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Mark Roddy

@launchit.ai

Fractional VP of Engineering Helping AI and Data Startups at launchit.ai

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Kid and an injury. I’m turning 45 next year so maybe I’ll do something then to make up for it.

11.03.2026 16:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nice. I asked about the birthday because I had planned to do it around my 40th because it’s close to 40 miles. The universe had other plans for me though.

11.03.2026 05:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Nice! By any chance is this to commemorate a birthday?

11.03.2026 02:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What’s the big objective?!?!

10.03.2026 23:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

They're both pretty spot on. Full disclosure I'm strongly on team Wawa.

06.03.2026 14:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Either of them have a take on the wawa vs sheetz debate?

06.03.2026 14:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I can’t believe that all these years of not trusting your coworkers, treating them like children at best, adversaries at worst, hasn’t prepared infosec for not trusting agents.

03.03.2026 18:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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GitHub - AlexsJones/llmfit: Hundreds of models & providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware. Hundreds of models & providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware. - AlexsJones/llmfit

This is pretty cool! llmfit: evaluate a host of models for their ability to run on your machine github.com/AlexsJones/l...

Gave it a shot, and enjoyed learning that all my hardware is underpowered 😅

03.03.2026 18:07 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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New hype cycle just dropped.

24.02.2026 23:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As a child I only knew of jazz from Peanuts holiday cartoons. As an adult first meeting people into jazz, I often wondered why they played so much Christmas music.

24.02.2026 21:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I'm running an experiment on LinkedIn. Curious if it's gonna tank my business.

19.02.2026 20:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Where are you on the order of arguments for `ln`? Feel like I might be north of 20 years, and still haven't gotten it.

19.02.2026 19:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Bold choice from Team Canada for their Olympic jerseys. I wouldn't have gone with an Imperial Royal Guard theme, but that's just me.

19.02.2026 02:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm also disappointed in Anthropic's latest model. Why are you asking *me* for my SSN? Should you be able to find that on the dark web or something?

18.02.2026 23:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The current discourse be like...

18.02.2026 23:03 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

When I got something working that I could engage with from my phone, I noticed I started having a very social media like relationship with it. Pulling it out pretty regularly to check where my agent was, unblocking it, un-misdirecting it, etc. Thinking it would take 10-20 secs but getting sucked in.

15.02.2026 15:07 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thinking about that time I created I accidentally created a Git branch named 'origin/master'.

12.02.2026 21:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

re: #2, Lots of specialists also means lots of handoffs to get anyone thing done. Everything slows down. Out of frustration, people start asking for "a generalist role, someone who can digest product ideas and do all of the technical work". At which point we've reinvented the Software Engineer role.

12.02.2026 17:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Me using an LLM: OMG it generated an entire website in under tow minutes!!?!?!?

Also:
Me using an LLM: Did I really just have a 10 min debate on the merits of phrasing a question as:
“Do you want to CC <person>?“
versus
“Is it easiest to CC <person>?”

03.02.2026 19:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think both survive! But one of them gets a lot smaller. There are still QA teams, but they got a waaaaay smaller once the industry started automating much of that work.

02.02.2026 18:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Implyin we lost the composer of Einstein on the Beach

27.01.2026 20:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

To mostly prove your point, I just got really concerned that Phillip Glass had died.

27.01.2026 20:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

/subscribe

27.01.2026 19:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Shout out to @exe.dev's Shelley for calling out my over-architecting an app I'm working on.

26.01.2026 16:39 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Years ago I probably would have ran it in a screen session on a server I could ssh into. Would be cool if there were a standardized client/sever model so you could swap clients but keep state on a sever.

22.01.2026 15:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That’s pretty cool! Do you access it from multiple devices? That’s a nice thing about a service is I can pull it up from any computer, and everything is in sync.

22.01.2026 14:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Real text conversation I had about @exe.dev

21.01.2026 22:57 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Take any lament you see online that humans may no longer be writing any code in the future, and replace “writing code” with “racking servers” or “writing assembly by hand”.

21.01.2026 19:01 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

<about to make a joke the inability to rename S3 buckets>
*pauses*
me: You know it’s probably been 5-10 years since I’ve wanted to rename a bucket. I should make sure they haven’t shipped this option in the mean time.
*reads S3 docs*
me: <sighs> So that joke…

21.01.2026 18:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

we’re at the point in this discourse where I can’t tell the difference between the jokes and the genuine experiences 😂

16.01.2026 21:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0