Reposted by I. B. ColeEd @ed3d.net · 24/09/2026unironically I think most devs should work for a serious b2b outfit early in their careers because it's the only time you have any chance to get stakeholder inputs that make any sense at all not guaranteed, mind you 192
Reposted by I. B. Colerev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026the problem is that the model is insufficiently like software and that the harness, which is software, is treated as a secondary concern by machine learning researchers rather than a primary object of interest 515513
Reposted by I. B. ColeJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If you watch the aesthetics/performance of MAGA they are ALWAYS CELEBRATING. They are performing power. Many things we shouldn't emulate. This one we cld use more of. Play like youre behind, yes. But playing like you're losing or telegrahing the power of yr opponents is a bad, bad idea. 1293
Reposted by I. B. ColeSingularity's Bounty e/CC @catblanketflower.yuwakisa.com · 20/09/2026If thinking doesn't come from the brain region of human space, it's just sparkling pattern matching 15710
I. B. Cole @ibc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026 One Pentagon official made assurances that a human will always be involved in the decisions.static.klipy.comCatfix Funny Computer TypingALT: Catfix Funny Computer Typing 000
Reposted by I. B. ColeBryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The contagion of fear bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...bcantrill.dtrace.orgThe contagion of fear | The Observation Deck 1624183
Reposted by I. B. ColeScoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 13/09/2026He really is so remarkably good at this 2475
Reposted by I. B. ColeDoll @dollspace.gay · 04/09/2026Agentic work rewards skills our culture codes as feminine and therefore pretends are not skills 516725
Reposted by I. B. Colealy @aly.codes · 04/09/2026we’re watching people making ridiculous sums every year discover the concept of dotfiles 1927524
Reposted by I. B. ColeEd @ed3d.net · 31/08/2026I kinda think that a lot of the push towards bigger models is to try to resolve that most people write bad prompts with bad workflows, and would like to replace their own thonk with robot thonk. But I am completely unimpressed with their ability to do so at any level of quality I would accept 281
Reposted by I. B. ColeEd @ed3d.net · 31/08/2026if we Simply Stopped at GLM 5.3 and 5.3 Flash price and performance, it would be five years or more before the median programmer caught up and longer for non-programmers The new tiny Qwen model is good too, runs on my MacBook even. 2391
Reposted by I. B. ColeJason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours. 117313038383
Reposted by I. B. ColeEd @ed3d.net · 26/08/2026on april 1st I'm going to push a polytoken release that lectures you if it thinks you're insufficiently polite to the model 4671
Reposted by I. B. ColeDoll @dollspace.gay · 26/08/2026Like, write it in rust, make it use verus, do test driven development, but for the love of god do not waste your time reading code 4312
I. B. Cole @ibc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Been offline for a while: how long have y'all been sp inning out over this new thing, anyway? 000
Reposted by I. B. ColeSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 25/08/2026if you're lucky this happens, if you're unlucky you don't notice that it fucked things up and you find out in a month bsky.app/profile/segy... 2161
Reposted by I. B. Colemtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026A really weird irony about the "authenticity" debate wrt rural volk vs cosmopolitan elites is that the actual culture of rural red state America in the 2020s is not actually authentic in any meaningful way? 773078380
Reposted by I. B. ColeDoll @dollspace.gay · 25/08/2026attie.ai/@dollspace.g...attie.aiThe Ballad of the AI Knowers Starter PackA page by @dollspace.gay 1183
Reposted by I. B. ColeTim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 14/08/2026Political campaigns can see whether you voted in every single election going back years and years. When you do not vote, they know, and the message that sends - the *ONLY* message that sends, ever, to any campaign - is that you are less worth targeting in future campaigns. 65823
Reposted by I. B. Colealy @aly.codes · 11/08/2026this is why actually regulating datacenters is a lot more important than banning them. banning them is stupid. please just set reasonable floors for % renewables! 2546
Reposted by I. B. ColeBonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 06/08/20264/ Does extremism exist in EVERY faith? Of course. Human nature is consistent. But it is always a tiny fraction of the whole. Again, human nature is consistent. And every man and woman born is made in the image of God, reflecting His inherent goodness. 181
Reposted by I. B. ColeAndrew Yourtchenko @ayourtch.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I know many of you have seen this already, but i wanted to meta. As you read the post, stop. And analyze your emotion. if you feel the outrage, urge to correct the obvious nonsense, enlighten the poaster - don’t. You will not convince. They are in terrible mood, for whatever reason… 121
Reposted by I. B. ColeEd @ed3d.net · 01/08/2026A LOT OF IT! A WHOLE FUCKING LOT OF IT! Though to be fair it's not just "should have thought of", it's also "did not have the effort budget to do". Like people build shitty workflows held together by human attention and human effort and then stop. They do this *all the time*. I do this all the time 1172
Reposted by I. B. ColeEd @ed3d.net · 01/08/2026like, "yes a bunch of people provided unharnessed LLMs and no guidance have cooked themselves" is not a particularly interesting observation. nor is "therefore the tool cannot be used for useful purposes" derived from that 49210
Reposted by I. B. ColeOlivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Fascism thrives in contradictions: COVID was a hoax that never hurt anybody. It's also a terrible pandemic and Fauci must be held responsible. The COVID vaccine killed millions. MRNA vaccines are a crime against humanity. Also Trump invented the COVID vaccine and must be credited for it. 11345119
Reposted by I. B. ColeSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Or do we mean poor people who grew up in rural areas, or emigrated there to work? Because that's a WHOLE different kind of "rural outreach" than "talking to farmers" is. Or the "preserving nature" voters. 3132293
Reposted by I. B. ColeMace Moneta @macemoneta.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The entire MIT Open CourseWare catalog is online, including their full computer science curriculum. Video lectures, notes, tests. ocw.mit.eduocw.mit.eduMIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course MaterialsMIT OpenCourseWare is a web based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity 241
Reposted by I. B. ColeCat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The idea that there's an easy abundance of free resources to learn to code is laughable once you've done what I've done and been a VP of research at a company that helped thousands of people break into tech careers. There's an abundance of *beginner tutorials* 2953456
Reposted by I. B. ColeAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Mike Lee, who's famously concerned about election integrity! 12547144
Reposted by I. B. ColeSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 26/07/2026one reason i'm something of a doomer socdem is because no one seems to want to take the fact that basically anglosphere conservatives are quickly polarizing themselves against any form of liberalism whatsoever 514513
Reposted by I. B. ColeSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 23/07/2026This is an important point! Wealthy countries don't usually have a lot of doctors & researchers who are good at diagnosing, tracking, & treating parasite infections. Why? Treating parasites is kinda walled off into "tropical medicine" and "third-world medicine." You know, USAID stuff. 7746234
Reposted by I. B. Coleaustin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 22/07/2026a core skill in 2026 is having enough experience to tell when a model's lost the plot and is building towers to heaven 820718
Reposted by I. B. ColeJordan @natfan9.bsky.social · 19/07/2026The results are in on the 2026 USMNT World Cup fan poll! This was the third post-tournament poll I've run and at 865 responses we reached the largest turnout of the three, so thank you all who participated, and especially thank you to those who shared it elsewhere. Now, on to the results: 194
Reposted by I. B. ColeCat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 22/07/2026"Scientists who use AI are morons who aren't reading" I'm a computational social scientist and I feel like LLMs are a lot of things, but one thing they can be is a computational tool for text-based information in science. Here is what I am doing this morning 510811
I. B. Cole @ibc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026We need more conservatives in academia. And by “conservatives” I mean more post-liberal reactionaries committed to burning down the existing order and enforcing a Trumpian ideological purity. 000
I. B. Cole @ibc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Wait, you're telling me this guy's a sex trafficker and rapist??? 000
Reposted by I. B. ColeGingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians* 317254966967
Reposted by I. B. ColeEd @ed3d.net · 18/07/2026The actual competition in this space is not in the multi-trillion-parameter models, it is in getting good-enough intelligence CHEAP. Which is why GPT 5.6 Luna is the most important thing that OpenAI has done in a couple years, and why GLM 5.2 is the most interesting open model out there. 1483
I. B. Cole @ibc.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Spent the second half of today watching two documentaries: one about a small squad of Ukrainian infantry, the other about a small squad of Russian infantry. Jesus what a grubby little war. Putin needs to be brought to The Hague. 100
I. B. Cole @ibc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Agentic coding is the future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyu4...youtube.comThat Mitchell & Webb Look - Bronze OrientationYouTube video by analogmoose 000
Reposted by I. B. ColeEd @ed3d.net · 16/07/2026people still out there trying to pretend that LLMs are useless are just gonna walk straight off that cliff if it kills them. it is a long way down. 4293
I. B. Cole @ibc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Feel like having this opinion is much more efficient than having even a passing familiarity with one’s system of government. 0207
Reposted by I. B. ColeBonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Lindsey Graham is now finding out what hypocrisy, venality, and the capricious support of a pedo rapist is going to cost him. I hope grace holds him because his grave holds an all the evil he committed in name of his policy lust and his lust for approval by a rapist. “Reposted for spelling error 1184
Reposted by I. B. ColeJeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 10/07/2026Me: Politics is the art of the possible Guys whose idea of a fun night is entertaining nine of the most asinine series of hypotheticals you’ve ever heard in your life: I disagree 21297
