The conclusion is published! If you'll indulge me in a bit of philosophising, I try to pinpoint why we (devs and designers) cling to comforting fictions, why we turn process into ritual, and what software could look like if it actually bent toward the people using it.

Pydantic@pydantic.dev · 4mo ago

"What I want most: software that helps me express, formalise, and include my opinions rather than enforcing its opinions on me." In the 3rd part of the Box Model series, @summerscope.bsky.social talks about the design process, intuition, and cargo cult prompting. pydantic.dev/articles/lie...

"What I want most: software that helps me express, formalise, and include my opinions rather than enforcing its opinions on me." In the 3rd part of the Box Model series, @summerscope.bsky.social talks about the design process, intuition, and cargo cult prompting. pydantic.dev/articles/lie...

Design Process Is Exhaust, Not Propulsion: On Intuition, AI, and Adaptive Software

Why rigid design process survives when results don't — a critique of design methodology, a case for intuition, and a vision for software that adapts to users instead of the other way around.

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"The best navigation is the kind nobody notices." On Part 2 of Lies, Damn Lies, and the Box Model, @summerscope talks about the design process behind Logfire's sidebar. The trade-offs, and what "directionally correct" means in practice. Part 3 (and final) out tomorrow.

I wrote a thing. It's more than just me arguing with Claude, I promise ;)

Pydantic@pydantic.dev · 4mo ago

It's 2026 and AI can write code from a napkin sketch. Still, our lead design engineer spent an hour debugging a scrollbar with help from Claude Code. A story about CSS, containing blocks, and the things AI can't really see - part 1. pydantic.dev/articles/lie...

This is about people, about systems, what it takes to make progress, and why being difficult is so important. From fire alarms to hospital beds. From music apps to cars. From climate change to education. Our systems are not serving us well, and it's time to push back. adsei.org/2025/11/17/t...

The Art of Being Difficult

I want to talk about change, about people, about systems, what it takes to make progress, and why being difficult is so important. From fire alarms to hospital beds. From music apps to cars. From c…

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Being difficult is the only path to change. We don’t get change by being obedient. accepting the status quo and accepting “This is the way we have always done things” as a good reason to keep doing things that way. We get change by asking “why?”, asking “who benefits?” asking “how can we do better?”

Dr Linda McIver@lindamciver.adsei.org · 9mo ago

This is about people, about systems, what it takes to make progress, and why being difficult is so important. From fire alarms to hospital beds. From music apps to cars. From climate change to education. Our systems are not serving us well, and it's time to push back. adsei.org/2025/11/17/t...

This project has been a slow burn, a wonderful dialogue with Linda across many months. I hope some teachers find this and find it useful, there’s more sections to come and of course any feedback or requests will help us shape it!

Dr Linda McIver@lindamciver.adsei.org · last yr.

Super excited to be able to publish the People Friendly: Teachers' Guide to AI that the incredible @summerscope.bsky.social and I have been working on. The guide will grow and develop as the technology does, and there's more to come! adsei.org/pfegtai-intr... #EduSKY #EduSKYAU

Super excited to be able to publish the People Friendly: Teachers' Guide to AI that the incredible @summerscope.bsky.social and I have been working on. The guide will grow and develop as the technology does, and there's more to come! adsei.org/pfegtai-intr... #EduSKY #EduSKYAU

People Friendly: Teachers’ Guide to Artificial Intelligence – Introduction

Introduction So, you want to teach your students about AI. But it’s hard to know how to teach them, or what to teach them, when it feels like the landscape is changing minute-by-minute, when there …

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Only important news. (Rat)

Just learned there’s a place in Brooklyn called Win Son Bakery that does breakfast sandwiches on scallion pancakes and I’m grunting lustily

Waking Up on Sunday Be Like: 'I'm Starving but the Fridge Is So Far Away!'🥱😴🍮

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Shameful

I am very overweight. Fat, even. There are many reasons for this, and I’m tempted to start making excuses and explaining how my weight is not really my fault. But here’s the thing. Weig…

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They never don't look painfully stupid

No Sunday scaries. Only Sunday defiant hope-ies.

Every morning, rain or shine, these guys stalk me for the precise duration of my flat white 🤣☕️

On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy - The Shot

The consequence of not good enough, as evidenced in the United States right now, is that you inevitably get much, much worse.

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I've had to fight for my son's right to be himself. It should not be a fight. lindamciver.wordpress.com/2025/03/31/t...

Trans Day of Visibility

This is an edited version of a short talk I gave at a Transcend Australia event for Trans Day of Visibility this morning. I’m very grateful to Transcend for giving me the opportunity to speak…

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Look who came up the driveway this afternoon!!!! You've never seen me grab my camera so fast. Unfortunately, I had to shoot through a dirty window in low light, so it's a bit fuzzy. Still! Lynx!! In my yard!!! Look at those big fluffy paws! 🦊🌿

Rios surfing the sunshine. Berlin spring time really showing up now ☀️

Surveying their territory (the den)

Optimist: AI has achieved human level performance! Realist: “AI” is a collection of brittle hacks that, under very specific circumstances, mimic the surface level of human intelligence Pessimist: AI HAS achieved human level performance

why did they show the same label twice

I wrote a thing! www.linkedin.com/pulse/opposi...

The opposite of the paperclip maximiser

What if we built an AGI and it decided to do nothing? As in - really nothing, not engage with the world or any individuals, not monitor, not compute, just sit there dormant. True inaction — not malice...

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@summerscope.bsky.social and @lindamciver.bsky.social are writing a teachers' guide to AI, but they need your help! Please share with all the teachers you know. #EduSky adsei.org/2024/05/17/t...

i am watching THE BEEKEEPER while i do dishes and i somehow did not realize that the concept of this film was "what if you could murder everyone who defrauded your boomer parents with an internet scam?"

Today I am wondering about the insights we could have about the brain if we didn't insist that it recapitulates western power structures For example, to what degree are our hypotheses about prefrontal cortex limited because we call its processes "executive functions" instead of like, "mothering"

Announcing ✨Prodigy-HF ✨ It's a new plugin that allows you to train @huggingface.bsky.social NER models directly on annotated data in Prodigy. It also provides a recipe to upload annotations to Hugging Face HUB!

This is a nice read on the history of BMI! dovetail.com/outlier/hist... Good background on the sampling bias in the original populations measured, and the (ab)use of the measure. "His purpose was to find patterns and solve problems at the population scale, not at the level of individual people."