Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 15hWhat 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 010
Reposted by Dan McKinleyRod 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!) 061
Reposted by Dan McKinleyKellan @kellanem.com · 14/09/2026Blog post: Managers are Catalysts, laughingmeme.org/2026/09/14/m...laughingmeme.orgManagers Are CatalystsAs an industry, we like to shout a lot about experiments when we kick them off, all confident swagger that this time our superior intellects have landed from first principles on the correct reimaginin... 0113
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 14/09/2026boringtechnology.club I guess I missed the boat on that other TLDboringtechnology.clubChoose Boring TechnologyHow to be old, for young people. 100
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 10/09/2026Realizing too late that I should have called this "Choose Borges Technology" 0110
Reposted by Dan McKinleyDan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 10/09/2026Wrote a new talk about how we should all give up on writing prompts by handevaluation.clubPrompts aren’t RealDispatches from Agentic Product 42510
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 10/09/2026Wrote a new talk about how we should all give up on writing prompts by handevaluation.clubPrompts aren’t RealDispatches from Agentic Product 42510
Reposted by Dan McKinleyRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The 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. 502497127
Reposted by Dan McKinleypost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I 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 14066901070
Reposted by Dan McKinleytef @tef.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Operations Skills: PRIMARILY KAFKA AND CASSANDRA BUT I CAN MAKE ANY SORT OF PREDICTION AND HAVE IT IGNORED BY ANY TYPE OF BUREAUCRACY 513731
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 05/09/2026Turned down a VP job at id.me because the CEO's Twitter feed was full of transphobic insanity 020
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 04/09/2026I distinctly remember Patrick telling us he was an open borders everywhere radical 051
Reposted by Dan McKinleySisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026incredible 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 5571115
Reposted by Dan McKinleyAditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Only source for this right now is unfortunately the New York Post. Note: there are thousands (maybe even tens of thousands) of VPs at Bank of America nypost.com/2026/09/01/u...nypost.comExclusive | Victim stabbed to death in Times Square rampage was VP at Bank of America, just celebrated 2nd wedding anniversaryThe Bank of America VP was fatally stabbed near the Crossroads of the World on Monday afternoon. 064
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 31/08/2026Sorry 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 110
Reposted by Dan McKinleyCoda @codahale.com · 30/08/2026I 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. 051
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 30/08/2026I listen to a lot of the Bouie episodes of this and I've been wondering why Cottle's bullshit wasn't breaking containment 040
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 26/08/2026I really find few things more upsetting than the knowledge that somewhere, complete idiots are getting fabulously wealthy 050
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 26/08/2026Feeling persuaded by the logic of my own stats trolling. Someone invite me to all of the relevant Signal chats please 100
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 26/08/2026has 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 110
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 25/08/2026No one must know I dropped them in the toilet Six bells, time for closin By Lucifer’s beard!!! [pinching nose] au revoir 110
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 24/08/2026Dave's at a disadvantage here because never needed to hone his PR acumen. Whereas Sammy is a polished corporate animal by nature. 011
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 24/08/2026Hagar is genuinely far more insane than Dave, but he is also a more sophisticated media operator and is always sealioning in every time Dave's in the news somehow. 110
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 24/08/2026This claim is the subject of 5150's "Love Walks In." The love walking in is an alien. Consider this before making it part of your wedding folks 110
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 24/08/2026Say what you want about Dave's grip on reality, but at least he never seriously claimed to be psychically contacted by aliens in 1968. 220
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 24/08/2026Here come the pretzels Consarnit Lousy smarch Behold! The ultimate pog! 120
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 24/08/20261. Smell you later 2. As was the style at the time 3. When it happens, you'll know 4. I don't think any of us expected him to say that 5. Not that far from shame 130
Reposted by Dan McKinleyJohn Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 24/08/2026My 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.newsTrump’s Third-WorldismNothing Left but the Mess 05214
Reposted by Dan McKinleyAditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 21/08/2026One 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... 03410
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 18/08/2026Imagine a two minute digression with Ted Templeton over the intercom about whether Betty or Wilma was hotter, while Eddie stays busy impersonating wildlife with his volume knob 010
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 18/08/2026The content really makes you wonder about sprechgesang interludes left on the cutting room floor back in the Fair Warning era 100
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 18/08/2026He sold his publishing rights recently and the lifestyle upgrades are striking: now Dave can afford a bullwhip, which he uses as a form of punctuation 110
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 18/08/2026He also did a TEDx talk recently if you are more of a big ideas person 120
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 18/08/2026More people should be watching David Lee Roth’s TikToks and discussing them with me 100
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 18/08/2026Watched 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 180
Reposted by Dan McKinleyCamille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 17/08/2026we 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 3559
Reposted by Dan McKinleyCoda @codahale.com · 17/08/2026Getting the cheapest Gemini model to rank the frontier models by mouthfeel, commitment to Sparkle Motion, and pelican fidelity 042
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 17/08/2026Anyway I think model review posting is maybe the lowest form of man's search for meaning yet devised 170
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 17/08/2026It's not a perfect analogy because at least it was possible that Mangum was trying to say something very cryptic, but ultimately comprehensible 120
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 17/08/2026Kids 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 140
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 17/08/2026Relatedly, I’ve got about as much interest in hearing one person’s model testing notes from a handful of prompts as I do about hearing about their dreams 061
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 17/08/2026But I think the median product team doesn’t even know what evals are and are engaged in religious ritual at best 130
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 17/08/2026You can factor lots of things so that their output isn’t subjective (like Claude Code) and the tech is magical (like Claude Code) 120
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 17/08/2026Surely you can push some of the defenses in depth against this into the foundation model vendors and maybe some of them are doing it but this has all made me very skeptical of most products built on this stuff with subjective output 120
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 17/08/2026I made Gemini stop writing “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” for the length of War and Peace into an 80 character structured output field by renaming it from “title” to “header.” 120
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 17/08/2026Building 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 130