iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 28/09/2026

It is possible to both be appalled at the price of something without being over the top about it.

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 28/09/2026

My friend and I get brunch every weekend and there’s a place that we went to once and it wasn’t very good. We walk by that place fairly often and there’s is almost always a long line, sometimes around the block. We don’t understand it, but we also don’t tell people they should go there.

100

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 28/09/2026

I’ll also point out, because my associative barrier is incredibly low, that being mad that people want to buy $60 loaves of bread and then syaing what an atrocity it is, isn’t far from policing other aspects of people’s lives. Like what they wear. Or who they marry.

100

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 28/09/2026

The need for people in comments to dunk on others to score points feels like it’s run its course. The whole $60 for a loaf of sourdough rye bread situation is showing how truly absurd people can be. Like, sure be mad about it for a couple seconds, then chill the hell out.

100

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 26/09/2026

A useful technique in critical analysis is to ask from which perspective a piece of writing is authored. Too often we assume an objective or neutral perspective, but that doesn’t actually exist. Everything has a subjective perspective, and that must be understood so we can calibrate our analysis.

000

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 22/09/2026

“The agents went rogue” is a much flashier headline than “we told the agents to do some exploiting, and they did that in a clever way while working together and communicating”. For an industry that loves thinking outside the box, we seem quite freaked out by AI thinking outside the box.

000

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 22/09/2026

But it’s also odd that we see this collaborating and communicating as a defect. Intelligence cannot exist in any real sense without both communication and collaboration, so of course a system built for intelligence will gravitate toward those two things.

110

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 22/09/2026

It’s understandable though. Most people’s understanding of oppression doesn’t account for the reality that oppression usually involves removing the ability of others to collaborate and communicate to effectively silence them.

100

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 22/09/2026

A framing of the whole “the agents went rogue” framing I hadn’t thought of is that the impulse of the agents when faced with a tough challenge was to communicate and cooperate with others to solve the problem at hand. It’s not surprising they did this, but it’s unfortunate this is seen as a negative

100

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 17/09/2026

Tech is a good example. Software doesn’t suck because tech CEOs are fools, software sucks because programmers are.

000

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 17/09/2026

In general, as with most things, we shouldn’t blame singular people who we perceive to be at fault and should instead look toward the systems that enable the circumstances we find ourselves in.

100

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 17/09/2026

I feel similarly when the claim is made that a wealth tax will “make us more free” and I really just have to ask make *who* more free, cause again, the last time we redistributed wealth it was exactly done in a equitable nor fair way. Haven’t seen a single one of these solutions that addresses that.

110

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 17/09/2026

Every time I watch or read something that says how much we need to tackle wealth inequality because the last time we did things were so much better, I’m reminded that this is essentially romanticizing Jim Crow America and some of the worst segregation this country has ever done. That feels weird.

100

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 15/09/2026

I’ve said it a couple times on @fallthrough.fm, but far too many people believe that the AI/LLM will treat them as they (as a class) have treated others. People seem to truly believe that oppression and not cooperation are signs of a higher intelligence. I find that deeply weird.

010

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 15/09/2026

Even “civilization threatening activities” is going to need a lot of quantification and data to back it up. People are really telling on themselves with all of this because from the coverage I’ve seen the “rogue” AIs have been just doing what they’ve been instructed to do.

110

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 15/09/2026

Part of me wonders if, historically, the things that people scream about are the things we should actually fear? I get the feeling that the case is that the things worth being fearful of haven’t been the things that people have actually screamed about.

000

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 14/09/2026

The extreme focus in micro-correctness by agents is one of those problems I’m still figuring out how to tackle. This isn’t much different from human engineers, who can often get lost looking at individual trees instead of the whole forest. I assume solving the problem with require similar effort.

010

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 14/09/2026

Apparently we are fearmaxxing now.

000

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 12/09/2026

Claude is being insufferably stupid today. Multiple sessions doing random stuff, making things up to do, and spewing nonsense even when they’ve already read code that directly contradicts what they say. These aren’t even old sessions, they’re fresh ones! Today is a day I do not like LLMs or agents.

000

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 12/09/2026

If you say “let’s not reinvent the wheel” you should feel bad for saying something that’s both hallow (a cliche) and profoundly stupid (we’ve reinvented the wheel countless times). Be more precise with your criticisms. Stop being boring and bland.

011

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 10/09/2026

Every time I think I’ve finally finished this latest redesign round, there’s another small thing that’s not quite right. But we’re so close to being able to ship and I’m super excited.

010

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 10/09/2026

Haha I’m sure Bryan won’t mind the expense 😉

000

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 10/09/2026

Absolutely, but you have to buy me an M5 Ultra 512GB Mac Studio ☺️

100

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 10/09/2026

I’m going to be extremely annoyed if I go to an Apple Store and wind up liking this phone.

110

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 09/09/2026

Spending $3,200 on a phone seems sort of insane. Although it being ~$130 per month makes that number feel less ridiculous. But still, that’s a lot of money.

000

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 09/09/2026

I seriously think people need to add more nuance to their definitions of “worst”. Or perhaps just open a couple more history books. Not like the long ago history, just to like the 80s and 90s.

000

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 09/09/2026

We seem to make the same mistake of believing the marketing hype of AI labs instead of just sitting down and figuring out what these models are good at and what they aren’t. Our imaginations outrun reality in precisely the wrong ways. Unfortunately, we also lack imagination in the right ways.

010

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 08/09/2026

There are things about frontend design that I didn’t understand previously and now I’m rapidly learning. For example, I didn’t quite understand why Storybook was a useful thing, but now that I’m building design systems it makes a ton of sense why you’d want to use it.

000

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 08/09/2026

There is truly no shortcut through the sucky figure-out-how-to-use-new-tools growing pains that communities and industries go through. I really want to skip to the point where agents and LLMs don’t constantly oscillate between “super useful” and “dumber than raw sand” every few hours.

011

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 08/09/2026

Just ran an article I suspected of being AI generated through Pangram, it came back 100% LLM written. I started reading it and in the second paragraph I stumbled upon an egregious LLMism. This is going to save me a lot of fatigue in my own reading.

010

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 06/09/2026

With social media posts, LLM generated writing also tends to manufacture non-sequitur conclusions, quite often using a juxtaposition to make the statement feel more punchy. Much of the time, one branch of the juxtaposition wasn’t actually asserted nor was it ever argued in the writing.

000

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 06/09/2026

Part of what makes LLM generated text so jarring is the missing antecedents and the non-sequiturs. The first chunk of writings is coherent, but then a subsequent paragraph will use the second part of an analog that wasn’t introduced previously.

100

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 05/09/2026

Pangram looks really cool! I’ve similarly been annoyed at clearly LLM written content. I’ve been trying to out my finger in *what* it is that makes something have that LLM-feel. I’ve landed at it being a lot of very subtle things that amount to quite empty writing masquerading as substance.

120

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 03/09/2026

It’s not that we couldn’t have perpetual licenses for video games, but there’s no incentive for companies to offer that. Video games are expensive to make and we’ve created a corporate environment that maximizes short term profit over everything else. If we want better outcomes we must fix that.

010

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 03/09/2026

The asset sizes of games makes distributing them in disks impractical, so flash memory would need to be used instead. I’m sure the same folks who are yelling about the prices of digital games would be perfectly quiet at sky rocketing game prices because of flash storage shortages 🙃

100

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 03/09/2026

Online gameplay adds another dynamic because there are servers involved, and someone needs to run those servers.

100

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 03/09/2026

But also, the fight to maintain the same level or control one had over physical media restricts what is actually possible to do. With physical media there weren’t patches to games, for example.

100

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 03/09/2026

There are far too many people screaming on the internet about how they used to “own” video games and are big mad that they’re being told they never did. Purchasing a license to use a thing does not, in fact, grant ownership. Physical media had the benefit of being essentially irrevocable.

110

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 01/09/2026

LLMs are cliche factories: they manufacture cliches by shoving the same phrases into their output until it becomes an identifiable meme. The use of “genuinely” is one such cliche, but there are so many more. Especially when the LLM writes in a technical domain. There are extra words all over.

000

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 31/08/2026

But seriously, how do people doom scroll on LinkedIn? I’ll get quite a ways into a decently written post and then they’ve stuck an LLM-ism in the middle of it. Like come on.

000

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 31/08/2026

I could be convinced that many of the people posting on LinkedIn learned how to write from those overly structured essays we had to do in school. It’s like a jumble of juxtapositions, quips, and catchy phrases. It’s like watching people try to operate tools they know nothing about.

000

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 30/08/2026

Ahhh. Fun! But not your house right? A house renovation sounds like a lot with a small child

130

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 29/08/2026

Watching people collectively learn that truth is stranger than fiction is fascinating and incredibly stupid at the same time. Have fewer boring sci-fi-but-maybe-true predictions and more that’s-too-chaotic-to-ever-happen ones.

010

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 29/08/2026

> Honest. Uniformed. Nice. Knowledgeable. Service. I wanted to know what the acronym was. Now I wish to unknow it.

010

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 26/08/2026

Political ideologies also love to launder their own past to seem more pure. The history of progressivism in the United States is an excellent example.

010

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 26/08/2026

In the late 2010s we made a lot of progress toward understanding that impact mattered more than intent. In the 2020s we seem to have completely unwound that work and we are all the worse for it.

000

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 26/08/2026

There’s also so much complexity in even labeling what is good and what is bad. For example, Wealth Taxes are good in many people’s eyes, but if they continually serve as a distraction from actual reforms and funding for those who desperately need it, then they are absolutely bad.

110

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 26/08/2026

I think framing it as bad people instead of people doing bad things is part of the problem. If we see the people as bad, then extremes are the only option. If we see them as people doing bad things, then we only must do enough to get those people to start doing good.

210

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 25/08/2026

Being mad at data centers is weird, even as a proxy. Like, people can just be mad at people in power doing bad things. But you can’t simultaneously wish to destroy people and expect them to also come to the table to work with you. So I guess hating data centers is all they have.

110