Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 19hI couldn't resist... www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMK3KJNLamazon.comAgent Lab: How AI agents work, one small stage at a time, in Go, Python and RubyAmazon.com: Agent Lab: How AI agents work, one small stage at a time, in Go, Python and Ruby eBook : Turetzky, Ari: Kindle Store 010
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The cynical part of me is already envisioning the greater AI Psychotherapeutic Complex that is going to be built. 000
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 07/10/2026to be clear the book itself would be very open about being generated. 100
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 07/10/2026So with agents and agentic and building and using ai the thing I have to do at work I've created a project with claude to learn the "stack" i guess. from calling a model to building an agent with the langgraph tools to packaging an delpoying. Would it be wrong to have AI generate a book to sell? 100
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Back to work on Friday. Christ this was stressful. I have three days to drink about this though. 000
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Since the news on Tuesday i've cleaned up my passwords in 1Password, cleared up all my contacts, did all my homework for the writing classes, wrote, and drafted a snarky linked in post. I think this is what they call denial? Interview Monday! 001
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 03/10/2026submitted this for a october issue of a magazine but was rejected. So that means you all get to see it here! Inspired by a visit to Pacifica, CA. writing.turetzky.org/fiction/paci...writing.turetzky.orgWritings 011
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 03/10/2026There is no tower fan that stays quiet for more than 8 months. 000
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 03/10/2026had $100 free "cloud credits" with claude. Moved my little app closer to done. so that was a thing to do 000
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 02/10/2026no but I lost access to slack on tuesday in the layoff and I did not realize until today just how much time I spent on slack. I think this is good though. I'll be ready to go when I go back. 010
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Hey Fam, I can't believe I am posting this, but, Slack withdrawal is apparently a thing. I'm sorry. 110
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Going to step away and stare directly into the sun for a few hours. 000
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Are there any companies working an making the compute side of all the LLM's more efficient? Seems like that is where a lot of money will be in the future. No idea if its a thing of not. 000
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Man I'm exhausted. But i'm talking to HR today so fingers crossed! 🤞 000
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 30/09/2026ok so, not really sure what to do today. I don't have to check email or slack. I have no status update. No one on ones. I just am. This is a very strange feeling. I left my phone in the other room and it hasn't notified in an hour. sttange days... 000
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 30/09/2026So do all the companies that registered .ai domains have to register .si domains now 000
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 30/09/2026At work I liked to talk about the "AI robots" and would always pronounce it "row-butt." Really just for my own amusement. I'm sure that had nothing to do with getting RIF'd 010
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Tubes and Joe Jackson are paired in my mind because they were the most played pair at the bar I worked at the summer after I graduated college. 110
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 29/09/2026yeah. me and about 600 others. Not all of them got the high sign to apply for a job later. some are just out. 011
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"no working comp plan" is the term so pay & benefits carry through november but will hopefully be sorted by then. 110
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 29/09/2026it will be alright. They are planning to rehire me at a lower level but same pay. If that works out it should be ok. But it's silly corporate game time now. 120
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Rough day. Hope on the horizon but not the best way to handle things. RIF'd 120
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I have never been happier to miss all the discourse than I am today. 010
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Thank you. actually tickled pink that I got to the second round! 010
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 12/09/2026didn't make it to the final round of @nycmidnight.bsky.social 500 word challenge www.nycmidnight.com/500 but pretty happ with getting through to round two. writing.turetzky.org/fiction/nyc_... I was still a lot of fun and I'm glad I did it. Will keep on working on stories 130
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Built a rag on top of all my notes and a processing script to check new notes against it. So now new notes will update old notes instead of ten notes on the same thing! 011
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I've saved up all my "8hrs for what we wills " for a bit so I think I should be off until 2040 or so... 010
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 06/09/2026finished all my chores for the weekend. Which really werent many. But i shop vac'd the dryer vent greatly reducing the time to dry and chance of fires. And I replace the fan in my tiny mini pc and not it doesn't make a lot of noise anymore. I can spend the rest of the weekend rotting in bed! 010
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Ok that was enough discourse. I think I’m gonna go do homework 010
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 31/08/2026It’s been a long time since I read Hunter S Thompson’s Hells Angels. But he describes going over the high side in that book. I remember it as being a beautifully written passage. It feels like we’re in the middle of doing that societally and politically and the carnage and damage will be a lot 000
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 28/08/2026somewhere in my head I imagine Tim and Dolly helping each other along and having a grand old time of it. 020
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 28/08/2026taking the first two courses in the Creative Writing program an the local community colleges(actually colleges). Going to get a certificate! Then I'll be a certified creative writer. Credentials! Also need to go to the book store and get a t-shirt :) 020
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 23/08/2026also got past the waitlist for the creative writing class. downside is now I have to decide if I go to the first session and skip the showing of the Odyssey we already bought or go to the first day of class. 010
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 23/08/2026so like some time in 2032 is when the realization finally hits everyone and we start to make things better? I hope? 000
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Have recently seen complaints about "tone, and quality of communication" at work because it's not souless and conforming LLM output. Also have been asked to "run this through gemini to clean it up, we have a gem you should use" LLM doc fatigue is a real thing now. 000
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The degree to which I am being marketed waistcoats on line has reached epic proportions. They are some weird “slimming” polyester thing. I need to find a cheap one on Ali express. I have to know now. Are the really better than a stiff blazer? 000
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I’m sorry folks. I spent the day actually working at work and not scrolling the skyline like a weighted blanket and things have gone wonky. I see know what it’s wrought. 010
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Unlocked a new fountain pen level. I purchased an asvine v126 and nib swapped a Majhon flex nib onto it. And it’s maybe the bestest pen ever. The attempt with the wing sung 699 ended poorly. Cap clearance ate the nib :(. Pictures tomorrow. #fountainpen 030
Ari Turetzky @arit93.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Could they just once be horrible in the normal boring ways? Y’know for like a treat. 0160
