map to get it unstuck. I'd favor local assistants but even 500+ ms RTT wouldn't matter.

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Feels like Google would have gotten here, easily, if it had 10% of the competition that OpenAI attracted with ChatGPT. In retrospect, it's obvious how much Google sucked in comparison to what was possible. It's good that Google's decades of stagnation and taxing the internet are coming to an end.

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For now LLM coding agents are capable of generating torrents of tech debt that they're not capable of fixing. Team #1 bets on software engineering discipline keeping tech debt at a minimum and not slowing them down Team #2 bets on the coding agents bailing them out before tech debt slows them down

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Top 5 Most Reposted Posts (14 days)

1.

Apps that get DNS verification functionality wrong really cause a lot of pain for their users. Having explained the problem a number of times, I finally decided to write it down so now I can just share a link.

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2.

Feels like Google would have gotten here, easily, if it had 10% of the competition that OpenAI attracted with ChatGPT. In retrospect, it's obvious how much Google sucked in comparison to what was possible. It's good that Google's decades of stagnation and taxing the internet are coming to an end.

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It's 2026, so I now say "If you believe that, I've got a datacenter in space to sell you."

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OpenAI's self-deception and rationalization about injecting ads into ChatGPT is something to behold. Ads are corrupting and the proof is traditional media, social media, and Google. Fortunately OpenAI has serious competition so users won't have to live with ads for very long.

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IMHO this is nothing like Elon's highly deceptive robotaxi/robot demos which were remotely operated. When a Waymo gets stuck, which is a small % of its driving time, a remote assistant can click waypoints on a map to get it unstuck. I'd favor local assistants but even 500+ ms RTT wouldn't matter.

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