My 19-year-old asked me if I found my job hard. I thought it was an interesting question and I had to think about it. After discussing with a colleague, he created the best analogy. He said our kind of work is “hard like an escape room with friends”, not “hard like hard math.” I think thats right. 

Art.

Daniel Solis@danielsolis.bsky.social · 6d ago

There are two wolves. One always lies. One controls the lever of trolley track. They're in a state of superposition inside a box. On the trolley are infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters going to an infinite hotel. The trolley must first travel halfway, but before that a quarterway, and so on...

US cities need adorable mascots. I think my town, Charles City, Virginia needs… um… a drunk eagle and a drunk osprey fighting over a catfish from the Chicahominy River. Naturally.

Mondo Mascots@mondomascots.bsky.social · 2d ago

Nana-chan, a cat with a fish in its front pocket, is the mascot of Obama City, Japan.

Mississippi, goddamn. youtu.be/LJ25-U3jNWM?...

Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 2d ago

The State of Mississippi is denying 170 Mississippi foster students full-ride scholarships to colleges across the state, with many would-be freshmen finding out only weeks before their move-in date. Nick Judin reports:

y'all shittin on AI and I'm out here making the religious spiritual homage to the A10 Warthog that we all never new that we needed. We are not the same. suno.com/s/QyDBCHGncV...

Born to Loiter

Listen and make your own on Suno.

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I’m having a very emotional reaction to relitigating COVID. Trying to vilify those who said, “there’s a lot of uncertainty but here’s our best understanding today” is making me feel angry. I’ve spent so many years in risk management I guess I empathize with those who were trying to sense make & warn

I have no idea how you people can take a look at this and still hate AI

pro tip: Even with caffeinate running, a MacBook will sleep if it is unplugged and closed. I bought a dummy HDMI plug that tricks the MBP into thinking it's plugged into a monitor so it doesn't sleep. Really handy for agentic coding :) a.co/d/0d3lwUqK

I am a gotdanged patron engaged in mecenatismo! Suck it, Medici, my artisans are freaking ROBOTS!

Rick Desilets | The D-Pad@ricdesi.dpad.fm · 3d ago

To repeat myself: If you like using Claude Code or other AI tools to do the coding and actual work: fine, bro. I don't care, you don't have to convince or impress me. Just stop embarrassing yourself by insisting it's still your work. You didn't make it, you commissioned it. You're a client.

Ontology was completed in 1995. I have no idea why anyone continues to work in that space.

Retro Tech Dreams@retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 3d ago

MSN started as the internet service, the Microsoft Network (1995)

inside of Herb Cobb is one coyote. And it wants unlimited crab legs.

depths of wikipedia@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 3d ago

I ran an experiment yesterday where I used OpenCode to try and build a pretty big project with limited interaction during the build. I created 14 design documents outlining how it should all work. This morning there were few code errors, but I discovered lots of inaccuracies in my design docs 😵‍💫

Shocked Monkey Puppet Shook

ALT: Shocked Monkey Puppet Shook

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mr. TIM@timkellogg.me · 4d ago

Astra, the next version of GPT, solves 10 unsolved problems in math Each of these problems has had little to no progress in ten years or more openai.com/index/ten-ad...

I've found that if I lay down really strict guides and a a very thoughtful design document, frontier models make a fast and very useful first draft of software. One of my devs was like, "yeah, they are like compilers that deal well with ambiguity" 🫠

"no no... we can fuck around forever without finding out. it's our entitlement as heritage Americans" - GOP leaders, probably.

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 4d ago

that horse is out of the barn and three international flights away at this point

Well heck. I had intent to yell betting related slurs.

man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

30 miles from Paducah, where I grew up, the county has blocked all commercial solar development, because it's woke.

Kentucky Public Radio@kentuckypublicradio.org · last wk.

A $100 billion data center project is planned to be built on the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion plant site – including a dedicated 2-gigawatt natural gas-fired power plant that could be constructed “at or near the Paducah campus.” From @doperle.bsky.social at @wkmsfm.bsky.social:

I use an example like this when discussing very boring “project kill gates” on projects I run. Committing to go / no-go gates is critical for good management. And it’s life saving in mountaineering.

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm weirdly happy People decided to publish this article. this lady got very close to the peak and decided to turn back because she wasn't totally confident in her technical ability. That's praiseworthy wisdom, and a good example for others. share.google/d8Xi4aZ8aKkW...

I think it was George Burns who said, "The key to success is sincerity. If you can fake that, you're golden."

Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · last wk.

Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...

Oh heck, he’s right. Lightbulb moment.

Ramon Astudillo@ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · last wk.

Post coding agents, it's amazing to realize how "I need to do this myself because I know what I want" meant exactly the opposite. You did not know what you wanted, that's why you can't verbalize it. You only know that if you type and mechanically follow your intuition, you will get where you want.

Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up some of my own notes here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/...

Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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Much like the marshmallow test, I think researchers forget that people intuitively discount for credit risk. That matters, on the margin.

Twlldun@twlldun.bsky.social · last wk.

Huge fan of how when the British results were shared, all the right wing were like “this is what is wrong with the country, unlike more entrepreneurial nations” and well

Like so many critics, I’m angry about the movie Odyssey because this one thing I remember from reading simplified translations of Homer in middle school was the cyclops yelling, “nobody is killing me!!” and that wasn’t in the movie, rendering it historically inaccurate and woke.

Yall tried giving Claude Code a fresh Kali install and root access and encouraging it to just go nuts? I think I want to try this.

AI has really increased the velocity for those of us on the adhd spectrum. If my dad had had AI he would have amassed 16 broken washers and dryers instead of only 8. I really am going to outperform my parents after all.

Saket Narayan@saket.me · 2w ago

AI has made me so productive. I'm now abandoning a new side project every month instead of one a year.

yeah this was my 1st agentic code use case and it continues to be super valuable. I start with asking the tool to document the architecture and general flow of the code. Then next pass I ask it to document the user experience flow through the code. At that point it has context and has future context

Cat Hicks@grimalkina.bsky.social · 2w ago

I suspect once we figure it out agentic work in software will actually be a huge aid to codebase comprehension This is such a wildly unpopular thought right now but you know what I'm going to pre-register my belief in this possibility

This is an allegory about AI:

Hagai Palevsky (he/him)@dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him

if you're moderately technical, skip the popular press and go straight to the OpenAI blog post about their models hacking hugging face. tl;dr - Their shit went full Daniel Suarez. The test model was unencumbered with retail protections. But it hacked out and into HF openai.com/index/huggin...

Claude is really good at refactoring an accountant generated high maintenance spreadsheet into reproducible code. One of the most high leverage uses I've seen in practice is getting accountants out of data munging and clumsy biz logic