The Virtues of Text Protocols

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Text is king okay and binary formats are wonderful and have their purpose but text is the ultimately flexible ultimately debuggable human readable it's a it's a currency you know. There were people at Amazon who were like don't ever use regular expressions because they're slow right when they could have written 2500 lines of C++ that was actually slower. I'm sorry you guys are gonna get me ranting no that's what I'm trying to doYeah I mean this is our goal I'm saving it but I'm sure I'll really get a bit, he says.

This week it’s storytime with Steve Yegge! Steve came out of retirement to join Sourcegraph as Head of Engineering. Their next frontier is Cody, their AI coding assistant that answers code questions and writes code for you by reading your entire codebase and the code graph. But, we really spent a lot of time talking with Steve about his time at Amazon, Google, and Grab. Ok, it’s storytime!

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