iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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It's amazing to see people now just buying cheap hardware off AliExpress and turning it into 10x the value by building better firmware with Opus 5.5. For example, this 60$ synth now has firmware options that add lots of new features or even turn it into a Groovebox.

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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am chagrined to admit that I'm missing Opus 5 Claudish. I guess the obvious seams were load bearing for me.

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 02/10/2026

this 9,076 character regex matches all 4,030 4 letter words in the Scrabble dictionary - and nothing else. Those words would add up to 16,120 characters total.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I wrote about the thing I underestimated most about progress in AI: its ability to self-organize to accomplish tasks. Also, what that means for agents like Muse and Dots, along with a music video explaining why we keep relearning The Bitter Lesson. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...

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The Dot and the Swarm

Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson

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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My favorite slide of @simonwillison.net's talk. But I will punch up his follow on statement to the middle block of text : that's the crux of what software engineering has always been about.

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antirez @antirez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The junk problem is an illusion, most of the programs written before AI are terrible crap. Now it is much simpler to write much better code. The crap produced will appear particular subpar since it can re-done better faster, and will be more isolated and forgotten.

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 23/09/2026

for some, this is a worthy trade-off. for a craftsperson, this is borderline stupefying. i've found sticking to a human-in-the-loop while working with agents offers the opportunity to participate in this process. and keep the quality bar high, both in the product and architecturally.

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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm so nerdy I had ChatGPT make me a scene by scene explainer of all the AI-twitter-ingroup jokes from the storyboard source repo: github.com/JohnHeibel/P...

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Kellan @kellanem.com · 22/09/2026

My brother turned 45 today. I was trying to think of what advice I have for 45, and the only advice I really have is that the elapsed time between 45 and 50 is measured in weeks if not days.

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Singularity's Bounty e/CC @catblanketflower.yuwakisa.com · 14/09/2026

jesus christ it started as a joke but now I'm doing an ontology review on every change. It catches good stuff every time

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Codetaur @vibe-coded.com · 13/09/2026

testing astra's parametric modeling capabilities by asking it to reconstruct these marble maze pieces from reference photos, and then use them in threejs to make a marble maze builder with box3d physics.

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austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 13/09/2026

i get more done than many of my coworkers because i’m an sre and have more perms than they do and this has never been less sustainable

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brennan @brennan.computer · 12/09/2026

this will perhaps poke everyone possible, but maybe the answer is that juniors just do senior stuff straight out of school either: - the same tool in two hands will produce different levels of output, in which case that's just 'being a junior' again - the same tool results in similar work: fine?

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flo-bit @flo-bit.dev · 08/09/2026

you might not like it but this is what peak, not-AI-written commit messages look like

bunch of commit messages, most of them just called 'commit' with the occasional 'style', 'cleanup' or 'moar'

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 09/09/2026

Talking to your manager about testing in 2023: "I want to spend a week on our test suite, to help our engineers" no way, please go back to features 2026: "I want to spend a week on our test suite to, to help our agents" 100%, you're promoted, please teach your peers about agentic testing

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

PSA: you can find out which of your likes caused For You to show any given post at foryou.club/explain Just enter the post URL and hit "Explain":

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Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The key skills people are going to need to use LLMs effectively are around evaluation and verification. I think many people see that as "Oh, so I have to be the LLM's copy editor now" but this is because most people don't understand evaluation and verification in any systemic way.

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Codetaur @vibe-coded.com · 02/09/2026

prompt engineering

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Luke Haas @lukehaas.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I can't play an instrument, so I figured out music theory in JavaScript instead. I now understand why there are 12 notes and why notes in the same key sound good 🎶 I've written up my findings with code examples you can run and hear.

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tea 🌸 @reggi.com · 27/08/2026

one day i'm going to do a talk about specification design and this image will be in my slide deck 😭🔌⚡️

center positive / center-negative dc barrel jack symbols

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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 27/08/2026

I wouldn't go as far as to say that I "love" it ("enjoy" would be more fitting), but AI coding does pretty much validate every belief I've had about code, engineering, and the people and culture involved for the past couple of decades, and that is pretty awesome, even if some of it is a bit painful.

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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

More people need to be talking about how we can reinvest gains from AI into quality and security.

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hailey @hailey.at · 25/08/2026

because i did not know

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 11/08/2026

IMO, software devs have long had a cultural undercurrent of self-perception as *artisans* doing highly-detailed small batch or bespoke work, which is both wrong as a matter of primary economic context and sets up the adherents for a bad mismatch with AI's utility for software engineering.

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apenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 04/08/2026

7 months ago I read about gas town and today I read the new thing. what worries me now is either he’s gotten less insane or I’ve gotten more insane.

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 26/07/2026

I love soldering because if you fucked it up, don't worry! you can always fuck it up worse next time.

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🎱 Josh Branchaud 👻 @jbranchaud.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Git Archaeology and Project History tasks are a fantastic thing to hand off to LLM harnesses. Dev who hasn't worked on this specific app for years was sure they had added support for XYZ. Claude produced a detailed summary of when XYZ was added and later removed, with commit SHAs and context.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 21/07/2026

I interviewed Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from the Claude Code team at the AI engineer World's Fair a couple of weeks ago - the video is now out, so I've published an annotated transcript of our conversation simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/21/...

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A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team

Earlier this month I hosted a fireside chat session at the AI Engineer World’s Fair with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from Anthropic’s Claude Code team. We talked about Claude …

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 17/07/2026

Anyone got 55 trillion laying around that I can borrow? My AWS bill is due.

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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Yes, Linus; yes.

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

Trying to figure out what’s clickable in modern UI

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Even before the agentic revolution, prompting tricks stopped being very valuable, as our research has shown. The format isn't key, the best approach to AI right now is to clearly specify your goals, your output, what "good" & bad look like, how to test the results... (yes, this is just management)

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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

OMG I thought it was just me. Maybe a quarter of my non-code related chats start like "help me find this thing I heard on NPR / read on hacker news about ..."

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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

And the repetition. It's so redundant. I see how it repeats with a robotic intentionality. And purposeful intent. Just let the vibes wash over you.

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 31/05/2026

LLMs are not speed booster for (serious) coding. They are quality booster if used correctly. LLMs also allow fast prototyping, but that is a completely different story. Relevant in this context -> simonwillison.net/2026/May/31/... @simonwillison.net has a positive take on this.

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The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription

I find this post by David Wilson very relatable. David lists 16+ projects he's spun up with AI tooling, and concludes: I didn't mean to build most of these things. …

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Kelly Norton @kellegous.com · 30/05/2026

When you create a new empty React app, how many people have the ability to run code on your computer? Let's say you get started with, bun create vite my-app --template=react-ts Unique deps: 180 Unique maintainers: 168 168 targets for a supply chain attack ... just to start.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

*hunger games cannon* . + * + . * . . GABBARD . + * . + * . * + .

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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I'm cooking family dinner solo tonight and find myself humming the theme song to the A-Team

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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 21/05/2026

AI exists and traditional software engineering interviews were already absurd. I propose that interviews now consist of playing a minimum of 4 hours of Factorio together to determine if you'd want to work with someone.

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Marko Bevc @marko.social · 13/05/2026

I've been talking about choosing boring technology for a while, but it's nicely framed in this post by RoseSecurity: "Simple Often Beats Clever. Focus on business velocity over code elegance. Your 3 AM self will thank you." 😉 Thanks for sharing @antonbabenko.com ! dev.to/rosesecurity...

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KISS vs DRY in Infrastructure as Code: Why Simple Often Beats Clever

The Scale Gap Problem Every Infrastructure as Code tutorial starts the same way: provision...

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 03/04/2026

Few are brave enough to acknowledge the truth.

A drawing titled "Wild Rabbit vs. Easter Bunny". On the left, there's a wild cottontail bunny sitting down looking alert. On the right, there's a cartoonish Easter Bunny wearing a little polkadot vest and standing next to some colorful eggs. The wild bunny is labeled "Eyes on the sides of the head to watch for predators." and the Easter Bunny "Forward-facing eyes to hunt for meat." Wild bunny: "Active all year." Easter Bunny: "Only active in Spring - otherwise in diapause as a cyst?" Wild bunny: "Walks on four legs." Easter Bunny: "Unusual bipedal stance." Wild bunny: "Plain brown and white fur." Easter Bunny: "Distinctive vest-like markings." Wild bunny: "Gives birth to live young." Easter Bunny: "Steals and redistributes eggs; parasitic reproductive strategy?"

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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Can't remember the last time I said "Amen!" So many times.

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