healthcare for ai agents, single-payer, straightforward costs, universal coverage. covers all llms and tool use, local provider network.

Tom MacWright@macwright.com · 2d ago

llm-first restaurants, you can only order via mcp, also the robot eats the food not you

the gist of this wave of ai writing: everyone uses llms. and we hate reading their output, don't like the software they make. pretty sure that they're causing skill loss for their users. however, i have found a special unique way to use them that makes me and my software and writing the exception.

Tom MacWright@macwright.com · 3w ago

the gist of this wave of ai writing: everyone uses llms. i do. you do. we all know that it turns us into manic-depressive shadows of our former selves, hating every moment of our lives, dreading the future. my proposition is: what if it didn't.

llm-first restaurants, you can only order via mcp, also the robot eats the food not you

just learned about the modena pigeon

been spending a lot of time identifying & fixing security issues at @val.town: here's how it's going blog.val.town/security

Report from the security mines

Finding, fixing, preventing exploits with automated tooling and hard-won knowledge

blog.val.town

my sketch/watercolor/gouache for the last @val.town investor update

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

digitaldigging.org

I did _not_ expect that to work.

a couple weeks ago, we got a “personalised” video pitch from a startup, but the guy in the video was not a person at all

Ethical cold outreach

Stop misrepresenting AI slop as your own work

blog.val.town

anyone using an instapaper-like thing that's open source / has full-text exports? i ❤️ instapaper and will terribly miss the kobo integration but starting to feel the pull to both data ownership & subscription-minning

what the heck are we calling virtue signaling now

kind of a review of a lil printer for enhancing my field notes journals with photos macwright.com/2026/07/24/p...

Printing tiny photos for paper journals

Reviewing the Liene Pearl N200 Pro photo printer

macwright.com

switched to typescript 7 for coding on @val.town. extremely good.

trying my best not to just write about llms all the time, quick post about encodings macwright.com/2026/07/23/e...

the last four contributions i've gotten on my github projects have been 100% LLM slop. this is rapidly reducing the excitement i feel when i get pull requests.

sheets are bedclothes so why isn't it tableclothes

openai announces a new kind of disaster, warns that it will happen very frequently from now on

building a slop gtm collection www.are.na/tom-macwrigh...

Slop GTM | Are.na

Emails from robots pretending to have read my blog posts. I obscure the names / …the creators of these apps being teens, or if the LLMs think that's a good hook.

are.na

getting into endurance sports has put me at a point where i have to type in "squeezable peanut butter NOT for dogs" in the product search bar

@aphera.co enjoyed playing around with the beta! now that it's out, i'm tempted to switch from capture one but my biggest q is whether aphera is aiming to have more photo organization primitives (search by time, tags, face recognition etc) or if there's a companion app people use?

feeling of relief when the phone alarm is a emergency weather alert instead of pagerduty

"the pelicans are still all rubbish" @simonwillison.net

oh man, one of my articles got onto hacker news and i have a new tagline for the blog!

the gist of this wave of ai writing: everyone uses llms. i do. you do. we all know that it turns us into manic-depressive shadows of our former selves, hating every moment of our lives, dreading the future. my proposition is: what if it didn't.

it's funny that neither the hexagonal architecture nor h3 tiling are actually hexagonal

letterboxd should be an atmosphere app and its users deserve to have their film tracking data be portable, open, and free

Leonardo La Terza@leonardolaterza.bsky.social · 4w ago

Well it's over variety.com/2026/digital...

the two kinds of investments: houses and nvidia though i am so ready for people to stop buying houses as investments

mild take: any theoretical benefits of the "public benefit corporation" have been disproven by the major ai labs