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Tom Ballinger
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Writing more TypeScript than Rust at Convex
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Very rare behavior I don't understand sounds like a bummer!
November 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
and billed less potentially? When I was debugging Anthropic caching for chef.convex.dev it was enough to try to reason about our own responses, I'd have been surprised if the debugging interface I made showed something as cached and I didn't know why
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November 11, 2025 at 7:47 AM
I can imagine doing this for predictability. You don't want another account's behavior making your prompts cached or not, LLMs are unpredictable enough without noisy neighbors!
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Very exciting!
November 1, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I love the oRPC For Learning codebase!

The typed Convex function API is still missing a bunch of tricks from tRPC I'd like to add but I can tell there's even more to learn from oRPC and TanStack Start.
October 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I feel some very cozy Escape Velocity vibes when I look at this
October 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Exciting, looking forward to hearing what's next!
October 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
If it's something bluesky you don't have opinions about, "build me an iOS app," for me, then that's pretty fun too! But if I'm collaborating I want code I feel I could have written, which takes some work. Generally I'm going through every line, and chatting a lot about things I want changed
October 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If you have opinions about how things ought to be done (like setting up a new project) the something existing. It is hard to convey all those preferences up front. Pretty good at copying patterns! If you have a way your crud should be written, getting it to read an existing file helps
October 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
they say CLI tool have poor discovery compared to GUIs but they don't know that we're out here sampling the input space to discover features
September 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM