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Miriah Peterson @soypetetech.bsky.social · 18d

Go West Conf 2025 is LIVE 🎉

Sixth year since 2020 — 85% Utah-based, 100% community-powered.

Couldn’t do it without Derrick, Annalisa, and Boston ❤️

🎥 Watch live: twitch.tv/soypetetech

🙌 And join us next year for the best Go vibes around.

#GoWest #Golang #UtahTech

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Miriah Peterson @soypetetech.bsky.social · Jul 28

Been thinking about how most GenAI tools feel designed from the front-end in. Langfuse, LangChain, even MCP all assume the client leads.

What happens when we shift toward server-side agents?
I think Go has a role to play.

open.substack.com/pub/soypetet...

#genai #golang #aiinfra #llmops

Why GenAI Infrastructure Feels Backwards

Today’s GenAI tooling is built from the client inward—but the long-term infrastructure needs to live server-side. Here’s why I think Go will play a major role in that future.

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Miriah Peterson @soypetetech.bsky.social · Jul 21

Just published a new post

Go was built for concurrency—but should you be using it? Most modern Go services run better without it.
Here’s when to lean in, and when to step back.
📖 open.substack.com/pub/soypetet...
#golang #microservices #cloudnative #devtools

Concurrency is a Go Anti-Pattern

TL;DR: Go’s concurrency model is elegant, but modern cloud-native applications rarely benefit from it.

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Miriah Peterson @soypetetech.bsky.social · Jul 11

AI just leveled up for devs.

I turned a 2-day Go job into a 4-hour sprint using Claude Code.
Prompt-driven AI > autocomplete.

You’re still the engineer—AI just ships faster.

📝 Read:
open.substack.com/pub/soypetet...

#ClaudeCode #Golang #AIforDevs #LLMOps #DevTools

AI Just Leveled Up for Developers—Here’s What Changed (and Why It Matters)

Claude Code is the biggest leap in AI developer tooling since Copilot. In this post, I break down how I used it to turn a 2-day Go project into a 4-hour sprint—and why prompt-driven coding is the futu...

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Miriah Peterson @soypetetech.bsky.social · Jul 8

I gave a talk recently about self-hosting AI models, and I’ve turned that into a new post.

The post covers how I started with local-first tools like Ollama and Llama.cpp, and why I still run them

Check it out here:
open.substack.com/pub/soypetet...

#LLMDev #SelfHost #LocalAI #Ollama #LlamaCpp

Self-Hosting Models IS for Nerds

A Practical Guide to Local AI Dev

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Miriah Peterson @soypetetech.bsky.social · Jul 4

Finally setting up my Mac Studio on stream today. I've got a script that boots up my whole dev environment in one shot—CLI tools, AI stuff, everything. Come hang if you like clean setups, terminal life, or software tools that just work.
🔴 [twitch.tv/soypetech]
#MacStudio #DevSetup #HomeLab

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Miriah Peterson @soypetetech.bsky.social · Jun 2

Small data team? Big goals? I wrote about how I’ve built practical, high-impact data platforms as a team of one—balancing AI dreams, BI demands, and real-world constraints.
Read & comment: substack.com/@soypetetech...

#DataEngineering #Startups #ModernDataStack #AI #BI

What to Optimize When You’re a Small Data Team

How I balance AI dreams, BI demands, and real-world constraints in data engineering

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Miriah Peterson @soypetetech.bsky.social · May 29

Everyone’s building agents. But the truth? They’re just software wrapped around an LLM.

If we want reliability, scale, and ROI, we need fewer frameworks and more engineering—and we can’t ignore NLP.
open.substack.com/pub/soypetet...

#LLM #AI #NLP #DataEngineering #Agents #LangChain #Substack

Agents Are Just Software: Why Frameworks Can’t Replace Engineering

TL;DR Agent frameworks are exploding in popularity, but most of them obscure the real engineering challenges behind LLM-powered applications.

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Miriah Peterson @soypetetech.bsky.social · May 23

Can an M3 Ultra Mac really outperform an RTX 5090 PC in LLM benchmarks?

This Memorial Day, I’m running a full LLaMA.cpp showdown to test it live.

Will be Live on Twitch & YouTube.

#LLAMAcpp #RTX5090 #M3Ultra #MacStudio #AIInfrastructure #Benchmarking #LocalLLM #OpenSourceAI

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Miriah Peterson @soypetetech.bsky.social · May 20

New post: Prompt Engineering Without the Bloat
What I learned building and why most AI features come down to 2 questions:

How do you talk to the model?

How do you talk to the user?

No overengineering. Just clean design.
open.substack.com/pub/soypetet...

#GenAI #PromptEngineering #SoftwareDesign

Prompt Engineering Without the Bloat: Lessons from Building LLM-Driven Tools

How building a Twitch chatbot taught me the real job of a software engineer working with LLMs

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Miriah Peterson @soypetetech.bsky.social · May 13

gosh I love me some IAC. I dont know why, but it just is sooo cool to run
terraform apply
and watch a world get built

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Miriah Peterson @soypetetech.bsky.social · May 12

Just streamed compiling llama.cpp for GPU on my RTX 1590.

Ran into:

CUDA arch 12.0 not supported yet

Missing curl + SSL dev libs

WSL docs buried deep

With Twitch chat’s help, we got it running!
👉 open.substack.com/pub/soypetet...

#llamacpp #AIinfra #opensource #gpu #WSL2

Running Llama.cpp on My GPU

How I Compiled Llama.cpp for GPU on WSL (With Twitch Debugging!)Struggling to run Llama.cpp with GPU support on WSL? Here’s how I compiled it for my NVIDIA 1590 GPU, debugged missing dependencies live...

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Miriah Peterson @soypetetech.bsky.social · May 5

I just posted a new video breaking down Pedro’s full 5090 upgrade:
Setup, WSL, LLaMA.cpp install, and a 9x performance boost.

I’m trying to hit 500 subscribers to unlock YouTube monetization—this is now my full-time gig.
Drop a comment if you like the video!

youtu.be/hm4_VJP4GnE

Miriah Peterson @soypetetech.bsky.social · May 2

Wild analytics anomaly this week on Twitch:
Jumped from 9 to 835 viewers.
No raid. No follow bump. Just… poof. 800 viewers?

But only 57 unique viewers.
68 live views.
No other signals.

Gut check matters.
Don’t trust dashboards at first glance.
Sanity-check your data—always.

#dataengineering

Miriah Peterson @soypetetech.bsky.social · Apr 30

great! just make sure you have a few rounds of human revision before production 😆

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Miriah Peterson @soypetetech.bsky.social · Apr 30

Got a technical deep dive on Go?

GoWest Conf 2025 wants:
• Production stories
• Tools & internals
• Compiler tricks
• Infra, performance, scale
🎤 Submit your in-person talk:
🔗 sessionize.com/gowest-conf-...
📍 Lehi, UT — Oct 24

GoWest Conf 2025: Call for Speakers

The GoWest Conference is a hybrid conference for the Rocky Mountain West communities (Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Idaho).It has two main goals:Highlight...

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Miriah Peterson @soypetetech.bsky.social · Apr 30

🔧 Live now! Thought I could just download a binary… turns out I need to recompile llama.cpp for GPU 😅

Today’s stream includes:

- CMake & CUDA debugging
- Compiling from source
- Running a bigger model from Hugging Face
🔗 twitch.tv/soypetetech
#llamacpp #AI #CMake #CUDA

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CMake Can’t Find CUDA and I’m Losing My Mind – Let’s Compile llama.cpp Together | !pedro !linktree

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Miriah Peterson @soypetetech.bsky.social · Apr 30

I made a supercut of my RTX 5090 unboxing stream—
featuring the MSI Infinite RS Tower w/ the Ultra 9 285K and all the fixings.

If you were there live, drop a like!
If not, check it out and see what’s powering Pedro now:

youtu.be/ixtMcmEZtGo

MSI Infinite RS RTX 5090 + Ultra 9 285K Unboxing and Setup | New Gaming + AI Dev Tower!

YouTube video by SoyPete Tech

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Miriah Peterson @soypetetech.bsky.social · Apr 25

🎥 + ⚙️ Live now!

Today’s stream is half content creation, half DevOps adventure:

Recording the talking head segment for the PedroGPT unboxing vid

Deploying the Discord bot to Kubernetes

Come for the AI bot, stay for the cluster chaos.
www.twitch.tv/soypetetech
#Kubernetes #DevOps #LiveCoding

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Twitch is an interactive livestreaming service for content spanning gaming, entertainment, sports, music, and more. There’s something for everyone on Twitch.

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Miriah Peterson @soypetetech.bsky.social · Apr 23

Hey everyone!

Today’s stream is all about refactoring Pedro’s Connector API—we're improving how the LLM connects to Twitch + Discord and pulling out the database logic to make the AI layer clean, reusable, and self-contained.

🔗 twitch.tv/soypetetech

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Making Pedro Remember: Writing Discord Messages to Postgres with Go + SQLX | !pedro

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Miriah Peterson @soypetetech.bsky.social · Apr 22

I left my last job as part of the lay-offs.
While I job hunt, I’m going all-in on building content, learning new tech, and investing in myself while I look for the next thing.

Leads welcome!
All links: linktr.ee/soypete_tech

@soypete_tech | Linktree

Software Content Creator

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Miriah Peterson @soypetetech.bsky.social · Apr 22

🔧 Live now! We’re refactoring the Pedro Connector API to better integrate our LLM with Twitch + Discord—and removing database logic from the AI layer to make it self-contained.

Cleaner code, smarter bots.
🔗 twitch.tv/soypetetech
#AI #LLM #Golang #LiveCoding #TwitchDev

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Refactoring Pedro: Clean AI Layers + Connector API Upgrade! | !pedro !linktree

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Miriah Peterson @soypetetech.bsky.social · Apr 11

🚨 Today’s Stream: PedroGPT Goes K3s! 🚨

🔗 twitch.tv/soypetetech

🔗 youtube.com/c/miriahpete...

Join me and let's make Pedro cloud-native!

#K3s #Kubernetes #PedroGPT #LLMs #DevOps #HomeLab #LiveCoding #SelfHosted #Tailscale #Prometheus #InfraAsCode

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Hi, I am Miriah - Google Developer Expert: Go, Community Builder (Forge Utah Foundation), Twitch streamerI stream software development. I don't play video games. In addition to steaming, I give talks,...

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Miriah Peterson @soypetetech.bsky.social · Apr 8

Going live with Pedro’s Upgrade Party 🎉

🚀 RTX 5090 unboxing
🤖 Migrating my LLM bot Pedro
📊 LLaMA.cpp vs Ollama showdown
🗳️ Community poll results live on stream!

📺 Watch on Twitch + YouTube
twitch.tv/soypetetech

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RTX 5090 Unboxing, Setup, and LLM Migration | Pedro’s Upgrade Party | !pedro !linktree

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Miriah Peterson @soypetetech.bsky.social · Apr 7

Tomorrow I'm going live with a new MSI PC rocking an RTX 5090.
I'll stream the full setup + migrating Pedro, my AI bot—but I need your vote:

Should I run Llama.cpp or Ollama on the new machine?
Poll is in my Discord, open for 24 hrs only: tr.ee/BETnCH

Stream goes live tomorrow on Twitch+YouTube!