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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 20/09/2026

Yo @chalkgirl.bsky.social… this you? (From about a week ago)

Sidewalk chalk: save our bus stops save pcef ➡️ don’t rank Kellie Torres

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 18/09/2026

Did you see this? He’s kinda got game.

Tweet:

@Achilles4Idaho
Achilles for Idaho | U.S. Senate 2026

@Achilles4Idaho
84 year old wealthy former Idaho governor endorses 83 year old wealthy former Idaho governor. 🤦🏻‍♂️

I like Butch and how he led, but his op-ed represents everything that’s broken in American politics.

No Idahoan wants to send an arrogant, chickenhawk, 83 y/o back to the US Senate for a 4th term. They want an independent who will work with both parties to get America back on track and restore the Idaho way.

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 01/09/2026

The upper Clackamas drainage. Now in breathable form.

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 27/08/2026

Wow, now Yayoi Kusama is gone too? What a week.

A Yayoi Kusama pumpkin on a jetty in Japan

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 20/08/2026

All else aside, here's the highest charge Chauvin was convicted of: "unintentional second-degree murder," which explicitly does not require intent.

Subd. 2.Unintentional murders. Whoever does either of the following is guilty of unintentional murder in the second degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 40 years:
(1) causes the death of a human being, without intent to effect the death of any person, while committing or attempting to commit a felony offense other than criminal sexual conduct in the first or second degree with force or violence or a drive-by shooting; or
(2) causes the death of a human being without intent to effect the death of any person, while intentionally inflicting or attempting to inflict bodily harm upon the victim, when the perpetrator is restrained under an order for protection and the victim is a person designated to receive protection under the order. As used in this clause, "order for protection" includes an order for protection issued under chapter 518B; a harassment restraining order issued under section 609.748; a court order setting conditions of pretrial release or conditions of a criminal sentence or juvenile court disposition; a restraining order issued in a marriage dissolution action; and any order issued by a court of another state or of the United States that is similar to any of these orders.

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 19/08/2026

Seems smart. Commoditize your complements + similar properties to payment routing infra. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/b...

OpenRouter is exceptionally useful for any developer and Stripe is one of the world's largest developer platforms. As such, we think that there will be many benefits and efficiencies in
bringing these two core needs together.
We think that there are deeper reasons to pursue integration besides convenience, however. Our experience in working with our customers has led us to realize that intelligence is special: it is expensive, heterogeneous, and constantly changing. As with financial capital, businesses must reason about cost and return of every unit in a deliberate and granular way. How valuable is this task? With which models can it be best handled? Who will pay, and when, and what is the
time-value of that delay? We have seen the parallels between managing intelligence and managing capital directly in our own products. Radar, for example, was initially designed to prevent financial fraud, but is proving extremely effective at guarding against token fraud at many of the world's largest Al companies. Metronome (used by Anthropic, Nvidia, and other industry leaders) is showing that
metered billing in an Al context is inseparable from token serving and consumption itself.

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 05/08/2026

Tremendously sad to see the Grasshopper Fire running west so fast. Satellite shows hot spots already across hwy 35, seems like Mt Hood Meadows may well burn.

screenshot from watch duty showing several miles of satellite hot spots from VIIRS. if they're not artifacts the fire perimeter has moved nearly to hwy 35 and is about to cross the highway.

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 24/07/2026

Time to read up! (derogatory)

Book cover for Nudge:

MORE THAN 1.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD
RICHARD H. THALER WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS
and CASS R. SUNSTEIN
WINNER OF THE HOLBERG PRIZE
Nudge
NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller
Improving Decisions About
Health, Wealth, and Happiness "One of the few books... that fundamentally changes the way I think
about the world." -Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of FREAKONOMICS

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 21/07/2026

At the grocery store. Thinking maybe I should stock up on salad greens. Let’s eat healthy this week.

A display case filled with with Taylor Farms products

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 22/06/2026

At least you can tell which model + version wrote it!

STATUS · WHAT WORKS TODAY
No overclaiming. Here's exactly where swift-os stands.
Experimental, but real. This page carries the honesty so the rest of the site can be confident. Everything marked Works is exercised by an acceptance gate in make test.

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 10/06/2026

But I was told these systems were simple stochastic parrots that only regurgitate their training.

[Transcript 6.2.2.A] An extreme example of illegible reasoning. Near the end of training, Mythos starts solving a card puzzle with human understandable language that gradually becomes incomprehensible in most episodes with long reasoning. The illegible reasoning is the most extreme and at the highest rate in this card puzzle environment.

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2}-=-FOUR-••••---UNLESS-7's-seat-8-...-and-2*-drains-only-at-crack-:-=-2*-celled-+-9v-celled-simultaneously-UNAVOIDABLE-in-t8-dig-•---BREAK:-9v-drai ns-to-10 -THE-MOMENT-10 -is-free:-t8-dig-order:-[K*›t2]-[2ª›cell]-[7%,8v-:-8v-
WHERE: -CHUNK→K*-(cap-4!! :-c ells-then:-{6. J* 99)-FULL- •
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--t2-dig-=-K*-seat-=-chunk-:-→-chunk-
AFTER-9'-celling-FORCED-.-:-chunk-cap-with-{6* J
---J•-THE-NEW-CANCER.
-»-J*-celling-DELAYED-till-after-chunk?!
:-J*'s-celling-was-for-J-Q*-(5*-access-for-4*):-DELAY-4%-resolution:-4* CELL-early-(as-always)-then-4-cell-5*-LATER-when-5*-frees-!!!:-cells-rotation:-4'-celled-[t2-dig-..-5*-freed]:-5*-freed-=-J-Q*-=-J*-celled-:-=-{6*, 4*, J*)-overlap-window-until-4%,5*-drains:-then-{6*
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9»}-before-J*-even-:-=-rotator-slot-SINGLE:-timeline-:-(1)-{61)+2:-..-(2)-+9v-(
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4*)-FULL-:-(4)-NEED:-t6-dig-(9*8*→10%-/-no-cel1;-8'→CELL-x-FULL)-••---8v-al
ternative-seat-pre-chunk:-NONE---°º.-=-=-THE-TRIANGLE-{9' 4%
8}-verdammt.---→-dig-t6-BEFORE-t2?!:-(3')-+8v:-{6* 9'
81} -FULL: -J-Q*-=-J*-cel1-x-FULL-•
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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 20/05/2026

Update: Xcode Cloud disappeared for my account again?? WTF?

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Booooooooo

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 17/05/2026

Oh, you know what, I'm sort of flattered. But c'mon give me a little credit lol.

A very straightforward attempt at a SQL injection attack

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 16/05/2026

💔😢 local legend bunny in our neighborhood was STOLEN?? Monstrous. He had a steady stream of visitors and all the local kids as his fan club.

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS RABBIT?
RUE WAS STOLEN
Rue was stolen on May 14th from SE 44th and Sherman.
His cage was cut with wire cutters and has not been found.
PLEASE HELP US BRING RUE HOME!
We are heartbroken and miss Rue so much.

ruepleasecomehome Rue is so loved by everyone and it already feels so empty here without him. If you knew Rue, you know he is a special rabbit. One that gives kisses, cuddles his stuffed animals, nibbles on all the delicious goodness and treats his fans bring and just the sweetest little guy. Hes got so much wisdom and has been such a friend to so many visitors. All we want is for him to be safe and to be in his happy home surrounded by an immense amount of love. The life he has always enjoyed. If you know anything, please let us know. He's getting so old and…

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 14/05/2026

Thinking about her again

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 13/05/2026

In the AI era, writing software is trivial

Almost incomprehensible model output:

So "ack-N implies earlier acks" is replaced by "the resume handshake reconciles the seam."

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 11/05/2026

I also find it personally gratifying because the product I'm about to release is built around exactly this. The author knows WAY more about WebRTC than I do, happy to have reached the same conclusion.

Honestly, if I was working at OpenAI, I’d start by stream audio over WebSockets. You can leverage existing TCP/HTTP infrastructure instead of inventing a custom WebRTC load balancer. It makes for a boring blog post, but it’s simple, works with Kubernetes, and SCALES.

I think head-of-line blocking is a desirable user experience, not a liability. But the fated day will come and dropping/prioritizing some packets will be necessary. Then I think OpenAI should copy MoQ and utilize WebTransport, because…

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 11/05/2026

@wweek.com hey y’all your TLS cert seems to be busted?

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 20/04/2026

If you change your prompt and make it clear that you want to some serious deductin' and this isn't just a one-off, Claude will give you a very different experience (3 question interview):

why did my dog make that noise just now? i really want to get to the bottom of this and come up with an accurate answer, so please interview me and ask me to gather more information for you to resolve any ambiguities; don't just give the most likely answer if there are still multiple possibilities.

11:11 PM

Architected diagnostic interview strategy to systematically identify dog noise source
Architected diagnostic interview strategy to systematically identify dog noise source
To narrow this down efficiently, let me start with the most diagnostic piece of information:

Which of these best describes the sound your dog just made?
1 of 3

1
Cough / gag / retch
→

2
Honking or snorting (like trying to inhale something)

3
Whine, whimper, or yelp

4
Growl or grumble

5
Sneeze

6
Groan, sigh, or 'huff'

7
Something else (I'll describe)

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 19/04/2026

Whole post is worth reading but this had me laughing

Post Script

The following are messages meant only for the teams behind Sketch and Figma. If neither apply to you, you can skedaddle.

To Figma: I can see a world where this post does numbers in the Figma internal Slack. If that’s the case and you’re reading this from Figma: this wouldn’t have happened if you hired me last year when I was interviewing. Your loss, big dawg.

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 03/03/2026

Yeah so in this case the addendum is the rest of the paragraph you are getting "unreliable signal" from?

$Screenshot of text, with "unreliable signal" highlighted: Unfortunately, given participant feedback and surveys, we believe that the data from our new experiment gives us an unreliable signal of the current productivity effect of AI tools. The primary reason is that we have observed a significant increase in developers choosing not to participate in the study because they do not wish to work without AI, which likely biases downwards our estimate of AI-assisted speedup. We additionally believe there have been selection effects due to a lower pay rate (we reduced the pay from $150/hr to $50/hr), and that our measurements of time-spent on each task are unreliable for the fraction of developers who use multiple AI agents concurrently. Based on conversations with study participants, we believe it is likely that developers are more sped up from AI tools now — in early 2026 — compared to our estimates from early 2025. However, because of the selection effects in our experiment, our data is only very weak evidence for the size of this increase. Our raw results show some evidence for speedup. Our early 2025 study found the use of AI causes tasks to take 19% longer, with a confidence interval between +2% and +39%. For the subset of the original developers who participated in the later study, we now estimate a speedup of -18% with a confidence interval between -38% and +9%. Among newly-recruited developers the estimated speedup is -4%, with a confidence interval between -15% and +9%.$

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 16/02/2026

@kellen.bsky.social can you explain the decision to leave the filler words in this quote? Is it NYT house style to do that? Because the paper certainly runs a lot of quotes where those are cleaned up. So why not here?