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William Saar
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@saarw

William Saar

@saarw
AI builder and consulting | Backend/data engineering for Spotify, Candy Crush, helped build SF-based appsec startup, financial trading tech @javamissionctrl
Stockholm + Remote
updab.com
Joined October 2012
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  • @saarw
    William Saar
    @saarw
    Oct 2
    Isn't that how Teams is usually described compared to alternatives
    @POLITICOEurope
    POLITICOEurope
    @POLITICOEurope
    Oct 1
    The European Commission has rolled out an alternative to Microsoft Teams. But officials using it aren't impressed, with one describing the tool as “absolute shit.” vist.ly/5kje9
  • @saarw
    William Saar
    @saarw
    Sep 29
    The performance price Ruby developers have been paying all along
    @dhh
    DHH
    37signals
    @dhh
    Sep 28
    Been running a beta version of Campfire rewritten in Rust today! The code itself is still ugly as sin, and 6x as verbose, but the conversion was free*, and I never had to look at the Rust directly, so this is awesome 🤩 github.com/basecamp/once-…
  • @saarw
    William Saar
    @saarw
    Sep 11
    Good reminder, especially with the limitless possibilities of AI
    @mitchellh
    Mitchell Hashimoto
    Superlogical
    @mitchellh
    Sep 11
    I can’t stress enough how little an idea matters compared to the agency of the people executing the idea. I have had the privilege of knowing and sometimes even working with some of the most successful people (by various metrics). The difference between mediocre and excellent
  • @saarw
    William Saar
    @saarw
    Sep 9
    AI coding means interest in the business/side-project domain becomes more important for developers It used to be that even boring domains could offer interesting technical challenges. Now, AI handles most of those while product decisions and verification become more important
  • @saarw
    William Saar
    @saarw
    Sep 9
    Regardless of whether OpenAI itself of AI-assisted human researchers came up with the solution to Navier-Stokes, it shouldn't go unnoticed that Europe's AI stance forces the region to outsource most advanced thinking in all kinds of fields to the US and China
    @WorkMJ
    Michael Jackson
    @WorkMJ
    Sep 8
    Quote
    @kseniam0s
    Ksenia Moskalenko
    @kseniam0s
    Sep 8
    USA has OpenAI USA has Anthropic USA has xAI China has DeepSeek China has Kimi China has Qwen Europe has?