Unexpected benefit when an LLM uses the same markdown as your public docs site: Claude seems to almost always keep docs up to date automatically 🤖 indiepub.dev/docs is powered by @astro.build 's Starlight. With chisel pointed at the same markdown files every new features gets docs right away

What is it about discord that makes it so sticky in the open source community? I've never liked it being a walled garden, but i also don't know of a better option with any 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/why-is-discord-so-sticky

Looks like I'll be self-hosting a package registry for https://indiepub.dev That begs the question...how might I self-host an @npmx.dev instance pointed at a custom registry 👀 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/looks-like-ill-be-self-hosting-a

I'm pretty Sam Altman's answer to concerns over the defense contract is that #openai will simply solve alignment and build it right into the #ai model the DoD will use 🌶️ This one's definitely a hot take - that. won't. work. 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/sam-altmans-answer-to-defense-concerns

The future of software development, or the history of online poker The future of software development is unknown, but the history of online poker has some pretty clear hints...and it doesn't look great. 🔗 https://tonysull.co/articles/the-future-of-software-development

Dibs on a new band name: Synergistic Tendencies ™️ 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/dibs-on-a-new-band-name

(Web)MCP is a waste of time. Just build for humans, ideally with something RESTful, and allow self-discovery and data schemas do the heavy lifting. 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/webmcp-is-a-waste-of-time

Stop building for #llms Build for humans and understand that, if useful, LLMs will figure out how to read your docs and run `--help`

🌶️ WebMCP is a really bad idea Its not my job to support yet another API surface for LLMs to use, especially not in the frontend I already try hard to support accessibility specs screen readers and similar 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/webmcp-is-a-really-bad-idea (1/2)

Make no mistake, LLM providers are going to sign the Department of War's blanket "all lawful use" agreement They'll claim to have gotten a deal preventing mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons, but they're simply 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/make-no-mistake-llm-providers (1/2)

It's frustrating that the term "AI" is used so haphazardly while we rarely even define it Whether you think AI might lead to solving disease and poverty or will destroy humanity, you're likely not really talking about large language 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/the-term-ai-is-frustrating (1/2)

i never could force myself to finish reading the Game of Thrones series The Ned Stark storyline was interesting, but what the hell happened to the dragons?!? Do you really expect me to read 800+ pages before they show up again? 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/game-of-thrones-dragons

https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/ "In 2023, Anthropic committed to never train an AI system unless it could guarantee in advance that the company’s safety measures were adequate." 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge (1/2)

The next architecture may very well be different, but LLMs will never handle this kind of problem. Predicting the next word all will NEVER lead to any intelligent decision making. It will lead the next word, recursively until it "decides" its done and breaks the loop.

State of the Union tl;dr; A house divided. 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/state-of-the-union-tldr-a

Oh I've wanted this kind of linting for years! One of this most common reasons I hear why people dislike CSS is how hard it is to know whether a particular style or class is used in the codebase And I do get it, before tailwind was so common you did end up with append-only stylesheets out of fear

I just unlocked one of the super powers of @biomejs.dev Have you ever wondered if there are unused CSS classes, or if you're using a CSS class that doesn't exist? (e.g. typo). Well, these rules are coming! github.com/biomejs/biom...

#llms feel like recursion on steroids When sending a prompt, the entire chat context is sent because there is no history 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/llms-feel-like-recursion-on-steroids (1/3)

#llms sure seem happy with XML... Coming soon: `chisel context create "app routing"` Leverage SQLite FTS5 indexing of your own docs and issues to build a complete picture of the feature area you're working on

Way too much attention is paid to LLMs, both with safety concerns and the promise of utopia LLMs are impressive, its impressive what a complex word predictor can do with enough resources thrown at it 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/too-much-attention-is-paid-to-llms (1/3)

Shout out to the Oxford comma. 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/shout-out-to-the-oxford-comma

I always want to put @astro.build content schemas in a shared package - think pkgs/types used by apps/site and pkgs/admin-ui 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/astro-content-schemas-in-shared-packages (1/2)

I'm not sure how the SaaS business model survives much longer Selling subscriptions and "seats" by gatekeeping software and trying to solve every problem for every user is tough when #ai makes it so easy to spin up bespoke software #now 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/saas-wont-last-much-longer

Watched: The Matrix ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 27 years later and still an excellent movie. Agent Smith's line about it becoming their world once machines began thinking for humans seems all the more real today... https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/ 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/27-years-later-the-matrix

There's something so satisfying about writing an image carousel with only HTML and CSS scroll-snap is one of the best modern(ish?) CSS features out there 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/theres-something-so-satisfying-about-carousels

🌶️ Can we all finally agree that alignment is an absurd goal? We can't align humans with other humans. How are we supposed to align humans with machines? And to which humans are they aligning? #spicyfriday #now 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/can-we-all-finally-agree

By far the sweetest calf born here so far Brie's like a puppy, walks right over to you and waits to be petted 🔗 https://tonysull.co/photos/by-far-the-sweetest-calf-born

Been thinking about skills all day. I can't shake the opinion that skills are a bandaid for LLMs. I'm building @chisel.build to effectively be a local knowledge base for a project. 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/been-thinking-about-skills-all-day (1/3)

Well that escalated quickly... Weekend hacking to better learn #rust turned into a growing suite of TUI and CLI tools Docs and issues have already been surprisingly useful, thought I'd share it out and @chisel.build was born 🚀 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/chisel-announcement (1/2)

Logan Lucky flew under the radar They did a great job with it though - reminds me a bit of Oceans Eleven, The Italian Job, and The Town 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/logan-lucky-flew-under-the-radar

I'm a big fan of https://starlight.astro.build/ I don't care what you're working on, if it needs docs just follow the @astro.build docs community's lead 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/im-a-big-fan-of-starlight (1/2)

How exactly does an #llm provide sources in output? Are sources part of the trained model now, and if so how does that fit into gradient descent chasing only the next best token prediction? 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/how-exactly-does-an-llm-provide (1/2)

I really need to learn more about #atproto I use it as a syndication target for https://indiepub.dev and scrape syndicated posts for webmentions, but I must be leaving a lot of potential features on the table with a deeper integration 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/i-really-need-to-learn-more

Don't confuse chain of reasoning with any kind of #llm safety or interpretability feature In chain of thought, your prompt is fed into one black box which then feeds more prompts into another black box 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/dont-confuse-chain-of-reasoning-with (1/2)

Re: https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/ So people are actually arrogant, or shortsighted, or dumb, enough to actually install an autonomous #llm agent on their hardware with full 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/so-people-are-actually-arrogant-or-shortsighted (1/3)

One challenge with LLMs - I feel like I have to start with a full, proper architecture for the project up front I tend to start with a basic app structure first and break it up into a monorepo later, for example. LLMs seem to go insane tryin... 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/one-challenge-with-llms

It's refreshing to see how much better Bluesky and Mastodon work with an #indieweb syndication approach When I've tried the same thing with Twitter in the past posts would be buried for including external links or the account w... 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/indieweb-posse-to-bluesky-and-mastodon

Its the little things that count. When you syndicate content #indieweb #posse style, you quickly realize contacts have different usernames across the internet Why not track that with a custom @ mention that is replaced differently on your site and in each... 🔗 tonysull.co/photos/its-t...

It sure seems like junior developers can't get work today and senior+ developers are now technical product managers. Maybe that's good, maybe that's bad, likely a bit of both. Its definitely weird to watch happen in real time though...who knew an entire industry... 🔗 tonysull.co/notes/senior...

Humans have officially lost the plot... https://www.npr.org/2026/02/10/nx-s1-5698195/nike-amplify-bionic-sneakers 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/humans-have-officially-lost-the-plot

LLMs are making #oss a tricky business Anyone know of a good solution for making a git repo and private packages available to a community that requires some level of sign up to join? #now 🔗 tonysull.co/notes/llms-a...

LLMs make design systems way more important in frontend projects. I need a simple `` component with a few types props. without it I end up with 20 different versions of what button could look like all over the site (covered in Tailwind classes, obviously) 🔗 tonysull.co/notes/llms-m...

New hypothesis: Trump watched D2: The Mighty Ducks and was pissed about how much of an ass the Icelander coach was. He also didn't realize that Iceland is not Greenland. 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/new-hypothesis-trump-watched-d2-the

Excited to be back to doing a bit of building in public Stay tuned for IndiePub and Comet! Own your content and, thanks to ML companies ignoring content rights, put it behind a subscription or a pay wall without relegating yourself to clou... 🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/back-to-building-in-public

Not long ago we started our homestead with 5 cows. In the last few months numbers 19, 20, and 21 were born. Where has all the time gone?!? Start to end: Marcus Aurelius Caesar aka Mac, Gus Malzahn aka Gus Bus aka Mr. Cheese, and Brioche Bun aka Brie tonysull.co/photos/not-l...

How do others deal with handles with POSSE syndication? Say I post a note to my site with "@astro" and want that to post to my site with a link and Bluesky or Mastodon with a platform-specific handle, how do you do it?

A preview of what I've been tinkering with: - full admin CMS for content creation - twitter-like UI for notes, complete with markdown support - pure CSS image carousels, because modern #css be crazy All focused on Schema.org types and IndieWeb features like Webmentions, Microformats2, and Micropub

After years of wanting an opinionated CMS built right into an @astro.build app and based on IndieWeb standards and Microformats2 schemas, its finally here Nice to see this finally working. Who needs walled gardens? tonysull.co/notes/after-...

Back in business! Webmentions, IndieAuth, Astro, and a big old caching layer called @cloudflare.social. That should do the trick. tonysull.co/notes/back-i...