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Jeff Chiu

@absolutelyjeff.bsky.social
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Software engineer and academic humanities refugee. Tech is the best and worst thing to happen to me. codefork.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
So wild to me that the entire economy is propped up by companies who think living your best life is being a middle manager to a collection of bots.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
To celebrate the launch of our book about class struggle in Silicon Valley and the fight AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY, Clarissa and I are organizing a book club with: @techworkerscoalition.org @organizeworkers.bsky.social @demsocialists.bsky.social @education.dsausa.org RSVP at tinyurl.com/ato-914
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 06/09/2026
Had never seen the term “botlickers” and I’m adopting it immediately. 13/12, no notes
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/09/2026
Had a wonderful time talking to Vanity Fair for this profile and Q&A about the AI bubble and my larger thesis about how we got here. www.vanityfair.com/story/ed-zit... Archive link: archive.ph/IG97X
vanityfair.com
He Did Tech PR. Now He Rails Against AI for a Living.
Ed Zitron isn’t concerned about our AI revolution turning into a murder-robot nightmare. He’s warning that the companies involved are spending insane amounts of money that they will never make back—an...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
WSJ: The data-center backlash “is feeding off a ‘broader-based belief that the system is broken and no longer working for the average person. .. it’s become, I would say, even a poster child for it.’” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/inside-...
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Jeff Chiu @absolutelyjeff.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is a great take. Using AI to assist or generate writing opens you up to the risk of plagiarism in complex ways. Can you afford that risk?
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This statement from Codeberg maintainers, after their community voted to not use any code for LLM training and banned vibe-coded projects, is really good. blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o...
The development team of none

Using LLMs to work with your code gives you a kick of adrenaline. You can develop at a rapid pace, build things as if you had a large team. Only that you have none. In fact, you are (often) alone, working with a statistical machine that turns energy into code.

It seems like many ‘vibe coders’ don't realize that they don't actually have a community around them. They build projects as if they had, and spend resources accordingly. We see projects having a lot of code activity, heavy CI/CD testing, frequent and large release binaries. Sometimes, it feels like the amount of supported platforms exceeds the amount of actual users.

To us, it seems ridiculous to see projects with a single developer and virtually no users consuming as much or even more resources than some of the largest community projects on Codeberg, which operate frugal with CI/CD and storage resources. We do not believe it is reasonable for Codeberg to invest our precious donation money into hosting of large ghost projects.
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 05/08/2026
Big new release of my LLM CLI tool and Python library for talking to hundreds of different LLMs - reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses support, server-side tools, smarter logging and a whole lot more simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/4/n...
simonwillison.net
New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging
I released LLM 0.32 this morning, the most significant new version of LLM since the initial launch of the project. The new version includes support for visible reasoning traces, server-side …
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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"But ChatGPT gives me dopamine." The real dopamine is when you spin the roulette wheel in your own mind and sometimes you get an elegant synthesis of Freud, Calvino, and Sartre as a kind of symbolic phenomenology and sometimes you get half-remembered episodes of Bobby's World from when you were 8.
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.
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binp @binp.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
we are scarily close to general artificial intelligence
a screenshot of a facebook post of a photo of an rv with "THEY EAT BABIES IN DENVER!!!" scrawled on the back. 

meta ai suggests:
- Baby-eating restaurants in Denver
- Denver's population
- Denver's unique food scene
- Restaurants that serve babies
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
One thing we now know without a doubt as a result of AI is that doing the homework really does matter for learning.
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Tom Francis @pentadact.com · 24/06/2026
Git still hiring poets to write error messages.
A git error message reading "fatal: you are on a branch yet to be born"
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Jeff Chiu @absolutelyjeff.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Recently I was talking to some people (IRL, not online) and a question came up that nobody could answer authoritatively, but that each of us had some knowledge about. It could have been a fun conversation, but instead someone said "ask chatgpt" and that just killed it. This is life now.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
jesus christ NO! NO!!! FUCK
Back Of Gatorade Bottle Features Recipe For Gatorade Casserole @andrewfleer.com actually collecting the ingredients for this for some reasonIt's so wet

An unbaked Gatorade casserole 
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Update: 30 minutes later, it's still very wet.

Maybe 20 more minutes?







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We're going to try just a little longer. 

For the record, it smells horrid

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After an hour, I think this is the best we're gonna get

Baked Gatorade "casserole" 
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Gatorade casserole soup in a bowl 
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It smells like hot tuna, with a lingering sweetness of the Gatorade
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/06/2026
"The values described in Claude’s constitution sound very nice, but that hardly matters; it’s dishonest to suggest that Claude is capable of moral reasoning, because it’s not." -Ted Chiang, No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
theatlantic.com
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 22/05/2026
‘While some cling to the promise of an AI “revolution,” the cost of adoption is proving a stubborn bottleneck. These developments also suggest that the economics of replacing human labor with AI may be more complicated than some early forecasts originally implied.’ fortune.com/2026/05/22/m...
fortune.com
Microsoft reports are exposing AI's real cost problem: Using the tech is more expensive than paying human employees | Fortune
Companies are racing to incentivize employees to use AI. But as some companies are finding, the more employees that use the technology, the heavier the bill.
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Jeff Chiu @absolutelyjeff.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This repo has 62k stars. Compare with Ruby on Rails, which has 58k. More people want to talk to a caveman AI than use a web framework.
github.com
GitHub - JuliusBrussee/caveman: 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman
🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman - JuliusBrussee/caveman
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Jeff Chiu @absolutelyjeff.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"... the most interesting and important fact about a technology is not what it does, but who it does it for and who it does it to"
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EFFecting Change: How to Disenshittify the Internet
YouTube video by EFForg
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kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
One day, being able to code in Python will be seen as the equivalent of being able to speak Latin now.
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Jeff Chiu @absolutelyjeff.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Canvas appears to have been hacked. I'm seeing lots of reports on Bluesky about various institutions affected. This could be very, very bad.
dailyuw.com
UW Canvas domain appears to be hacked by criminal ‘pay or leak’ extortion group
UW Canvas domain appears to be hacked by criminal ‘pay or leak’ extortion group
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Jeff Chiu @absolutelyjeff.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
This is such a great article.
theguardian.com
What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit
The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collectiv...
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 14/04/2026
WaPo website replaced search with AI and it's going great
doordash grandma

DoorDash does not have a specific policy for seniors or helping grandparents, as the provided articles do not mention DoorDash's policies or services for seniors.

If you have a follow-up question, feel free to let me know.

how the fuck do I just search WaPo articles?

To search Washington Post articles, you can use the "Ask The Post Al" tool, which is a generative Al tool that provides summary answers and curated results directly to users.

If you have a follow-up question, feel free to let me know.

I asked. Show me article about "doordash grandma"

There is no information about DoorDash and grandma in the provided articles.

If you have a follow-up question, feel free to let me know.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/04/2026
"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."
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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I've said it before: I genuinely consider it a moral imperative that people my age and up bang the drum about what the Internet used to be so those younger know that there's nothing inherent about what it is now. The Internet doesn't have to be this; its culture can and has belonged to people.
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 17/03/2026
2014: Silicon Valley to journalists: “Learn how to code” 2026: About that. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/m...
Coding After Coders:
The End of Computer Programming as We Know It
In the era of A.l. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming.
Instead, what they're doing is deeply, deeply weird.
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Miguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We are doomed: grith.ai/blog/clineje...
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A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines
A prompt injection in a GitHub issue triggered a chain reaction that ended with 4,000 developers getting OpenClaw installed without consent. The attack composes well-understood vulnerabilities into so...
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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 25/02/2026
the software industry rn
the "code's compiling" xkcd edited to be about Claude Code being down
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Jeff Chiu @absolutelyjeff.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I think this is the only time I've ever seen the cost of cloud hosting go up instead of down. we can thank AI for driving up demand for memory and storage 😔
hetzner.com
Statement on price adjustment as of April 1st 2026
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Jeff Chiu @absolutelyjeff.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
On AI slopification: "What's dispiriting is the (lack of) process and care: take someone's carefully crafted work, run it through a machine to wash off the fingerprints, and ship it as your own. This isn't a case of being inspired by something and building on it. It's the opposite of that."
nvie.com
15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
How Microsoft continvoucly morged my Git branching diagram.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
(me, menacingly): you've read your last free article
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Jeff Chiu @absolutelyjeff.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Sometimes using chatgpt for coding is like having a Terminator that trips every ten steps. It's shooting people, changing shape, doing badass stuff!! Then it trips over its own two feet and you have to pick it up. Every ten steps. Sure, a Terminator sounds cool but this feels kind of stupid.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Doing some hat research and...I guess I didn't realize that the Smurfs were a symbol of liberty?
Phrygian cap 	A soft conical cap pulled forward. In sculpture, paintings and caricatures it represents freedom and the pursuit of liberty. The popular cartoon characters The Smurfs wear white Phrygian caps.
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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 23/01/2026
My neighbor told me he keeps losing falcons to the widening gyre so I asked how many falcons he has and he said he just goes to the falconry and gets a new falcon afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding falcons to drown with the ceremony of innocence and then Yeats started crying.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 22/01/2026
While RAM kits have been hit the fastest and hardest by AI-induced shortages and price increases, we shouldn’t expect SSD pricing to improve any time soon, either.
arstechnica.com
Kioxia's memory is "sold out" for 2026, prolonging a "high-end and expensive phase"
Kioxia is spinning up more manufacturing capacity, but relief will come slowly.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."  Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...
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Jeff Chiu @absolutelyjeff.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
This is a pretty cool publication.
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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Charts like this kill me. In a good way.
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Jeff Chiu @absolutelyjeff.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Good tips for maintaining your sense of wonder and creativity for programming
jyn.dev
i'm just having fun
programming isn't a competition
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Jeff Chiu @absolutelyjeff.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I really like the critique of the current status quo and the thoughtful principles set forth. I'm much less certain that AI can or will play the role that this manifesto imagines.
resonantcomputing.org
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
One in twelve rams are gay!!! And farmers kill them bc they won’t breed instead of allowing them to live out a quiet life of producing wool for freaks like me!!!
rainbow-wool.eu
Rainbow Wool
Rainbow Wool is the first fashion made from the wool of gay sheep to support queer projects across the globe. #🌈🐏
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 21/11/2025
We have long known that people retain more from doing synthesis themselves than from a prepared summary. And yet, papers have abstracts, journals have review essays, and the web has Wikipedia. People decide for themselves—not always rightly!—when to consult the full text of original sources.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives
cnn.com
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business
Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.
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Peter Keep @mathprofpeter.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
First they came for AWS And I did not speak out Because Canvas was down and that was fine by me. Then they came for Cloudflare And I did not speak out Because I didn't need the textbook website. Then they came for GitHub And there were no more internet services For me to use to get work done.
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Elea Chang @elea.fyi · 15/11/2025
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
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Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Happy Sex Clams anniversary to all who celebrate. And we all celebrate.
Newspaper with headline “Party divided over sex clams”
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Jeff Chiu @absolutelyjeff.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Years ago, I worked on a free tax filing service that was pitched as an anti-poverty initiative: most people who don't file (for various reasons, including cost) usually get money back. Killing Direct File is not just a waste of resources, but a missed opportunity to help alleviate poverty.
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