Citizen Platano 🇵🇷

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Guerrilla cyberneticist. https://danilocampos.com advisory: if we’ve never talked and you’re weirdly aggressive, I’m just going to block you.

the thing we will have difficulty translating into other domains is unfortunately not the world modeling but the infinite parallelism; programming isn't uniquely llm shaped, but programming and llms are gradienty and parcelable in a way that sheep shearing is not

Citizen Platano 🇵🇷@daniloc.xyz · 2h ago

an oversimplification you see a lot: “programming is an LLM shaped problem” this is often extended into the claim that it’s a UNIQUELY LLM shaped problem space, and other problems aren’t so tractable and I think the truth is much more interesting: programming was pre-plumbed for agents

an oversimplification you see a lot: “programming is an LLM shaped problem” this is often extended into the claim that it’s a UNIQUELY LLM shaped problem space, and other problems aren’t so tractable and I think the truth is much more interesting: programming was pre-plumbed for agents

I always tell my coworkers “we’re short staffed on designers, but if your thing is very urgent it can be designed by a software engineer” and i have yet to find a taker

I would expand this in one way, and it is that even if u are not a coder, etc, but are code adjacent and understand system design, you can now be a coder without knowing how to write any code (ew). The solution u personally want for a userbase of 1? You can make it.

Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · 10h ago

was discussing with a fellow traveler today -- but programmers, coders, developers are having an *entirely* different experience of LLM-based products and services than the rest of us, especially the plagiarized plebeians among us (writers, reporters).

the biggest presidential scandal in history. jeffrey epstein was a close friend and business associate of trump and they did crimes together! against children! its all pretty much out in the open now but its a smaller story than hillary's email server was for some reason

Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 12h ago

BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.

Past a certain point as a woman in this industry wielding evidence you have to flip into coldness, which is difficult for me because my natural inclination is to try to know who people are as people and build collaboration. But this really gets read as a ding on your intelligence which is shitty

One of the things I think is a sacred duty of technologists is to make the extreme edge of possible human endeavor increasingly more mundane. This has the uncomfortable side effect of making it more and more impossible to ignore, which is why many people are so mad at us.

oh my god: a trump-endorsed candidate lost the GOP primary to a guy who suspended his campaign last month: www.politico.com/news/2026/08... trump completely washed, juiceless, cooked, it's over, lamest of the lame ducks, many people are saying it

Trump-backed candidate in battleground Michigan district loses to opponent who dropped out

Amir Hassan lost to Tom Smith, who had suspended his campaign but is now jumping back into the race for the purple 8th District.

politico.com

The Downballot@the-downballot.com · yesterday

Seems like an upset might be brewing in the GOP primary in #MI08 to take on Dem Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet. Trump endorsed Amir Hassan, but he currently trails an absolute nobody who suspended his campaign a month ago by a wide margin.

A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…

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ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

To pick a more serious example... Wikipedia is more accurate than Encyclopedia Britannica, is free, universally accessible, and vastly comprehensive. I sometimes tell my tenth graders that they have better access to information today than FDR did during WWII.

Third: In the absence of clear direct benefits, people are just going to focus on the losses. Any use of AI to justify layoffs will blow back on the big tech companies, even if they're not the ones conducting layoffs. Execs think they can discipline their labor forces for free. They're wrong.

If you start getting the losses before the gains — you start getting the job loss, for instance, before the promised superabundance — politically, that’s not going to be an equilibrium you can protect.

That’s one of the things I’m worried about. I do think that we are pretty likely to see — we are seeing — a lot of the social instability before we get the cancer cures. Or even with the math stuff.

I think that one thing I notice more and more now is this deep cultural and values gap between Silicon Valley and the rest of America, the rest of the world.

I’m not saying that Silicon Valley is wrong in thinking that it’s cool to disprove the Jacobian conjecture. It is cool.

But when you ask a lot of people in the tech industry what their utopia looks like, they’ll say things like: We have a universal basic income so no one has to work anymore. We’re all immortal, and we’ve discovered all of math and physics.