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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Again, I will keep saying that it doesn't have to be this way. I believe we *could* have ai assistants that are more secure. But that's not what's happening. Not because they're fundamentally bad, but because the people building them don't want that.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.

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James @43081j.com · 24/09/2026

Today we're launching ai-policy.dev! A collaboration of me, @danielroe.dev and @matteogabriele.npmx.social - this provides a few human curated AI contribution policies you can choose from. Our hope is that this will help you better define your stance and what kind of contributions you accept 🙏

ai-policy.dev

AI Contribution Policies

Ready-to-use AI contribution policies for open source projects.

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

can we please all collectively stop saying that "ai is just a tool" it is a meaningless & oft-repeated phrase that justifies nothing & helps no one ai is an industry led by psychos, ai is chatbots, ai is agents, ai is data centers, ai is shitty features in software that doesn't need it

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"AI generated code was trained on humans, so of course it will have the same flaws as human generated code." "But the more we invest and train it, the better it will get!" You know what else gets better the more you invest in and train them? People.

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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 14/08/2026

mastodon.jakewharton.com/@jw/11709465...

Mastodon post from Jake Wharton:

As of today, the Lysine projects (OkHttp, Okio, Retrofit, and the SQL Delight family) have a contribution policy that forbids LLM usage for creating code and for PR/issue descriptions and comments.
There is an exception for translation assistance provided you disclose its use.
If you choose to use LLMs locally for research, analysis, and/or experimentation we can't stop you. But for contributing we require you to write the code, and for our interactions to be with you.

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 13/08/2026

> I had a conversation ... about how a developer's job is now is to teach the AI to be better, make fewer mistakes, etc. To review the code. And to test the changes that the AI makes. This is a horrible existence This is so relatable. brettcodes.com/im-done-usin...

brettcodes.com

I'm done using AI

Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 13/08/2026

Jetpack Compose 1.12 has been released! So many new goodies to look at: 🌅 Mesh Gradient support - along with support inside Android Studio for editing ✌🏻 Interactive Two-Stage Transitions 💬 Many text features such as editable text formatting android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/08/jetp...

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What's new in the Jetpack Compose August '26 release

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 13/08/2026

Twitch says quiet part out loud: Amazon AI is opt out because "nobody would opt in" aftermath.site/twitch-ai-amaz...

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Rob (RSS) @rss.coffee · 12/08/2026

Just sharing here for visibility. I have no part in the setting, rollout, or additional information. You can find the setting here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...

Screenshot of a TwitchSupport tweet that reads:

"We've added a setting that lets you opt out of having your channel content used to train generative AI content models across Amazon.

Click here to learn more:

https://link.twitch.tv/TwitchAccountSettings#FAQ"

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

lmao we got LLM bots responding to my comments about encouraging human interaction. We are in the worst timeline. The people who build and ship accounts like this should be ashamed.

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Given how little impromptu learning happens now in our industry, I took a leap and messaged a coworker and asked if they wanted to help me rubber duck a problem. They got on the call and told me it made their entire morning. We spent 20 minutes talking through a naming convention. We are so back.

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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 09/08/2026

"While giving OpenAI free access to the code in GitHub’s public repositories was not illegal, it still felt like a violation of the user community’s trust. Much of that code had been shared in the spirit of fostering open-source software development, which was grounded in helping independent

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Beautiful keynote from @kaeawc.bsky.social at Droidcon last month. Just finished watching this, and I cried half way through. A master class in keynote presentations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooSW...

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Keynote - You are Load Bearing - Jason Pearson | droidCon USA 2026

YouTube video by nextapp devCon

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

My latest crochet project - Charmander!

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

At Tuesday's meetup, I was asked a question about agentic coding and I responded "I'm the wrong person to ask." When they wanted to know why, I said it's because I don't use it. They were shocked at first, but then admitted "I feel like it's making me dumber." I heard this from at least two people.

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KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If pocket calculators regularly and randomly gave you incorrect answers to your queries like ChatGPT does, we would have left the technology behind, not insisted that 2+2=5 is HERE TO STAY, BABY.

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Celebrated 5 years of Compose at Google NYC today! 🥳

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 08/07/2026

I am exasperated with people accusing programmers of "gatekeeping" programming. We were practically dragging people through the gate. Do you know why a mindless LLM can tell you so much great programming information? It's because we've been sharing that information for free online for decades.

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Android Faithful @androidfaithful.com · 16/06/2026

Happy Android 17 Release Day! We're breaking down the rollout of the new version of Android and WearOS Plus Nothing phones now on sale in Best Buy in the US and much more on this week's podcast! LIVE today at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT: YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGKQ... Twitch: buff.ly/0d1z7sw

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I just called to schedule a service appointment for my car, and they used an automated system which is FINE but if you're going to do that, at least say it up front. Don't say "I'm Alex" and talk to me like a human being when the whole interaction is clearly automated and rigid.

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Honza Dvorsky @czechboy0.dev · 12/06/2026

If you're a manager at any company mandating LLM use, I'd recommend you try to ask your directs how they *really* feel about LLM adoption, promising to shield them from retaliation. Because it can be *very* costly for one's career to criticize LLMs right now. Empathize with your workers.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/06/2026

llms don't and can't love, hate, feel, care, think, imagine, dream, hope, fear, believe, reflect, aspire, wonder, empathize,... fix your your anthropomorphising language

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Finally showing off my decade long collection of laptop stickers! 😍

A corner bookshelf with nearly a dozen laptop cases covered in tech industry stickers.

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Live now! Come hang out for some chill Wednesday coding and handwritten spaghetti code. twitch.tv/adammc

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AdamMc - Twitch

Android GDE | Hand Written Spaghetti Code

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

If you ever rant to me about how much AI is affecting you as well, there is never a need to apologize. I am always here to listen. 💚

A screenshot where someone says to me "Anyway sorry this is me purging feelings and existential crises." and I respond "Apology rejected, AI is literally eroding our ability to communicate with each other and every chance I get to do more of that is a privilege, thank you for reaching out to me"

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Maybe the most harmful thing about LLMs for a learning community is that you won't learn about anything unrelated to what you asked for.

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Gurpreet Singh @imgurpreetsk.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I do not generally post stuff anywhere, particularly because I do not want to spend my energy locking horns with strangers while living in a dystopia. However, reading Adam's latest post here androidessence.com/leave-me-beh... really struck a chord. Excerpt from the post:

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Leave Me Behind | Android Essence

Simplified Android Development

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Thanks so much for featuring my blog post, Leave Me Behind. I'm so thrilled to hear how much that has resonated with people this week. 💚

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/05/2026

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 22/05/2026

People hate AI. In fact the trend is that more people hate AI over time and it's not slow. The numbers are clear: if you think AI is the future then *you're* the one in the echo chamber www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/how-americ...

thealgorithmicbridge.com

How America Turned Against AI According to the Poll Data: A (Very Big) Compilation

Every poll, pollster, and methodology converges on the same thing

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Live now! Come hang out for some chill Wednesday coding and ranting about AI together: twitch.tv/adammc

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AdamMc - Twitch

Android GDE | Chill Wednesday Coding

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

> Even if the code is written for you there's still a huge cognitive load in tracking all of that output. I think AI ultimately increases cognitive load. Instead of an implementation I can already do, I wait for AI to write and then read from scratch. Previously, we understood it while writing it.

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I turned off the keynote. I feel like I'm going certifiably insane. They admit that people can detect high quality AI only 25% of the time, and so their solution is to watermark AI content, with a watermark invisible to the naked eye? That solves absolutely nothing. I'm disgusted, honestly.

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Setup my walking pad at my desk today so I could walk while watching Google IO, and then got the cursed exercise idea of "what if I increase the speed every time Sundar says AI" 💀

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 19/05/2026

I'm not excited by what AI can do. I'm excited by what I can do.

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Márton Braun @zsmb.co · 18/05/2026

Last Friday, we announced a ✨ new default structure ✨ for Kotlin Multiplatform projects. (Nothing like a late Friday afternoon release!) In case you missed that, here’s a quick recap of what’s new! 🧵👇

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TJ @tunji.dev · 18/05/2026

If you're an Android developer building using Jetpack Compose for your you UI, consider using Compose State for your state production over StateFlow: www.tunjid.com/articles/emb...

tunjid.com

Embracing Compose Snapshot State for UI Layer State Production

Getting the best out of Kotlin, coroutines and compose in the UI layer

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 18/05/2026

Developers have had impressively strong communities for a couple decades now, and we've accumulated a lot of power. Big corporations would prefer labor not have power, so what's a good way to take out one of the most powerful labor forces? Turn them back to cogs in the machine without community

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Screaming into the void some thoughts on AI coding. androidessence.com/leave-me-beh...

androidessence.com

Leave Me Behind | Android Essence

Simplified Android Development

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Live now! Chill Wednesday night coding with my new standing desk, come chat! twitch.tv/adammc

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Twitch

Twitch is the world

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Slightly increase a band: M&Ms

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We had a cleaning service come by the house today and while they were here I heard another noise and realized our roborock vacuum was going off. Doesn't it know it's been replaced by a human?

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