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Fernando Meyer
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Principal Engineer working in platform and datastores;

mainly writing about books, CS, mathematics, electronics, music, and F1
I read more and more that LLMs are the future of learning; this belief is shattered when you ask someone what they have learned from assisted writing, or if they can recall information.

Accumulation
of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI
Assistant for Essay Writing Task arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872
September 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The GPU graveyard 😅

That Titan was one of the two Nvidia gifted me back in 2015.

If I had taken the value and bought their stock instead, it would be worth about $600k today
September 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Reposted by Fernando Meyer
Heading home from #GopherCon 2025 in NYC. As usual, many people asked how to get one of the amazing Go gopher Hawaiian shirts by Renee French. I've posted the details at github.com/rsc/gophersh.... (I know one person who has made pajama pants with the pattern. Socks might be nice too.) Enjoy!
August 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Apparently, there’s someone at Discord whose entire job is to make sure we never get a font selection window.
August 5, 2025 at 9:10 AM
queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i... Leveraging Formal and Semi-formal Methods for Systems Correctness Practices at AWS
Systems Correctness Practices at AWS - ACM Queue
queue.acm.org
April 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Berlin’s seasons if you’re from a tropical country: despair, depression, allergies, and a brief glimpse of what warmth used to feel like.
March 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
"When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate ... https://fmeyer.micro.blog/2025/02/28/when-you-upload-or-input.html
February 28, 2025 at 8:24 AM
You can always tell when a programmer is using a LLM.

either a bad coder writes surprisingly decent code, or a great coder drops something shockingly bad. 😅
February 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The joy of receiving a package of stationery directly from Japan.
February 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Now a test with a single image
February 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
test: Text
February 17, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Need to find a way to cross post from feediverse. In the meantime.

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No #fosdem for me this year, so I spend the weekend catching up on some papers that Andy Pavlo mentioned turing a talk last year at p99 conf.
fernandomeyer.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Thanks Satan. Still cheaper than lazik 😂
December 15, 2024 at 6:47 PM
'Crypto' con artists have jumped onto the AI ship. I can't decide who's more pathetic: those buying into their hype or those bankrolling it.
July 5, 2023 at 7:50 AM
Same folks, echoing past words. Perpetual shallowness remains.
July 3, 2023 at 3:48 PM