Anthony Cowley

@acowley
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Functional roboticist. 
Robots, Haskell, Rust, nix, emacs, FPV… and the rest of life, too.
what are we doing here man
@joe Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they couldzilla, they didn't stop to think if they shouldzilla
when there's a little edge case that doesn't *quite* fit your abstraction, so you handle it with a little if/else to get things working. but then later a second little edge case pops up that has the same shape as the first and you're like "ohhh now i get it" and a better abstraction—the one you probably should have used in the first place—reveals itself to you
our house, in the middle of the street 🎶

Expecting to see more like this, but good to really think about it: “Aver is a programming language for auditable AI-written code: verify in source, deploy with Rust, prove with Lean/Dafny”

It's not clear to me that the workflow of moving between spec, proof, deploy is really setup for iterative refinement the way I'd want here, but it's got a lot of good pieces!

https://github.com/jasisz/aver

Always trying to channel Mr Rogers 😄
@acowley Maybe it's for no human and no computer, like the company wiki.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@danieldk/116256294767997210

ruff, uv, and ty are all really excellent so not at all surprised to see an acquisition. Turns out to make a business around developer tooling it helps to target a really popular ecosystem and do awesome work.

Astral is getting bought by OpenAI 😭: https://astral.sh/blog/openai
Astral to join OpenAI

Astral has entered into an agreement to join OpenAI as part of the Codex team.

Talked about delivery #robotics on a technology interview series. I hope it’s a decent overview of how we approach the business! https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=Ns-NbIrylR378oAa&v=cR7migPW9Fo&feature=youtu.be
Interview: Inside Serve Robotics -- How Autonomous Delivery Robots Navigate Cities

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