All advice is made portable by stripping out context. Hence, advice isn't singularly bad. It might just be bad for you, bad at this time, or bad in your situation. It's up you to as the listener to re-contextualize it.

Even technologists, the agents of change, don’t like change. Those properties he’s mad about could apply to plastics, leaded gasoline, surveillance adtech, fossil fuels, car centric urban design, or any number of tech we live with or take for granted.

AR should let us apply stylistic choices to our view of the world around us. Ghibli-style flat-cel color, or watercolor sketches of urban life would be ones I'd like to try. But then, does the tetris effect kicks in for a while after you take them off?

I wish these end-of-the-year summaries with badges and cards were soul-bound NFTs; or some way to collect them over the years, even if the companies go out of business. It's a missing opportunity to tell people a story of their personal journey with a long term arc.

🧵 Could Bitchat have 5x the range and 100x the throughput for the same power expenditure? I explored how Wi-Fi Aware could improve the reliability and throughput of Bitchat and mobile ad-hoc networks in the absence of internet connectivity. #bitchat 👇

No one wants to do the heavy lift of building offline-first or local-first into their product until their first hearing. Hearing-first software.

Software performance isn't everything. You have to balance time to delivery and cost. But we're so off the performance curve that I now have spinners for cutting and pasting text. Once you see it, you see it everywhere.

Just as Wikipedia is a child of the Internet, the Primer should be a child of LLMs. I want my Illustrated Primer. But the optimism prevalent at the Internet Age is noticeably missing in the Intelligence Age. So we can't imagine it. And we can't build what we can't imagine.

I don't mind what he's doing. But I want to know how an immortal population would work in a democracy. If it's true that old minds don't change their minds as quickly as young minds (if at all), then public policy would stagnate. And so would society.

I guess we're so used to tabs now I didn't notice this detail: A tab is a quick access to a page metaphored by physical tabs in a stack of paper. Hence, when viewing a page, the tag should looked connected to the page. But here, the tab is connected to the toolbar!

This was pretty great. I've always loved the explorable explainers, in the tradition of Bret Victor. However, they're expensive to produce. People ask: "What's after the chat interface for LLMs?" Well, here's one answer: explorable explainers.

The affordance for working with LLMs is the same as affordance for working with other humans.

"How do we build programming with affordances for LLMs?" My answer usually is "the same affordances for humans", since LLMs are trained on human coding tools. But here's a different answer: expose intermediate declarative data, like the XML UI tree. x.com/ethanjlim/s...

Separating side effects from your code so AI can test it without lying or creating mock slop. interjectedfuture.com/what-is-alge...

Maybe design docs keep getting written, though no one reads them, is because it's the default tool to assist with thinking. But writing is a terrible medium for systems thinking. It can name all the parts, but not so much how they relate. It'd be too tedious.

all my homies are talking about the Lean prover. AoC in Lean, hardware design in Lean, you name it learn Lean challenge 2026

Directionally, I agree! We've already observed 1) LLMs remove activation barrier to other ecosystems. 2) LLMs remove the tactical tedium of a language. That means a wider range of tools are available to wield practically. But it also comes with caveats. bsky.app/profile/mar...

A plea by Scott Jenson to start pushing the boundaries of human interface design on desktop again. An interesting idea is what he calls a loop, borrowed from game design, but in game design circles, it seems to be called depth. youtu.be/1fZTOjd_bOQ...

This blog post interjectedfuture.com/the-best-way... on using LLMs to learn how to do formal proofs is another nice angle on the topic

Sometimes, I wonder if this is where logic programming has an advantage for: "what kind of language is great for working with LLMs". You don't have to simulate state in your head when reviewing the code. And LLMs can run inference on the code they wrote to self-correct. x.com/ankitiscrac...

I don't think managing multiple agents to vibe code is the future of engineering (nor is just hand writing everything either). Until AI can solve hard out-of-band problems, humans will have to do that work. And that work requires flow, which cannot happen when babysitting agents.

I've wondered if this idea can be extended: given how individual employees converse, think, write, and code, can we give a weight to their contribution to that B2B sale, all the way back to the academic? Can we "backprop" on this network, and adjust weights? x.com/ID_AA_Carma...

The more nuanced and tacit your work, the less likely AI agents will do them to completion. So you end up baby-sitting & multi-tasking multiple agents, destroying your focus and flow. x.com/arafatkatze...

Maybe if top-of-the-line Nvidia chips were only priced in USD-backed stablecoins, it'd extend the petrodollar dominance of USD into the era of cryptodollar dominance of USD. But unlike oil, this seems like a weaker chokehold.

Note-taking app ecosystems should run a collective decentralized web archiver. It doesn't make much sense if your notes are littered with links that don't work anymore. It's like a wine collector opening his cellar after a couple years only to find empty bottles.

I’m surprised that I’m not surprised by the findings. They all line up with what system eval practitioners like @HamelHusain and @sh_reya have been saying. x.com/dair_ai/sta...

An articulation of a reason why software engineers get such diverse results from LLMs, and why some large swath of engineers still think it’s all hype. x.com/intuitmachi...

Surprised to run into a CSS bug that not even GPT-5.1 high could solve. Should have tried it with Claude Opus.

The fact that coding agents need a lot of context to work well and chew through 10x the number of tokens (compared to regular chat) should be concrete evidence to non-coders that programmers have to hold a lot of context in their heads to be effective on production code bases.

Youtube keeps turning on preview on hover. I hate it. It's like talking to a waiter that keeps forgetting your order, and it's the only restaurant in town.

Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide. www.science.org/content/arti...

This isn't too hard to understand, if you just view the TV as the left branch and the painting as the right branch of a binary tree. Also, this is the sort of thing your engineer co-worker is juggling in their heads when you interrupt them with a question. x.com/goodside/st...

I often want to set the model after I've typed out the question in CLI agents. Choosing a model before asking the question feels like choosing a project before typing out a note.

I suppose one indicator of wealth is the ability to overpay to live in the future. Where it’s valuable is for the explicit purpose of gaining intuition about *that thing* in the future where no other method would suffice.

The WASM for Automerge is 4 times as large as the WASM for Sqlite. 🫤

Typing text is about one of the most performance sensitive interfaces we use regularly. The only thing more sensitive are twitch-based games. x.com/stewartlync...

Bitrot happens not because the code has changed, but because you've changed.

What affordance does the spatial component afford us more than a screen when making music? It's essentially a drum machine that snakes around space. x.com/fun_and_awe...

Kids nowadays are so lucky. Signal processing class would have been easier if I had explanations like this. I had only a glimmer of what we were doing back then.

We already have digital necromancy in the form of Tupac holding concerts every few years. The cocktail party question, "Who would you want to have dinner with, alive or dead?" would be wish fulfillment. Heck, with AR, the dead can accompany you to the cocktail party itself. x.com/vanschneide...

Brand guidelines are a prompt.

I wished the hand controllers were also keyboards. Then this could be a work machine. store.steampowered.com/sale/steamf...

How often do ya'll rewind an LLM conversation to regenerate a response, as opposed to just plowing forward with corrections and keep the history of mistakes? I find I go up and regenerate, to have a cleaner context and not confuse the LLM. Are current models not as susceptible?

One mental muscle I've noticed atrophying through AI use is the muscle for generating options. Intellectually, I know it's rare for AI to give you out-of-band options. In the moment, it's easy to be mentally lazy in this regard.

I currently don't see a bigger unlock than a designer who can get mainstream internet users to get used to owning and managing cryptographic keys.

When making stuff for others, you have to wear two hats: someone behind the interface, and someone in front of the interface. It's hard but necessary to remember to be the latter. x.com/unconed/sta... I'll echo the sentiment for DC metro's ticket machines.

Surprised there aren't more "chain-mail" type of poast for engagement farming, where people propose you ask GPT to tell you something magazine quiz-like, based on everything it knows about you. Like:"Based on everything you know about me, what do you think my porn name would be?"

I've started blocking accounts that consistently post obviously dumb opinions who aren't young people. If I find I have the urge to correct the tweet not from a place of sharing, but from a place of anger, it's probably engagement bait. Don't feed the trolls.

A new Sarah Paine episode arrived! Dr. Sarah Paine, more than any one else, was my gateway drug into the topic of geopolitics. Can't say I really cared about the topic before, but her lectures are riveting. I recommend them over random short-form videos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH_...

Would this be considered the enshittification of ginseng? The economic shape for cultivation doesn't allow ginseng to fully express its wild self. The taste we commonly get is an expression of the unit economics, not the ecology. www.perplexity.ai/search/what...