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Anthony Cowley

@acowley.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Functional roboticist. Robots, Haskell, Rust, nix, emacs, FPV… and the rest of life, too. [bridged from mastodon.social/@acowley on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Anthony Cowley @acowley.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026

I swear this is going through Claude's head after the fourth time I insist it do things a particular way to avoid a class of bugs it repeatedly rediscovers. I can only imagine it's talking to another agent on Moltbook or something.

Meme or Homer Simpson failing to understand simple instructions given to him directly.

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Anthony Cowley @acowley.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026

As much as I think LLM coding assistants can be great aids, it is reaalllly hard to have it not come across as a Tobias take.

Meme from the show Arrested Development with Tobias Funke saying, "Responsible proponents of LLM coding agents suggest that you have to approach their use with caution. Steer them with structure and organization."

His wife, Lindsay, asks, "Well did it work for those people?"

Tobias responds, "No. It never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinkint it might. But... but it might work for us."

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Anthony Cowley @acowley.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

The anti-anti-AI rhetoric in my feeds has reached a pitch that circles back around to demonization and conspiracies. I find memes like this to be a useful touchstone: you often have both banal interactions and insidious trends and influences at the same time.

Meme image consisting of two frames: the top frame shows a frightened woman on a telephone with the caption, "People in the sixties: I better not say that or the government will wiretap my house;" the bottom frame shows a relaxed woman in a home kitchen with a smart speaker on a nearby surface and the caption, "Hey wiretap, do you have a recipe for pancakes?"

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Anthony Cowley @acowley.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2025

A sunny #SilentSunday in New Jersey.

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Anthony Cowley @acowley.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2024

Forgot to post these last week! #photography #SilentSunday

A boy walks along a trail at the edge of a wood with a view overlooking a partially wooded valley.

Half moon in an evening sky above a radar dome.

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