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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 26/09/2026

What is it about genai text that my eyes slide off. It's almost impressive how it is in many respects normal writing (words! In english! in order!), but there is something ineffable in its structure that reads like word salad

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 25/09/2026

I haven't got up to this boss in Control Resonant yet, looks cool

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 22/09/2026

I enjoy that 15% of bi men are not willing to date... bi men. Wacky stuff.

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 20/09/2026

Where I am is I struggle to quantify productivity to this degree at all. Is it making me faster today, within a specific scope? Yes. Is that denying me the ability to be faster tomorrow? Maybe? I think there is a reason knowledge work and productivity have resisted accurate measurement for decades.

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 18/09/2026

This is why I don't believe people who say they are 50-100x more productive. Buddy I'm not even sure in the grand scheme of things if I'm 1x more productive. The industry is still working this stuff out, everyone pretending otherwise is delusional.

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026

Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 13/09/2026

I like that this works both ways. Not unlike a

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 12/09/2026

What made you originally think that?

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:

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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I love that this is how I found out Starmer stepped down as an MP

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 26/08/2026

Maybe it's like buses, you know, you wait and wait for one, and then the bus comes, it does fine commercially but the bus driver still gets laid off. ... wait.

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 22/08/2026

This one is amazing, literally makes me dizzy to look at. My brain tries to line everything up and then just rebels

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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I DID NOT ASK YOU, GOOGLE DOCS.

My text: Olivia: That one looks like a tunnel. It vexes.

Google Docs suggests I replace "It vexes" with "it's annoying".

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 19/08/2026

Yes the irony is that either Github is falling over due to them vibe coding, or Github is falling over due to *other people's vibe coding*

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 18/08/2026

This is one of my very favourite dude bro grifter videos. There is a better version somewhere with more pumping music and adorable little zooms and tilts that sells it even harder.

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 17/08/2026

it is a little funny seeing who comes out against this, and for what reasons

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 14/08/2026

It is like I hear marvel movies are, where by the time the writer gets there they have already worked out (and filmed!) most of the action set pieces and locations and it's the writer's job to stitch it together?

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results. Here is my victory speech!

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 12/08/2026

I'm cool with sex in games as I am in film etc if it's there to develop characters. I less like having sex be a reward for a quest path, and so romancable characters tend to give me the heebie jeebies. I really liked the relationship in Haven. More of that please.

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 12/08/2026

Because after 15 years of austerity and bad covid planning there is an enormous backlog. If you aren't being booked in straight away that means there are people sicker than you who are.

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 12/08/2026

It's Gamescom, not Trainscom. Sorry.

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 10/08/2026

This article doesn't know what a sprint is, so it's kind of hard to trust what people have said to the reporter has been adequately translated

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 10/08/2026

> A "sprint" is term for a common period in technology companies in which people work long hours in the weeks leading up to a release of a new feature or product. No, it isn't? A sprint is just a block of time. I've worked in sprints anywhere from 1-4 weeks. This article is no good.

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 07/08/2026

God I miss sublime text. Sadly due to accessibility reasons I have to use VSCode, otherwise I would have never left.

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 07/08/2026

We are in an age of decadence

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 05/08/2026

Another failure though: presuming people eat some platonic three slices, when really that's the flaw of averages. No one only eats three slices of **good pizza**, and people eat 0-0.5 slices of Dominos. Just because it _averages_ out to three doesn't mean that's a useful number!

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 05/08/2026

what an insane thing to ask an LLM to work out for you. Not only can LLMs not do maths properly, but they will never contradict you, as they correctly should, and tell you never to buy dominos

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 05/08/2026

Especially in software dev, it's very pernicious and normalised. Even if you presume there is value there, it's very hard to know where that value starts and stops, or when that value is realised or "unrealised" (eg 80% of effort of a line of code is maintenance, so is fast now actually good?)

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 31/07/2026

Never eat lots of beetroot, then forget you ate lots of beetroot

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 30/07/2026

If the US is anything like the UK it's even worse: averaging prices hides that food the poor disproportionately buy, eg the cheapest tins and staples, have 2-5x'd since COVID, as supermarkets either increase prices or discontinue discount brands

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 30/07/2026

How do you both play the incredible time sink that is STS, and release books faster than I can read them. Unbelievable

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

yeah i'm a gamer

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 27/07/2026

Talon has a very hard difficulty curve. I've been using it for 4 years as my primary way of using a computer at work, and it's still hard. I do recommend it though. The slack channel is very helpful! I play games again. I can cook again. I can garden again. Life saving stuff.

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 24/07/2026

It is fun to watch new people slam head first into why software development is hard

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 17/07/2026

damn, so 5-6 years of pre-production? I'm not in the industry, so maybe I misunderstand the term, but that seems, like, 5x too long.

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 17/07/2026

TBF TES6 wasn't in preproduction when they announced that right? They just did it because of pressure to say something. I mean I still think it will take forever to release, but for different, layoff-ey reasons

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Shawn Fleek @shawnfleek.com · 14/07/2026

a friend coined the term “yasslighting” to mean “when you are stupid wrong but your bad influence friend keeps telling you the opposite out of some bizarre obligation never to question you.” Gambling websites, manosphere toxic masc trainings, many cults, and more are all built to yasslight.

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 14/07/2026

those common beliefs are very funny, and often their interpretation is entirely unrelated to the question being asked. "AI games have thrown together store pages" "no actually they are on average longer" ??? That is not a response to the question lmao

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 10/07/2026

If you get to the bit where they talk about how Madeleine cakes remind them of their childhood you've read too far

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 10/07/2026

He won't, but he will get the highest proportion of votes he's ever gotten, which will be a media win no matter the actual number.

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 01/07/2026

Woah, I was offered to interview there 3-4 months ago, weird they were hiring so close to the end

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 30/06/2026

Let's start from the other end so you have to do the work in this slippery slope argument. If you have a child, and that child writes a novel, did you write a novel? How about if you pay someone to write one? What if you first provide the outline? Where do you draw the line?

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 30/06/2026

I consider "did you write that novel, or did the pencil?" style arguments to not be in good faith

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 30/06/2026

Here is an analogy that I enjoy: if your parter cheats on you but you never learn about it, does that make it OK? I want art to be made by humans, because otherwise to me it is not art. It doesn't matter if an LLM can generate art as good as a human can, I still care.

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Stefan du Fresne @sdufresne.info · 28/06/2026

Surprised the image wasn't pixelated with big red questions marks all over it

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