ROY BATTY: …I rode on the back decks of a blinker and watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments... they'll be gone. CHATGPT: That’s a powerful story 🎯 Thank you for sharing with me! It really spoke to your passion for space! 🚀

Sorry about us-east-1. I was trimming some hedges and didn't notice that cable. Should have it all taped up by Friday.

And then it would happen two dozen more times before an article comes out on CNN with the headline “Three Dead After Humanoid Drink Pitcher Tramples Entire Family”, describing how previous incidents had gone without investigation.

You better believe if an anthropomorphic pitcher of sugary kid’s drink burst through your living room wall, the police would show up 30 minutes later to take a statement and file it away without taking a single action.

There are two kinds of people in this world. And they're both terrible.

One of those days where you get up and put your ass on inside out.

Comply in advance? Brother, I don’t even wipe.

Kafka's "Metamorphosis" except it's me and I wake up as a crab and my family and friends are totally okay with it. However, I'm still unable to get to work on time.

Software sucks and we shouldn't have to use it.

If I’m ever asked to name two people who were born at the ideal time and place for who they are, I would name Charles Munger and Ray Romano. Easy.

Whenever two famous people die within a week of each other, I instinctively say, "Kissinger when?" This is a habit I have no interest in breaking.

Thank god for AI slop. I was running out of content to consume.

8 hours for rest 8 hours for work 8 hours for more work

Open mouth coughing at the airport is so back.

I'll bet that doctor hated Pagliacci.

What the fuck does "Ph.D. level intelligence" even mean?

I know a fair number of people with PhDs and I'll bet a non-zero number of them can't accurately count the number of "b"s in the word blueberry. We don't have good working definitions of "intelligence" or "reason" or "thought".

A lot of people are using the phrase "this changes everything" lately. Mostly in relation to AI shit. Is that a phrase that AI is writing? I don't know. But it's annoying. Not everything can change everything. Let's all calm the fuck down.

A friend of mine once told me, after reviewing some of my code, that I write software like my first language was FORTRAN. He did not know at the time that it was true. I think about that a lot. Programming languages have accents.

1 like = 1 ham

Where's all this "meaningful" and "interesting" work that AI was going to free us up to do? Is the meaningful work in the room with us right now?

Not gonna lie. Building shit with Claude Code is a ton of fun in a way that I didn't think it would be until I got better at it. I bristled when a friend told me it was a "skill issue" but... here we are.

Sunday night side project time. Purchased a domain. Set up an app on Clever Cloud. Deploying. Let me know if you want to play a game in Slack. PORKOPOLIS is almost ready for playtesters.

Released a cool feature on Yetto today. Trigger automations from activity in other applications. GitHub issue gets closed? Run an automation that labels the Yetto conversation and auto-responds to the customer. So much of the work of Support is connected to other teams. Your tools should be too.

OH: "Whatever is happening with deli ham is not 'regular.'"

Do you want to play a card game in Slack? Because I'm making a new one. You're an NGO building public services for your community, but you're competing with other NGOs in an unfriendly environment. I'm looking for playtesters soon. Let me know if you're interested.

ChatGPT: "You're absolutely right. There are four lights."

For some reason, my desk collects coasters but not empty glasses or bottles. Like a college student who is obsessed with the neatness of their desk.

I hate when a bug fix is simple but I don't figure it out until I'm in a bad mood.

People are still using the term "prompt engineering" as if it doesn't just mean "make a wish to an electrified box of sand."

Maybe it'd be better if we all went back to having personal blogs instead of these micro-blogging sites that we doomscroll through all day. Nah.

You should set aside some time to read this.

no apologies for my choices / nessuna scusa per le mie scelte

if you have customers and employees you need to prepare for this regardless of whether you’re crypto or not: scammers finding support agents on linkedin and bribing them for access to customer data

If you tell me I have to "get in or get left behind" I am immediately assuming you're running a scam.

Everything you needed to know about life you learned in kindergarten? My brother in christ, you are a dipshit.

At least bullshit crypto thought leadership wasn't written by a bitcoin wallet, you know?

I hate seeing my friends lose their jobs. But it comforts me knowing that their previous employer will continue to implement organizational changes necessary to best position the company for success in a dynamic marketplace.

Lunch and learn? No thank you. The only thing I want to learn during lunch is that the coffee refills are free.

If you use Yetto and run into problems, I'm the support person who will answer and help fix shit for you. It's the best part of the gig for me. Seriously. I fucking love doing tech support.

I'm not Catholic, obviously, but I think they just voted to put relish in the eucharist.

Cubs win! Cubs win!

defund the pope

I'm not the new pope. In case anyone was wondering.

Most people who know me know that I'm a bit of an AI skeptic. I am skeptical of all things, really. But I figured I should ignore the hype and the haters alike and just try something. For the past six months or so, I've been using Cursor and GitHub Copilot.

People who have never worked for the government (local or federal) seem to have absolutely no idea how any of it works. Also that it does, in fact, work.

He has my vote.

I feel like I should reiterate this.

Jobs are fucking terrible and we shouldn't have to do them.

The AI bubble is a stunningly designed grift. Here's a machine that promises to automate the alienation of labor for knowledge workers, built on their past work, marketed to a buying class who has none of the skills to evaluate the output of these tools or the talent they promise replace.