Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

there’s never been a better time to be a dilettante with a PhD in CS

This is great news - I’m teaching an upcoming Agentic Coding Studio course for final-year undergraduates, and I’ve been wrestling with what I say (be careful!) and what I do (yolo mode) with Claude Code. This is the way.

Inside every model there are two Claudes

Claude Code really loves talking about a "belt and suspenders" approach to things

i'll take this further: "slop" is just a pejorative way to say "production has become much cheaper and things can now be made that could not justify their expense in the status quo ante cost structure". the printing press was used for slop too. slop is just the expression of the freedom to make.

never interrupt your enemy while they are making a mistake or your child while they are eating a vegetable

Good news for Australians — the peak hours are 11pm–5am our time, so we basically get 2x usage all day every day 🦘

that would be so great

Did you know that arXiv is exploring to add Typst? The world's largest preprint archive faces unique challenges to keep science open. Join arXiv veteran Norbert Preining and learn what's ahead for arXiv and Typst. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZl...

increasingly believing much of the communication gap between LLM Enthusiasts and LLM Skeptics on this website boils down to “are you someone who has largely experienced a *reasonable* amount of job security in tech, or are you someone who has not experienced job security and likely aren’t in tech”

Dear @anthropic.com please consider extending your Claude Max subscriptions to open science software devs! Our repos may not have as many stars as those of some of our OSS peers, but we develop critical infrastructure in focused areas, and might even benefit more from what Claude Max offers!

I’ve been using this workflow for a couple of months now via Tailscale + the ShellFish SSH app - it’s great. But having official support is nice too

Say what you want about AI but since Opus 4.5 I’m having the most exciting time of my career. Both in terms of learning more and building faster. It’s a new tool you’ve gotta learn but once you have, you’re on a whole other level.

@shriram.bsky.social I've been discussing your syllabus with some colleagues - really interesting stuff. You're 6 weeks in, right? How's it going?

I’ve noticed that Opus 4.6 tends to no longer give you those hilarious “estimate: 2 weeks of work” claims in the planning phase (before knocking it out in ten minutes)

I want this but for zellij and jj workspaces

I added citations to my blog using atproto. My small, feeble attempt to make the scholarly Atmosphere a thing. benswift.me/blog/2026/02...

Every few months, I write an updated, idiosyncratic guide on which AIs to use right now. My new version has the most changes ever, since AI is no longer just about chatbots. To use AI you need to understand how to think about models, apps, and harnesses. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...

nah it's really not

i think it’s safe to say you can no longer adequately test an LLM in its web chat environment they need to live in an environment to really show their abilities

Opus 4.6 is properly good

Increasing problem with publishing work on AI is that the publication process is much slower than working paper process, so when papers finally get full peer reviews, authors are asked to account for newer papers that are built on the paper under review! No real norms around this research ouroborous

Another request, music tech community (esp in Australia) pls give this a boost. A fully-funded 4-year PhD at UNSW Art & Design, working with 256 speaker array with sensor array tracking human responses to audio. The project investigates sound in the art gallery. www.unsw.edu.au/research/hdr...

Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +

SensiLab Melbourne is hiring. One of the best groups in Australia researching creative tech. sensilab.monash.edu/work-with-us...

yeah, this is why I like framing AI stuff in terms of cybernetics. it really can be an extension of your capability, but it requires you to think of it that way and plan your work differently.

This might surprise some people given I'm very pro-AI, but I feel this on a visceral level about my own creative writing process. Coding? Whatever, I'm happy for an LLM to write most of that for me. But I want to solve *these* problems myself, because that feels intrinsic to my creative expression.

AI is interesting to me because it has mainstreamed “what does it mean to be human” and “what is the value of creativity and labor?” Unfortunately it’s also mainstreamed a lot of really dumb responses to those questions

Our GitHub repository is now public! github.com/elixir-lang/...

Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵

These three paragraphs are so spot on

i prefer my AI content explicitly hallucinogenic and nightmarish

Joe Burgess at #nime2025 with a brief history of the loom (and a fascinating aside about pre-histories of textiles)

Jordie Shier at #nime2025

Michaella Moon at #nime2025: notation and textbooks along can’t teach Gugak…

Victor Shepardson on the living looper at #nime2025

Lewis Wolstanholme on the creative potential of drum feedback at #nime2025

if you’re in Canberra this week (either for #nime2025 or otherwise) then my installation PANIC! is installed in the ANU School of Art & Design foyer gallery

congrats to Karen Brad for being the official theorist of #nime2025

One of the most lucid tweets I ever saw regarding AI was along the lines „We created a machine that acted like middle management and believed that meant it had a soul instead of understanding it meant that middle management didn’t.“

In terms of art, there are SO many great artists thinking critically about AI and its place in society. @eryk.bsky.social is one I consistently recommend as an artist who sees value in expression through the kinds of ecosystems of noise through which AI models articulate. Fascinating work.

Worthwhile reading. Some of the features that John rightly criticizes in AI writing are shared by the sort of committee reports and consensus papers that emerge from workshops and symposia because someone felt that there had to be a “product“ associated with the meeting.

the e/acc approach to the problem of AI research credibility jacobbuckman.com/2021-05-29-p...

Great piece by @benswift.me for @timeshighered.bsky.social highlighting how dynamic the #GenAI space is - and that universities are well advised not to keep all their eggs in one AI basket by signing exclusive deals. Strong agree with Ben's arguments. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/deeps...

OK, shit is getting real. A lot of teachers that understand the limits of straight LLMs — and know when an assignment falls outside them — are going to need to recalibrate in 2025.

Do this in 2025: