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johnnyicarus

@marinaeschba.ch
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I try to make good websites and applications with the help of a broader philosophical and historical perspective on technology. Consulting available at formwerdung.ch, writing at marinaeschbach.ch

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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 03/10/2026
Phil Sci. (and also Phil. Mind I believe) are also clear that the way to answer this is to look at how it really works empirically. On the basis of that there really is no existing edge case that would give this practical import, only severe misrepresentations of how current tech works
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 03/10/2026
I think that's a very strange perspective on philosophy, it's 1) not in the business of "nailing things down" at all and 2) even if they had that one ready to go it's not like anybody would listen.
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 02/10/2026
Answering maybe too earnestly but I don't see how this could fit any sensible definition of vibe coding
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 21/09/2026
Wow if he didn't find any nuances worth exploring there must be none! Really what other state of affairs could explain such a thing?
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Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What I love about philosophy: anyone can participate. There’s no gatekeeping. What I hate about philosophy: anyone can participate. There’s no gatekeeping.
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Elly Loel @elly.lol · 20/09/2026
STOP OMARCHY: Boycott Tech's Far-Right Backers 🔖 stopomarchy.neocities.org/#ref61 🔗 ellyloel.com/stop-omarchy-boycott-t… #Bookmarks #Fascism #Tech
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STOP OMARCHY: Boycott Tech's Far-Right Backers
Protest against the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation and the tech companies and executives funding far-right open source.
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 21/09/2026
I can't lie, the jump from "LLMs are neat" to "Let's do physicalism v dualism" really got me, elite poasting: bsky.app/profile/mari...
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 20/09/2026
I am neither really that surprised that the machine programs at the level that it does but I guess I am built different idk
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 20/09/2026
If you go from 1) "this tool is very neat and precise" to 2) "it's gotta be more than just an LLM" and then to the weaponized skepticism of 3) "maybe we also LLM?", that's a failure of imagination between 1) and 2) (which M. Mitchell clearly anticipates)
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 20/09/2026
Physicalism v dualism is simply orthogonal to this, you don't need to larp using the worst versions of both! Brains and transformers can still be different if physicalism is true!
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 20/09/2026
My sincere philosophical advice would be to focus on the mechanism: they are fairly well understood and thus tell you that it would be extraordinary if sth like understanding would emerge from the machine
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 11/09/2026
Really enjoying the old school vibe at @zurichjs.com conf!
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 11/09/2026
Great talk!
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 09/09/2026
Just remembered, a propos, the engineer at a uni fair thing, who could not understand why he was morally obligated to *not* press the doomsday button even if "someone else would do it instead"
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 26/08/2026
Dolly ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXlU...
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YouTube video by The White Stripes
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Andrew @kohakudoori.com · 23/10/1927
brand new diner serves coke the normal way
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 18/08/2026
So it might make sense to either rely on your CSS skills or use something heavy-duty like vanilla-extract or StyleX
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 18/08/2026
I think Tailwind has various real limitations when app complexity increases (e.g. theming story is non-existent, does not enforce enough consistency anymore, you basically need class-variance-authority as a glue layer)
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 13/08/2026
What surprises me is that I see some developers fully in the Hamster Wheel the article describes, but they would swear that they are still centaurs driving the machine
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 13/07/2026
Messi is the one guy where I believe that "too autistic to be political" might be true
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 10/07/2026
I don't know if you ever looked into it, but I think the more interesting team in the QF is Switzerland because they did not luck into superstars as much and have much more evenly distributed talent.
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 10/07/2026
I would be really curious to see what happens with Switzerland. Lots of resources and enough political will, starting in 2004 got guys who could reliably qualify to tourneys, now have been riding a 11 of top 5 league starters (without megastars) for like 12y. Maybe they regress soon, maybe not.
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 07/07/2026
Set up a basic @sifa.id profile, great concept and it's so easy to get going: sifa.id/p/marinaesch...
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Marin Aeschbach (@marinaeschba.ch) | Sifa ID
Senior Design Engineer & User Experience Designer · Founding Designer and Developer at Formwerdung
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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 28/06/2026
“LLMs are good, but *only* if megacorps can control them” is a position that should be held by nobody who isn’t one of sama’s shareholders
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Susan Stryker @susanstryker.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
“Just as monstrous and mutant algae invade the lagoon of Venice … in the field of social ecology, men like Donald Trump are permitted to proliferate freely, like another species of algae, taking over entire districts of New York.” —Félix Guattari, 1989
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 22/06/2026
YouTube recommends "Prime Àlvaro Recoba was Unbelievable" – no. No he wasn't. He did not have a "prime". This is Charlie Brown had hoes for football nostalgia and I will not stand for it. It isn't true.
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waldokanto.bsky.social @waldokanto.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 01/06/2026
Most software is already of lower quality than it should be, and all the clamoring about doing it even more cheaply with LLMs definitely makes me feel some type of way
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 18/05/2026
"Shitty bandaid because we didn't invest in structured data infrastructure 15 years ago" undefeated as *the* use case for LLMs
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 28/04/2026
My impression as well! bsky.app/profile/mari...
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 27/04/2026
Thanks a bunch, I will check it out!
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 27/04/2026
Really interesting, do you have more information to read up on reasoning traces and reasoning in general? Finding it very hard to learn what's behind the marketing chatter.
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 25/04/2026
If actual people are flagging this you know they don't have they slightest clue how the tech works, just pure implied anthropomorphisation
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 25/04/2026
Maybe a weird observation but the moderation bot talking about using fancier (and more expensive!) models as if it would make any difference is peak AI brain
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 16/04/2026
Aquarius is in retrograde?
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 08/04/2026
Ayyyy should have called it Claude Logos amirite
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 23/03/2026
And also, "bike-first design" seems little more than an excuse for people in power to do "bike-only design" and then decide what the bike needs, like "go as fast as you want" and "not paying attention to pedestrians".
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 23/03/2026
I have heard a similar sentiment at a conference recently, AI (i.e. LLMs) are "a new user group" apparently? It's very weird to me, a bike lane is not designed literally for the bike but for people to get where they are going safely.
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 18/03/2026
Cool! I think about it a lot in the context of UI design (as a kind of specification), I have been meaning to riff on that myself as well
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 17/03/2026
This is a very good, in-depth post that aligns very well with what I also observe in Software currently! Also chuffed that the Borges I suggested made it in, very cool!
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 14/03/2026
Be my guest ^^
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 14/03/2026
Love this, when stuff like this is brought up, I always think about the map that is as big as the empire in this short piece by Borges: neilgreenberg.com/ao-quote-bor...
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A&O QUOTE – BORGES on EXACTITUDE in SCIENCE
On Exactitude in Science Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions, translated by Andrew Hurley. …In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occup…
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Netscape @netscape.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
DON DRAPER, wearing a Changshan: if we want to sell this revolution as being truly universal under Heaven, we need to make inroads with the fairer sex… how about “women hold up half the sky” MAO, sucking on his teeth: god damn it gweilo you’ve done it again.
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 13/03/2026
As I understand it, cutting through the marketing blabla, It's for an agent (as an LLM-in-a-loop) to iteratively improve its own prompt based on initial instructions, thereby saving you tokens and time when writing prompts. Ofc the LLM can still ignore relevant ones, load the wrong one etc
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 13/03/2026
They do count when they are used, but the idea is that they are used only when relevant so if you compare this to sending all the instructions all the time you'll end up saving tokens.
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 12/03/2026
Well I think you could add shell scripts and the like, it's just very rarely done apparently. Also, I would like do make it very I clear I do NOT recommend downloading and running random shell scripts on one's computer if one does not understand what they are doing.
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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 12/03/2026
Yes they are basically parts of prompts that can be added ad hoc, thereby in theory saving you tokens compared to just sending a full prompt every time.
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