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Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Reading through this paper AI adoption is shifting programmer labor from writing code to code reviews, which sounds like a good way to burn out a lot of programmers (and limit the pool of future reviewers), for "statistically insignificant" gains in final software output

We find evidence of a bottleneck from the code review process: The average time to review a pull request increases by 49%, the share of pull requests with changes requested nearly doubles, and
the number of comments per pull request increases by 35%. Firms also reallocate labor toward review activities: the share of workers performing code reviews increases by 14%. This bottleneck persists
following the adoption of AI code review tools. Although firms increasingly use AI to assist with code review, human reviewers continue to play a central role in the review process.

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Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I wasn't alive the last time the Sox scored 22

Score bug from Royals/White Sox game 22-1 white sox in 8th inning

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Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Happy to see Stranglehold has an entry in the Video Game Soda Machine Project vgsmproject.com/category/str...

A man with a gun stands in front of three soda machines, one of which is destroyed.

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Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Given the amount of coding time I have is reduced, being on the outskirts of "graphics programming professionals" feels about right.

A zoomed in portion of a computer generated "map of bluesky" showing a cloud of points with "graphics programming professionals" label at the center, and a magenta circle around a point in the outskirts of the cloud for @solidangle

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Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Scriptwriters brought credit-default swaps back, sure why not

Credit Fear Guages Spike Amid AI Bubble Fears
Five-year credit default swaps on Oracle have surged to 16 year high
Chart showing Oracle CDS spiking up beyond 100 Bps compared to Microsoft and CDX IG index which are 50 or under.

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Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

When Matt Levine starts writing about your industry in a numbered list, you might be in a bubble

Data center hedging
One casual way to describe the modern economy is that:

1. Artificial intelligence labs like OpenAI and tech “hyperscalers” like Meta Platforms Inc. have committed to spend, collectively, trillions of dollars to build out AI infrastructure.
2. They don’t have trillions of dollars.
3. But they will pay for it over time with their hundreds of billions of dollars of AI-related revenue.
4. They don’t have hundreds of billions of dollars of AI-related revenue either.
5. But they will.
6. You can tell because of their valuations. OpenAI’s equity is worth $500 billion. The only way its equity is worth $500 billion is if its future cash flows are sufficient to (1) cover its hundreds of billions of dollars of spending commitments and (2) leave hundreds of billions of dollars left over for its equity investors.
7. That is, all of the future AI cash flows are not directly observable — you can’t extrapolate them from current AI cash flows or anything — but they can be inferred from equity-market enthusiasm for AI.

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Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Every time I start doing anything in AWS

Newspaper article showing Abe Simpson raising fist to a cloud in the sky with the title "Old Man Yells at Cloud"

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Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

First stuck Waymo of the trip, right outside Moscone

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Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Google announced a similar technology a few months ago, in some ways this seems like Microsoft playing catch-up These videos are misleading, though, while these models are "interactive", it is more like a slow turn based game not realtime input. deepmind.google/discover/blo...

Below are example videos of people interacting with Genie 2. For every example, the model is prompted with a single image generated by Imagen 3, GDM’s state-of-the-art text-to-image model. This means anyone can describe a world they want in text, select their favorite rendering of that idea, and then step into and interact with that newly created world (or have an AI agent be trained or evaluated in it). At each step, a person or agent provides a keyboard and mouse action, and Genie 2 simulates the next observation. Genie 2 can generate consistent worlds for up to a minute, with the majority of examples shown lasting 10-20s.

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Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Friend of mine is watching in another country and they get a better score bug.

Cropped screen shot of superbowl showing a typical football scorebug.

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Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I chose to interpret this as "last game I wrote code for", not "last game I was credited on" (specifically the PS5/XSX versions of Borderlands 3)

Cover art for a PC game Who Wants to be a Millionaire featuring a picture of Regis Filbin and the tag line "TV's hit quiz show comes to PC"

PS5 Borderlands 3 Ultimate Edition cover art featuring a borderlands psycho with a mask standing in roses with various characters from the franchise faces, in a holy stance, with a halo around his head, and guns coming out from behind him in a fan.

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Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

even years after his mayoral term ended and two unpopular mayors later, Rahm still underwater in Chicago

Change research poll conducted November 2024 w general election voters in Chicago showing poll numbers for various Chicago politicians. Rahm Emanuel is at -6 net favorability.

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Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

My big Dragon Age dummy (I am not good at character creators)

Picture of a Dragon Age Veilguard character with brown hair brown eyes somewhat stocky goofy neutral expression on his face.

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Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

The only way I'll support taxpayer money for a new Bears stadium is if, like this previz, they name it STADIUM and keep the signage unchanged from the rendering.

Rendering of a proposed Bears football stadium showing one end of the stadium from the outside, where you can see through a glass wall the inside of the stadium. There is signage with large letters of the word "STADIUM" hung at the top of the glass wall.

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Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

NASA rearranging Voyager 1's memory layout on the fly to workaround bad HW. blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024...

Snippet from article the link leads to describing NASA patching Voyager 1's software to workaround a hardware failure.

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Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

I forgot to get glasses so ColanderCam is best I got Was dark enough the street lights turned on. Chicago, IL

Image of partial solar eclipse through a colander projected on the ground. The moon obscures 75-80% of the sun.

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Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

We're getting all four seasons in Chicago today

Weather forecast predicting a High of 77 F today with fog then partly sunny, and a Low of 20 F tonight with t-storms and snow likely.

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Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

This is just setting us up for a new all time headline "What are they going to do, jail me?" - man jailed by judge

Still, if the gag order is reimposed, advisers expect Trump to break it at some point, betting that the judges won't punish him with jail time. "What are they really going to do to him?" one ally said.

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Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 11/08/2023

This chart blew my mind as someone who views olive oil as my primary, go-to oil in the kitchen

Chart showing olive oil only accounts for 2% of global edible oil consumption

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Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 10/06/2023

The comparison should not just be Tesla's full self driving safety vs all other drivers, it should also be Tesla vs other makes with less risky driver assistance. The absolute numbers sure look bad. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2…

WaPo chart showing Tesla's driver assistance having far more accidents than all other makes/models with driver assistance combined

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