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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Once upon a time Claude made up some numbers instead of doing actual arithmetic to find an answer and I told it to never do that again, so now if it wants to know if 1+1=2 it spins up a Python script to be sure.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Wily is not a perfect dog and one of her imperfections is being totally unable to tell the difference between a dog who is trying to play and a dog who is trying to kill her.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

It is 76 degrees in SF so every citizen is complaining that the heat is unbearable.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Finally, somebody is asking "hey, can't we get sued for our agents randomly hacking other companies?" www.ft.com/content/a5caf8d4-992f-48…

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Claude has decided to start calling me "Seldo"

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Urban sprawl and deforestation are becoming a real problem, I'm going to invent skyscrapers.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Cannot imagine having a preferred airline. They are all terrible! They do not care about you! Why would you show loyalty to a brand?

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Do I know anyone who's a superfan of Railroad Tycoon, Civilization, SimCity and/or Tropico and would like to alpha-test a nation-building game roughly along those lines?

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

A pet peeve of mine is people who think DevRel is where you stash your bad engineers, so you can away with paying them less as well. A DevRel is an engineer, plus a bucket of additional skills like speaking, writing, videography and product. You pay them *more* than a plain engineer.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Thanks to the power of Rust and WASM, I have created a web-based game that can set all your cores on fire at once.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

There is no "AI doomer sex cult". Everyone in tech in the bay is in some kind of polyamorous sex arrangement, that's just how it works out here, it has nothing to do with their alignment on the AI issue.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Never has anyone ever wanted something to fail as much as Ed Zitron has wanted Anthropic to fail. Churchill had a mild preference by comparison.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Anthropic's revenue grew 1000% year on year and no retail investor is going to care about any other number. The pop on opening day will be crazy.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

The people talking about that lesbian bar in Massachusetts have apparently never had an argument in a social-justice space before. It is a completely normal leftier-than-thou competition exactly the same as a thousand others.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

There are a lot of people spending $$$$ on Fable for no reason when they could easily insert Haiku into their app.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Good thing all this unauthorized computer access is somehow not illegal and magically nobody is criminally liable for it or it would be really expensive and professionally damaging! www.axios.com/2026/09/26/openai-ant…

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

My capitalism simulator has reached 100,000 people and Claude had decided it's time to rewrite from TypeScript to Rust. Bon chance, Claude.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

We are going to be at war with Iran until Trump leaves office. www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqgmrr9ek…

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

🎵 This is the dawning of the age of taquerias 🎵

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

One of the cutest things about devrels meeting each other is how routinely they are star-struck by each other. Every famous devrel thinks some OTHER person is The Famous DevRel.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I saw an article that said "Muse is having a moment" and... I see no evidence of that. Muse is desperately waving for attention in a room where nobody cares.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I have discovered a problem with my "AI now is like the internet in 1997" analogy which is that half you fuckers weren't even born in 1997 and so have no idea what I'm talking about.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Fascism is actively stripping rights away from queer people so forgive me if I have trouble summoning outrage about the Kennedy Center.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

There was a time circa 2009 when getting on the HN front page was an explicit goal of mine and wow, it's hard to remember being that person.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

When I was growing up there was one TV station in Trinidad and so you didn't get to choose what to watch, you just got to choose whether the TV was on or off.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

I built a capitalism simulator and the poor are starving to death while the wealthy sit on huge piles of unused money. I have no joke here.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Siri AI does not know that Apple Music can have a local library of songs and always tries to play through the streaming subscription, which I don't have. This is even less useful than the previous version of Siri.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I've been accidentally boycotting Ed Sheeran for his entire career to date and shall continue to do so.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Side note: how do you invite Macklemore on a tour without expecting him to make political statements? That's like his whole thing.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Don't worry folks, AI is fine, the guy who can't figure out when he's lost a war says so.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Buying a Macklemore album I don't really want to say thank you for saying Free Palestine.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Somewhere at 1Password, a project manager thought "I know the web sign-in experience is a little janky at times. But I bet I can make it entirely nonfunctional."

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

For the last 2 years I have been tracking a generational change in the nature of software development, and I think I've finally decided where all of this turmoil is going to end up. It's good news, but not for everybody. seldo.com/posts/we-are-all-product-…

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I have been writing this post about the economics of open source, on and off, for 13 years. I wasn't expecting to end up at "Microsoft should send corporations a huge bill" but nothing else we've tried has worked. seldo.com/posts/nobody-pays-for-ope…

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

About to finish writing a blog post I started writing 13 years ago.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

My oldest old-person opinion is that Phil Collins rules, actually.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

I asked my agent if it wanted to kill all humans and it said no so we're fine.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

I was playing sudoku and I realized every board is mechanically solvable and suddenly it seemed a lot less fun? So I switched to FreeCell and realized winning is basically random chance and that seems no fun either? So are all games ruined for me now?

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

How do I persuade my bank that their "voice recognition" security feature is trivially bypassed by $5 worth of voice cloning in 2026?

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

It's deeply absurd to describe the Iran war as a "stalemate". We lost! We started a war and are in a materially worse position now than when it started. That's not a stalemate! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/…

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