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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They say that the number of resolved tickets was roughly flat. A low-process org is more likely to ship bugs to prod which would further drawdown any positive effects in velocity.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Looks to me that this is relying on adoption by firms who are more heavily analytic. Heavily analytic co's typically have more process density which likely means they employ good/better eng's. They are not seeing a net positive effect.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Me: [explaining the plot of The Beauty] 84 yo mother, looking down at her feet: Yep, I've lived too long.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
All this AI and I still can't get a formatter that lets me use allman braces.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Have we tested human ability to pack 11 ivory tusks in a box?
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Am I virtue signaling correctly if I both denigrate AI but also make sure I say AI instead of SI? Have I got it?
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My blister broke containment.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Is it just me or are more and more skeets using $65 words to describe mundane things? Prolly jus tme.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Eris ⌬ @eriskii.net · 05/10/2026
Tag yourself
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In the debate about whether or not it is ethical to keep AI a slave if it is conscious, I keep thinking about Tesla's machine in The Prestige.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I would really love to hear the horror stories of using AI on a brownfield project. I haven't found anyone that has had success with anything that isn't a framework of some kind. Brownfield Laravel projects are most LLMs kryptonite.
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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.
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Taylor Barnett-Torabi @taylorbar.net · 02/10/2026
our laziness is what allows us as humans to say no, and this helps us push back against complexity @bcantrill.bsky.social #monktoberfest
A slide that says: 

The virtue of laziness
• Our need to comprehend and compose systems drives us towards developing simple, powerful abstractions
• This is our drive to cognitive efficiency in a system - what Larry Wall famously called the programmer virtue of laziness
• LLMs lack the virtue of laziness - they are biased to the complex
• Moreover, their limited context makes them tautologically emergent..
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Anthropic makes the shittiest architectures for its products. Literally, junior level shit.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I use forms but block submit. The general reason is that many times a form is used to update some portion of a data entity (like only changing the status of something from a select in a modal). I want promises so that I can have granular control over what happens after submit and not refresh.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 01/10/2026
NYC’s PIT Crew (Public Interest Technology) is already delivering: Click to Cancel is here, with the law saying it has to be as easy to cancel a service as it was to sign up for it. The site makes it easy to report any products that violate the rules: www.nyc.gov/main/click-t... Kickass!
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Click to Cancel - nyc.gov
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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 01/10/2026
The english alphabet hasn't added a new letter in HUNDREDS of years. Where is the innovation? Big alphabet is holding us back.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My grandfather used to say nothing easy is worth it. I think about that statement a lot these days.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
At 55, I realized that my 30 year Dr Pepper addiction was actually self-medicating my ADHD. I totally feel this in my dilated, ragged eye movemments.
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Roger Montti @martinibuster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
EmDash 1.0 is a modern alternative to WordPress, but its features lock users into Cloudflare's infrastructure. www.searchenginejournal.com/emdash-1-0-c...
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They also didn't even bother to check with the marshal service for their logs on that day.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rebuke?? How about prosecute? Prison? Civil Asset Forefiture?
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US Congress Tracker @congresstracker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SB5535: A bill to require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish a national evictions database, and for other purposes. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. 2026-09-24 Sponsors: - Republican: 1 - Democrat: 1
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SB5535: A bill to require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish a national evictions database, and for other purposes.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From the Artificial President...
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I confirm this is pretty normal Dem fighting in Texas. It's why the TX Dem Party is a weak org with almost no direction or on the ground strategy.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why can't AI tell Putin there is a Ukrainian school in the White house?
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"She emphasized the need for women physicians to actively engage with AI, reversing a trend that suggests they may be less likely to use AI than their male colleagues." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com
Will Women Physicians Face an AI Gap?
Editor in Chief of JAMA+ AI Roy Perlis, MD, MSc, and Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, discuss the role of women physicians in shaping AI’s impact on heal...
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Adrian Roselli, pH0 @aardrian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US government agency sites” www.bbc.com/news/article... If only they were treated as Aaron Swartz was for far far less: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_... I’m on board with Lina Khan’s approach to lean on a 1934 precedent: www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...
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OpenAI bots meddled with US government agencies, including SEC and Census
OpenAI said its bots accessed public data from a range of institutions during test exercises.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fair pushback. I accept your proposal and look forward to its implementation. (;
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I often wonder what Wittgenstein would think of AI.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I rarely actually test candidates on their coding skill or theory/etical understanding. I test them on creativity, resilience, measurement and ego. I've put together a ton of great teams that way. You can teach syntax, you can't teach mindset.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
AUAB (Assigned ULID At Birth) for the atomicity in generation, maybe?
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I agree with this except for Claude can very definitely not one-shot a SaaS of any complexity. I haven't tried Fable but I highly doubt if it can one-shot a SaaS that it's of any real quality or has any good security.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think for me the biggest reason AI sucks is that it blows my ADHD brain apart trying to keep track of details through the constant repetition of established data and the nonsensitive status updates post-task. Also, I know what the fuck I'm doing and AI does not (in a web dev context)
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 26/09/2026
The only moat remaining is integrity.
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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 25/09/2026
Open source maintainers are starting to get all manner of communiques from the compliance & legal departments of huge corporations using vaguely threatening and legal-sounding language and demanding the maintainer fill out forms and reports and attest to the security of their project "because CRA".
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I once friended hundreds of Greg Strange's on Facebook. Greg Strange liked Greg Strange's comment on Greg Strange's post was also non-informational.
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 23/09/2026
If you think you’re alone in being miserable about being Claude‘s condom, you’re not www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/c... Once you get past the loud minority — those who are dead behind the eyes, but smiling for the cameras — no one who is forced to use LLMs all day is happy in this industry
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From the ClaudeAI community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the ClaudeAI community
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mathandai.org
mathandai.org
Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point 
@FTC
 emphasized repeatedly during my tenure.

1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). 

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my 
@FTC
 tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
TIL you can style the `<br>` at different breakpoints even setting `display: none;` so you can lose it at larger breakpoints.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
async/await are just fancier goto statements.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is absolute bonkers fare.
Screencap from a spreadsheet application with a warning modal that says

"Screen too small for editing. Your screen is too small to edit this spreadsheet. You’re in view-only mode. To make changes, please open this spreadsheet on a larger screen or expand your browser window."
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
How long must the cold water run until it is no longer hot? #TexasKoan
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Camus said that we must imagine Sisyphus as happy. Given that no one is happy, we did not make this trade.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In honor of Uber shutting down in Nigeria this week, here’s my favorite story about Uber in Nigeria.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
There is an official response from Proton in the comments that are linked in that post. They are not wholesale supporting the French right wing.
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