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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 8h

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For those that don't know programming or Java, this is like trying to answer a question on a math test by explaining how calculators are made.

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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 · 13/09/2026

It is particularly rich of him to worry that AI "could outrun our ability to understand and control these systems" when that is exactly what Claude Code is ALREADY doing to thousands of codebases across the world.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's gross revisionism of him to claim that the models "were not capable of significant deception, manipulation, cheating" in 2023 when the earliest chatbot related suicides were reported THAT YEAR.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

this weekly arms race of trying to stop some novel abuse of some hidden API or infrastructure before it takes the system down is getting kinda old.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

there's such high expectations placed on infrastructure to be able to withstand (and perform well under) what amounts to internal DDOS attacks. "I'll have my agent retry a job 20 times" has somehow become an accepted solution to a flaky test. Gradle builds barely held together before all this.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

that makes sense. I did remember seeing the MLB scores pop up occasionally but I missed the others.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I don't see Bluesky doing that, or if they are it's hard to find the features, and it means that even those of us who use this platform daily will (temporarily) switch to a different one when there's a major ongoing event like the two you mentioned.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Maybe I'm misremembering, but I feel like Twitter would build features in anticipation of upcoming major events like the WC and NBA playoffs to track all ongoing games in its early-ish days and then would promote the features.

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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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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Yeah I've been met with similar shock when I told someone that I converted an XML based app to Compose without any AI assistance recently. I don't really have any advice on handling those situations, except just keep doing you.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

yeah my OSS projects are 100% AI free, in part because I refuse to pay an LLM provider so that I can perform FREE labor on principle, in part because it keeps me sharp, and in part because I don't like the code they generate. I do use them at work though.

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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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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

that said, never sacrifice readability in pursuit of brevity.

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

approaching code review with this assumption in mind allows you to hack away unnecessary abstractions and keep code more maintainable. always ask yourself, can I delete this code.

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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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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I can only assume, based on this trickery, that when they hand out a free 6 month subscription to Claude Max 20x to an OSS developer, that they are counting that as revenue.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

my favorite part of that clip is him claiming that guilt was made up in the 20th century, as if the US hasn't had fire-and-brimstone preachers for hundreds of years.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

my bots are good and we need them to advance society, my competitor's bots are bad and should be banned.

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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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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

if you haven't seen AutoMobile by @kaeawc.bsky.social, it's worth checking out. it's mostly focused on the inner investigation + debugging loop, but last year he used an early version to automate a rough migration to Android 16. www.jasonpearson.dev/automobile-m...

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What I've been up with the AutoMobile project. Mobile use needs a lot of work but we're getting there.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

because the devs aren't writing the code, they don't develop the muscle memory to catch mistakes that they ran into before. the end result is that you see the same mistakes being made by the same people every day, and no matter how many times you try to teach them to find themself, it doesn't stick.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

the larger problem that i see is that where i used to be able to address a skill gap through pair programming or sending someone an article to read, now i have no recourse to address. the LLMs are the ones making the mistakes, and the devs that lack the knowledge to catch them.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

have seen devs lacking basic knowledge all throughout my career. it's too soon to say whether the incidence has increased post LLMs. i will say that people that used to copy paste from stackoverflow, without attribution, are the same people vibe coding.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

eliminating banks and private corporations from the act of riding the bus is 100% a socialist policy. every bus ride you take, you transact with a bank, a payment processor, and a private company that owns the card reader before that money reaches the government.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

the mayor can't change the system, because he can't even access the tax revenue we produce without the NYS governor sending it our way. NYC mayorship has a long and complicated relationship with Albany. what he can and is doing is building broad support for socialist policy.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

you just linked to an article that was cribbed from a Bloomberg article, which in turn was cribbed from an article written by the OP of the thread you are replying to. I suggest reading Ed's newsletter instead!

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

so do the job that we elected you to do, and shut down the government if they won't defund ICE. don't let us down like you did last time. don't let your legacy be one of cowardice, capitulation, and complicity with fascism.

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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

Shout out to my friend Nick Doglio for contributing the KMP setup

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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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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 · 04/01/2026

you're not doing anything either. last I checked, the democrats let the government reopen without securing an extension on the healthcare subsidies, and allowing it to reopen didn't even save all the jobs. my own brother never got his job back after the furlough ended, because the budget was cut.

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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 · 30/12/2025

I think this might be my favorite newsletter that you've written this year. It really ties together everything that's come before it, and it kept me riveted from start to finish.

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

the moment I put anything in my basket that is not a vegetable or a chicken is the moment the bill instantly becomes sickeningly expensive

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

true "we don't need homework where we're going" 🧠🧠🧠

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

it's because they cheated their way through college and managed to become rich (because they are all nepo babies), which they incorrectly attribute to their "earned" degree.

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