Marin Todorov

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Sr Software Engineer at Apple, currently C1 Developer Tools, previously Swift DocC. All the info at http://underplot.com
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But if there's no productivity gains and the economy isn't booming then the only difference LLMs make is effectively worse software? πŸ₯΄

"AI" just advised me to prepare for the rising gas prices by (between others) diversifying my income stream by considering the gig economy like deliveries and ride sharing.
Since everyone is coming with predictions about LLMs, here's mine - if hallucinations are removed, and we come to a point that every prompt writes the exact right code you need - I predict the hype will swiftly die out and nobody will care about doing code with LLMs shortly after
But hey, who could knew that putting the VP of Marketing of facebook (2012-2023) in charge of Mozilla's new ad division would led to the very predictable outcome of Firefox becoming just another panopticon selling your personal data uh? WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING

🀯🀯🀯 thinking of buying a ~700 EUR macro lens for few months, yesterday learned I can use a 7 USD clutch ring to couple 2 of the lenses laying around at my house to get super magnification

Below - 50mm shot and 50mm + 28mm with clutch 🀯🀯🀯

#photography #macro #omg

Our daughter has started doing demonic voices and being home on the weekend is literally living hell 🀭
πŸŽ‰ safely migrated email before I get slapped with another of these crazy bills. Rackspace must've really made a lot of loss on their email business to decide to kill it so swiftly βœ‰οΈ
πŸ˜„ The Economist has a whole load of charts in the article I'm just reading but I think this one more or less says it all
Two years ago at #WasmIO I talked about (at that time) experimental support for #Wasm in #SwiftLang. Today I'm back on stage with @katei to present what's new in now official Swift for Wasm! If you're attending, I'm happy to chat in the hallway track  
https://2026.wasm.io/sessions/easy-fast-and-safe-pick-all-three-with-swift-for-webassembly/
WASM I/O β€’ 19-20 Mar β€’ Barcelona 2026

Easy, fast, and safe: pick all three with Swift for WebAssembly β€’ Wasm I/O 2026. A 2-day WebAssembly conference in Barcelona, Spain

Easy, fast, and safe: pick all three with Swift for WebAssembly β€’WASM I/O β€’ 19-20 Mar β€’ Barcelona 2026