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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 5h

I really wish ClickHouse had picked different names for “Materialized View” and “ORDER BY.” Spent half my day explaining they don’t mean what everyone thinks they mean.

Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 5h

I really wish ClickHouse had picked different names for “Materialized View” and “ORDER BY.” Spent half my day explaining they don’t mean what everyone thinks they mean.

Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 22h

lol you guys remember when we laughed at Google Wave for trying to replace email with one unified, structured thing? and now we replaced it with Slack chaos and Google Docs comment soup? Classic us amirite

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 1d

I can’t recommend this video enough for those of us who are trying to get a good idea of what could happen in the next decade. It made me feel like 20 things at once.

And it features Stanford Beer, the OG cybernetics guy!

youtu.be/AYGt_UN0DpM...

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 1d

As a chronic em-dasher, had to disable auto-conversion and use -- instead of — so people don’t think I’m AI-slopping them.

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 2d

2000s: Story points
2020s: CAPEX points

Agile, but make it deductible.

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 6d

OMG these guys sound like an AI summary of the last year worth of episodes from the 20vc podcast.

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 6d

“I am looking for the Harvey for procurement. It will be a 6 billion business. The technical part is solved by AI, the founder just needs to be a passionate domain expert for customer acquisition”

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 6d

“Pivots take one day. Once you vibe coded one then you change your mind you vibe code the other idea and launch the next morning”

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 6d

Overhearing two random VCs talking at Canal Street’s Think Coffee:

“Once you vibe coded the prototype, taking it to production is very easy. You can have like one DevOps guy part time working for five companies”

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 7d

I step out for a week and OpenAI decides the future of AI agents is… BPEL?

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 8d

Biggest gift ten years of jiujitsu gave me is the experience of training with my older brother…

…who’s a blue belt and I can finally kick his ass as payback for all those years

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 11d

WTF is a AI WAN

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 18d

BREAKING: Startups adopting the Nvidia business model

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 21d

IT support at Hilbert’s Hotel

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 25d

I don’t find Inngest particularly interesting as a durable workflow framework , but it tickles my programming language nerd brain that TypeScript is such an utilitarian language that things like these are idiomatic without much syntactic sugar

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 29d

When Leftpad hit the spotlight, we couldn’t believe anyone imported a lib to save 11 lines of code. Now we burn a million LLM tokens just to indent a file.

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · Sep 15

At too many unicorns “AI” stands for "A lot of Ifs"

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · Sep 11

Phil Calçado’s 10th Rule: Any company claiming to be a “majestic monolith” is surrounded by an ad-hoc, bug-ridden, slow swarm of one-off microservices—including the monolith itself.

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · Sep 11

>Even if the prompt was version-controlled, there is no guarantee that the same prompt will create identical output. It's analogous to throwing away code and committing binaries to version control!
>It is something entirely new, and new systems come with new problems
uptimelabs.io/you-vibe-it-...

You Vibe It You Run It? - Uptime Labs

Though the term “Vibe Coding” is barely half a year old, it has already escaped the tech memesphere and entered common language. Everyone, it seems, is now a developer, requiring [...]

uptimelabs.io

Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · Sep 5

“OpenAI, the everything app”

techcrunch.com/2025/09/04/o...

OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn | TechCrunch

The OpenAI Jobs Platform is set to launch in mid-2026 and will use AI to match candidates with businesses.

techcrunch.com

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · Sep 3

Yoooo

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · Sep 3

Guess who is absolutely right?

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · Sep 3

If your emacs went completely mad with setting/activating the mark a while ago, this is the culprit: MacOS at some point seized C-spc

Took me a very long time to debug, LLMs took me down useless rabbit holes and the correct answer was on StackOverflow from six months ago.

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · Sep 3

I want someone to produce a documentary about the ten different documentary producers rushing to turn this into a Netflix documentary by next year’s.

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