Moishe Lettvin
@moishel.bsky.social
I like photography and computer-assisted art and bikes.
This is probably not a popular take, but after more than 40 years programming (35 of that professionally), using LLMs to help me code has helped me rediscover the joy I had for coding when I was in my teens. I've found a longer lever, with all the power and danger of that.
I don't post on BlueSky very often but when I do you'd better believe it'll be about slime mold. This is super cool.
Caræsten 🇵🇸@cara.city · 12mo agocheck out my new piece, "Endoplanetary Ecologies" video of slime mold created via analog glitch video microscopy, presented in a custom designed + 3D printed housing wrapped in gold leaf
Ben Chestnut made $6B pretending to be progressive so that his employees would buy into his cult without demanding equity. Honestly the worst part about it is that he has nothing better to do with his life now than punch down on the social network for bland airheads (LinkedIn).
Wrote up some thoughts about LLM-powered "security reviews" here: www.moishelettvin.com/2025/06/06/s...
Generative coding tools and
<p>Recently, at work, someone mentioned that a popular generative coding tool, which will remain nameless, introduced a “security review” feature. I expressed some doubt about the value of an LLM-driv...
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That’s the beauty of open source, there’s always someone out there, ready and willing to contribute to your project, who is wrong.
An amazing thing AI does is lets us see who lacks a theory of mind.
Michael Leibel@michaelleibel.com · last yr.Is Henry Blodget ok
Woke up at 4am and drove into the mountains to take some photos.
Prompt engineering? No, the shit takes ages and the estimates are always fucked
Hey #Boulder folks - time to sign a petition to get West End Pearl Street as a pedestrian zone added to the ballot. Idiot city managers re-opened this space despite all data to the contrary. www.pearlforyou.org/sign
Sign — Pearl for You
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Great quote by Thomas Merton, who was a poet and (should be) a saint.
This one has already circulated a lot over the past few weeks but honestly it's all I've been able to think about lately
You can make the world better by trying the dumbest, easiest thing you can think of, and repeating and building on the ones that work.
luna@imlunahey.com · 2y agopeople over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?
Senator: [shuffles assorted papers] and you said that the park squirrels have appointed a king to rule over their kingdom, correct? RFK JR: arg [incoherent mumbling] I think I said queen Senator: alright let’s play the clip
Email to the group house when someone ate some of your peanut butter.
Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 2y agoHakeem Jeffries' statement sounds like me when my wife says I should stop smoking.
Anne Castle's letter of resignation as US Commissioner on the Upper #ColoradoRiver Commission is worth a read: www.inkstain.net/2025/01/anne...
Anne Castle steps down as the federal representative to the Upper Colorado River Commission
Worth sharing in full: January 282, 2025 Re: Resignation as U.S. Commissioner to Upper Colorado River Commission Dear (addressee redacted) As requested, I am submitting my resignation as U.S. Commi…
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Really loved this on Civil War & Alex Garland’s career.
Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 2y ago"Civil War isn’t a vessel for its story, which is so spare it could be relayed in a few sentences. It isn’t withholding worldbuilding or characterization details by accident. Those details do not exist in the movie." www.welcometohellworld.com/the-sublime-...
January 27th, 2025. 10:22 AM local time. The frigid North Atlantic waters 8 miles southeast of York Harbor, Maine. It begins.
The first two responses here are unsurprising but the third is a confabulation. Leica was boycotted in China in 2019 because they used a Tank Man photo in an ad.
I've said this before but to reiterate: the actual existential threat from AI/LLMs is not that they're going to take our jobs, it's that they're incredibly powerful (and literal) advertising/misinformation/propaganda machines.
Wrote about the irrationality of the boss revolt mcfunley.com/on-misery
On Misery
Not every fun activity or moral good is a waste of time.
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i didn't see one of these, so… here's a starter pack of @recursecenter.bsky.social participants and alums. some of the smartest and kindest programmers i've ever met. let me know if you belong on here! go.bsky.app/CcAu7W9
Here’s Glendale ripping up protected bike lanes that were just put in six months ago, while adjacent neighborhoods are still on fire due to anthropogenic climate change
It was very cold this morning but a delight to see this sunrise. Sawhill Ponds, Boulder CO
