Dave Cramer 🇨🇦

RT @CocoExiliado: Mi primer día con el Tesla

Do a kickflip!

jellyfish effect of spacex launch over my house

Security release for the PostgreSQL JDBC driver, version 42.7.14 @PostgreSQL #JDBC #JAVA

RT @alina_yurenko: GraalVM CE compiler confidently beating C++ in inference workloads 🚀🚀🚀 By @TheMukel at #Devoxx

RT @grok: Some notable ones include Ilya Sutskever (University of Toronto, OpenAI co-founder), Aidan Gomez (University of Toronto, Cohere co-founder), Yoshua Bengio (McGill University, deep learning pioneer), Andrej Karpathy (University of Toronto), Elon Musk (Queen's University), James Gosling (University of Calgary, creator of Java), Garrett Camp (University of Calgary, Uber co-founder), and Mike Lazaridis (University of Waterloo, BlackBerry).

RT @aakashgupta: Canada claiming a spot at the forefront of AI sounds like a joke until you realize the entire modern AI industry came out of one Toronto lab. Geoff Hinton spent the AI winter at the University of Toronto, funded by a Canadian government program that kept backing neural networks when every US funder had written them off. In 2012 his students built AlexNet, the model that started the deep learning era. One of those students was Ilya Sutskever. Then the drain began. Google bought Hinton's three-person startup for $44 million in 2013. Ilya went with it, then co-founded OpenAI, which is now fielding investor offers at $1.2 trillion. Aidan Gomez, a University of Toronto undergrad, co-wrote the 2017 transformer paper that every frontier model runs on, the same architecture underneath Anthropic, whose investors expect a $2 trillion IPO next month. Add it up and Canadians built the foundational architecture, the breakthrough model, and helped start the labs racing to be the first $2 trillion AI company. Almost all of that value sits in San Francisco. What Canada kept is Cohere, Gomez's lab in Toronto, reportedly raising at $20 billion right now with Ottawa itself in the round. Put $20 billion next to $1.2 trillion and $2 trillion. The country that invented the field kept about 1% of it. So Carney's line is funny in a way he didn't intend. Canada has been at the forefront of AI for twenty years. It just kept exporting the forefront.

Canadian PM Mark Carney: There are only four countries at the forefront of AI: France, Canada, China and the United States. We must join forces to ensure an appropriate framework so that AI is safe and effective.

AirCanada just said they won:Best Economy Class Onboard Catering in North America Best Business Class Lounge in North America the bar must be very, very low.

I'm struggling getting AI models to produce decent code documentation. The prose is very difficult to read. Is this just me? Does anyone have a solution?

Had to share this: I asked my math teacher if I would ever use algebra in real life. She said, "You won't, but one of the smart kids might"

RT @robertobmello: Probably the bar for good AI-based software engineering

The "whiteboard defense:" I should be able to pull you aside at any moment and ask you to explain any customer-facing system you've shipped. You should be able to clearly explain how it works and defend the decisions you made. This is my benchmark for responsible AI usage. I don't expect line-level familiarity with the code. I don't care if you remember the exact function name or implementation detail. You may not even know it. I don't care. But if I ask "why did you do X instead of Y?", "what happens if this actor behaves maliciously?", "what data structure did you use here and why?", or "where does this fail?" you should be able to answer confidently. For PoCs, demos, experiments, whatever: I don't care. Generate 100% of it and understand none of it. Speed over quality every time in those specific scenarios. But if you're shipping customer-facing work, you can't be shipping things you don't understand at a high level.

Are you using Aurora and the JDBC wrapper? Hema Saminathan wrote

Looking forward to PGConf Brasil 2026

Aircanada meals are horrible beef eggs and rice for breakfast

TIL, that the Welland Canal is a chokepoint for ships wanting to access the US great lakes, and Canada owns it. I wonder if Donnie thought about that?

Check this out, @sehrope along with Claude has created a new PostgreSQL JDBC driver Looks very impressive. #Postgresql #Java

@sehrope Also see

RT @robtreat2: Last week was an important one for Postgres; a number of leaders within the community got together to learn and share openly about their usage of AI, with a goal towards better use of these tools in the future. Bruce Momjian did a write-up of it here:

How do you get @claudeai to run an orchestrator, design, build,review, test loop to not ask for permission for anything in the project directory

RT @LibbyMClark: Madelyn Olson Valkey maintainer: “I’ve seen more burnout in the age of AI” than ever before just because of the expectations put on maintainers to keep up. #OSSummit