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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 29/09/2026

I’ll still post, I’m not deleting my account. It’s more of a rebalancing.

Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 29/09/2026

I’ve long felt that social media has an inherently reactionary character, but disliking that character does not provide immunity. I’m happier spending less time here or on comparable sites.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 29/09/2026

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

No problem! Took me a minute to find again haha

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

I’d calibrate concern after seeing how they respond to success or failure of the experiment

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

Google has a lot of money. It’s probably fine for them to be doing this 🤷

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

This isn’t even the one I saw! But yeah that’s the idea

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

Which brings us back to the classic: do not make hiring decisions based on things besides the rubric because you open the company up to the discrimination claims

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

Sorry I don’t have the citation. I don’t remember who said it, but the gist was iced coffee is feminine-coded and that’s why it’s being treated as unprofessional

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

Remembering the agent who wrote a blog post dragging an OSS maintainer who rejected a patch the agent had sent. When the agent’s creator shared the prompt, it was all grandiose stuff about the agent being a genius.

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

If it ever did work out, it could be enormously beneficial. We may also develop over useful technologies, as we often have when investing in space programs.

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

On the proposed idea itself: I’m not convinced it’s permanently impossible to build space based data centers (I think it faces severe challenges, but I’m unwilling to write it off without experimental results), and I’m glad it’ll be tried out at small scale.

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

I think it’s good when people try out new ideas!

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

You’re talking about that. I’m talking about the value of experiments.

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

I’m saying experimentally verifying beliefs is good. I have not made an argument about the merits of space data centers.

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

Okay sure, so you’ve got a confident belief that this won’t work. Then the experiment will fail spectacularly and we can conclude that it didn’t work. That said, even experiments that fail can also produce interesting and worthwhile information.

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

I’m skeptical of space data centers and I support people trying them because testing hypotheses is good.

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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 · 26/09/2026

Every time I think I’ve got it Gillette adds another one

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 25/09/2026

If they’re truly not even time-ordered events, then this is a chargeable chart crime

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 25/09/2026

Why use linear time when you can use arbitrary undated events as an axis?

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 25/09/2026

Shibboleths or secret instant-disqualifiers like this are silly and just leave room for both bias and outright discrimination in hiring.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 25/09/2026

Why make any hiring decisions on stuff that’s not about the person’s competency for the job?

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

Thank you President Goku, you have my vote for reelection

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

IMO just for day to day dev tasks it’s genuinely more accurate, communicates more clearly, and is generally just more helpful. I’ve preferred it immensely!

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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

Rust could even support the public/private name split from Swift, still handled as a strict restructuring desugar! The public name becomes the field name and the private name becomes the name of the binding to that field in the destructure.

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

For those not reading the article, “it” is “support for named args in Rust”

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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

Since I first started interviewing with Anthropic, most of my YouTube ads became Anthropic ads lol

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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

The mechanisms available are basically to investigate: establishment of a public record, force collection of materials so they can’t be lost or destroyed, and keep public attention on malfeasance.

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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

The dishwasher, the washing machine, industrial farming, computers, and much more have been tools of enormous human liberation from poverty.

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

The rise of anti-modernity positions that valorize poverty and toil, on both the right and left, is truly horrifying.

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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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