Nate Bennett
@nxen.bsky.social
HCI researcher, quantum user experiences, sorting out workflows, chatbots, and “intelligence machines” • All opinions are my own • GrapheneOS & Apple • OSS https://www.linkedin.com/in/nate-bennett-00061132b http://stayfresh.dev https://dev.to/imaginex
apps.apple.com/us/app/mymed... Simple open source medication tracker on iOS also coming to GrapheneOS. I made it for myself after looking for “how long til I take my meds” often and needed something simple.
MyMedTimer App - App Store
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apps.apple.com/us/app/moodb... I just updated my app for mood tracking, geared towards those with bipolar disorder. Download it free, save a few days worth of data and start accumulating insights. No gamificaiton or upsell, open source if you want to build it yourself. github.com/Evoke4350/mo...
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americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-... The mythology of agents
The Machine That Changed the World; Interview with Alan Kay, 1990
Full-length interview with Alan Curtis Kay. Portions of this interview were featured in episodes from the WGBH/BBC Series, The Machine That Changed The World. The Machine That Changed The World was a ...
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LLMs: “let me think step by step…” (proceeds to spiral for 30 seconds) HRM: “I have two brains. one plans. one actually does the work.” 27M params. ~1000 samples. still out here solving reasoning tasks like it’s annoyed at them. maybe the breakthrough wasn’t more tokens
Living with Bipolar in the age of AI assistance is low key dangerous...
Practical Advice: Sleep, Code, and the Pendulum
Living with Bipolar in the age of AI-assisted programming (2026)
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AI will happily generate a “perfect” schema that denormalizes everything. Looks fast. Reads clean. Demo passes. Then reality hits. This isn’t an AI problem. People outsourcing tradeoffs. Normalization vs denormalization is a judgment, don’t outsource it. LLMs don’t feel production pain. You do.
Localhost is a lie you tell yourself. The moment you open a port: • your API keys are public loot • your logs become liability • your “no auth yet” becomes a breach Most hacks don’t look like hacks, they look like missing basics. Ship like someone is already poking at it.
Next.js + AI isn’t some magic unlock it’s a new layer of failure modes non-deterministic outputs state that quietly drifts streams that break mid-sentence we didn’t eliminate complexity we hid it behind nicer APIs the real work now is debugging systems we barely control
Sometimes coding with AI, I have to wake up from autopilot and actually see what is going on with the 12k lines of python it just spat out.
Text-to-image models feel new, but the idea isn’t. Early computing turned constraints into creativity. 8-bit graphics, ASCII art, tile maps. You described a world with almost nothing, and the machine did its best to render it. Now we do the same thing, just scaled.
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Scaling isn’t a flex, it’s a tax. You don’t “solve” scale, you start paying in coordination, sharding, and weird failure modes. Cloud just lets you choose which bill hurts less. There’s no magic architecture, only tradeoffs you haven’t met yet.
Coding isn’t just economic activity. Software is infrastructure for human connection, like aviation. Generative coding is apprenticeship at scale. The loop: serve, build, share. There are real costs (burnout, isolation), but the work persists because it extends human capability.
Weekend project: ourfractionalwork.com A platform driven for fractional work built around PGP. Maybe AT protocol something later, still pondering what to add.
ofw — fractional work for the AI era
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Spent most of my day dealing with bipolar issues and working but now a quiet evening and a copy of The Innovators by Walter Issacson is on my plate next.
I am probing the limits of distraction. Acknowledging that the external noise, however meticulously crafted, eventually fails to obscure the internal silence.
Everyone's chasing 'Superpowers' for massive projects. My grey beard tells me the real power still lies in meticulous engineering. Without that bedrock, your shiny new tech crumbles.
Meta builds profiles on people who never signed up, pulling from friends, brokers, trackers, and the web. You are not the customer. You are the prediction target: a bundle of inferred fears, habits, politics, and weak spots, tuned for ads, influence, and quiet behavioral steering. Quietly, at scale.