Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Is this the big thing you were teasing a couple weeks ago? 000
Reposted by Beau CroninSuper Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is incredible nitter.app/banteg/statu... H/t @gregdoucette.bsky.socialnitter.appbanteg (@banteg)>be me >discover effective altruism >apparently normal charity is inefficient >why donate to random sad thing when spreadsheet can tell you optimal sad thing >fair enough >buy mosquito nets >save live... 24688220
Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This 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? 001
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 021
Reposted by Beau CroninEd @ed3d.net · 03/09/2026my 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 517718
Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026But how do you know what model is good enough for a given app? Needs case specific eval, no? 110
Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026No, Tail 2 is more than that. If that’s how it comes off, I should adjust the wording. Thanks! 110
Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Yep. People don’t label, and that’s a terrible lack of convention. 001
Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026beaucronin.com/tail#tail4beaucronin.comTransparent AI LabelingLabeling work product to clarify human / AI authorship 594
Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026This was the main thing I got right. He was a mensch. And well funded. 010
Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026In the writeup, under TAIL 2, I say "In my own work, I exempt simple spell checks and grammatical tweaks from TAIL 2." 000
Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I have them in the order I intend, but I hear what you're saying. The scale is more about "how is the serialized form created", with ideas provenance as secondary. 020
Reposted by Beau CroninNaomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I'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.nsaphra.netLife on the Uncanny Precipice | Naomi SaphraWe were wrong about the Uncanny Valley. 1026461
Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I’m realizing that this feeling is part of why I developed a labeling system — to try and make sense of this nauseating moment. beaucronin.com/tailbeaucronin.comTransparent AI LabelingLabeling work product to clarify human / AI authorship 151
Reposted by Beau CroninJD Long @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com · 09/08/2026Folks 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.static.klipy.comThéoden: Is This All You Can Conjure, Saruman?ALT: Théoden: Is This All You Can Conjure, Saruman? 4152
Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Here 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!beaucronin.comTransparent AI LabelingLabeling work product to clarify human / AI authorship 010
Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Claude is a shitty writer, but an excellent writing partner. 010
Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Has anyone done experiments with gen ai and 3d printers? What would Claude make if asked to do something awesome? 010
Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I’m always looking for a chance to recommend Counting Heads 020
Reposted by Beau CroninEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Out 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...nytimes.comOpinion | The Unstoppable Force of A.I. Hype Is Meeting One Immovable FactCongratulations. You’re irreplaceable. 2214019
Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026The surplus that results from moving out of subsistence cognition 291
Reposted by Beau CroninGordon @gordon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026re: tools for thought and AI, the problem is no longer blank page anxiety, but rather generating too much insight and getting lost 3275
Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Ray Nayler has a lot to say. Where the Axe is Buried, and The Mountain in the Sea both. 120
Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I want to love someone the way Claude loves the phrase "load-bearing" 000
Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Right, but the artifact and the impact/execution are two different things. 010
Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 07/03/2026I understand that the body is simulated. I was not clear on the input/output mapping though. 100
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? 010
Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Did you read Zvi Mowshowitz on this today? Such intense future nausea. open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p...open.substack.comAnthropic and the Department of WarThe situation in AI in 2026 is crazy. 100
Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Fermi Paradox -- not feeling so paradoxical any more. 020
Beau Cronin @beaucronin.bsky.social · 07/02/2026It’s kind of the revenge of test driven development 020
