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Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Our team of 4 wrote Rebel from scratch in a few months - would have taken us many years. www.mindstone.com/rebel Fair source, so look at the code if you don't believe me: github.com/mindstone/re... Ardent users, high on Product Hunt. 10-20x AI-coding boost.

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Mindstone Rebel: Make any AI effective across teams

Rebel makes any AI effective in your business from Day 1. Connect your tools, context, and processes and transform how work gets done.

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Kilian Schönberger @kilianschoenberger.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Dancing Ent Creature of the foggy forest. Madeira #landscapephotography ##landschaftsfotografie #fog

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Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I walked past a smelly drain yesterday and reflexively put my noise-cancelling headphones on. Analogy is the core of cognition.

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Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Blindsight by Peter Watts. Neuroscience isn't at the centre, but gets touched on in interesting ways.

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Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Rebel is our AI desktop app for agentic work: advanced memory that learns & shares with colleagues, model-flexible, privacy-first, and works across your whole life. And it's now Fair Source. We’d really appreciate an upvote/comment: www.producthunt.com/products/min...

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Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

To AI, the cause and solution of all our problems!

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Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

@pvh.ca I thought you might appreciate this, if you hadn't already seen it.

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Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Things are in a pretty buggy state (importing HTML import should work, but PDF is broken), and there are also problems with heading/table of contents, and probably lots of other areas. I just started a new gig, but I'll try to get it into a working state over Christmas :~

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Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I had forgotten to flip the GitHub 'public' switch on the repository - now fixed! github.com/spideryarn/r... Thanks for the heads-up @martin.kleppmann.com!

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Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Last week's Ink & Switch London event was a delight - a room full of nerdy, warm people all interested in tools for thought for science. luma.com/71g0lhgo?tk=... It was the first time I showed spideryarn.com to anyone - thank you for all the ideas and suggestions!

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Ink & Switch London: Building new tools for Science · Luma

Ink & Switch's mission is to help computers become better tools for thought. We believe that the promise of computers as "intelligence amplifiers" or "bicycles…

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olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 14/11/2025

absolute highlight of the week was the @inkandswitch.com meetup and talking to @wolkenmachine.bsky.social about his work on programmable ink, and catching a wild @expede.wtf and @pvh.ca too! That team remains brilliant, radical, and decent in equal measures.

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Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

A diet for lazy people. It's based on intermittent fasting, but raised to the next level. I call it intermittent-intermittent fasting. Every so often you skip a meal.

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Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

The motto of the Alien Intelligence Association: "You don't get a second chance to make a First Contact."

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Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

There's an old saying I remember from grad school: "Sometimes a year in the lab can save an afternoon in the library." I thought of it earlier as I tapped my fingers in irritation, waiting many minutes for something that would have only taken me a few hours to do manually myself.

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Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

In practice, it's a spectrum. LinkedIn feels more and more like a game being played against a ranking algorithm, where the consumer is often an AI-commenter :~

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Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

How much to use AI for solo creative work? My current policy: Human readers deserve human writers. On the other hand, it's fine to let AI write code, because only the compiler will see that. (Though if you work in a team, maybe they deserve human coding) www.gregdetre.com/blog/human-r...

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Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

If you were to present these stimuli in a more disfluent way, does that help the LLMs avoid the mistake? cf Alter et al (2007) pages.stern.nyu.edu/~aalter/intu...

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

14 years after Alan Turing's death, an unpublished manuscript emerged where he suggested the idea of a "disordered" computer that anticipated the rise of connectionism cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Alan...

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Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

An hour of AI-assisted programming might involve: exploring, hitting dead ends, reverting, shipping. Each feels significant & separate. Our sense of time is heavily influenced by the number of distinct events we experience. So that productive hour might feel longer than a day of traditional coding.

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Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Classic programming has a 'variable reinforcement' quality - maybe this time when I hit 'compile', it'll work! Like slot machines, this unpredictable reward creates robust addictive behaviours. But we get less of a dopamine hit watching the AI get the reward.

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Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

When we watch the AI fail and iterate, we notice every mistake. Baumeister et al., 1990: we use a 'perpetrator' narrative for our own mistakes (seeing them as isolated, comprehensible incidents) but a 'victim' narrative for the AI's failures (arbitrary, incomprehensible, with lasting implications).

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Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

There's something odd and new about the subjective experience of AI-assisted programming. Can we understand it in terms of well-known psychological effects and illusions? www.gregdetre.com/blog/psychol...

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Psychological illusions in AI-assisted programming - Greg Detre

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Jakob Mökander @jakobmokander.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

How can the UK become a leader in AI-driven scientific research? New report by the Tony Blair Institute outlines policy recommendations across 5 key areas institute.global/insights/tec... W/ co-authors @lyan82.bsky.social @guywj.bsky.social @ersatzben.bsky.social @gregdetre.bsky.social 🧵/11

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