I've lived in Europe for more than 20 years. People here often ask me if I feel I fit in or miss the USA. I tell them I've never felt particularly American, primarily because of my disdain for cars and the US's dependency on them.

OMG this is big, and so, so important… I love this. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

As I find myself in a similar quest and inspired to answer similar questions, I wrote this post: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

If you are on Gran Canaria on March 8th, I strongly suggest you attend this event that celebrates women and programming! www.meetup.com/gofigeeks/ev...

What will happen if I consistently like (or consistently dislike) every ad I see in ChatGPT, without fail? OpenAI claims there is no relation between ads and my chats but… www.techradar.com/ai-platforms... This thought was based on this experiment: www.wired.com/2014/08/i-li... (summary version)

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Went for a hike yesterday, really beautiful place...

17 year-old CEO looking for Head of Engineering on LinkedIn… Olé for him! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

OpenAI released initial estimates about the share of users who may be experiencing symptoms like delusional thinking, mania, or suicidal ideation, and says it has tweaked GPT-5 to respond more effectively.

I'm working on a personal project that requires the creation of hundreds of selfies. I compared 20 models and produced samples for each using the same prompt. You can see the report here: www.chicagoitsystems.com/ai-model-sam... I would love your feedback!

I'm doing a LOT of vibe engineering lately. Yesterday I wrote some instructions that I thought were particularly exemplary of the kind of prompt Claude, Codex et al normally respond well to and I thought I'd share it here. This is me responding to Claude…

Are any of my followers using Claude Code? Have you had any issues with it complaining with "Unable to connect to API due to poor internet connection"? If so, do you know a solution for this (because I can clearly connect and Anthropic's status pages says all systems go)

When I was a child, I had many bad teachers with good intentions. What about you?

I've been reading lots of Engineering Manager job descriptions lately and almost always, without fail, they are actually tech lead positions with virtually no mention of actual management responsibilities. Sad state of affairs when proper management is devalued in this way.

Not too bad for a family of four over the course of 7 or 8 years, some devices even older. I do wish there was a better way to recycle this stuff though.

I'm still here! Lately we've been doing a deep dive on semantic search and how it compares to traditional search methodologies. We also looked at Supabase "orchestration" (sadly, a way to hobble together stored and Edge functions, cron jobs and queues to do more complex tasks).

Tech people have laptop stickers of laughing pizza slices and upside down smileys and inside is like the most gnarled async code holding up a distributed system for 10 million users

Massive effort has been put into making code maintainable. Maintainable code has low complexity, follows predefined patterns, is terse, etc. AI tools enable us to "fill the gaps" where coding ecosystems fall short. They allow us to shove square pegs into round holes thus increasing complexity.

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

In 2025 top 3 uses of GenAI are: therapy/companionship, organising life, and finding purpose. I think something has gone pretty badly wrong here. hbr.org/2025/04/how-...

For the past year a colleague and I have been developing a tool for helping bid writers write bids for public tenders. We have not actively promoted it but the few who've tried it, love it. If you are interested in a demo, schedule me here calendar.app.google/Ec9gCP5rNMZG... bidwin.ai

I'm on Spain's IRS (Agencia Tributaria) web site. I don't know if this is just a really bad translation or someone being facetious but apparently they have a "deprive you area". This is not a joke or fake. This is real!

The problem with climbing mountains is they never seen as big from the top as they did from the bottom.

I hope this is good news. Seems like it should be.

Me (go)too

Giraffes are still a thing in modern AI. In the attached transcript, I was trying to get ChatGPT to remind me of the word gobsmacked. I gave up after giraffe. @janelleshane.com

At work I want to be more valued for my presence than for my absence. In other words, I prefer that people value me being in their meeting rather than lamenting my absence… I know they sound like the same thing but they aren't!

American teens are flocking to a new video app

At my son's high school, students are not allowed to miss even a single day without a doctor's note. Doctors, however, tell us not to bring our children in unless they've had a fever for 3 days. Meanwhile, the kids attend class, spreading their virus and suffering.

I decided to sign up for a job helping to train an AI using RLHF. So far the experience has been… interesting!

I tell everyone I know: transitions are always the hardest part (as evidenced by this video - watch to the end)

GitHub Spark is super interesting but it's not what I imagine the future of programming to look like. In the article below, the author quotes some stats on how well new models can code, but how will we know of the code is truly right and not doing something unintended?

Went down a rabbit hole. Here are some movies about the future that are set in 2025: Bicentennial Man (1999) Futuresport (1999) Her (2013) Repo Men (2010)

Although we reside in the same city, we live in different worlds.

Academics finishing the semester: FINALLY I can start working on my work!

the scariest words you'll hear from a voter: "I do my own research" cc: @radiofreetom.bsky.social

About 13 years ago I made this video with my high school students. Little did I know how accurate my prediction of the future would be! youtu.be/bRQDepBnAUs?...

Un placer formar parte del staff de la @gofigeeks.bsky.social lo mejor esta por llegar. youtube.com/watch?v=mtJF...

Interesting observation. Not sure how useful or helpful, but interesting.

I've been using Github Copilot in VS Code since it was in beta. The feeling I have is that it has enabled me to produce more, better code faster (not scientific). Now, apparently, you can also include your own "custom instructions" for completions in VS Code! code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot...

Computers are easier to deal with than people because they are predictable. Computers fail to inspire hope because they are predictable. I'll stick with messy people, thank you.

@annamillsoer.bsky.social maybe interesting?

I suddenly seem to be getting crypto and social-network-building followers. Was it something I said?

I have no idea what is more incredible about this... The fact that @wired.com managed to get cell phone tracking data for Epstein Island visitors... 😲 Or the fact they think they don't have data points in Europe because of GDPR 🤣 www.wired.com/video/watch/...

Testing your LLM output is crucial. Remember, LLMs have zero "understanding" of anything... chatgpt.com/g/g-6733430b...

I've realized and am coming to terms with the idea that I am in love with the art of writing code, but not the business, and I'm only doing the business because it affords me the occasional opportunity to explore the art. When I retire, the art will fill my heart.

Everyone underestimates the importance of monitoring your outputs. Take it from a programmer, this is important!

Only Wednesday afternoon and already pining for Friday!