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What was the point of building Google AI if it’s just going to report changes in OPS as an absolute increase in “points” rather than percentage increases to its constituent slugging percentage* and on-base, JUST LIKE A DUMB JOCK *which is not a percentage

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Rod Begbie @rod.begbie.com · 14/09/2026

(In mildly related news: Splice laid me off in July and I’m starting a job hunt in earnest this week. If your company needs someone to help engineering teams navigate the technological shift, cultural changes, and token-costs that agentic coding is unlocking, hit me up!)

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 10/09/2026

Wrote a new talk about how we should all give up on writing prompts by hand

evaluation.club

Prompts aren’t Real

Dispatches from Agentic Product

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 10/09/2026

Wrote a new talk about how we should all give up on writing prompts by hand

evaluation.club

Prompts aren’t Real

Dispatches from Agentic Product

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Nathan Fielder Elizabeth Holmes documentary is going to cause me physical pain to witness and no power on earth will stop me from seeing it opening night.

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think MAHA is very straightforwardly the triumph of the snake oil salesmen and the way we beat it is the same way you always beat snake oil salesmen: regulate their claims

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Operations Skills: PRIMARILY KAFKA AND CASSANDRA BUT I CAN MAKE ANY SORT OF PREDICTION AND HAVE IT IGNORED BY ANY TYPE OF BUREAUCRACY

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 04/09/2026

I distinctly remember Patrick telling us he was an open borders everywhere radical

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

incredible work by 1PW leadership fucking up bad enough that a fight over Arch Linux for Racists escaped containment so completely that now Jamelle Bouie's telling 750k very online millennials, almost certainly the demographic most likely to pay for 1PW, to go cancel their 1PW subscription tonight

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 31/08/2026

Sorry in advance for putting the song in your brain but "We built this City" by Starship came on the other day, and I realized that although it took 41 years it's now more rock and roll than the city it's about

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Coda @codahale.com · 30/08/2026

I liked it a lot better when the ML algorithms doing weird shit just had floating point values and matrices as intermediate values to puzzle over. The current state of affairs where the algorithms leave behind cognitohazards that drive human analysts insane seems bad.

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 30/08/2026

I listen to a lot of the Bouie episodes of this and I've been wondering why Cottle's bullshit wasn't breaking containment

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 26/08/2026

has anyone tried to talk sense into the EA community on their own terms? e.g.  - All lives have equal likelihood  - You should expect to have been born in the far future if it contains trillions of lives  - Ergo it doesn’t and improving the present maximizes utility

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 24/08/2026

Say what you want about Dave's grip on reality, but at least he never seriously claimed to be psychically contacted by aliens in 1968.

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My reaction to the Trump beef import carve-out, "That sounds like some Third World shit." And it is.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/trumps-thi...

unpopularfront.news

Trump’s Third-Worldism

Nothing Left but the Mess

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

One of these men tried to access some publicly-funded research that was in the public domain. The other has stolen countless people's work to build a plagiarism machine that is destroying our planet. Guess which one was prosecuted to death? bsky.app/profile/dlbo...

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 22/01/2025

Tres Hombres

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 18/08/2026

More people should be watching David Lee Roth’s TikToks and discussing them with me

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 18/08/2026

Watched a guy get confused about whether Meta’s time sucking system for calibrations was a symptom of or cause of success, and wreak absolute devastation in a place that didn’t have the time for all of that shit

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 17/08/2026

we are quick to credit weird quirks for companies' success when really their success is usually some form of inventing a money printer and monopolizing it effectively and thus being allowed to indulge in weird quirks

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Coda @codahale.com · 17/08/2026

Getting the cheapest Gemini model to rank the frontier models by mouthfeel, commitment to Sparkle Motion, and pelican fidelity

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 17/08/2026

Kids these days are writing LinkedIn posts speculating about why an LLM said this or that Back in my day we would simply write 5,000 word interpretive essays about In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 17/08/2026

Building software on LLM’s is an exercise in dealing with the fact that, at scale, you cannot stop them from doing this. It’s a rare occurrence for any given person but also probably happening to someone somewhere at a rate of several times a second

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Lift up some logs in the woods and show me the bugs instead of whatever Matt Yglesias posted on the Nazi site.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

i know i sound like a broken record whenever i talk about this, but i'm fully convinced that at this point, especially in light of, well, just about everything that's unfolded in recent years, we really need to be honest with ourselves and face the reality th–i know i sound like a broken record when

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 13/08/2026

Hey we were the couple that walked by and made awkward eye contact with you. Bummed to have missed this

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The second strategic failure is that the American people (re)elected a worthless fucking moron like Donald Trump, who is boundlessly confident despite knowing nothing about anything and so asked the US military to do the impossible for no reason at all because he got lucky in Venezuela.

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 04/08/2026

The Yegge situation is best left to medical professionals at this point

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 03/08/2026

Random fact about this mural is that the artist won a five figure settlement because it appears in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for approximately three seconds without permission

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Jason Fry @jasoncfry.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Those of you eager to serve wealthy MLB owners as volunteer Pinkertons won’t like to read this, but as usual Joe Sheehan nails the real problem:

Joe Sheehan: This trade is a microcosm of the real problem MLB has faced for decades. It’s not about haves and have-nots, but wants and want-nots. The Dodgers, and teams like them, want to win more than teams like the Tigers do, so they go out and acquire the Tigers’ best pitcher. MLB has built an entire labor strategy and media campaign around demonizing the Dodgers, when in fact it’s the Tigers who are wrecking baseball. You have to be through the looking glass to think the sport’s problem is the team that’s trying to win rather than the team that’s trading Tarik Skubal while sitting 2 1/2 games out of a playoff spot.

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Cliff @cliff.leaninto.it · 02/08/2026

The hidden secret truth of software engineering is that all code is sin. If you build your dignity on sin you are truly lost brother

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I am begging you not to believe gazillionaire baseball owners when they tell you Skubal going to the Dodgers means we need a salary cap. Competitive balance is not the reason they want a salary cap. They just want to spend less, and with more predictability, on total payroll. That is all.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The left needs a candidate it can unite around in the 2028 primaries and AOC is the only real choice. Nobody else checks all of the boxes. Every other option is worse. If she doesn't run, it's a missed opportunity of historic proportions. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/aoc-must-r...

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AOC Must Run For President

History is calling. Sorry!

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Coda @codahale.com · 28/07/2026

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a horse kicking a human head—forever.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

the history of charging the mound, episode 6: LENNY RANDLE now free to watch on youtube youtu.be/RiQ-jr20CGA?...

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MLB's most famous forfeit, 10-cent beer night, and the hero behind it all

YouTube video by Secret Base

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

there’s my president rooting for his future home argentina

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This paragraph gave me an epiphany about Matty Y. It's not that he doesn't understand how politics words. It's that fundamentally, he doesn't understand *what politics is.*

What I would ask of everyone at the table is simply that they respect the diversity of America and the wisdom of trying to compete effectively across this vast and varied land rather than trying to cancel each other. And I would urge people whose passion in life is shifting public opinion rather than responding to it to find a different line of work than electoral politics.

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Spencer McDaniel @spencermcdaniel.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

More people need to read this. There is no such thing as a "historically accurate Odyssey," because the 'Odyssey' is not set in a real historical time. It is set in the mythic Age of Heroes, not the real-life Bronze Age. #Odyssey #Homer #classics kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2026/07/odys...

kiwihellenist.blogspot.com

History and the <i>Odyssey</i>

The Odyssey is not set in the Bronze Age. It is totally flooded with classical-era motifs, with a smattering of archaic touches.

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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Gonna be crazy here when everyone else wakes up

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"Boltzmann Brains" is a fanciful name for a dead-serious idea. I'm beginning to wonder whether the name hasn't caused the physics community to not spend nearly enough time thinking carefully about the problems that they pose. We have Boltzmann Brain Blindness. Long 🧵 coming. ⚛️ #cosmology (1/n)

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 09/07/2026

I used to say that many successful people have access to a stratospheric level of self confidence that’s inaccessible to me. I still think that is right but lately I've noticed there’s another aspect to it. They are chumps, or at least profess to be in public.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

troops this troops that, does anyone ever stop yapping about these guys

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

lol Threads banned the new Infowars. Silenced for TRUTH. Everybody go yell at them.

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Kellan @kellanem.com · 30/06/2026

Blog post: Recent blog post by David Bessison LLM and math introduced two concepts useful for thinking about software: canonization and the Overhang. laughingmeme.org/2026/06/30/c...

laughingmeme.org

Canonization and the Overhang

David Bessis’s “The fall of the theorem economy” is ostensibly about LLMs and the pursuit of pure math, and I found it fascinating in its own right, even while I’m not qualified to evaluate a number o...

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 30/06/2026

Just once I’d like to run an operation where I and 20 accomplices tail one of Karla’s hoods for weeks

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 29/06/2026

The HN discussion around this largely about how it produces inconsistent output. The bigger problem here is that there's no evaluation of any kind. So even if it produced the same output reliably, there'd be no reason to think it's right or even useful, sometimes. danunparsed.com/p/hackerrank...

danunparsed.com

HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74/100. No — 88/100. Actually 83/100.

How hiring is becoming a luck filter.

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