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Nikki Pinski (she/her)

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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 06/04/2026
#agentanecdotes: nikkipin.ski/agentanecdot... A story of failure...or a story of realization of purpose?
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#AgentAnecdotes: When extra thinking only make things worse
I want to occasionally share stories of full Agentic coding sessions. I feel like it's very hard for me to calibrate my experiences against others, and I bet others are feeling the same way. I don't k...
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 06/03/2026
(I didn't start with the problems cuz I felt like my target audience would read them, say "see, and THAT'S why I don't use these tools", and stop reading)
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 06/03/2026
I confess, Part 4 happened for tactical reasons (Part 3 got too long). The problems I enumerate there are mostly ones I believe are mitigated by the practices in Part 3. I should think about cross-linking them better... 🤔
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 06/03/2026
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 06/03/2026
bsky.app/profile/nikk...
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 06/03/2026
Part 4: nikkipin.ski/fine-ill-do-...
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Fine, I'll do it myself: A Practical Guide to Agentic Engineering Part 4
Things that still kinda suck. NOTE: This is Part 4 of a series on my education with AI-driven software development. Part 1 is the why. Part 2 is the how. Part 3 is the what. Part 4 is a bit more what...
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 06/03/2026
Part 3: nikkipin.ski/just-the-fac...
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Just the facts, ma'am: A Practical Guide to Agentic Engineering Part 3
Resource Management For Dummies NOTE: This is Part 3 of a 3 (?) part series on my education with AI-driven software development. Part 1 is the why. Part 2 is the how. Here we finally come to the spec...
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 06/03/2026
Part 2: nikkipin.ski/close-enough...
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Close enough for jazz: A Practical guide to Agentic Engineering Part 2
Prompt Engineering is dead. Long live Context Engineering NOTE: This is Part 2 of a 3-part series on my education with AI-driven software development. Part 1 is the why. This is the how. Part 3 is th...
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 06/03/2026
I feel obligated to add: this was written by a human, for other humans. If your instinct is to ask an AI model to summarize this post, it is not for you.
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 06/03/2026
Gravity wells and disillusionment troughs: A Practical guide to Agentic Engineering. I wrote about my journey with AI software dev. I'm starting with why, for those cynical, suspicious, or ambivalent, as I was only 2 months ago. Jump ahead if you're beyond that (linked below).
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Gravity wells and disillusionment troughs: A Practical guide to Agentic Engineering
or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Claude NOTE: This is a series on my education with AI-driven software development. I'm starting with why, for those cynical, suspicious, or ambivalent ...
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 05/03/2026
Tldr: smaller atomic units of work, independent adversarial iteration and feedback loops. I have a bit about the philosophical mindshift changes required, and my own concrete workflow to execute it.
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 05/03/2026
I wrote a thing. Actually I wrote it in December. But now I made a public home for it. nikkipin.ski/the-neurodiv... Watch this space. Coming later this week: A Practical Guide to Agentic Engineering.
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The neurodivergent Big Tech survival guide
Editor’s note: This was the last internal document I wrote at Amazon. It was written with the mentees, mentors, and friends I left in mind. But the response was really positive, and it seems to have r...
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 06/02/2026
My job has changed, but not that much.
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 20/01/2026
It's Cinema Appreciation Day! Nothing - *nothing* - makes me feel "Fuck Yeah This Is Why I Love Movies" more than David's yearly countdown. <3
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 18/01/2026
cis women that come up to trans women to say "can i just say, i really love your vibe" should be given flowers and medals.
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 15/01/2026
Can't Wait! 😍
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 03/01/2026
The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Don't talk to journalists about DIY HRT.
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 19/12/2025
Well, Gemini also had to make me look surprised/shocked/clickbaited :D But also it gave me more foundation and blush which I don't bother with at work...hahah
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 19/12/2025
OK full disclosure, that was Gemini-generated but using my current profile pic. (reality: I look even more fabulous than my AI self :D)
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 18/12/2025
Today is my last day at AWS after 13 years!! In retrospect I don't know what else to say about it. A thread doesn't feel like enough. A book might get me sued. 💀 Onwards and forwards! I'm staying in tech but not American Big Tech. So do with that hint what you will.
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 06/12/2025
Big news coming...
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 05/12/2025
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 01/12/2025
I'm gonna do it for the first time this year in a few years, and that's a brilliant pattern - I shall do exactly that.
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 26/11/2025
People were saying that about Bruce Willis for years, and that turned out to have a tragic root cause explanation. Bruce started appearing in direct-to-video shlock in 2008, when he was 53. Kate Beckinsale is 52. :/
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 29/10/2025
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 28/10/2025
Legal Eagle: Transition Goals
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 24/10/2025
Fuck, I read this headline as Devops and was *SO CONFUSED*.
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 22/10/2025
Narcissists are overrepresented in executive class running companies. Narcissists love sycophants. Gen AI is a sycophantic technology. Executives across all industries are obsessed with Gen AI. Gee, who could've seen that coming.
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 22/10/2025
P.S. 5/4. My money is where my mouth is:
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 22/10/2025
2) Vancouver. I am loving the blue, I am *LOVING* the cream, and I am L😍O🥰V🤩I💖N💗G the blue + cream + orange. Please don't f*** up the logo/name announcement next month. 9.5/10 1) Montreal Victoire. 10/10. It's perfect. The colour, the name, the logo, No notesy 4/4 fin.
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 22/10/2025
4) Toronto Sceptres. Great logo, good balance between blue & gold. But Yellow=Saskatchewan not Toronto, otherwise we'd be a 9. 8/10 3) NY Sirens. Love the NY style, logo is itself Siren, and S-S-S being sound waves? GREAT. 8.5/10 3/4
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 22/10/2025
6) Boston Fleet. Bland B, meh green. But I dunno. It's kind of a vibe, especially with the cyan trim. 7.5/10 5) Seattle. I was hoping for more vibrancy in the Green. But that cream...oh it's so good. Foreshadowing. 7.5/10 2/4
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 22/10/2025
Rannking all the PWHL kits+vibes now that @pwhl--vancouver.bsky.social is ready. Worst to best. 8) Ottawa Charge. Nothing wrong with it, nothing right either. Why do Ottawa teams overindex on Canadian-red? 6/10 7) Minnesota Frost. Love the purple, the actual logo is too corporate-bland. 7/10 1/4
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Leona Scream @editor.scot · 08/10/2025
hoohoohee
me: if I become the evil overlord I will never harm my minions
[5 years later]
highly throwable imp: hoohoohee
me: hmm
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 05/10/2025
This cut. The needle drop to Steely Dan. I burst out into tears. I'm not even kidding. One Battle After Another is as good as you heard. I cried at the end too, but it's the end of Act One that's staying with me and I can't stop thinking about the next day.
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 01/10/2025
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 29/09/2025
Appreciate you writing this (& you'd shared similar advice prior over reddit DM when I was egg-cracking & panicking ❤️) There's another interesting variable here: Estrogen makes you HUNGRY. I was healthily losing weight in the first 2 months of transition. Then the E came. I chose not to fight it! 🫣
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 29/09/2025
I've been surprisingly restrained with making trans girl memes, so far in my transition, even though making memes is like my love language. So here's one, in honour of fall starting properly.
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 26/09/2025
God I fucking love the Peacemaker opening credits. Every single time. Send tweet.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 22/09/2025
Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 20/09/2025
Would it be too overly-online to start describing Charlie Kirk as a lolcow?
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 20/09/2025
So yes npm is the Node Package Manager, but it is not an acronym for Node Package Manager, it is an acronym for "npm is NOT an acronym", which is kind of a homage to the acronym GNU which, you know how when most people refer to Linux what they're actually referring to is, in fact, GNU/Linux, and...
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 20/09/2025
So yes npm is the Node Package Manager, but it is not an acronym for Node Package Manager, it is an acronym for "npm is NOT an acronym", which is kind of a homage to the acronym GNU which, you know how when most people refer to Linux what they're actually referring to is, in fact, GNU/Linux, and...
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 19/09/2025
So, I don't think it's great that the late-night host responses l to the Kimmel thing was to make a version of the same joke by mockingly "acquiescing" to Trump by praising him. The fascists don't care. They can't tell sarcasm. Mock surrender to censorship is still surrender to censorship.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 19/09/2025
Me: "THIS is the first time you pattern matched to a textbook? Trans people have been screaming about this for months!" People of colour: "Girl..."
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 19/09/2025
Guess I'm not going to re:Invent this year?
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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 18/09/2025
He forgot to mention that Comedy would now be illegal everywhere else in America.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Megyn Kelly says it best, MAGA got so upset that an educated Black man became president that they’ve chosen to destroy all that makes America great and want it to become a white ethnostate to ensure it never happens again. Everything happening today is because Obama was a successful president.
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Megyn Kelly blames Obama for America’s divisions in reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murder
The conservative political commentator brought up the former president when asked about how she is handling the death of Charlie
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