iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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

This is part 2 of my other very correct opinion

Gramp Simpson meme claining "I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognise Blade of Grass on Mayhem"

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

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

Obligatory millennial image reply

Screenshot from the Devil Wears Prada. It’s the scene where someone holds up two belts up that are the same colour shade but completely different shapes and says “Here. It’s a tough call. They’re so different.” to Miranda

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

I’m also already done for the day after asking Claude for an update on pages created on Confluence last week.

A photo of the app version of Claude. “I’m done for the day” has been added to the image with an arrow pointing at a notification in Claude saying “usage limit reached. Resets 4:00PM”

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Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Interesting that they call out their AI is optional on the App Store

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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”

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

Oooo! bullet points reiterating the above!

Screenshot of an article from The Making of Making Sense by Dorian Taylor:
First we should reiterate why LLMs work for writing software at all:

Code can be verified cheaply, and at several levels, by other code (linter, compiler, unit tests). Mathematically proving it is another matter, but formal proofs aren’t actually necessary to be fit for purpose.
There is an enormous body of source code to train on, with attendant documentation, going back decades.
Most software just repeats similar patterns—they only vary slightly in the details—a phenomenon well-represented in the training data.
Code does not have to reference empirical reality, it only has to have the right “shape”.

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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.

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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.

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Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Early in the year reminder to buy these for Easter before they sell out

A picture of boxes with giant Easter egg biscuits from M&S. The one on the top is a giant M&S custard cream, the bottom one is a giant M&S chocolate ground. There’s a Rude Health granola peaking out from the back

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Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The solution is to then not use Outlook in our organisation? I'm not sure what I'm meant to do with this information as an individual

A cropped screenshot with the title "Minimising the risk of breaches caused by auto-complete" from digital compliance training. It's then followed up by the recommendation that auto-complete be turned off with a separate paragraph saying that it can't be turned off in the latest version of Outlook

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Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Not to say that this is absolute, damning evidence but it does make my second prediction seem more likely

A screenshot from Reddit that pulls out an image from the Stranger Things documentary. The Reddit title mentions that we can see a Duffer brothers’ laptop screen with three ChatGPT tabs open while writing the last season

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

Oh no! That doesn’t look good for a quiet gym session

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Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

This is the only American Thanksgiving that I'll recognise

A picture of the Thanksgiving play from Addams Family Values before everything goes to shit. The actress that will play Harmony from Buffy is going off on one in what is obviously a condescending tone even in a photo. Pugsley is dressed a turkey in the background. There's not much to add about him because the films didn't really know what to do with his character apart from acting as a foil to Wednesday

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Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

This is the most annoying part of post-Covid

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Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I quite like myself here. I never share photos so tell me I’m a good boy

4 pics in quadrants of a middle aged gay with a moustache and glasses drinking a tonka bean iced coffee in front of the Medici fountain in Paris. Stunning!

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Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

£10.99. That’s not too bad. Maybe it was never that expensive or Spotify has just gone up consistently over the years

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Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Yep, the AI hype is completely normal. Makes total sense that you could feed a bible into an LLM and talk straight to God

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Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

1000 days but you can see how Duo is fraying at the edges

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Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Getting a job, buying a house, getting engaged, and now I’ve hit my next big life milestone

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Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

Day 940 of Portuguese. Bring on the Brazilians! I can tell them that “the man eats an apple”

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Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

Happy Bell Riot day to those who celebrate

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Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

Important news for anyone in the UK: M&S do their own knock-off Snickers ice cream which is better than the original product but,of course, more expensive per unit

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