Reposted by Barry O'Sullivandax @thdxr.com · 11/09/2026good design is especially hard these days because you have to pay attention to avoid all the LLMisms that exist instantly makes your stuff look cheap 1302
Barry O'Sullivan @barryosull.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Tried reading "The Quest for Meaning" by Tariq Ramadan. Got 15% through it before realising I'm not enjoying it. It makes lot of points very quickly, many references to existing philosophies and ideas, but they're not cohesive. Gives the air of meaning with no core, which is kind of ironic. 100
Barry O'Sullivan @barryosull.bsky.social · 02/09/2026One thing I've consistently seen from AI code slingers is anemic data models with zero encapsulation. It makes changes and maintenance a nightmare. 120
Barry O'Sullivan @barryosull.bsky.social · 01/09/2026LLMs have made my job as a system designer much harder, because everyone is churning out code and isn't thinking about design at all, it's accelerating spaghetti code. Everyone is inundated with PRs so they're just rubber stamping this shit. 010
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanAlbasoup @albasoup.itch.io · 29/08/2026Was walking past this building and through the window saw this backrooms-ass room, so I accidentally took the coolest picture ever due to the window's reflection 205245765884
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanNick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 18/08/2026My AI enthusiasm ebbs and flows. Today I’m realizing that some of my perceived productivity increase is an illusion. I merely moved some of the effort from writing code to having to micromanage a coder. 3144
Barry O'Sullivan @barryosull.bsky.social · 11/08/2026How are more people not freaking out about the weather? 010
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanJason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Bear in mind when you ask an LLM to explain why it did what it did (or didn't), you're asking faces on toast to explain faces on toast. It's not explaining. It's plausibly completing. And you fell for it twice. 2277
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanThe Rat Zone 👺💣 WISHLIST GRAVITY GOBLINS @therat.zone · 06/08/2026Creature Kitchen is on sale for the Wholesome Games Celebration from August 6th to August 13th! please enjoy our wholesome game! store.steampowered.com/app/3097300/...store.steampowered.comSave 20% on Creature Kitchen on SteamA creepy-cozy cooking simulator where you befriend local wildlife and feed them their favorite snacks! With a strange house to search and forest to explore, the witching hour has only begun. 03817
Barry O'Sullivan @barryosull.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I've been consuming a lot of Warhammer 40k content lately and it might be fuckin awesome. It's so on the nose and I love it. 020
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanJason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026The original sin of software development 78225
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanRichard Dalton @zx23.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Agile Software Development is NOT break big projects into small sprints. Agile Software Development IS build something, then iterate. I have seen so many teams spend extraordinary effort on the ceremony of Scrum, and never once manage or even try to put some early idea in the hands of users. 1126
Barry O'Sullivan @barryosull.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Just signed up for this. Only person I trust to give a pragmatic course on AI-asisted development. 000
Barry O'Sullivan @barryosull.bsky.social · 25/07/2026You know AI is fucked when AWS is advertising their AI offering on terrestrial TV during match ad breaks. They're desperate for customers and have gone the shotgun approach. We all knew crypto had reached peak when it did the same. 110
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanCiara Knight @ciara.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The opposite of David Tenant is Goliath Landlord 0195
Barry O'Sullivan @barryosull.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Reminded of a time I did an experiment at a startup. New feature would take 5 devs 6 months, I came up with a 1 dev 1 month experiment to figure out it's validity. Finished & ran experiment, the result: no change. Feature was scrapped quietly. No discussion. We never ran another experiment. 000
Barry O'Sullivan @barryosull.bsky.social · 19/07/2026This was an absolute delight. Perfect length, as I finished it wanting more. 000
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanHazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 15/07/2026Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast. (There’s a lot you can learn from the trades if you’re willing to be humble about it) 3828
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanDylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 17/07/2026It's very hard not to love @doctorow.pluralistic.net when he gets stuck into something. This video really lays out the AI bubble clearly! 12497242
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanTom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 17/07/2026My artwork is in the latest Edge magazine, as part of an interview with the lovely @danthat.bsky.social 0287
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanCamille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 11/07/2026Thinking about how AI has changed expectations far faster than it has changed actual capabilities for people in engineering management jobs (and probably others) 5799
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanThe Onion @theonion.com · 09/07/2026CEO Reveals How He Used AI To Build One-Person Company That's $1.3 Billion In Debt 4567751796
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanTrond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 03/07/2026Most organisations are trying to fix the wrong things. 🎉 Organisational Dysfunctions: Open Systems Theory Explains is out today! Written for developers, architects, agile coaches, and executives who have invested in change and wondered why so little of it stuck. 154
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanLeanpub @leanpub.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Organisational Dysfunctions: Open Systems Theory Explains by Trond Hjorteland is a new release on Leanpub! Most organisations are trying to fix the wrong things. This book names the dysfunctions they keep running into and explains, through Open … leanpub.com/organisation... 064
Reposted by Barry O'Sullivanvalerie valerie valerie (DELTARUNE CHAPTER 5 SPOILERS 🙅) @princ3ss0fmalic3.bsky.social · 03/07/2026i dont really post about the political climate but i think mamdani should put medkits, power ups, various collectibles, and items that boost various stats or give you different effects across NYC that switch around every day or so. the city desperately needs roguelike elements 094
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanAlasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The headline is bait, of course. RDR2 is obviously an incredibly impressive feat of engineering and a game that makes many men cry manly, manly tears. But I found it tedious, emotionally vacant and dialogue-heavy to the point of absurdity. 251503
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanAvery Edison @averyedison.com · 29/06/2026everyone has that one friend who insists “there used to be another number between four and five” and tries to demonstrate it by laying out four apples and then adding another and you say “yeah, that’s five” and they say “no, it’s—“ and then you hear a weird buzzing 514031
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanChris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I'm finding it helpful to ask whether a particular use of technology refines or dilutes information. Blowing out a two sentence prompt into a two page press release is dilutive. Everybody can see that there's no value added. I think that's a major part of the objection to "AI slop." 1/? 1168
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanDuncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him) @duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social · 29/06/2026The "problem" which AI is designed to address is wages and, unfortunately for all concerned, the mechanism by which money is recycled in the economy is also wages. 33520
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanSebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Watching the video from The Ring on my phone so she comes out of my screen real tiny and I can just put her in a mug 141296345
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanFrances Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 26/06/2026friend at a big tech co just told me that her company's chatbot and their client's chatbot have been caught in a mutual support loop for several days that has generated nearly 20k emails 1094466882
Barry O'Sullivan @barryosull.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Dude next to me in the pub talking about how great AI is: "Ask it for the business financials and it makes the spreadsheet, just like that!" I'm like, cool, have you confirmed it's sources or validated the data in anyway? Because it's probably wrong/made up. 100
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I think we need to remember when so much of the web was as good and stupid and charming as this. We must force ourselves to know what they took from us. 118437
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanThoughtbarf @thoughtbarf.bsky.social · 18/06/2026I love when doctors say "avoid stress" like I can just unsubscribe from economy and become a decorative gargoyle 3565682946
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanTed M. Young (he/him) aka @JitterTed @ted.dev · 21/06/2026Except, LLM-gen'd and human-written code are different. One was written by someone with a mental model. Modified by humans with another mental model (correct or not), etc. The other is generated by statistical, stochastic methods with constraints. These are not the same. 174
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanThomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 21/06/2026happy father's day. remember to board up your chimneys and prepare your defenses before sundown when the first wave of fathers get here. good luck. 133788
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanTrond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 21/06/2026The series is becoming a book. 63 entries organised by where the dysfunction shows up, with essays on the most common objections. Foreword by Merrelyn Emery, who has spent fifty years advancing this work. Launching 3 July! #OpenSystemsTheory #SocioTechnical #OrgDesignorganisationaldysfunctions.comOrganisational DysfunctionsA catalogue of organisational dysfunctions explained through Open Systems Theory. For everyone who has felt the friction of broken structures but lacked the language for it. 065
Barry O'Sullivan @barryosull.bsky.social · 19/06/2026AI is like having an untrusted colleague you're expected to delegate work too. 000
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanVoidBurger (AKA Jess) @voidburger.com · 17/06/2026Groverhaus: Revelations 24605151
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanAllen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Coding is a substantial skill, and a lot of design work goes on as you're writing the code and discovering design flaws. Programmers are architects—they make architectural decisions with almost every line of code they write. 9/10 1202
Barry O'Sullivan @barryosull.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I like this one. "It's just a job" sounds fine on the surface, but is actually a sign of an environment stuck in a positive feedback loop of contempt. Quickly becomes toxic. 011
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanDr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik @hatethathedgehog.bsky.social · 09/06/2026didnt watch the direct i went outside and watched the sun rise and took in the beauty of our real world i felt the wind in my moustache and heard the birds chirping and then i put the birds in robots and made them throw rocks at knuckles 1947921763
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanYacht Club Games @yachtclubgames.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Mina the Hollower has sold 500,000 copies! 🐭🕯️ Half a million Hollowers have descended into Tenebrous Isle, and we’re completely blown away. Thank you for playing, sharing, reviewing, streaming, and believing in our haughty little mouse. The adventure is just getting started! ⚔️ 873886893
Reposted by Barry O'SullivanAidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 06/06/2026You telling me about how busy you are: boring, indulgent, detrimental to the conversation Me telling you about how busy I am: essential, riveting, filled with context clues to enhance the conversation to come 0193
