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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 20h

I’ve been posting less with the new job keeping me busy, and it’s been really nice. Might try to shift more to writing longer-form stuff when I have the time.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 26/09/2026

I see people mocking this, but trying out ideas experimentally is how you validate whether they work!

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 23/09/2026

Excited for people to try this out! I’ve really enjoyed using it internally since I joined Anthropic

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 22/09/2026

Well articulated, and I agree with Steve. IMO it could be basically syntactic sugar for a compile-time generated and destructured struct.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 21/09/2026

I knew from the periodic reporting that these were still happening, but had missed that we were up to *sixty-eight strikes*

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 21/09/2026

Super cool that airports let everyone bring one carry-on orb to ponder

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 21/09/2026

I’ll keep saying it: if you ever find yourself staking out a general position *against* broad rising productivity, you are advocating in favor of crushing poverty.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 20/09/2026

Thank you Will Stancil for fight-teaching introductory philosophy of the mind to Bluesky

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 20/09/2026

Started getting the Sunday paper, which means I get editorials like “the federal government should buy more mortgage backed securities to drive down the cost of home loans,” said by a representative for a trade group of home loan originators.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 19/09/2026

Saw this and had to grab it since @bcantrill.bsky.social’s recommended it repeatedly on Oxide and Friends

Me, holding the book “Skunk Works” by Ben Rich while sitting on an airplane.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 17/09/2026

Trying out the new Apple Siri AI, and it’s remarkably opaque! So far I’ve found I may have to prompt two or three times to get adequate details, for example when asking it to explain its own architecture.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 16/09/2026

iPhones deciding you need to be in Driving Mode is the phone equivalent of seatbelts locking up when you try to put them on.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 16/09/2026

Between Clawd and Ferris two big things in my life have crab mascots.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 16/09/2026

Excited to say that I’ve joined Anthropic! It’s a big change after 11 years at MITRE, but I’m glad to be at another place that’s as mission-driven!

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 15/09/2026

2030: announcing the AirPods 12 Pro, with the least predictable launch angles and greatest distance on drop, over 30% more than AirPods 11 Pro.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 14/09/2026

Arrived in SF just in time for the natural disaster known as Dreamforce

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 14/09/2026

As ever: real Computer Knowers keep a gun nearby in case it starts misbehaving

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 14/09/2026

One major blind spot inherent in rationalism is the belief that human actors can ever *be* rational en masse. The pure belief that you can make arguments and convince the public, or even policy makers, of something by virtue of being right.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 14/09/2026

The Apple Experience is tapping, double-tapping, swiping, long-pressing, and multi-swiping on different parts of your screen to discover new secret features.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 14/09/2026

> “I’m going airplane mode” > *transforms into an airplane*

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 14/09/2026

Counterpoint to my other post about Rust not being the language of the future: Rust has a lot of opportunity to keep delivering on its own potential. There are many RFDs that are approved but not yet implemented!

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 14/09/2026

IMO, Rust today is not the language of the future. Rust’s memory safety w/out GC was groundbreaking, but the design choices it made mean build performance has an unacceptably high floor. When agentic coding means an order of magnitude more build/run loops, that high floor really hurts.

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The contagion of fear bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...

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The contagion of fear | The Observation Deck

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 12/09/2026

Usually government agencies are smart, competent, and technocratic.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 11/09/2026

After more than 11 years, today was my last day at MITRE! More to share soon about where I’m landing next.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 11/09/2026

Predicting the vibes at Automattic become much worse than they already were

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 11/09/2026

T2 remains S-tier. 7 years ago I wrote an article about risks of AI in the national security space, and *of course* opened with a Terminator reference. (Fun fact: this was all pre-LLMs! "Attention is All You Need" had come out, but we were 3 years away from ChatGPT releasing)

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AI & National Security: A Primer

Since we first imagined AI, we’ve worried it would kill us. Artificial intelligence for years conjured up images of the Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger in shades and a leather jacket, CGI metal men ...

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 10/09/2026

I mean this neutrally: in projects with unsolvable AI-use tensions, forks should be pursued so both sides can have their own aligned values.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 10/09/2026

#jj-vcs interoperability with Git continues to be key. The fact that ERSC can swap out the repo storage to not use Git, *and* can have a migration path to a future, better wire protocol than Git's, while preserving compatibility along the way, is amazing!

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 10/09/2026

There is a stupid version of leftism that believes no company can ever serve a useful purpose; that they're pure greed and graft 100% of the time, price discovery is fake, etc. Even if you abolished capitalism, someone would need to invent worker-owned insurance and other financial functions.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 10/09/2026

I do highly recommend this step if you're considering buying a home in California. osfm.fire.ca.gov/what-we-do/c...

osfm.fire.ca.gov

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 10/09/2026

It is not progressive to commit the government to pay out enormous sums of money when the thing that will definitely keep happening keeps happening.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 10/09/2026

Apparently pasting Markdown into a Word doc and having it automatically converted into structured text is a web-only feature. ... why?

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 10/09/2026

I wish more systems would adopt what IPS does in Illumos derivatives: Install scripts have a pre-determined list of actions they're allowed to run. If you need something else, you must handle it yourself in normal operation.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 10/09/2026

Not at RustConf, so I'll have to catch the full video later, but the slides are very good at capturing Oxide's highs and lows with Rust. Also a bit of a flex how many Oxide engineers besides Bryan have been talking publicly about their work with Rust for years on years now.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 09/09/2026

Chipotle, the AI-powered edge manufacturing company

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 09/09/2026

Once again, Apple shows the value of hardware-software co-design.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 09/09/2026

Huh, you can now write CUDA in Rust.

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Super excited to share "A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await". How differently does async/await behave across today's languages? (More than you might expect!) And what *is* "structured concurrency"? Check out our ~interactive~ blog post introducing the paper: cel.cs.brown.edu/blog/design-...

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A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await

Every language pitches async/await as synchronous-looking code, and the same two keywords appear everywhere. But behind the shared syntax hide nine independent design decisions, and no two of seven mo...

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 08/09/2026

Remarkable that as the software security world is seeing norms about vulnerability embargoes blown up because concurrent discovery is so common and easy, academic math may see embargoes adopted since the cost of agentic concurrency discovery remains high in their domain.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 08/09/2026

Growing up in post-9/11 America, this is the first time I can remember where it's been possible to do this in the US.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 08/09/2026

My high school put up a big expensive carved stone sign that said we were "Commited to Excellence" (yes, misspelled)

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 08/09/2026

Not for nothing: members of my family have persisted in using X and have become much more anti-immigrant. It's disgusting

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 06/09/2026

Open source maintainers are fully within their rights to tell people to pound sand when they come in making demands. That’s true even if the demands are coated in bad faith “I’m just trying to help you” language.

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