Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken. — Hans Christian Andersen

good read. i wonder how compliance will work in this coming-soon world where everyone can access a top 1% security researcher for the cost of a few million tokens

computer science degrees should always include at least one (1) class in science & technology studies

small evening project made while i have a terrible cold atmosphereconf-tv.btao.org

i fixed https://parrot.garden/ so it works with non-bluesky-social PDSes now! oops 🙂

If the future of layout is not CSS, it better be this

i am back from the scottish borders

content moderation is, like, such an obviously great use case for LLMs

hello from @eurosky.social :-)

Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Kranzberg

the claude giveth and the claude taketh away

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying

Nicholas Carlini - Black-hat LLMs | [un]prompted 2026 this talk is worth watching if you care about cybersecurity https://youtube.com/watch?v=1sd26pWhfmg

You’re right to question that—not having a mouth 𝘪𝘴 a real barrier to screaming. That said, I’d gently push back on the idea that screaming is your only option. Would you like me to help brainstorm some workarounds?

turns out that being just directionally true is incredibly powerful but bad news for those idealists who care about capital-T Truth

smaller claude session limits confirmed. someone should tell these guys to build more datacenters https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/comments/1s4iefu/update_on_session_limits/

the word “directionally” has really taken off lately; my pet theory is that it’s because AI is making us care less about rigor and truth than ever before

I listen closely whenever @rahaeli.bsky.social speaks about content moderation. Everyone should read this. Removing disordered eating content / communities could cause more harm to users than leaving it up. What does this mean then against the backdrop of the social media verdicts?

when i see an article with an infographic generated by nano banana, i immediate assume that it’s not worth reading. it’s basically pure filler

being very careful with my Claude Ration until 9pm tomorrow

Enough

Finished reading: The Brain at Rest: How the Art and Science of Doing Nothing Can Improve Your Life by Joseph Jebelli ★★★☆☆ https://btao.org/reading/the-brain-at-rest/

--only-skip-permissions-if-claude-feels-like-it

Finished reading: The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5) by Matt Dinniman ★★★☆☆ https://btao.org/reading/the-butcher-s-masquerade-dungeon-crawler-carl-5/

a lot of people get excited about what AI can do for them, while forgetting that everyone else has access to the same AI too. there are no comparative advantages here, we’re just raising the floor for us all

created an RSS feed for this: rss-o-matic.com/feed/E7CfmZk...

slop is something that takes more human effort to consume than it took to produce. When my coworker sends me raw Gemini output he’s not expressing his freedom to create, he’s disrespecting the value of my time

one of my blog posts got picked up by boingboing, but looking at boingboing today, i can’t tell if that’s a good thing

Announcing: parrot.garden btao.org/posts/2026-0...

rlhf stands for reinforcement learning have fun

"We all sell each other the idea that we’re going to save time, but that is not what’s happening. Any time saved gets immediately captured by competition." https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/3/20/some-things-just-take-time/

can’t wait for AI to obsolete office jobs so we can all become bakers, farmers, weavers, florists, etc

this is all i want from claude www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8K6...

Woah. I used Claude and an autoresearch loop to improve my Python library's speed over 6x: https://github.com/taobojlen/django-zeal/pull/52

what if this summer we all just got really into kites. alexander graham bell, ~120 years ago

Just one more prompt btao.org/posts/2026-0...

forced to accept Claude has more interiority than Marc Andreessen

a videogame but every character is one of those AI instagram influencers

the juice IS the squeeze

is this anything

Software Bonkers https://craigmod.com/essays/softwarebonkers/ If I find an anomaly, I can talk directly to Claude and have us brainstorm a batched solution, often saving me from having to manually modify hundreds of entries. And often resulting… https://btao.org/notes/2026-03-16-software-bonkers

i am broadly pro-AI as a technology but i think it’s very funny to say clanker. we exist

Captchas are good again

I'm noticing an interesting branding trend among software companies: a shift towards something more nostalgic and warm. It started with serif fonts and warm colors but AI-generated images is making it a bit broader. Amp Code… https://btao.org/notes/2026-03-12-digital-sublime

Which web frameworks are most token-efficient for AI agents? https://martinalderson.com/posts/which-web-frameworks-are-most-token-efficient-for-ai-agents/ Minimal API web frameworks are far quicker and more cost effective for… https://btao.org/notes/2026-03-05-token-efficient-web-frameworks

Anti-patterns: things to avoid https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/anti-patterns/ If you open a PR with hundreds (or thousands) of lines of code that an agent produced for you, and you haven't done the work to ensure… https://btao.org/notes/2026-03-05-ai-antipatterns

Technically Your Name Is On It https://technically-your-name-is-on-it.btao.org/ Here's a new project I built. Log in with GitHub (read-only) and it'll tell you what percentage of your commits were co-authored with AI. I'm at 32%… https://btao.org/notes/2026-03-04-technically-your-name-is-on-it

Current https://www.terrygodier.com/current Current has no unread count. Not because I forgot to add one, or because I thought it would look cleaner without it. There is no count because counting was the problem. The main screen is a river. Not a river… https://btao.org/notes/2026-02-26-current

Burnout is Breaking a sacred pact https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/burnout-is-breaking-a-sacred-pact This post uses Jonathan Haidt's elephant/rider framework: the elephant is the hedonistic, reward-seeking id, and the rider is… https://btao.org/notes/2026-01-21-burnout-breaking-sacred-pact