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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I never once typed FTW without first typing WTF

hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Robert Sheckley short story "Watch bird" was written in 1953. That's how predictable this all is. www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29579

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Watchbird by Robert Sheckley

Free eBook digitized and proofread by volunteers.

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This explains why I dropped down to Opus 4.8 and am still happy with it - for me the most important thing is how well a model considers multiple approaches before starting to code.

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Liquidity is useful to keep people from switching jobs for cash sign on bonus. If someone wants to buy a house, exercising a portion of paper money is worth it even if holding would get a lot more money in the long run

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Eating the seed corn also looks like a pretty good choice a quarter out.

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It might also help to get a knee/body pillow

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The goals of writing code in large, long lived cosebases by hand were always dual: to both to add / change functionality and to understand the system itself. That has not changed, and VC/tech types who think humans can be taken out of the loop are delusional.

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The flagging in fable is indeed annoying; it's broad categories of questions

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Opus is very good at analyzing Oura data - I ask it to fetch from API into a local duckdb every few weeks, making it easy to query for patterns. I found Fable better at independent coding but prefer Opus for insight mining (I like that it surfaces random connections I forgot or did not know about)

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It's actually a convenient feature for me - fable with a coordinator and two subagents (front end and backend) hits the plan limits after ~25 minutes, having implemented a couple of features in my personal project, and it's not like I have any more free time than that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Wishing the English teacher and the gym teacher many happy years together :-P

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Playing King's Quest 7. Happy pride from 1994!

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

When the interviewer says "Where do you see yourself in five years?" It turns out you're not supposed to say "Living in a bog, handing out quests."

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Current approaches to AI coding: 1) cheap, effective - pairing with it (avoids wrong paths) 2) expensive, effective - autonomous with precise success criteria (AI brute forces solution space, discards bad path results) 3) expensive, ineffective - autonomous without success criteria. Vibe coding

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Thoughtful analysis is the flattening trend. www.warman.life/blog/2026-05... "IBM is the rare exception, tripling junior hires" It's amazing that IBM stagnated for decades but kept a seed of management discipline alive somewhere. Extreme "found a viable potato, grew okay in Marian soul" energy

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The Great Flattening — How AI Capex Is Redrawing Tech's Org Chart — Warman Notes

Capital that once funded headcount is now funding GPUs. The org chart underneath is changing shape — and the titles printed on business cards may be the last thing to go.

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I'd also expect a burst in new startup formation - some fraction of the laid off big tech engineers will start their own thing, and some fraction of those will succeed and need more than one person to work on it. A star nursery of sorts!

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I was just thinking that in the long term, I want to design human systems in which even bad people do good things because the incentives are stacked to make that the profitable choice. So I clicked buy on this book so fast...

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Watching the new YCombinator dogma of self improving AI loops reminded me of Dombrovsky's "The faculty of useless knowledge" - it gives emotional permission to not care about the hard part - people - because the new system will make such trivialities obsolete

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Claude helped me write code faster in between meetings, but growing engineers and running projects effectively requires knowing what context is missing in your own brain or what's _not_ said. I don't see how any amount of training data can help AI do this.

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Well they do have something to sell... (I am a Claude/codex speedup enjoyer but code is just a tangible-ish byproduct of _understanding_, and it's really helpful for some humans understand what the software actually does and how. I won't attempt to estimate how many humans; it could fall either way)

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Steve is an engineering VP at Microsoft and I find a similar pattern is showing up for product managers. I see lots of PMs who were already good now multiplying their impact with AI while weaker PMs are now using AI to generate work slop which is a waste of everyone’s time.

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

My natural state is alone in my head, and for a long time the only way to relationships was to a) get adopted by an extravert or b) work with someone on a technical problem until a connection emerged. Removing fear of failure - "it's okay if it does not work out" - was key for me too. Ship+iterate..

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 30/12/2025

yup! it's still programming, but at a higher abstraction level and you still have to meticulously specify what you want and be able to debug if the genie has corrupted your wishes.

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St1ka @st1ka.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

If you're an indie developer, you should hang this screenshot on your wall and use it as inspiration to never give up

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Incredible. losing is so fun in this game because of the error messages

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Incredible. losing is so fun in this game because of the error messages

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Very similar to how I learned to do it. Deciding is the hard part; the rest is just execution.. and then it's over

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Service jobs teach you to read body language to prevent problems because you can't afford problems

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Might be because a higher % of bicyclists than car drivers don't bother stopping at red signs. So even though objectively, increasing the ratio of bicycles to cars makes pedestrians much safer, it feels more dangerous because there are way more people trying to run you over when crossing a street.

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Google docs popping up a "help me write" prompt next to the cursor will drive me to do long form writing in a desktop app. Or with a pen on paper. Honestly, a feather on parchment seems preferable to having my focus destroyed by a blinky prompt if I pause typing for 2 seconds to collect my thoughts.

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Ah, the network cables finally got organized

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Lynoure Braakman @lynoure.eurosky.social · 20/12/2024

Inversion: You can't defeat uncertainty with pessimism. The best pessimism can do is to save effort that would have be wasted by some of the experiments. But enough experimenting leads to experience. Experience reduces uncertainty. It might boil down to: You can't defeat uncertainty. Experiment.

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MotherDuck @motherduck.com · 13/12/2024

Don’t you DARE disrespect the speed of @duckdb.org

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

There is uncertainty in all technical work. The only control you really get is prioritization, so when the time is inevitably up, the most important work will have gotten done. Starting from a prototype and building up follows from this.

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hellata.bsky.social @hellata.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I did not think I had another social network in me but here we are.

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