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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 11/08/2026

Don’t worry, after you’ve authenticated they’ll offer you the chance to sign up for “voice authentication” which will automatically authenticate you as you talk. I’m sure THAT’S not problematic AT ALL

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 08/07/2026

I don’t think I want to watch a full episode of him in a soap, but I’m very excited to be served clips on TikTok 😂

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 04/07/2026

Prior this World Cup, Canada has lost every World Cup match they played in, so this is definitely a big achievement!

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 04/07/2026

I had some hope we might pull out the upset but honestly this has been a phenomenal run for us either way

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 29/06/2026

We drove from Spokane to Ellensburg a few days ago and it was WIMDY AS HECK.

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 30/03/2026

It’s not unlike working with more junior engineers, but when I review a junior engineer’s code and provide constructive feedback, they’re learning and I enjoy that cycle. Getting a model to “learn” without actually retraining it is… frustrating.

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 30/03/2026

I definitely still enjoy the process of designing a solution to a problem with an agent and a team though. So the enjoyment of the job is still there. There are just some intense downsides (figuring out how to review and validate mountains of agent-written code, for example).

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 30/03/2026

Yeah. And I gave the manager thing a go a while ago and did not like it at all.

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 27/03/2026

On the other side, I've largely become a manager of agents, writing instructions and reviewing "other people's" code. I've become more productive, sure, but I don't know if I want to be a 10x engineer by managing 10 agents writing the actual code :(

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 27/03/2026

The flip-side of that is now I'm wrestling with the question of "Do I actually enjoy writing code this way?" On the one side, I've made more progress on long-standing side projects in the last 3 months than I made in the last 5 years.

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 27/03/2026

I was extremely skeptical of the FOMO peddlers, especially early on in the "everyone has to use AI" cycle, but I do kinda get it. If you actually build with it, you realize that it IS another tool, and it IS a fairly significant shift in how software is developed.

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 27/03/2026

The end of last year was a bit of an inflection point. The models started because much more capable of producing non-slop code if prompted and guided well. Can they still spew out slop? Abso-fuckin-lutely. But to dismiss it all as slop would definitely be a mistake

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 27/03/2026

It’s definitely a hard case, but I’ve seen it adapt to a messy codebase with a lot of organic history. Windows is a pretty extreme case there, especially since a huge amount of that code wasn’t in the training data (at least it shouldn’t be ;)). But I certainly wouldn’t just write it off.

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 27/03/2026

But if it’s truly novel, or has vague requirements and poor validation criteria, it’ll merrily go ahead and write complete bullshit.

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 27/03/2026

For me, the thing is: AI is extremely good at adapting well understood algorithms into new solutions. If it’s been done in public before (I.e. it’s in the training data), or you can put enough examples of how it should write code into the context, it will do a pretty dang good job implementing it.

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 27/03/2026

I think you would be surprised how effective it will be at C/C++, especially if you can point it at patterns in an existing codebase.

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 23/02/2026

Yeah, Hellebuyck was the MVP for sure.

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 23/02/2026

Yeah, I would have preferred 4 on 4, but everyone knew the rules going in. I saw the coach for Team Canada talking about it and his opinion was basically: We all knew the rules and 3 on 3 was just as fair as anything

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 23/02/2026

It was particularly heartbreaking to lose it that way, I will say. But that’s hockey for you. It’s a fast game that can shift in a snap. You can have the momentum and then make one bad play and boom.

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 22/02/2026

The Shawinigan Handshake 😅

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 22/02/2026

It’s 3 on 3!?! I don’t think my anxiety can take that 😬

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 22/02/2026

This binational family is having A TIME 😂

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 22/02/2026

I’m glad it at least yielded a goal before the end of the period 😅. Gonna be an interesting 3rd!

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 21/12/2025

My understanding is that it’s designed to encourage the penalty killers to be more offensive and push for goal opportunities instead of just always dumping the puck down the ice

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 21/12/2025

Yeah, shorthanded goals end the penalty. It’s unique to the PWHL (as compared to the NHL at least).

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 21/12/2025

Didn’t have enough Royale Tiger Towel Paper Towel Power Play energy

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 21/12/2025

We’ve watched two other PWHL games this season and they felt easier to follow, but they were both Vancouver at home and on CBC and Amazon. We’re watching on YouTube this time and I suspect it’s something to do with the streaming quality on YouTube

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 21/12/2025

Something about this feed feels off to me, it feels harder than usual to track.

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 21/12/2025

Yep. Goldeneyes are the only team in the league who are the primary tenant in their arena and have their logo at centre ice

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 11/10/2025

At least with the Blue Jays in it, it’ll be easier to find here 😂

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 11/10/2025

Am I gonna have to figure out how to watch baseball?

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 11/10/2025

(I mean, if the Jays take it all the way, I’m not gonna be sad either tho, to be fair ;))

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 11/10/2025

Elbows Up? 😅 Though for the record, I’m rooting for the Mariners too. Toronto is on the other side of the continent and I love Seattle ❤️

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 08/10/2025

But I can’t deny feeling safer as a family now that we live in a place with clear federal legal protections for queer families, solid gun control laws, and universal public healthcare (even if it is a very strained system 😬).

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 08/10/2025

Was our decision to move politically-motivated? Not entirely. As a dual citizen, with solid ties on both sides of the border, we wanted to give our whole family a chance to experience being Canadian (and getting Mary on the path to 🇨🇦 citizenship)

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 08/10/2025

News! Our family moved up to BC recently. I grew up in the Vancouver area and it’s nice to be back in the Fraser Valley. I’m still working for Microsoft on CosmosDB SDKs.

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 20/09/2025

I’d expect nothing less 😂

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 20/09/2025

Stressful but most of the logistics are finally done… I think 🥴

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 20/09/2025

I was just listening to a podcast that mentioned the Jays were top of the league and wondered how you were doing 😅

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 09/08/2025

It is absolutely the correct burger cheese when you are looking for a classic standard burger

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 20/07/2025

DS2 is the closest we’ve even been to MGS6, imo

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Ashley Stanton-Nurse @analogrelay.net · 20/07/2025

In many ways, Death Stranding is just more Metal Gear Solid, since Kojima got pushed out of Konami and lost control of it after MGSV. The story IS interesting, but you might need some glossaries/recap videos to really follow it 😂

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