Rowan

@novafacing.bsky.social

fuzzing enjoyer @novafacing@haunted.computer

lol, Linkedin web app on mobile sends you back to previous page if you scroll enough then hit the "no I don't want the app" button. I didn't want to use your site anyway!

One of the huge perks of working at a software company is, when there's something about the product that bothers you personally, you can get your hands dirty and find out why it's basically impossible to get fixed

Spent the entire new Frankenstein movie scared the monster was going to come out of the screen and start beating me over the head with the moral of the story

me (recently into bouldering): CI: me: CI: ... me: nice, come on CI: ... me: yeah, come on... CI: ... me: CI: ... me: COME ON!! CI: ... CI: ❌ me: ah! good attempt!!

Yeah, you could say I'm a vibe coder (using claude to suggest synonyms of my traits with different first letters so they can all be abbreviated prettily as generic parameters)

I have a hot take that Result is extremely overused in places where stuff should probably just panic and often ends up obscuring the problem by bubbling up errors too high. Panicking is okay!

Drank a caffeinated coffee this morning after months on decaf and spent a 3 hour drive learning about marine diesel engines and saturation diving procedures

This matches my experience: those of us who spent the pre-LLM years building ML models + GANs see genAI in a different light. We have a clearer view of what is/isn't possible, so we're less likely to throw it at every imaginable task expecting a breakthrough. #dataBS www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-a...

The Less You Know About AI, the More You Are Likely to Use It

AI can seem magical to those with low AI literacy, a new study finds. That, in turn, might make them more willing to try it.

wsj.com

It hasn't happened much yet because it seems like the people making MCP slop tools are still in the phase where they tell you that's what it is but eventually we'll get to a point where software that looks normal is just incorrect sometimes unexpectedly and I don't know if we're ready for that