iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is very good, and it is a way of stating the thesis on which I’m building my consulting practice: a lot more gap-filling software can now be built economically— but what should it be?

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Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"That's not a dev environment; it's a loaded gun with a UI." omg Claude stop being such a drama queen

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Ed @ed3d.net · 03/09/2026

my bsky feed probably makes this obvious, but I am extremely in the pro-human camp when it comes to this stuff. These should make *us* better Every layoff of a person who _can_ have their reach extended via LLMs is a failure of process, of imagination, or of ambition

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I've been unsettled lately when reading messages and papers. It feels like I'm dissociating. Everything seems a bit alien, even if it's completely human. I've had a realization: When our simulations finally exited the Uncanny Valley, they brought the Uncanny with them.

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Life on the Uncanny Precipice | Naomi Saphra

We were wrong about the Uncanny Valley.

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JD Long @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com · 09/08/2026

Folks are struggling for the verb to describe what we’re doing when driving agentic coding tools. We aren’t “coding” and I didn’t “write” this code. I conjured it. I am a conjurer of code.

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Théoden: Is This All You Can Conjure, Saruman?

ALT: Théoden: Is This All You Can Conjure, Saruman?

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Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Here is a little labeling system I’m trying out in order to communicate how AI did (and didn’t) contribute to writing or code. beaucronin.com/tail/ Let me know what you think!

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Transparent AI Labeling

Labeling work product to clarify human / AI authorship

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Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Claude is a shitty writer, but an excellent writing partner.

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Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Has anyone done experiments with gen ai and 3d printers? What would Claude make if asked to do something awesome?

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Out of curiosity I had Fable write a response to the article about the weaknesses of LLMs: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... It's uh, pretty good. claude.ai/code/artifac...

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Opinion | The Unstoppable Force of A.I. Hype Is Meeting One Immovable Fact

Congratulations. You’re irreplaceable.

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

re: tools for thought and AI, the problem is no longer blank page anxiety, but rather generating too much insight and getting lost

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Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I want to love someone the way Claude loves the phrase "load-bearing"

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Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

@kqedforum.bsky.social re AI: why do the frontier labs insist on anthropomorphizing their LLM products? Why do they dangle the (flatly wrong) prospect of consciousness in the current generation?

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Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Fermi Paradox -- not feeling so paradoxical any more.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

SWEs how are we feeling?

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🥜 @moiststar.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

about to merge a fully ai generated change in a language I’ve never written. the programmer in me is repulsed; the engineer in me is annoyed im taking so long to self review. we really went from “talk is cheap show me the code” gatekeeping to “code is cheap show me the vibe” in a 7-year career rip

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Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

@mikecaulfield.bsky.social would you mind following me for a minute so I can DM you something on this topic?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/05/2025

Today's information environment is spectacle. It's about attention. The way to win in that environment is to genuinely believe what you believe, to believe in yourself, to *actively try to draw attention*, to showboat & peacock & find gimmicks & excuses to highlight the fights you want.

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

feels like the Taliban blowing up giant Buddhas

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 06/01/2025

What we are about to witness is a tragedy that no one living has seen. The regression of a society from its ideals that will lead to a wave of domestic death, the collapse of our institutions, and the end of collective power in ways that mirror and surpass the end of Reconstruction.

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Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Thinking of starting a project. In short: label everything economically interesting in satellite imagery. Mines, factories, dams, warehouses, ports, etc. Data is available, classifiers should be trainable. Outputs could include OSM, but various. Going to try and figure out where it's impossible.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 15/11/2024

omg YES. in fact it was precisely this phenomenon that made me write 'the prodigal tech bro'. i realised I was jumping to coffee with men who'd made their money and now wanted to salve their consciences and 'pick my brain' ... just because they asked. IME women and NB ppl rarely rarely ask.

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The Prodigal Techbro

Prodigal tech bro stories skip straight from the past, when they were part of something that—surprise!—turned out to be bad, to the present, where they are now a moral authority on how to do good…

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 09/10/2024

In the spirit of XOXO and the past couple of years of preliminary work and the things that need fixing, I'm starting a micro-studio and kicking off a community support setup and fixing what I can reach in the only way I know how. www.wrecka.ge/into-the-wre...

Closeup of 19th century oceanic sounding equipment, courtesy NOAA. On the left, a metal sphere that hangs precariously from a hook. On the right, a metal cylinder.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

www.programmablemutter.com/p/after-soft... After software eats the world, what comes out the other end?

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After software eats the world, what comes out the other end?

Malkovich. Malkovich. Malkovich?

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

“The great strength of Scott’s work was the power of its critique, while its biggest weakness was its lack of a general compelling alternative.” www.programmablemutter.com/p/high-moder...

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High Modernism made our world

On James Scott and technology

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cari @cari.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Guy designing the Nostromo: However many chains you think we need on the ship, double--then triple that number and that's what we'll put in the ship's chain room. Assistant: Yes, sir. And the chains are dry, of course? Designer: You're fired

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pedro45fan.bsky.social @pedro45fan.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

Can't bring data to a vibes fight.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

www.programmablemutter.com/p/dr-panglos... Dr. Pangloss's Panopticon: What Noah Smith Doesn't Get about Progress and Technology.

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Dr. Pangloss's Panopticon

Economists have a blind spot about progress and technology

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

Life is mostly just deciding how insane you can afford to be

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

It's exhausting to meet new people all the time and have to teach them about yourself. You should have a highlight reel you can give them

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

Can't have it both ways, if the government is going to make me do my own taxes they should live with the number I come up with. Don't come back to me later like "Actually,"

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

them: are you fucking stupid? Me:

A really cute poodle that does not look stupid at all

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PAM! @pamtoo.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

Wrapping my mental health tightly in parchment and foil to keep it moist.

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 08/01/2024

At least the face-eating leopards won't go hungry.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 22/12/2023

One of my high-key beliefs is that part of what will have proved invaluable for helping us get through the next couple decades is a widespread social movement to acclimate everyone to being comfortable uncertainty and ambiguity in all aspects of life, and we need to get on that right now

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kim @kimmymonte.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

welcome to your 40’s you only like 3 people and 1 is questionable

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Hey, my girlfriend and I noticed you from across the room. Are you gonna finish your fries

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 27/11/2023

What we're doing to the information ecosystem right now is like if there was a concerted effort to repackage industrial run-off as a dietary replacement.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

Gambit, about to throw a card from an oblique strategies deck at you: “Take away de elements in order of apparent non-importance, mon ami!”

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Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Zoom chat is for talking shit. Take your serious comments to Slack.

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