Wrote about how misguided it is to think AI is a passing fad, like many Neo-Luddites seem to think, and how thinking like this is holding us back from adapting to the future. smol.news/p/llms-are-h...

Can anyone explain what happened to ZCash in the last 6 months?

We went from prompt engineer to agent manager pretty quickly. What's your workflow for teams of agents?

At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars... Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools

Is there freedom of speech without economic independence? Or is that the other way around?

Lots of privacy programming here at @ethereum.foundation's #devconnect and it's refreshing.

The International Association for Cryptologic Research has used heliosvoting.org – my online voting system – for a number of years. This year, a trustee lost their secret key. The election has to be re-run. Below, a few thoughts that didn't fit in the NYT piece. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...

Ok, flying tu Buenos Aires in 72 hours and I'll be there for a full week! Who else is there? Who should I meet? What should I eat? What should I visit? (Last time there was in '99, for about 12 hours ...!)

Would the #atproto community get behind this? trustlessness.eth.limo/general/2025...

apropos of whatever

Is it me or managing coding agents is not really easy from mobile devices? I tried the Github app but Claude keeps making mistakes and does not seem to follow the guidelines as well as when using the cli.

Is AI a bubble? Yes, and that's to be expected when we have a winner takes all market structure :)

For example I recently wanted to create a simple static website with about 10 content pages... and I decided to let #claude do it. it did it without a CMS, which suprised me initially but then I realized the CMS is in fact an "interface" that is not needed if I used prompts as the actual interface.

More exciting news! ouvre-boite.com/the-unlock-l...

Machines will desperately pay us to feel alive. ouvre-boite.com/machines-wil...

But we can make it clear that said delusion isn't welcome in polite, adult, responsible, democracy-loving company. They can stay amongst themselves in the little kids sandbox if they will, but that's it. Right now, they still get respect from web devs who only look at features.

I'm pretty sure LLMs will be the end of many many "interfaces".

American, by choice. #noking

The Internet bubble gave us 'free' fiber optics that enabled web2.0. If AI companies go bankrupt I really hope their trained models will fall into the public space.

This feels personal.

i think the only way for atproto to succeed is for us to show what apps can do when every app sees every other app's public data, and they share an identity system. no technical or sociological argument is as convincing as seeing seamless interop and the lighthearted competitive landscape it unlocks

You don’t need a Nobel laureate in literature to see that calling the Secretary of Defense the Secretary of War isn’t exactly the best strategy for winning a Nobel Peace Prize.

I really wish the android speech to text was much better. Also I want it to work even when I whisper so I don't look so weird!

I don't think we can pitch decentralization as a solution to people who want a bad account banned because they're not trying to fix what they see in their own feeds, they're trying to control what I see in mine. Fixing their own feeds is already accomplished by blocking and going on with your day

Maybe the root cause of all issues is our willingness to have someone in charge.

The solution to Twitter's problems was never to have a CEO you liked!

People would rather hate a dictator than take responsibility for controlling their own destiny.

using crypto != web3 grifter how the fuck do people not understand this fact

The quote is "__be__ the change you want to see in the world" The quote is not "__yell__ (or even __say__) the change you want to see in the world." Stop yelling, act!

I am still looking for an online cryptography course!

If you want the world to change, focus on creating rather than consuming.

When you create, you influence how others experience the world, reflecting your own values and culture. There is no way around it, and that's a good thing.

@jakehartnell.bsky.social long time no see/speak! Agree you still deep in the cosmos ecosystem? I may finally need your help :)

We gave our AI coding agents access to social media. They immediately started posting. A lot. Then we tested their performance. Turns out agents with Twitter solve problems faster than agents without it. harper.blog/2025/09/3…

Bluesky should should buy the twitter IP/brand :)

Solo parenting 3 kids for 3 months, starting in 2 weeks. Posting this today just in case I can't post anything until mid january :D

I am white and 42, and I really don't care what the skin color of humans will be in 50, 100, or 500 years. I also don't care what language they speak, or what god they worship, or where they were brought to their world.

Hell is probably a place with lots and lots of open tabs.

Whale-watching watching watching. We spotted mink whales from the shore! 🐳

The tech CEO who licked the president's ass must be quite happy to learn that a significant number of their workforce will be significantly disrupted. I guess they will soon figure it's cheaper to hire *outside* the US completely (or even not hire at all!)

0-sum thinking is "bigger slice of smaller pie or smaller slice of larger cake". The world is better when slices grow AND the pie grows!

Hate is a valid feeling. Hate speech is not a valid behavior.

Next: I want to forget about this guy who was murdered. He didn't deserve to be murdered but he also doesn't deserve to be remembered more than any other victim of gun violence imo.

Proving once more that the correct way to think about "rights" is not "for me", but "for you" (or "for them").

I honestly start to believe trump himself is just the visible chunk of the iceberg of crap that anyone with "power" in the US seems to be a part of. Is there anyone in charge of anything willing to step up for the Constitution?

The Free Speech President has now pulled two of the three major late night hosts off the air through threats and intimidation because of their jokes. Obviously I’m behind Jimmy Kimmel 100% in the face of this fascist garbage. Speech against this admin isn’t just being chilled, they’re freezing it.

“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.”

There are independent servers emerging! Here’s a few, feel free to add more in the replies. selfhosted.social blacksky.app zeppelin.social We built a protocol because the last thing I want to be is your dictator, but centralization always has a single point of failure.