Lachlan Donald

@lox

Co-founder, CTO @buildkite, Dad, Llama Aficionado (not the model). Previously @GroqInc @cashapp @99designs.

Victoria, Australia

lachlan.me

Joined March 2007

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Lachlan Donald
@lox
Oct 12
Agreed, I was pretty skeptical it would work, but it’s better than it was.
John Gruber
@gruber
Oct 11
I’m sure this one won’t make anyone angry. (But probably not here.) daringfireball.net/2026/10/x_once…
Lachlan Donald
@lox
Oct 10
Agreed! We’re still too early and most of the alpha is in figuring out how to develop the skills yourself, or at least carefully curate specific skills and understand the trade offs. Model progress largely eliminates specific skills value too, so it’s a moving target.
geoff
@GeoffreyHuntley
Oct 9
perhaps this one's too spicy to post tonight....
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Lachlan Donald
@lox
Oct 9
Tried out this whole "remove your unit tests" thing and found at best 6% of our units at @buildkite that weren't actually useful tests. I genuinely think the whole discourse is flawed. Less tests, but better tests, especially for large codebases. Fast tests > slow tests, which
Lachlan Donald
@lox
Oct 9
Replying to @lox and @nateberkopec
I got the good ones already. Ended up only being a 6% reduction in our test suites. We've put a lot of effort into high quality units.
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Lachlan Donald
@lox
Oct 9
Huge if true.
Tibo
@thsottiaux
Oct 9
Today, we are announcing ChatGPT. It is here: chatgpt.com
Lachlan Donald
@lox
Oct 6
Starting to get quite concerned about this
Kevin Esvelt
@kesvelt
Oct 5
Russia's five-hospital quarantine, FSB involvement, and reported hazmat use in response to the death of a single researcher at a weapons-lineage Irkutsk lab are inconsistent with a lab-acquired plague infection, which would have been treated with prophylactic antibiotics. 1/4
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