The simple answer wins. Always. Because we wanted it that way. We trained the algorithm, and now it trains us. Keep thinking. Leave the one-liners to the comedians

👴🏻"So are you saying that engaging content can never be harmful?"🤡 🤦🏿‍♂️No. I'm saying that fascists are harmful. A fascist that knows what I know about make up tutorials and kids' content being more engaging than manosphere bro content, can still use that info in a way that neither you nor I would.

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AI agents promise to write your tests for you. Sounds great until you realize: a test suite you didn't build is a test suite you don't understand. Don't let green checkmarks replace your own eyes.

Very sound advice, no matter how old you are!

AI coding agents produce the most probable code. Not the best. Not the most elegant. The most average. Without skill to guide them, you'll get a codebase that works, passes tests, and slowly becomes a maintenance nightmare. Your code deserves better.

I just wrote about an unexpected AI story: a masked band from Quebec with a guitar built with a saw and seven million views. medium.com/p/seven-mill...

They didn't let him stay. There was a heated political battle, and he won with the help of Satya Nadella from Microsoft. Microsoft had invested a shit ton in OpenAI and they bet big on Altman. So they had to back him. The opposition was ousted.

I love the absolute clarity of this. We all need to ask ourselves each time whether we deem it worth accepting all this (and what makes us think it is). Or just not worth it at all.

Blogged: On the acceptance of GenAI smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on...

When I say that many US white evangelicals and christofascists aren't really practicing a religion, this is what I mean. They co-opted the symbols of christianity to justify and promote US racism. If your true religion is US racism then you select the most powerful racist in the US as your "pope."

In woodworking, glue strength depends on surface area. In teams, those surfaces are the moments where people connect. When we automate them away, we don't just remove work. We remove the thing that held the structure together.

12 o'clock in Germany. Time to raise the gas prices. Do we get a new all-time high? Here is a rule from systems thinking that helps to understand situations like this. When the purpose of a system does not match its intention. Bonus post today, because of reasons...

I believe in many cases people think the AI is giving them *back* their agency. That it allows them to start taking control of their own destiny again. We have to help people understand how believing everything that comes out of the robot undermines that goal.

Whew. This point cannot be overstated. We have a society that was made susceptible to giving away their agency to AI. Because all of the human institutions that we are supposed to be able to trust have failed us repeatedly. At least the robot doesn't treat you like you're stupid.

Periodic reminder that Anglosphere isn't a real thing. It gets really awkward when you point out that most English speakers aren't white (Hello India and Nigeria!) Then they say, no it's more about English systems of government and education, then you point out that Nigeria and India have those too

I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

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AI used well makes you faster, not lazier. Feed it stack traces, let it draft scripts, use it to learn. But stay in the loop. The moment you stop looking at the output, you're a spectator, not a professional. Here's a few examples that work for me.

Microsoft, Google, Apple, Meta. And now OpenAI and Anthropic. The speed of increasing dependency on big tech in the age of AI is getting higher and higher each day. Big tech has found a new drug to make us even more dependent. And we.... seem to accept it.

Whether or not I watch his next movie doesn't really matter that much to him. He's not going to go broke and that's okay. Good actually! But it's so hard to be an author, let alone a woman author, in sci-fi, who tells stories with good representation? Those authors don't need to be punched down on.

🤦🏿‍♂️Actually, nevermind. Why is everything like this? The author supposedly went on an anti-woke, right-wing podcast to promote the movie while trashing other books and movies that do have a "woke" message or that have inclusive representation? But... why? Why was that necessary?

They removed the wolves from Yellowstone and rivers eroded. Now companies remove people and wonder why teams fall apart. You're not cutting a role. You're intervening in a complex, organizational ecosystem that you don't fully understand.

Happy Friday rant from yours truly: Testers build trust by understanding thought processes. LLMs 'explain' themselves too. But is it real reasoning or post-hoc storytelling? And where are the observability folks when we need them most? Asking not only for a regulated industry. Happy weekend!

In this year of 2026 if you absolutely have to run your mobile, international event in America - and you choose to run it in Texas, Tennessee, or Florida, that is certainly a choice that reflects which of your members or employees you see as human.

I'm not salty or anything, and I don't live in America anymore - but I absolutely checked a couple major cybersecurity events with rotating venues because surely by now in 2026, they must have moved to places safe for women and trans attendees, surely, surely, surely, nah of course not

This video on running a company with AI agents is worth watching... for more reasons than it knows. 5:31 - agent gets a 403, silently skips the data it was supposed to get insights from, moves on. Nobody in the room seems to notice. The power and the risk. Same video. youtu.be/RBqT2PHWdBg?...

People just aren't ready for the conversation about Starfleet Academy and Discovery just not being primarily intended for an audience eye of straight, white, millennial and older dudes. And how much *other* Trekkie fan audiences could finally relate to the characters, finally.

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This is kind of a silly take. Niantic are absolutely opportunists, who certainly didn't see AI coming when Pokémon Go or Ingress premiered. What they've always been interested in is being a *source of user geolocation data* which they can monetise. First way was lucrative Pokémon IP. Now it's AI.

Protecting my peace today. Reminder: A person doesn't have to be bad or horrendously wrong to get blocked. Block doesn't mean "I hate you." It just means that I don't want to hear any more of what you have to say. No one is entitled to my time. My mentions are not the "marketplace of ideas🤡"

AI just ate the solution space for breakfast. Coding, testing, automation — all commodities now. The only skill left that matters? Understanding the actual problem.

Reinforcement loops are an interesting thing in systems thinking. This week when I heard the news from Atlassian another one of those love reality moments hit me. In today's post I try to roughly sketch the mental model of a system that unfolded in my brain.

What happens when thousands of high earners suddenly stop spending? In my second post today, I zoom out of IT and into the wider economy. AI is triggering a reinforcing loop. Most of the dominoes haven't fallen yet.

When the AI company has decided your name is Nathan. Or everyone's name is Nathan. Yet manages to get the email address right. But thinks you're in another country. I definitely trust this AI company to spot security gaps. I desperately want to reply that my name is Lesley and I live in Australia.

🚨Warning Black people!🚨 Another famous white person with trash views has died! Do not use their own words against them, or BlueSky moderators may be forced to ban you!🤡 Do not mention that "1000 years of darkness" is a white nationalist and great replacement dog whistle! Don't mention birtherism!

RAM prices exploded, laptops becoming unaffordable, Big Tech wants to push us into the cloud. But could scarcity bring back the lost art of efficient programming? Constraints breed creativity. They always have.

A former college football player and former NFL player host a podcast episode where they invite on the former Mr. Olympia bodybuilder, and they talk about women coaches in bodybuilding. Stop pretending that rejecting "toxic masculinity" means that all masculinity is bad.

🚨 Attention Black people!🚨 Someone that racist Americans *don't* like, has passed away! That means that they're allowed to talk as disrespectfully about him as they want, and to repost and laugh along with cruel memes without getting banned or fired like you would be. This is confusing, I know! 🙂🙃

Here's a quick Saturday night post, that just wanted out. Companies are trading their vision for margins, replacing people with AI, and calling it transformation. But a tool doesn't care about your vision. People do.

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Tell me the model is trained on too much bad test code without telling me.. The agent tried to fix the test by adding retries.

I said what I said about VR. I unironically, completely sincerely, want companies to succeed in VR! I love it when companies go all in on VR! Because there is zero chance that any company will ever be successful in VR without *significant* investment in DEI research! 🙃🙂 None. Cannot happen.

If my opinion is "Racism is bad." And your opinion is "Racism is good!🤡" Then yes, it is OK to humiliate you. And no, I don't respect racists, so no, I won't be showing them respect. They haven't earned that. Society needs much less of pandering to racists, and people selling civility discourse.

And I don't care that much about changing racist *people*.🤷🏿‍♂️ That's a non-goal for me. I care about reducing the impact and negative outcomes of racist *systems*. A racist system can be designed and operated by non-racist people. Not only *can be.* I'd even say that they *usually are.* 🙂🙃

I don't make racist people become not racist. I don't have that power. I wish I did! That's not what I do. What I do, is close the gap between what white people know, and what Black people know. This has no effect on white people that really want to be racist.🤷🏿‍♂️ But it helps normal white people.👍🏿

Hey Hollywood! Of the world's 8 billion people, fewer than 5% are white men. So put some Black and Asian people and women in your movies! And let women talk! You'll earn billions more $$$! Smart people: 🤑Billions more dollars? Say less! Racist people: 🤡No! That's woke! Only white men's stories!