Flowian

@flowian.bsky.social

Every design choice encodes a preference. I make them visible → bleuprint.eu

There is something inherently satisfying to see your obsidian repo, and see the remaining work to be done visually. The "garden" metaphor is really true here

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Le résultat va vous surprendre (et la conversation était très intéressante) lepavenumerique.substack.com/p/podcast-le...

PODCAST : Les IA agentiques, en pratique

Dix-septième épisode de « La Vigie », le podcast du Pavé numérique.

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Flowian@flowian.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Spent 75 min on @ambroisegarel.com podcast @lepavenumerique.com talking about what happens when you use coding AIs sideways — for writing, for thinking, for creative work. In French. For the francophones in the room.

The best framework for thinking about AI and suality is not automation theory. It's restaurant vs homemade food. Homemade tart for friends ≠ opening a restaurant. Same ingredient, completely different ambition. Most people using AI don't know which one they're cooking.

Cloudflare launched /crawl this week. One API call, full site scraped, no browser management. They've also been selling the bot protection that would block exactly that.

I'm not saying GenAI is a revolution. I'm just saying that up until last week I had never written more than 2 lines of LaTeX. I have now written 2 professional documents in important contexts. And I am starting to see why some people are addicted.

We've all heard "SaaS is dead" enough times. Recently I read multiple people developing something more specific: Nicolas Bustamante from the software side, Ben Thompson from the hardware side, @johnonolan.bsky.social about open source. Different starting points. Same direction.

We adopt frameworks whole because the alternative used to be unthinkable. Then one engineer and ~$1,100 in tokens produced a drop-in Next.js on Vite in a week. Same API surface. 4x faster builds, 57% smaller bundles.

Anthropic makes Claude. They won't allow it for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons. The Pentagon wants those limits gone—every lawful use, no exceptions.

Recent events got me thinking: what happens if I lose access to Gmail tomorrow? A bit of AI-assisted reflection and some scripts later, I now have a full picture. 55% of my logins are affected. About 5% are genuinely critical.

Tech internships dropped 30%. Applications surged 7%. Bootcamp placement rates collapsed from 83% to 37%. We keep thinking about tech like factories. I think we need workshops.

Google released AlphaFold 2 open-source in 2021 : protein structure prediction for everyone. Then AlphaFold 3 came out last year, but locked down : commercial use forbidden. Four months later, three MIT students rebuilt it and put it on GitHub. They called it Boltz.