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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Interesting AI tell: links in the text are all Google search result URLs

Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Going to try adding more LLM speak into my daily conversations. Starting with things that never needed clarification, like "I'm drinking water, not gravel" and "I'm going to the shop to buy milk, not inspire a revolt against the bourgeoisie" Anybody know how to pronounce the em-dash?

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I've been saying 'obfuscation' wrong my entire life (*'obsfucation')

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Ontologies are back! Allegedly. I enjoyed this short talk from Frank Coyle, who talks about constraining agents via old-fashioned 'symbolic AI' techniques. Also, if the semantic web is back, can we reclaim the original meaning of web 3.0 now? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sir5...

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Why Agentic Systems Need Ontologies — Frank Coyle, UC Berkeley

YouTube video by AI Engineer

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Websites that break "ctrl+click" can get in the sea

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

There are too many tunnels between London and Manchester

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Blue sky is a weird place. Blocked!

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Everything that I know about football, I know against my will

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

It's a heat wave and I thought compiling llama.cpp on my laptop sounded like a fun idea. Big mistake.

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

There's a giraffe in my loft. I didn't invite it.

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

There's a legend that says orangutans can speak human languages, but they pretend not to, dearing people will make them get jobs. Would a conscious AI want to spend its days washing dishes? (source www.smbc-comics.com/comic/huh-2)

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

"In days, not weeks" No. Just no.

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Ok, "Delete the em-dash and everything after it" is more accurate here

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

"Delete everything after the em-dash" is an effective strategy most of the time

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I don't understand how Quora works when 50% of any page is answers to questions other than the one I wanted to look at

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I swear every post and comment on LinkedIn is AI now. What's the point? * with the notable exception of Fuzzy Labs' weekly rundowns, authored by the inimitable @echostatements.bsky.social.

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Since AGI is only a few years away (or so I'm told), I'm personally looking forward to the next step: artificial general stupidity. That'll be a true game changer.

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Split tabs is my new favourite thing in Firefox: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/spl...

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Client Challenge

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

This disappointly feels like a very ugly thing that's been bolted on top of Google Cloud for the sake of shipping some nice 'agentic-first' APIs quickly.

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

It's all well and good doing clever agentic AI, but we'll never escape the mess of software dependencies. Anyway, I wanted to instal 'gws', the new Google Workspace CLI. Pre-requisites are NodeJS + npm, and also the gcloud cli, which is written in Python. All so an agent can check my calendar!

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I don't disagree. If I want to know what AI "says" about a topic, I'll ask. Otherwise, I want to read what humans think.

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Hacker News added to their commenting guidelines "Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans." news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelin...

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Hacker News Guidelines

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Apparently others have reported similar, along with Russian and Hindi words showing up. A curiosity of the embedding space, presumably. The word it wanted was 'supplement' but through repeated 'fill in the blank' runs it always picked a Chinese word, like 补足, 补充, or 補完.

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I've stumbled upon Claude randomly inserting Chinese words into an English sentence. So I started a new chat, copied the text, but replaced the Chinese with <BLANK>, prompting Claude to fill blanks. It generates a Chinese word again! Not the same word either, but one with a related meaning.

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

It's frogspawn time! Easily 1000-2000 eggs in the garden pond. Looking forward to cultivating my own biblical plague.

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

And it's landed in Stanstead. Exciting times. I will name it Xuanzang 玄奘, in honour of its journey to the west.

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

My new Framework laptop might be better travelled than me soon. It's already been to Taiwan, the Phillipines, China, India, and France.

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

#Emacs can do AI too. I've now got a local model running through Ollama, gptel for chat-like interface, and Aider for coding. The bad news is it takes half a day to set up. The good news is I still remember how to write LISP.

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

"AI Makes you boring": www.marginalia.nu/log/a_132_ai... "The way human beings tend to have original ideas is to immerse in a problem for a long period of time, which is something that flat out doesn’t happen when LLMs do the thinking. You get shallow, surface-level ideas instead."

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AI makes you boring

This post is an elaboration on a comment I made on Hacker News recently, on a blog post that showed an increase in volume and decline in quality among the “Show HN” submissons. I don't actually mind A...

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

You know, it's weird how AI is terrible at topics where I have expertise, but great at topics I don't know much about

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

In exciting amphibian news, I spotted two huge frogs in the depths of the pond in _amplexus_

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

If you watch this video, you will be forced to imagine various hypothetical scenarios: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs5e...

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How "If" Sentences create alternate universes in your head

YouTube video by languagejones

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

There's a kind of efficiency arbitrage going on. Initially, getting AI to do your writing was a time-saver, advantageous to busy people. But, as a busy person, if I'm reading something obviously AI-generated I just tune out. It's no longer effective, so we all go back to writing the slow way.

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

There's style of written English called ChatGPT-ese. It’s not only the impeccably neutral tone and the compulsive urge to provide three key takeaways — it’s the way every sentence feels like it’s being lovingly laminated. In summary, yes I did write this with ChatGPT, and you can tell, can't you?

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I've achieved the pinnacle of technological innovation: lights that can be turned off without getting out of bed

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

It's 2026, my lightbulbs are exchanging packets with one-another and come with upgradeable firmware. What a time to be alive.

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Having to use Microsoft Word after years of Google Docs, wondering how it can possibly be *this bad*

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

In case you didn't know, the scientific study of grasses is called agrostology (slightly more interesting fact: 'agrostology' shares a root with 'agriculture'. Both trace to the PIE root agro- for 'field')

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Really savouring my extra 10 seconds of sunlight today

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The lesson here is that when you have a talking dog, you don't really need AI

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

My dog loves cucumber. According to AI, "Many dogs love cucumbers because they're a refreshing, crunchy, low-calorie, and hydrating snack" So I asked my dog if calories are an important factor. She said I shouldn't take AI too seriously, but refused to comment on calorie-counting. Suspicious.

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I told my dog that we've upgraded the living room geometry to have cyclic boundaries. And that's why it's currently impossible for her to get into the garden to look for mice...

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The London Underground is a bit dystopian

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Modern retailers don't like words like "staff", so instead we get weird things, like Morrisons saying "colleague approval" needed to buy alchohol, and the Ikea website offering a way to "contact a co-worker" if I need help choosing which wardrobe to buy. Guess I'll ask round the office tomorrow...

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Reading ChatGPT's "thinking" trace is illuminating. Today, discussing cycling, it decided not to "overwhelm" me with too much physics. Which is probably fair.

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Remember remember the 19th of November, the gunpowder treason and... hey, wait a minute, that was 2 weeks ago! I got confused because there's *still* fireworks.

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Clare Sudbery @claresudbery.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

How does agentic AI affect the next generation of coders? Are new software engineers going to learn less because they’re too reliant on LLMs? @matt-squire.bsky.social from Fuzzy Labs had a lot of really interesting stuff to say about this at Manchester Tech Festival,

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[LLMs] How does agentic AI affect the next generation of coders?

More on what Matt Squire had to say about AI at Manchester Tech Festival

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Matt Squire @matt-squire.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Prompting ChatGPT with "do not compliment me on my questions and do not use emojis" as standard now

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