iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ooof. That GPT-6 Astra announcement page really turns the "Dazzle Dial" up to 11. I can't even.

000

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If I only had an actual dollar for every "check" that Claude gives me to "cash"

000

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It all co-evolved, each internalizing the interface with the other, in a particular history, which would not be the same if re-played, except for some convergence (ways to organize wholes and parts tend to rhyme). But, it didn't have to be "tickets." Now, the relationships self-sustain. Qwerty.

021

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I asked ChatGPT to summarize HN comments, somewhere in which someone quoted Dune and that killed ChatGPT. Was it the copyright (quote is fair use) or the content that ChatGPT found objectionable? 🤔

Useful or unusual external links / references

Dune / Butlerian Jihad

lambdaone references Dune and quotes Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam:

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to ensl

010

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Overlapping work. For most things multiple people could reasonably contribute to the work and most of the time, multiple people are working toward the same ends. (More of a team signal than engineering discipline, perhaps?)

010

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Are we in the Enterprise Java Beans era of agent architecture?

000

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This reply was co-authored by La Croix.

010

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The interesting part is using automation to structure the ask for feedback to make it easier for humans to provide it.

000

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The idea of maximizing automated feedback prior to human feedback seems to follow logically. www.lucasfcosta.com/blog/backpre...

lucasfcosta.com

Backpressure is all you need

Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.

100

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

"Feedback is all you need" feels like the central dogma for agents. Adding one word to the @simonwillison.net agent definition: "An LLM agent runs tools in a *feedback* loop to achieve a goal."

100

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

That they’re planning to go to Burning Man.

040

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Practices that we wanted to do but didn't have a different economics now

040

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

WAaaS: "Well, Actually" as a Service

020

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The trend can be inevitable, but specific winners and losers and how they win or lose may not be. In 1999, it was perhaps hard to see cloud computing business model (server software as free complement to rent compute), SaaS (renting software), web browsers as free complement to sell advertising.

000

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Went to a talk on cookbooks and food from a queer perspective at @omnivorebooks.bsky.social tonight. What a cool and cute bookstore. Great talk. Ended up winning a gorgeous Smithy cast iron pan in the raffle. How appropriate since cooking is my love language and my boyfriend's love is pancakes.

A hand holding up a flat top cast iron pan against a brick wall

020

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I'm fascinated by the Claude Code leak. A low impact, easily reversible micro decision was also a high impact, irreversible macro decision. I have questions. What did that decision process look like? Where does accountability lie and what does it look like? Eagerly awaiting a public post-mortem.

000

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

In the 90s I worked for a company ($1B/yr) that built their own ERP rather than buying. Cost was 1/10th and results were better because the software adapted to the (strong) business vision rather than forcing the business to adapt to the software. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUbI...

youtube.com

The Original Square Hole Girl Video + The Redemption

YouTube video by Tired Actor (Alison Burke)

120

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

One definition of Software Architecture is "The parts that are hard to change." Transitioning from "hard to change" to "easy to change" is a major advancement. Perhaps we're seeing a new configuration of what is Architecture and what is not? React: Architecture no more? (When enabled by tests?)

000

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I see we're now entering the era of "Claw."

010

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Confusing outcomes with output. And boy are LLMs good at output. So enticing to focus on tools and process right now rather than outcomes because the tools are so rough, but also so promising.

010

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Rediscovering Test Driven Development... "Verification > intelligence for reliability. A modest model operating inside strict, deterministic tests will beat a stronger model operating without tests, because failures are detected and bounded." www.sentienceapi.com/blog/verific...

sentienceapi.com

Sentience API Blog - AI Web Intelligence Insights

Tutorials and insights on optimizing AI agents for web automation, visual cues, screenshot delivery, and reducing LLM costs.

000

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I'm glad I ran into "The Scope of Evolutionary Thinking" by @thomasreydon.bsky.social before my long-planned reading of "An evolutionary theory of economic change" and not after. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

cambridge.org

The Scope of Evolutionary Thinking

Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - The Scope of Evolutionary Thinking

010

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Love it. I used to tell people I was a magazine columnist and get into the most amazing conversations despite the fact I wrote about software engineering. When I would tell lay-people I was a software engineer, conversations always devolved to "Can you fix my broken windows machine?"

000

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

No expert on carpal, but after decades of keyboarding, started having hand issues. Took a while to figure out ... swapping a rectangular table for oval in the kitchen combined with WFH laptop. Straight table = no problem; curved table = hand pain. Took six months to heal up once I realized.

000

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Based on experience, I believe the captions on these photos have been reversed in this version of @buzzfeed.com's daily "98 vaguely thematic things we hope you will buy" listicle.

Two photos of a velvet surface, one with cat hair, labeled "before" and one without cat hair and a brush labeled "10 seconds later."

000

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Self-confirming bias. After a while all your best employees would love blue, it's what they all have in common, so clearly that's what you should look for. (All your worst employees would love blue, too, but maybe those are just the ones that deep in their hearts didn't love blue enough?)

000

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

The types of questions you ask in an interview creates a signal. I would react negatively to a personality test. Do you really want to only hire people who have a positive reaction to personality tests? What if your process was to ask people what their favorite color is and then only hire "blue?"

110

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Accidentally declared tab bankruptcy this morning. Feeling a wistful sense of relief.

000

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

The more experience I gain in interviewing, the more I worry about accidentally weeding good people out, rather than accidentally hiring someone bad. Exactly this. cory.news/posts/2025-0...

Turns out, our process was filtering out iOS developers.

Standard Facebook Interview Question: “Design Facebook News Feed, including the backend”

iOS Developer Answer: “I don’t care about the backend”

Interview Notes: “1) TC does not understand basic Computer Science concepts. 2) TC has a bad attitude. Rejection!”

000

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Have you ever been given a PowerPoint presentation on the rules of guest bathroom towel usage? Asking for a friend.

000

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

SF Gate reported an estimate of as many as 100,000. SF Standard reported 50,000. I haven’t heard anything official. For comparison 50,000 marched in the 2024 SF pride and one million attended. 100,000 were in the women’s march in 2017.

000

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Published recipes have become more precise over the years. Older recipes presume the reader has more experience. But coleslaw is not baking, precision is unnecessary, a flaw even. The less experienced the cook, the less likely they are to own a scale. What does 10g of carrot look like? New problem.

110

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Some people’s primary experience of remote is the most extreme and difficult form. For example with team members in SF and India there is a maximal distance, maximal time difference, plus cultural or possibly language differences. Three orders of magnitude harder for communication.

020

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

New Montgomery street was new in the 1870s. Spotted some further edits last night.

000

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

“Two positive non-work interactions per week” is minimum to build trust. Forgot where I heard this, but I’ve used this guideline for a long time. In-person, this comes for free. Remote, you have to deliberately engineer these interactions. Doing this authentically is a learnable management skill.

070

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

One problem with the Viable System Model is that every article has to use 80% of its word budget to re-explain it, badly. Language like “system 3*” and “algedonic” creates a low r0 meme-deficiency. Is the lack of accessible pedagogy a fundamental property of the VSM or can it be overcome?

000

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

For comparison the recipe from culinary textbook “On Cooking,” fifth edition p 1077 reads: cook sugar until dark brown caramel … remove from heat … slowly add butter and cream

000

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

“Butterscotch caramel sauce” ChatGPT tells you to melt the butter first in various prompts for this which will result in a burnt mess. Melt the sugar first, finish with the heat sensitive ingredients.

A failed recipe for butterscotch caramel sauce

110

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Thanks for responding. Surprising clear trend with respect to education and age, but perhaps it may not follow from most are higher educated to “most are highly paid?” www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-econo...

stlouisfed.org

Beyond the 9 to 5: Decoding the Overemployment Trend

This analysis examines the prevalence of employed individuals who hold more than one job and the characteristics of these ‘overemployed’ workers.

100

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

What is your source for the assertion that most two-jobbers are highly paid?

100

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Ignoble research idea: What percentage of business articles contain a variation of the phrase "In today's changing environment?" Key aspects: (1) Now (2) The World (3) Changes. How has the use of this phrase changed over time? Hypothesis: use is constant over time.

000

Jeff Moore @jeffmooredev.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

And that’s how the board of our HOA operates. Tried to move to Google sheets. people kept asking, “which version of the sheet is this?” I’m like “the newest one, it’s always the newest one. That’s the point.” They also print out web pages and sheets and pass them around at meetings.

111