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Anthony Shaw

@anthonypjshaw.bsky.social
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Technical Advisor at Microsoft. PSF Fellow. Creator of VS Code Pets and other useful software

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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Put $25 on my typesafe account to try out Jev. Ran 6,000 prompts and it cost me $0.54. I like this new AI
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In Vino Veritas: are LLMs more likely to misbehave if you tell them to act drunk? (Yes) $1 for guessing which country did this important study arxiv.org/pdf/2601.22169
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The Simpsons: 'Hi, Mates! What's the Good Word?'
ALT: The Simpsons: 'Hi, Mates! What's the Good Word?'
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Aaron Wislang 🇨🇦 @aaronw.dev · 25/09/2026
A close-up of a smiling, cream-colored plush character facing a person. The plush has black button-like eyes, rosy cheeks, and a small smile. On-screen text reads: “Why would I deceive you?”
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hues and Cues bonus round. Use only noises. 2x points.
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What’s wrong dear, you’ve barely touched your Jimothy cupcake
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Good morning Hawaii 🌺
Photo overlooking Honolulu
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I keep a Facebook account around so I can sell the odd thing on marketplace. I have no friends (except for my wife). And every time I login Facebook is like… hey are you a little bit xenophobic yet? racist? Here are some curated stories to get you angry Look, I’m only here to sell a surfboard. $250
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Well that’s my weekend plan out the window
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ok, let’s hand Kimi Antonelli the title now. Incredible
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Took my kids bouldering. “I don’t want to fall off, everyone is watching.” I explained it’s fine, bouldering is the sport of nerds and everyone here is watching to be supportive.
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Ooopsie. He might have to resign again
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sun is blasting. State is at 90% renewable. Electricity is ~ $0. Running AC on full blast.
AEMO grid stats
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Hell yeah. Retrofitted CarPlay to my 10yo Mazda 3
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Well there’s no turning back now. Hopefully I remember how to put this back together tomorrow
Disassembled car
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Is there some award for benching the highest scoring player in FPL this week? 🤦🏻‍♂️ #FPL
Brighton smashed Villa and I benched the player of the match
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Much needed day off. Pelicans had more faith in my fishing ability than I do
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pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Thanks to all of you who purchased "Another Benchmark Saturated!" shirt or mug 🙏🏽 I've donated the proceeds ($250, employer matched to $500) to www.birdrescue.org/donate/ to save pelicans and other waterbirds. Keep purchasing and I'll keep donating! happy-pelicans.printify.me
Screenshot of bird rescue websiteScreenshot of shirt and mug products
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Worried about AI watermarks? Here’s the thing \u2014 you’re too late.
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
TIL Brett Goldstein is actually British. I had always assumed he was an American putting on a bad British accent
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Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) Shocked Reading Da Vinci Code
ALT: Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) Shocked Reading Da Vinci Code
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
SPCX is down, but Elon says they'll be running self-driving datacenters on Mars any day now?
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Wrapping up my first week in China and heading back to Sydney on the red eye. I am seriously craving some bland food 🍞
River in Suzhou
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I do not have an account on X. I deleted it a long time ago.
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Trying to use Apple Translator to find out what this drink is before I drink it "The bottom color of the push is wet at will." 🤷🏻‍♂️ YOLO. <Sip> Soda water.
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
vs code pets 1.36.0 is out. feat two raccoons. regular and jimothy.
jimothy
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Alright nothing silly Enzo, you’re on a yellow. Enzo—
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Try and disallow that.
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
But what did Pickford say to Ødegaard…
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Well played Norway 👏
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Belgium sub on Doku and Lukaku 😂
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The Simpsons: Stop, He's Already Dead!
ALT: The Simpsons: Stop, He's Already Dead!
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
@madebygps.com @juliansequeira.bsky.social @kellypared.bsky.social I listened to the podcast. I thought… (30 second pause) … we were friends
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Pingu Mad
ALT: Pingu Mad
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GitHub @github.com · 02/07/2026
We heard you. We agree. In light of recent developments in physical media, GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM. Keep it. Lend it to friends. Pass it on to your children. Your code is physically yours, forever. Until you lose it, let's be real. gh.io/cd
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Dog does not understand the concept of view
Me and my dog on a cliff
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
“this guy has way too much time on his hands”. Checkout my Build talk creating a CPU in Excel and modelling DOOM purely in tensors youtu.be/5Pe1m-dgOOs
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Is DOOM a Tensor? | LIVE165
YouTube video by Visual Studio Code
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Ciao #SanFrancisco I’m heading home
San Francisco Bay
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I’ll be live on stage at 1:40 PT to talk about Tensors at Microsoft Build 🔖 www.youtube.com/live/nlGqajJ...
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Microsoft Build 2026 Day 2 LIVE | GitHub Copilot, VS Code, Foundry & Community Sessions
YouTube video by Microsoft Developer
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I couldn’t work out how to renew my IDA license so I’m using Excel formulas as a disassembler.
Excel disassembly
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I’m in the Bay Area for the next fortnight. It’s ACMs inaugural Conference for AI and Agentic Systems (CAIS) starting tomorrow. Week of workshops ahead. Then I’m up in SF next week for Microsoft #Build
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
@caseynewton.bsky.social @kevinroose.com someone already made a rap of the Pope’s letter on AI. It’s a bit of a bop open.spotify.com/track/4gH9ep...
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Magnifica Humanitas
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Here is my talk from NDC expressing all of my current thoughts on LLMs as software engineers. It also explains the prime minister of Australia was not a meat pie and why that's important for the maintainability of our software in the coming years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wQd...
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Are LLMs good software engineers? - Anthony Shaw - NDC Sydney 2026
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Congrats to all the Arsenal fans. They deserved this one.
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
There is nothing more humbling than reading peer review feedback.
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Iirc this was about 50KM into the ride which is why I look very over it
Me going down
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I'm not going to #PyConUS this year. The only way I could go was to tack it onto an existing 2-week trip and I really don't want to spend 3 weeks away from home. I'll miss everyone.
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Good start to my 40’s setting several PBs on the MTB 🚲 . Fastest 40k & 50k times. Beat my course time on a 67km race by 20 mins. Still plenty of space for improvement next year if I find the time to train properly.
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I want to work at Anthropic for 1 day so I can tell Claude to stop doing inline imports in Python.
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Rooftop pool at the W Sydney is pretty 🪼
Jellyfish pool
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
@willvelida.com great talk 👍 would be good to catch up tomorrow
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I'm doing a talk on LLMs being bad software engineers tomorrow. In particular I'll be going on a rant about why SWE-Bench results are nonsense. The left is the actual patch, the right is one "passing" solution I saw. A lot of the patches look like this. The tests pass, but the code is garbage.
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Sunrises are great but I still don’t think it justifies getting up this early. Also kudos to the surfers out there <6am. Aka “breakfast time” 🦈
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Started the day in the ocean for 3 hours with the kids. Surfing, swimming and boogie boarding
One mile beach NSW
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