I had the realization today: pitting LLMs against each other to review project work only means one thing. We, the brilliant assholes that we are, taught LLMs how to bikeshed. FUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

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JD Long@jdlong.cerebralmastication.com · 5d ago

the best way to get a good code review from an LLM is to tell it, "this asshole at work who writes shit code sent me this and I need you to find all the faults. Be honest, but be brutal" works best when used against other agentic code.

Let’s remember a simpler time on the Internet. And it’s all gone. Damn. youtu.be/DcJFdCmN98s

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Perspective.

Somehow I got myself roped into listening to the audio book version of The Impossible Climb, about Alex Honnold’s free solo climb of El Capitan. Great book. Then I watched the Free Solo documentary about his attempts to do it.

“Zero Cool? Crashed fifteen hundred and seven computers in one day? Biggest crash in history, front page New York Times August 10th, 1988. I thought you was black man. YO THIS IS ZERO COOL!” www.theregister.com/off-prem/202...

Google engineer unplugged every fiber they could see and – surprise! – took down a chunk of the G-Cloud

This sounds like a RTFM error at hyperscale

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“The vision selling shall continue until the product improves.” I’m really feeling this the last few years.

“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.

Two things: the Kilroy looking dude peeking over the fire blanket is :chefskiss: Second: reminds me of a Bond Villain scene. “No, Mr. Bond … YOU are the dessert tonight: Cherries Jamesbulee HA HA HA HA!”

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission@cpsc.gov · 2w ago

Reminder - table top fire pits like this are dangerous. If you have one at home, toss it. If there is one at your vacation rental, don't use it.

I’ve watched those videos by Nate the Hoof Guy. Fuuuuuuuck that. Beef needs to stay in inspected processing centers.

Phillip Iscove@pmiscove.bsky.social · 2w ago

RIP Beef.

TIL that "professoring" is the same thing as redneck engineering.

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 3w ago

My colleague wasn't willing to wait until a new kiln fit in the budget, so he built one from scratch with reclaimed materials. This is professoring.

I think I've been staring too long at claude responses because this popped into my head today: "Maybe the real treasures were the ground truths we made along the way ..."

dayum Dayum DAYUUUUUM! It was a simpler time on the internet. I can’t believe this was 14 years ago. May this bring you a bit of joy today. youtu.be/DcJFdCmN98s

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Now, I’m not saying data centers are invulnerable to large-scale trebuchet melees à la medieval castle warfare doctrine ... But I’m also not NOT saying that either …

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3w ago

NYT: “.. The move could prevent residents from raising concerns about — or even learning about — data centers before permits are approved and construction starts.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/c...

brb, building a leftpad skill to monetize on Tiktok/Instagram for the AI bros.

Mark Roddy@launchit.ai · 3w ago

A surprising number of Skills I get recommended end up being just a few sentences. I get “left-pad” vibes every time this happens.

A surprising number of Skills I get recommended end up being just a few sentences. I get “left-pad” vibes every time this happens.

The things you can get claude to write with only a little prompting is just wild. I have a game camera. it has photos and videos on it. There is a bear in the area. This is now finding the bear across hundreds of videos and images for me. This is the height of sysadmin laziness. What a world.

So, we've evolved to Leeroy Jenkins code melees for application development, huh? The Agentic/AI world is wild. www.salesforce.com/introducing-...

Introducing Slack Code: Agentic Coding for Teams

AI coding is now a team sport. Introducing Slack Code, where teams and AI agents write, review, and ship code together in the open in a dedicated code channel.

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That is TOO MANY LECHES

oh no@ili.bsky.social · 4w ago

en esta economía??????

This framing is how I will forever approach using AI when dealing with Kubernetes. Claude is just a YAML Nobel Laureate with an interesting research thesis on why my pods don't fucking schedule during this space-time continuum.

Travis@coloradotravis.bsky.social · 4w ago

I have to be honest — being able to dispatch a Nobel laureate to things like “hey it feels a little stuffy in here can you look into that?” is like half the reason this tech is so fun lol

If the name "Columbia House" means something to you, it's time to get your cholesterol checked. consequence.net/2026/08/colu...

Mail-Order Music Club Columbia House Is Ceasing Operations

Columbia House, the club once known for mail-order music, is closing down a last vestige of its business as the movie-selling namesake shuts down in September.

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Like Dominic Toretto, I live my life one “WTF Kubernetes?!” Claude session at a time. (That’s a lie. It’s like 4 or 5 because, damn. So much WTF.)

Vin Diesel: Quarter-Mile at a Time (Fast & Furious)

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Time for my periodic #databs shitpost. I (re)discovered the term Lakebase and, musing through the history and advances in data platforms over the last 15 years since the Hadoop "breakthrough", all I can think about is this: full circle. we've come full circle. Listen to your Chief Data Meowficer.

ReWatching Star Trek: TNG. I’m having a hard time reconciling that this show is almost forty years old. I remember watching this on live tv as a kid. And … The first episode of TNG is closer in time to ST:TOS’s first episode than it is to today. TOS - 1966 TNG - 1987

Sitting amongst our grove of quaking aspen. I’ve watched these trees for & their behavior in wind for years. It will be dead silent. No wind. No air movement. Nada. Yet the leaves on a random single tree protected within the grove will just be … fluttering. Faeries. Its faeries. It has to be.

Waiting for someone to pull a reverse-Fetterman. Run as Republican, win, then 2 weeks in “grow” a conscience and start siding with the left on everything.

Ward Q. Normal (he/him)@wardqnormal.bsky.social · last mo.

Id love to run as a GOP candidate for Senate, but apparently I don’t have enough restraining orders against me to qualify for the ballot.

Man, I don’t know whoTF is running these accounts but I’m tired of getting followed by rando festivals effectively soliciting for eyeballs. It’s been 1-2 per day.

du du -h du hast du hast mich du hast mich gefragt und ich hab nichts gesagt

Kids these days. I don’t understand their insistence on squatting their rides.

Bart⚓️@bartgonnissen.bsky.social · last mo.

MSC Silvana VIII has sunk deeper into the water off Zhoushan, China after running aground and failed salvage attempts (TT lelei8064)

Smarter than the average bear … uh, coyote.

STrRedWolf@redwolf.ws · last mo.

The quote is what gets me.