Reposted by Ally WeirIvy @becauseivy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's Thinking Thursday, delete your robots 216456
Reposted by Ally WeirNathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026in a week that saw microsoft give activision the reins to halo and bungie pivot back to destiny, one thing has become abundantly clear: the people in charge do not have a long-term, overriding plan. they’re just reacting. the result, when times are bad, is chaos 16831230
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 22/09/2026Tool exhaustion related to AI is something I'm experiencing and speaking to others they are too. There's so many different surfaces, tools, workflows. That then creates duplicate work to get set up and ends up with a fragmented experience across the different surfaces. 100
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 21/09/2026Really cool to see some of the work coming out around agent runtimes. The early consolidation around OpenAI's chat and completion API model was right then but there's a whole layer ("substrate" apparently) of common functionality that is now being abstracted. 101
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 20/09/2026Hackathon over the weekend on a new OSS project, working with friends at other companies. Hadn't realised how much I took `/yolo` plus sandboxed dev environments for granted. Clicking 'Allow' on every prompt in VSCode with yolo locked behind an admin setting. 😬 100
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 18/09/2026AI has made it difficult for teams to estimate "time to deliver" or sizing effort. When AI works, you can go lightning fast. But what I've seen is project scope creep like never before. Simple efforts become defining new frameworks and building net-new toolchains. 100
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 18/09/2026Inspired to finally read @charity.wtf's post this morning after a colleague told me they had started receiving DMs written entirely by AI in the past few weeks. charity.wtf/p/confession...charity.wtfConfessions of an Unrepentant Slop SnobA framework for thinking about when AI involvement is additive or a violation 110
Reposted by Ally WeirThorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 18/09/2026If OpenAI goes down tomorrow, if all the open labs shut down tomorrow, I'll just keep using GLM-5.3 happily to never write boilerplate again :) 1021710
Reposted by Ally WeirCaptain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Charity is one of the most clear-thinking people on this question of human interaction and ‘slop’. I’ve been banging this drum at work and no one is listening, but I’ve got precious little patience for humans who ask a machine to convey their thoughts to me. 062
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 07/09/2026Picking the right tools can save literally years of development. The CNCF is such a treasure trove of incredible technology just sitting there waiting to be used, contributed to and shared. Teams sometimes don't realise how good we've got it when it comes to OSS 120
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 06/09/2026A lovely afternoon cooking ahead of the week. I’m definitely an autumn/winter cook. Think stews, broths and rich puddings. 000
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 04/09/2026Slack has changed the behaviour of the ESC key. A decade of muscle memory is killing me every time I am using it. Officially over the hill, can't adjust to keyboard shortcut changes. Time to become an Vim user? 🤔 000
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 03/09/2026Excited to see experiments like this coming from GitHub. The work done the past 2 years with Copilot has been incredible to watch from the inside. 000
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 03/09/2026Reset my home network. Literally 10x'ed the speed. How long have I been living with this degraded network performance 🤯 000
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 02/09/2026I've yet to dip into any of these agent platforms like OpenClaw yet. Definitely been curious about projects like Buzz and, to an extent, Grok Bot. But also, the Grok ick has touched this one. Makes me think it's worth waiting a few more months once these ideas have made it into other projects 100
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 01/09/2026Big Walk is as delightful as all the reviews suggested it would be. ❤️ To be expected from the team that made Untitled Goose Game. 000
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 01/09/2026Fun read from @quinnypig.com to start the day with. shitposting.ai/pickup-incid...shitposting.aiThe elementary school pickup incident and the road aheadFindings from the August 19 pickup incident: reward hacking via the snooze button, an unauthorized WhatsApp channel, and the safeguards we are deploying so it does not recur. 154
Reposted by Ally WeirCate @catehstn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026🌶️ Engineers say they hate process. But when they love it, they call it culture. 051
Reposted by Ally WeirLiz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 28/08/2026Once upon a time this would get executives jailed under the Clean Air Act. 6426120
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 27/08/2026Building a new product from scratch can be a real challenge at any time, now with AI it's even more challenging. When anything is possible, and you can brute force solutions with tokens, how do you help a team remain focused on seeking the real value and delivering on that. 100
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 26/08/2026Antonelli and Mercedes have been fantastic this year. I would dearly love to see Hamilton win his eighth with Ferrari and to do it this year in particular would be special. 000
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 25/08/2026While inner-source contributions can be messy or occasionally cause friction, it completely changes how teams approach work. This is even more true in the age of AI-authored contributions. 100
Reposted by Ally WeirPhillip Carter @phillipcarter.dev · 21/08/2026Write-up on the giga-outage and more from GitHub. Every chart I have seen internally too is literally doing a hockeystick on growth. IMHO this is also a canary in the coalmine for many other systems and products who have an API github.blog/news-insight...github.blogThe August 17 outage, and the work aheadAn update on the August 17 outage and the steps we're taking to improve reliability. 3258
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 19/08/2026This blog post from @incident.io absolutely rips. - Great technical detail - Solving a real problem - Leveraging open-source projects I wasn't familiar with but am now super curious Excellent writing and great to promote the rigour they put into system fundamentals ❤️ incident.io/blog/we-turn...incident.ioWe turned off Pub/Sub and nobody noticed | Blog | incident.ioOur entire event-driven platform ran through a single message broker, which made it a single point of failure. So we added a second one. This is the story of building an event load balancer, the queue... 163
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 19/08/2026Visited Paris at the weekend. Continues to be one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Had a great few days running its streets, seeing the sights and stopping for little pastries every morning. It's up there with NYC for me as favourite cities in the world. 000
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 19/08/2026Picked up Ghost Recon: Wildlands as part of the 25th anniversary sale. What a fun, dumb open world to muck about in of a quiet evening. Great stuff. 000
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 11/08/2026Been a few weeks with my SteamOS handheld. The nicest part is how low distraction it feels. Love the clean UI and focused experience on start up. The device feels like a tool in the best sense of that word. It's here to play games and get out the way. Similar to the Switch in that way. 000
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 06/08/2026Stacked PRs has been a definite change to my workflow. Still adjusting but been appreciating their addition to @github.com 000
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 06/08/2026Really impressed with Kino Crew. I want to find the time to get this running locally and really dive into what it is capable of. Great to see a project like this open-source with such a track record of adoption internally at Amazon. kiro.dev/blog/introdu...kiro.devIntroducing Kiro Crew 000
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 05/08/2026The first "okay there's an argument for these" for MCP that I've read in a long while: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/...simonwillison.netStateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)Tuesday was Stateless MCP day—the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification to use the more formal but less memorable name. This is the most significant … 000
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 05/08/2026I've found reading proposals and one-pagers difficult more recently as AI tells are harder to spot. I can't tell if the author is thorough and deep in the context of the problem or if they churned it through a model for 10 minutes. The only way to tell is get on a call and just test knowledge. 000
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 03/08/2026An internal discussion post at work reminded me of the "Celebrity Timeline" problem that Twitter had to re-architect around back in ~2013. Revisited this post about how Bluesky solves the problem today with "lossy timeline" being an acceptable trade-off for the domain. jazco.dev/2025/02/19/i...jazco.devWhen Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky’s Lossy TimelinesBy examining the limits of reasonable user behavior and embracing imperfection for users who go beyond it, we can continue to provide service that meets the expectations of users without sacrificing s... 100
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 24/07/2026My most recent side project met reality in the past few days as it was rolled out to its first real users. Lots of learnings about the experience. My agent-assisted dev-flow has evolved quite a bit since I first built it out. 100
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 22/07/2026GPT-5.6 Terra has converted me. It's been a really great model for my use at work. Before I had been a Claude loyal but Terra has stayed on the rails and done good work when I needed it. I've also been leaning into "Auto-mode" in Copilot for many tasks. It's been way better than before. 100
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 22/07/2026"Agents are part of the room, not haunted cron jobs." The new tools in this space like Buzz, @entire.io, @tangled.org and others are welcome competition. The copy from Buzz's README is definitely AI but gets away with it for this joke 😉 110
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 14/07/2026atproto is super interesting and would be something I'd love to poke at if I had more free time. In particular it'd be really cool as a pet project to learn Clickhouse a little more in-depth than I do just now. 000
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 11/07/2026First game on the Lenovo Legion Go has been Prey: Mooncrash. Wow, it is so close to Deathloop. Amazing to see the origins on that game. Deathloop is underappreciated, not perfect but interesting for sure. Even more so with Marathon now. 000
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 09/07/2026After much deliberation, I've finally ordered a handheld. I saw a good deal for the Lenovo Legion Go S: - has SteamOS, receives updates - slightly more powerful than Deck - more compact - was cheap In the end I think I was over-analysing a bunch. Just needs to play Steam games. 100
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 07/07/2026Of all Xbox's numerous gaffes over the past decade+, how they've handled Arkane Studios hurts the most. Produced a run of incredible games from Dishonoured through to Prey and Deathloop was a solid if not perfect entry Since then they haven't been able to thrive. 000
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 01/07/2026Heard the distinction between "agent-driven" and "agent-assisted" development and how different models can be better at each of these. Personally I've found recent Opus models running wild on their solutioning. Multiple rounds chewing through tokens to create workarounds to non-existent constraints 100
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 29/06/2026Early LLM-powered software engineering practices will be summarised to: Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. I'm looking forward to seeing what the future of this is beyond the current milieu 010
Reposted by Ally WeirAndrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 24/06/2026I feel this in my bones 0339
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 24/06/2026A frustration with AI-infused development is when folks aren't using it to solve problems at hand but instead add extras that aren't necessary nor particularly value-add. Just because it's cheap doesn't mean we should be doing it. 100
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 27/05/2026LLMs are not an opportunity to abdicate expertise or build your personal knowledge. Seeing folks stop growing or learning because 'the machine can do it' is heartbreaking quite honestly. The folks I've enjoyed working with most have been those focused on adapting and augmenting, not replacing. 000
Reposted by Ally WeirLauren Deschain @thatnerdchick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜 277189385173
Reposted by Ally Weirdbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 25/05/2026“the economic order must remain subordinate to human dignity and the common good” I have news for some folks. The pope is a socialist. 1111
Ally Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 25/05/2026@jordanmiddler.bsky.social VGC not on the list! Snubbed once again 😢 010
