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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Saw the worst code of my career today. It was a JUnit test loading JARs directly from Gradle's build cache using hardcoded file paths to run the compiler on some random code in a feature. Horrifying. Yes it was flaky (and polluted other tests), and no it wasn't needed. Yes it was AI generated.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Another day, another GitHub outage. Of course, there's nothing in the UI to indicate this, you just have to sit there and try to do something 5 times before remembering to check the status page. You'd think they'd have some sort of banner they could show to save you the clicks 🫩

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/06/2026

Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Spurs in Disarray

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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...

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Leave Me Behind | Android Essence

Simplified Android Development

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I'm not exaggerating when I say that I routinely see LLMs suggest 10x the amount of code needed to solve a problem. Something you could solve by changing a few existing lines of code is suddenly a whole new branch of logic with its own tree of classes and test cases.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

it's my belief and anecdotal observation that roughly half of the code written on a daily basis is strictly unnecessary, when evaluated on whether it solves the problem at hand.

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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

PSA: The Amazon wishlist doxing threat is much greater and more immediate than folks might realize. Attack works like this: Stalker who wants your address opens an Amazon seller account and lists themselves as a third party seller for any item on your public wishlist. Then, they order the item […]

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/01/2026

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.  ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Finally released version 3.x of my testing framework Mockingbird. Rewritten as a Kotlin compiler plugin, instead of KSP, to improve the ergonomics and support Kotlin multiplatform targets github.com/anthonycr/Mo...

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Release v3.1.0 · anthonycr/Mockingbird

Changed: core dependency is now automatically added by the Gradle plugin. Added: Multiplatform targets for iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, Wasm, NodeJS, MingGW, and Linux. Fixed: Mockingbird now specifi...

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

not saying it can't get worse but this week really feels like a straightforward depiction of what worst-case 'post truth' information apocalypse ppl were warning of in the late 2010s

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Patrick in open Rebellion @dattil.io · 06/01/2026

You may be wondering "Who the fuck is paying for Grok, the CSAM Generating machine?" And the answer is "These motherfuckers right here" Put some names to faces, and explore more connections over on www.butji.com/companies/gr... Give this a reskeet please

A graph showing the founder, investors, and data centers associated with xAI

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

It's only been 12 hours since the US invaded Venezuela and there's already AI generated propaganda videos going around Instagram in support of the invasion. US tech is so innovative.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I think this administration has vastly overestimated the rest of the world's willingness to put up with imperial oil war bullshit right now. I don't think this ends well. No war.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

showed my parents how to identify AI generated music yesterday, and proudly watched them identify which YouTube Christmas playlists were AI and then choose a playlist with real music

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I never liked roast turkey until I convinced everyone to let me take over roasting duties and try butterflying the turkey last year. As it turns out, I just hate overcooked, under seasoned turkey and am now permanently in charge of roasting the family's turkeys.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Disappointed in Droidcon's decision to move the conference from NYC to Orlando. I attended every DCNYC event since I graduated in 2015 and cherish my memories of every one. Unlikely that I will be traveling to Florida anytime soon, so I guess it's the time to start attending London and Berlin confs.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I should have taken a screenshot, but I just got a full screen interstitial about using Gemini when performing a logged Google search about a programming topic. Never have I ever seen Google show interstitial ads on their search results. I guess search really is dead xd

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

fun thing I encountered at work this week – we discovered that LLM Agents decided to start setting environment variables that are only supposed to be set on CI on developer's machines, of course breaking the build for them :/

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

it always makes me happy to open my work computer on a Monday morning and see that even with 70+ contributors to the project, there hasn't been any code merged since Friday.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

this was one of my favorite talks at DPE summit. it's a must watch for Android platform teams. my team has already been able to benefit by implementing some of the guardrails he explained.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/10/2025

The president of the United States has said *multiole times* that he hates Americans who are democrats. That is a FUCKING HUGE SCANDAL. Nobody will treat it as one.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

UPDATED: The sprawling network of AI funding and client connections. Added: - NVIDIA investing in OpenAI - NVIDIA investing in Intel - AMD investing in OpenAI / OpenAI promising to buy future AMD GPUs

A network diagram showing relationships between major AI, cloud, and hardware companies. Two arrow types indicate relationships: blue arrows mean “A funds or invests in B,” and yellow arrows mean “A is a client of B.”
• NVIDIA funds Lambda, CoreWeave, Intel, OpenAI, and Crusoe, while being a client of Lambda, CoreWeave, and Intel.
• Lambda is funded by NVIDIA, Supermicro, and Google Ventures, while being a client of Dell, Supermicro, and NVIDIA.
• CoreWeave is funded by NVIDIA and OpenAI, while being a client of Supermicro, Dell, and NVIDIA.
• Crusoe is funded by NVIDIA, and has Oracle as its client.
• OpenAI funds CoreWeave, and is funded by Microsoft, NVIDIA, and AMD, while being a client of NVIDIA, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, AMD, and CoreWeave.
• Microsoft funds OpenAI, while being a client of Lambda and CoreWeave.
• GV/Google funds Lambda while being a client of CoreWeave.
• Oracle is a client of NVIDIA and Crusoe.
• Dell is a client of NVIDIA.
• Supermicro funds Lambda, while being a client of NVIDIA.
• AMD funds OpenAI, while having OpenAI as its client.
• Intel is funded by NVIDIA, while having NVIDIA as its client.

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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 01/10/2025

Android’s new security screening feature is bad and I fucking hate it. They wanted a mechanism for Google’s security team to block malicious developers. But the same mechanism can be used by the state to control what we can do with our devices.

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A new layer of security for certified Android devices

Starting in 2026 and in select countries first, Android apps must be registered to a verified developer in order to be installed.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2025

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

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The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

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Transportation Alternatives @transalt.org · 24/09/2025

Why should a person on a bike get a criminal summons for traveling 16 mph, while the driver of a 5,000 pound SUV doesn't even receive a ticket for speeding at 35 mph? Mayor Adams continues his war on biking with this backward rule — despite >90% of public comments opposing it.

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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

This is what a bubble looks like (image with alt text)

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

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Matthew Hughes @matthewhughes.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

My latest newsletter is about how generative AI companies are risking the lives of the most vulnerable by releasing tools that affirm dangerous delusions -- and the potential human consequences. And it's about why nobody seems to be freaking out about it. whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-many-p...

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How many people will generative AI kill before we actually care?

Too many.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

the rats nest that is the flow of money in AI compute is so unbelievably complicated and circular that i had to make a diagram

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

had to dig out some old embedded programming concepts and Java concepts from my memory before it clicked. Kotlin compiler feels a lot more Java-y than Kotlin-y, but that makes sense given the JVM is (historically) Kotlin's primary build target, or maybe that's just the general shape of a compiler

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I did figure out how to rewrite it as a compiler plugin, but yeah my brain hurts

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

rewriting a KSP as a Kotlin compiler plugin over the past week has really kicked my ass. I thought I had a good mental model of code generation, but it turns out that was just based around the nice abstractions of Java's annotation processing and KSP.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

LLMs love to write 10 unit tests where a single one would suffice 😭

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Very disappointed by this. It increases the barrier of entry to making apps, as it seems likely that it will require you to create some sort of developer account just to install an APK you develop.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Does anyone know how to motivate teams to review and merge Renovate/Dependabot PRs?

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The Glean AI integration for Slack support channel requests is not only useless, but actively harmful, in my opinion.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

one of the worst app UX that I run into regularly is the swipe-to-delete feature within the Google Authenticator app. it's way too easy to delete a code that could leave you locked out of your account. yes, there is a confirmation dialog, but it's presence just tells me they know it's a shitty UX.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I didn’t vote for Gillibrand or Schumer the last time I had the chance. I left it blank. It felt good. It felt right not supporting their behavior. I will never vote for them again. I will never tell them I support their actions. I will never let my guaranteed vote give them freedom to betray me.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

idk if there's a better way, but burning most of a day verifying that an AI generated PR does not, in fact, do what the author purports it to do does not feel very satisfying.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Shout out to Cursor for kicking off thousands of unnecessary Gradle builds per day, unnecessarily inflating our local build counts and making our local build data set almost entirely useless

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Jason Pearson @kaeawc.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Metaprogramming with @anthonycr.bsky.social 🎉🙌🤠 Programming programs that program programming programs #AndroidDev

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