iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Oliver Shreeve

Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

not sure why I made this but now you have to see it

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Before I’d be surprised if an app bugged and needed to be force closed These days I shrug, call it vibe coded nonsense, and my perception of the service drops noticeably on the NPS scale

011

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It’s that guy from the Neuromancer trailer! Well, I’m worried about the show now

100

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The sun is a laser trying to kill me

131

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I’ve read Neuromancer twice. Each time very my brain struggles to get itself around the text. This makes me sad as a cyberpunk-theme fan

000

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Hegelian dialectics is so centrist dad coded

010

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

What does this icon do on Slack? I’ve been ignoring it as I thought it was some AI stuff, but then I realised it wasn’t the standardised ‘magic glitter’ that’s normally used

A screenshot from Slack on iOS. Part of the contextual menu is shown with “paste” and other options. A red square is drawn around an icon that looks like a pencil (?) pointing to the middle of a Spirograph output (?). The icon is really confusing to understand and so hard to describe

100

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii looks fun, if it’ll only actually let me play it rather than watch it!

010

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Now we have Claude, speed is our USP? Talented! Brilliant! Incredible! Amazing! Show stopping! Spectacular! Never the same! Totally unique! Completely not ever been done before!

210

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Is anyone that follows me a NYT subscriber willing to brief me on the what, why, and huhs?

110

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I almost finished my first day back without calling Claude a twat. It only had to hold on for 38 minutes!

000

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Back at work after the redundancies hit while I was off on leave. I'm mainly remote but everything feels quiet.

100

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

From a resource ROI perspective: -only finding half the issues of a human, -surfacing a bunch of non-issues, -hallucinating others, -and only finding one real issue that a human didn’t (that was actually a covered sub-issue), doesn’t feel like it’s hitting the sweet spot of the impact curve.

measuringu.com

Does AI Find Real UI Problems or Just Hallucinations? – MeasuringU

030

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

12 hours without power. You could say that today was eventful

010

Reposted by Oliver Shreeve

Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Americans think British people are wimps for complaining about the heat. But what you don't realise is that most British houses were actually built in Britain, a cursed island that hates us.

895044935

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Any suggestions on search engines to use that aren’t AI powered? I’m open and willing

100

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Back from getting a haircut, and the first thing my husband says is “you’ve got bangs”

210

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Why do I forget that the gym can be fun?

010

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Weren’t we boycotting Eurovision this year?

100

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Do we have a new government yet?

000

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I still get random emails from Prada in Italian. I love it. It makes me feel cultured

000

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

God, this government collapse is taking so long! This is really inefficient! Claude could have done it a few hours

120

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

What’s the result in Islington? Red? Green? Other?

000

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

So Claude can’t actually ‘see’ video content so it wants to every single action to be coded up, probably by a human. Why bother doing anything in Claude if someone is doing all that work?

010

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

First attempt to get Claude to do some simple usability analysis. It’s like having a stakeholder who is completely ignoring the session and only wants to share their own thoughts.

010

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

AI-first business pivot update: my role isn't at risk but we are losing people on the team, and I'm now a UXR team of 1. I shouldn't worry though because I'll be getting a Claude licence to do all the heavy lifting!

010

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Woo! Time to become an AI-first business! First round of redundancies is dropping soon!

010

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

It's exhausting when colleagues (who claim to know about design research) send you articles about using AI in research and it's all academic meta-study theme based tasks. You're meant to know enough to know that's not what we do. You're not meant to be adding to my workload by refuting the obvious

000

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I really didn't find The Drama to be a good movie, which seems to contrast with everyone online. I'm resolving this dissonance by assuming everyone positive about it online is just a bot run by a marketing agency

000

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

It took me longer than I'd like to admit to realise which prime minister it was referring to

010

Reposted by Oliver Shreeve

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

keming. not even once.

An ad for bbwjobs.com but the letter spacing is extremely tight, so the second b look like an l and o instead.

26808180

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

You know what, this sunny weather really makes me want to pivot to AI and automate my workflow processes

110

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Second cycle before work! Go me!

030

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

UXRs and Design Researchers, what tool would you pick between UserTesting, LookBack, and BallPark HQ?

000

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I've really got to stop passively checking LinkedIn. There's some good content but we're talking about a 1:100 ratio with the amount of slop and just generally bad PR-style posts

010

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

2 weeks of absolutely no motivation to eat well and do any form of workout. This is me stating publicly that I'm back on it from today

110

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Does anyone subscribe to Lenny's substack? I'm curious what is after the subscription prompt on this post but his content isn't often relevant enough to me to actually pay www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-do-...

lennysnewsletter.com

How to do AI analysis you can actually trust

Four prompting techniques to prevent AI’s most common mistakes

000

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

High-level summary of why LLMs work for code. It'll be useful to contrast with AI Generated insights that aren't quick to verify. If we already know enough to know an LLM is talking bollocks, then why would we be doing the research in the first place? Source: buttondown.com/dorian/archi...

Screenshot from a blog on The Sense of Sense Making by Dorian Taylor:
A question worth asking is why do large language models perform relatively well with code, anyway? I agree with other commentators that it’s because there’s a right answer that is verifiable—quickly and deterministically—by external means. I’ll also add that code only has to be internally consistent: it (mostly) doesn’t have to reference facts about the world.

100

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I need to remember the term "Cognitive Surrender". I'm been struggling to express the difference between using Excel to crunch some numbers and just asking AI to crunch everything and produce a final report with a top line, and why that difference is important Source: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

Screenshot of text from a New York Times article by Ezra Klein published in March 2026:
Researchers have drawn a distinction between “cognitive offloading” and “cognitive surrender.” Cognitive offloading comes when you shift a discrete task over to a tool like a calculator; cognitive surrender comes when, as Steven Shaw and Gideon Nave of the University of Pennsylvania put it, “the user relinquishes cognitive control and adopts the A.I.’s judgment as their own.” In practice, I wonder whether this distinction is so clean: My use of calculators has surely atrophied my math skills, as my use of mapping services has allowed my (already poor) sense of direction to diminish further.

020

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

You'd think that by now I'd remember if the job role is Principal or Principle

120

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Why is it so freezing? It looks find outside. A bit grey but fine.

010

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Does anyone have any JTBD jokes or puns? I need one for a workshop and ChatGPT doesn’t understand how to write a joke that’s actually a joke

210

Reposted by Oliver Shreeve

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

check it out: a whole new website for psychic damage profmusgrave.github.io/anotherday/

Another day closer to the end.
The release of the first iPhone is now closer to the dissolution of the Soviet Union than to today.
Dec 26, 1991 → Jun 29, 2007 → Today.
15 yrs, 6 mo to past event.
18 yrs, 9 mo to today.

413549

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Is there really such a role as Experience Strategist? It makes sense as a role but I can’t imagine a business going out to hire one in this market

000

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The pain of knowing you should go into London for the optics, but having too much work to spend time in the office

020

Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Oh no! I just said that I'd try to come into the office more often!

110