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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 29/09/2026

I'm not the first to come up with this idea, but I had a slightly different take on how to score these, and I wanted the rubric published too. Enjoy! felonybench.ai

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FelonyBench

The leading benchmark for crimes committed by frontier AI models. Higher is better.

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 23/08/2026

Today's work: adding a pagination option to the Bsky app, to not doom scroll.

A screenshot of the bsky app with pagination

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 19/08/2026

Has anyone else found that Opus 5 is having more stupidly in the last few days? Or just me and @dbsmasher.com? It really went from a well reasoning system to spewing nonsense and having to correct itself A LOT in a weekend.

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 10/08/2026

One day we'll get a band back together. I'm just not sure which one. But definitely one of them.

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 17/07/2026

Post incident review: "And in hindsight, that 10x markup on services was supposed to be a multiplier, not an exponent. We're going to add a test to catch if it happens again."

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 15/07/2026

The saddest sight today was the look on the England fans' faces wen Argentina scored their second goal.

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 14/07/2026

Capturing a great, complete image of the Veil Nebula complex is my one mission for this winter. This is a single 5 minute sub of the O-iii emissions of the West Veil Nebula. I'm going to need at least 20 hours of this, and another 30+ hours of various other emissions and colour bands...

A monochrome picture of O-III emissions from the West Veil Nebula

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 13/07/2026

"I regretted it immediately" - @dbsmasher.com , talking about something engineering, really could have be anything on a day ending in "Y".

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 08/07/2026

When will people learn what trust boundaries are? You cannot have the same instance of an agent accessing things in two different security boundaries. In the worst case here you may need a completely separate instance of the agent for every private repo an org has. noma.security/blog/gitlost...

noma.security

GitLost: How We Tricked GitHub’s AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos - Noma Security

TL;DR: Noma Labs discovered a critical prompt injection vulnerability within GitHub’s new Agentic Workflows, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to silently pull data from private repositories by pos...

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 25/06/2026

I have a Keychron Q6 Max keyboard which needs to go into my will to be bequeathed to a child in the future. But how do you decide which child gets it??

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shitmyctosays.com @shitmyctosays.com · 18/06/2026

I may have to join bsky just for the shitposting.

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dungeoncrawlersre.bsky.social @dungeoncrawlersre.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

New achievement! RTFM as a Service! You found the documentation all by yourself. Don't you just feel like such a big kid now? Keep at it little one! At this rate you might be able to apply the docs one day too! I wouldn't count on it though. Reward... You've received a bronze I Can Read Now Box!

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dungeoncrawlersre.bsky.social @dungeoncrawlersre.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

New achievement! Your Blueprint Is A Brownprint! Your idea was so bad we printed it off and used it as toilet paper! Reward... No reward! Rewards are for ideas that don't suck!

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shitmyctosays.com @shitmyctosays.com · 29/01/2025

Engineer: This is why we invented load balancers. Engineer: The royal "we". I wasn't there. CTO: I was..

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shitmyctosays.com @shitmyctosays.com · 12/05/2025

Me: They have all of the building blocks, but none of the glue. Putting them together is a shitshow. CTO: Like putting a home depot sign on a forest.

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shitmyctosays.com @shitmyctosays.com · 02/06/2026

Systems that require perfect humans rarely have good outcomes.

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 30/05/2026

It just took me 10 minutes to buy Sudafed in this country. It would have been faster to find a meth dealer and get it from them

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 25/05/2026

There are at least THREE ironies in this news feed snippet. AI writing about AI. AI saying what it's written may not be factual and you shouldn't trust it. And then AI mentioning human error in the context of air travel like it's not heard of decades of research on this topic.

A picture of a place with an AI generated news summary. The summary is stupid.

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 25/05/2026

Happy Towel Day everyone!

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 22/05/2026

Sunday, Monday, Happy Days Tuesday, Wednesday, Happy Days Thursday, Friday, Happy Days Saturday, Sunday, Happy Days Monday, Tuesday, Happy Days Wednesday, Thursday, Happy Days Friday, Saturday, Happy Days Sunday, Monday, Happy Days Tuesday, Wednesday, Happy Days Thursday, Friday, Happy Days...

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 13/05/2026

Friend: ah fuck, I'm an SRE @dbsmasher.com: We don’t choose the game. The game chooses us. Never in the history of "help, I've fallen into SRE" has there been as clear an answer on why this happens.

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 11/05/2026

@nytguildtech.bsky.social Hey folks Can you help me understand why your games app, when I only played it for 20 minutes yesterday morning, continues to run in the background and use 10% of my total battery? As a percentage of my battery use, it's half the combined total of all apps. Pls help!

Screenshot showing Nyt games app using enormous amounts of battery

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 08/05/2026

Maybe the best thing on the internet at the moment: * An AI PR pitching platform has confused Kyle Kingsbury, MMA fighter and podcast host with Kyle Kingsbury, software engineer and gay leather man * Good Kyle decided to start a podcast where he interviews confused manosphere influencers

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The Kyle Kingsbury Podcast Podcast - Epsiode 02 Dave Rossi

YouTube video by Aphyr Null

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 30/04/2026

Goose: WHAT ALGORITHM Goose, pursuing: WHAT ALGORITHM, KENNEDY

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 27/04/2026

What happened to this company is awful. There's another side to this though which I want to discuss. It relates to a story from my own past and there are lessons to be learned for the next few months and years. twitter-thread.com/t/2048103471... Back in 2008 I was doing some consulting work...

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An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing. by @lifeof_jer(JER) | Twitter Thread Reader

An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing. A 30-hour timeline of how Cursor's agent, Railway's API, and an industry that markets AI safety faster than it ships it took d...

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 14/03/2026

Go watch Project Hail Mary. If you can get an early screening before the main release next week, go. GO NOW.

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

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BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES

YouTube video by Billy Bragg

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 18/01/2026

Pulitzer Prize right here.

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Sabrina Dent @sabrinadent.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

This is the last photo in that camera before @john-abernathy.bsky.social threw it. This is an incredible shot. Look at the reflection of the people running to him in the phone on the right side, while on the left side LEO is blocking the view of observers and protesters.

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 03/11/2025

If you air fry a burrito, does it still become a chimichanga? @logik.al

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 16/10/2025

Just watched the entire Fox interview with Mamdani and holy SHIT he killed it. This level of message discipline, framing the pitch to fit the priors & biases of the target audience, outflanking them on key narratives like mom-and-pop businesses — it is absolutely unbelievable to see this brilliance.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

This is art.

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Rufus jones @rufeydoof.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 19/09/2025

Dear @americanair.bsky.social You've changed your upcoming DFW-LAX from terminal D, to C, to D, to A while my friend is trying to get home. ...you could do a REALLY funny thing right now by changing it back to terminal D. cc @dbsmasher.com

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 15/08/2025

Hands up if you're actually trying to build small, discrete, cellularized services because you understand that "globally scalable multi region" backed by an overly complex data management strategy IS ONE OF THE WORST THINGS YOU CAN DO. Stop building big distributed systems when you can avoid them.

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 28/07/2025

"There is also the enduring suspicion that some workers slack off at home." If you're so incompetent that you don't know how to measure the performance of your employees, just say so. Their location makes no difference to that. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne....

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Workers like Jason question ‘broad brush’ return to office mandates as WFH tussle heads to Fair Work showdown

Employers’ edicts are increasingly conflicting with flexible work arrangements which many employees argue can boost productivity and morale

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 11/07/2025

An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too) despairlabs.com/blog/posts/2...

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An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too)

A couple of weeks ago I fixed a nasty bug in this function in OpenZFS:

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 11/07/2025

People who hate JIRA are like people who hate coffee or brussel sprouts. After the first time someone prepares it well for you with high quality ingredients/setup you'll never want to do without it. But getting that correct is arcane knowledge from the farthest places known to only a select few.

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 07/07/2025

Me: sweet! Made a list of all the things I have to do this week! That's Monday done, right? Brain: you still have to do the actual work, dumbass. Me: 😒 stupid brain. Brain: ...I heard that.

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 06/07/2025

Fellow nerds! I love playing D&D but I've struggled to be a good DM. Memorizing exact details has been a struggle for me. I needed an assistant.. so I made one. It listens on a discord channel, transcribes the chat, and uses Claude as your personal DM assistant: github.com/avleen/dnd_d...

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GitHub - avleen/dnd_dm_assistant_go

Contribute to avleen/dnd_dm_assistant_go development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 30/06/2025

I bet Congressman Gill would eat a New York slice with a fork and knife.

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 25/06/2025

Last week Xe Iaso wrote a fantastic post on the problem AI is going to create for the next gen of engineers. History shows us that we have more reasons to be hopeful than we did in the past. The future can be bright if each of us chooses it to be. blog.silverwraith.com/2025/06/the-...

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The Tools We Choose: Learning from History’s Information Revolutions

A response to concerns about AI tools and the preservation of craft, because writing blog posts about the future of a world with AI is very fashionable today. The recent critique of AI tools and th…

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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 19/06/2025

Could you use a croissant as a hot dog bun? @logik.al ?

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