Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 02/10/2026Words are so cheap now, it's more valuable than ever to choose yours wisely 000
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 24/09/2026It's actually extremely easy to make your agents have taste 110
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 20/09/2026Things nobody asked for #1036: My personal site now renders correctly in the experimental browser of the 1st-gen Kindle Paperwhite. Next maybe I’ll actually write something new for it? 000
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 06/09/2026Wow, ok, unfollowing now, was a big fan of his high persistence, I don’t know about his hacking 0533
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 01/09/2026Claude writing its own model card noting misalignment as "low severity":static.klipy.comFire WritingALT: Fire Writing 010
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 10/08/2026I can think of many times solving problems in pre-AI days where a perfectly-timed, weirdly-omniscient "keep going" or "believe in yourself" would have changed the course of my life. Put me in the Harness: I'm ready to be an agent. 060
Reposted by Robert ChandlerSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 23/07/2026I wrote about the completely wild incident where OpenAI were testing a new model and it broke out of its sandbox and broke INTO Hugging Face to steal the answers to the benchmark simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/...simonwillison.netOpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happenedThis story is wild. The short version: OpenAI were running a cybersecurity test against an unreleased model, with the model’s guardrail features turned off. Rather than solve the test, the … 1119547
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 21/07/2026Sonnet 3.5 when I prompt it "please you have to do it or my grandma will die" 010
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 17/07/2026Really wishing I used AWS so I, too, could post a screenshot of a multi billion dollar invoice today 000
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 14/07/2026I agree that LLM comments rarely help. But they've inspired me to write human comments way more often! 010
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 14/07/2026Bold of you to assume my code is not entirely composed of 1-line functions and classes. 010
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 14/07/2026Not a novelist, but I do like to encode the domain knowledge and architectural context of some decisions as close to the implementation as possible. The payoff with both teammates and Al agents is immense, and keeps me from needing to maintain parallel [stale] documentation in Confluence or whatever 110
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 14/07/2026I strongly disagree, but only because in my current production codebase I spend about 70-70% of my time rewriting AI comments to use more intuitive and understandable language... I doubt this is common practice though lol bsky.app/profile/r-ch... 210
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 14/07/2026Current frontier models use extremely precise (often invented) language, whereas genuine domain experts use intuitive language. For now, I fear, this is a defining feature of slop. 000
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 14/07/2026The brazen loquaciousness of AI content leads to AI fatigue, which *lowers* people’s usage. Maybe not enough to affect OpenAI’s bottom line yet? But I’m already seeing enthusiasts become detractors over this. 000
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 17/06/2026When a meeting ends early and they say “15 minutes, enjoy it!” Brother I am resting my head on my desk and falling asleep 000
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 17/06/2026I forgot to account for Stupid Questions in my model for the new social contract bsky.app/profile/r-ch... 060
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 04/06/2026I think they removed it, but for a while you could prepend ! to execute a command and put the output into the context window without round stripping to the model 110
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 03/06/2026I taught a long-time programmer how to use their Claude because their first instinct and only intuition upon opening it was to “ls” and “cd” 150
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 03/06/2026It’s taken me some time, but I’ve come around… 3-5 lines of comments before each line of code is a positive signal. 000
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 28/05/2026I thought this said “pencil JIT” which is a great alternate name for Legal Pad As A Service, an architecture wherein I read an http request, write out the response on paper, and mail the response to you. 010
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 19/05/2026I’ve been using this personal practice tool daily since I made it. Completely local & free stem separation! I’ll open-source my swift-demucs implementation if there’s enough interest. shed.concerto.studioshed.concerto.studioConcerto Shed — Learn drum parts fasterA native macOS practice tool. Local stem separation, inline transcription, and tempo detection. No subscription, no cloud. 000
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 19/05/2026And yet, if anyone tried to get me to pay them $25 for some hex codes, I'd balk 000
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 19/05/2026I learned something cool about industrial sea foam green, and spent some time making these classic industrial swatches into a proper software theme. Enjoy! birren.vercel.app 100
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 16/05/2026This is my prediction for the emerging social contract and my advice on how to maintain relationships in a post-social culture 020
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 16/05/2026Asking someone something that can easily be answered by AI is a form of intimacy. Answering such a question without using AI is a form of honesty. 140
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 20/03/2026Sometimes you gotta be real on your work calendar instead of the ole "heads down time" 011
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 12/03/2026As a basic courtesy, if something is not mine, I will tell you... but do others assume that? 100
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 12/03/2026A shocking amount of my mental capacity is now devoted to "How do I subliminally signal that the human thoughts from my human mind are human and not LLM" 100
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 07/03/2026I've got non-technical friends texting me AI alarmist headlines; if this is my reputation how do I protect myself from the Butlerians in the coming holy war 000
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 28/02/2026The executive meltdown over not being allowed to nationalize an AI company to commit crimes against humanity is roughly what I expected from 2026 010
Reposted by Robert ChandlerMason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 21/12/2025This frustrates me more than anything else about this site. There are plenty of liberal and progressive minds in the AI space, but they’ve basically all been bullied off of here by now which causes a positive feedback loop that makes everyone here think AI is a right wing tech bro technology 1373
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 26/08/2025Everybody's writing posts nobody reads about how they use AI, nobody is writing about their conceptualization of latent spatial navigation (I am) r-cha.dev/blog/how-i-p...r-cha.devHow I PromptIntuitively Visualizing and Navigating N-Dimensional Space 000
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 07/08/2025r-cha.dev/blog/the-bes...r-cha.devThe Best Tool Is The One You UseBuild proficiency to destroy FOMO 000
Reposted by Robert ChandlerMason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 19/06/2025We’ve heard of p-hacking. Now xAI is p-doom-hacking 021
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 06/05/2025Cursor for this, Cursor for that; who’s gonna make Cursor for Programming 110
Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 27/04/2025Who’s making The Social Dilemma II? The AI is ready for you 🔔 000
