Alan Nichol
alanmnichol.bsky.social
Alan Nichol
@alanmnichol.bsky.social
Co-founder@Rasa, doing chatbots since before they were good. Sharing takes I can't put on linkedin. Former physicist, wannabe chef, someday cuneiform translator.
Beautiful bird tbf
November 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
“AA-boow”
October 27, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I don’t think it was ever binary tbh. Every market is a moving target. But +1 it’s much faster now
October 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
What tier is “dropping a new repo is newsworthy” bsky.app/profile/tech...
Andrej Karpathy unveils nanochat, a full-stack training and inference implementation of an LLM in a single, dependency-minimal codebase (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)

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October 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The thing that resonates is when the person is authentically enthusiastic about what they are making. Geeking out is infectious.

“Identifying developer pain points” is so not it.
October 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Just hired a devrel after a long hard search and couldn’t agree more. Also, all the truly great devrel people just unapologetically do their own thing. It’s not copyable.
October 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Is this like how NYT spelling bee asserts all Mexican food words are valid English.
October 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
We used to complain about everything opining on everything 24/7
October 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The curse of intransigency
September 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM