Timo Mihaljov @timo.mihaljov.com · 02/10/2026Imagine thinking "There's not enough software in the world, and what little we have is made with too much damn care! We don't need this kind of perfection – we need more apps!" I'm utterly unable to relate to the people in my field. 010
Timo Mihaljov @timo.mihaljov.com · 02/10/2026AI coding tools are no different from compilers: you take the compiler output, make your coworkers review it, and commit it to source control so other people can use their own compilers to edit it, just like we've always done. 020
Reposted by Timo Mihaljovmore mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026they built C3PO for some kinda protocol crap too but you never hear him yapping about it 1292
Reposted by Timo Mihaljovabsolute horses @jcoglan.com · 30/09/2026also, music is *communal*, it is an experience you share and have in common with other people, that is a huge part of how music comes to mean anything, the idea of "personalised music" just conceptually makes no sense 2284
Reposted by Timo MihaljovErin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters. 121259397
Timo Mihaljov @timo.mihaljov.com · 29/09/2026Some big tech 2025 revenues for scale: Amazon: $638 B Apple: $416 B Alphabet (Google): $350 B Microsoft: $282 B The AI industry would have to generate way more revenue than all of Microsoft, about the same as Google/Apple, or half of Amazon *just to break even*! That's a lot of Claude Max plans. 020
Timo Mihaljov @timo.mihaljov.com · 29/09/2026> Goldman Sachs warned Friday that AI hyperscalers, including Meta, need to generate roughly $300 billion a year in AI services revenue just to break even on their capital spending—and $1 trillion annually to earn meaningful profits—spooking investors. finance.yahoo.com/markets/stoc...finance.yahoo.comMark Zuckerberg Loses $9 Billion In A Day As Goldman Sachs Pours Cold Water On Meta Stock RallyZuckerberg’s $9 billion loss was the biggest single-day drop among any billionaire Friday. 110
Timo Mihaljov @timo.mihaljov.com · 29/09/2026I don't know if the company or the people behind Jev are as horrible as all the other players in the AI space, but I think they have the right idea about how to constrain LLMs to work as serious tools instead of a parlor trick that's got way out of hand. 110
Timo Mihaljov @timo.mihaljov.com · 29/09/2026A chatbot is like a bucket of gasoline and a pack of matches when what we need is an internal combustion engine. 100
Reposted by Timo MihaljovMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The tweet that immediately came to mind: 221748400
Timo Mihaljov @timo.mihaljov.com · 29/09/2026I wondered if I'd be excited about "AI" if I was just growing up now. Then I remembered that in my teens I used to spell Microsoft with a dollar sign and ran Linux back when the easiest way to get it was for some weirdo to mail you a stack of CD-Rs. So yeah, I'm pretty sure I would still be a hater. 020
Reposted by Timo MihaljovBaldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 28/09/2026Parasocial media: why influencers really aren't your friend www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/04-para... How the very design of social media supercharges misinformation and harm.baldurbjarnason.comParasocial media: why influencers really aren't your friendWriting at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland 097
Timo Mihaljov @timo.mihaljov.com · 26/09/2026Researcher: In my paper I discuss the ways in which automation may expand rather than eliminate problems with the human operator Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Automation from classic research paper Ironies of Automation 26615
Reposted by Timo Mihaljov403 FORBIDDEN @joshgrant.online · 25/09/2026Art doesn't often work this way. The work is the work. 2133
Reposted by Timo Mihaljovdan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right 63112242540
Reposted by Timo Mihaljovabsolute horses @jcoglan.com · 24/09/2026they are more punishing the more effort you have put into trying to be good at something. not just "you don't need to make an effort any more" but "you're stupid for having ever tried" 0161
Timo Mihaljov @timo.mihaljov.com · 25/09/2026These days I often end up deleting my own code comments that explain why the code is written the way it is. They're shaped like Claude's nonsense, so no human will ever read them, but without any comments the code itself might look human enough to make someone actually read it. 010
Reposted by Timo Mihaljovabsolute horses @jcoglan.com · 24/09/2026it's not just that LLMs replace making an effort with making shit up, it's that they make the former *read as* the latter. they're fractally destructive to the conveyance of information 2236
Reposted by Timo Mihaljovabsolute horses @jcoglan.com · 24/09/2026I hate that LLMs mean I can't trust anything any more. I'll get something I previously would have viewed as a thoughtfully written bug report/PR and now it's "this might just be very professional-looking bullshit" 4446
Reposted by Timo MihaljovBjørn Einar Bjartnes @bjartnes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Abstract mic drop "Incompetence is so ambient that the term "competency porn" was coined to describe the escapist pleasure of watching someone simply do a thing well." ndcoslo.com/agenda/safe-...ndcoslo.comSafe Systems in a Chaotic World : NDC OsloSystem failures of all flavors, zero-days, mass layoffs, the climate crisis, AI slop, war, crumbling infrastructure and institutions. Incompetence is so ambient that the term "competency porn" was coi... 152
Reposted by Timo Mihaljovabsolute horses @jcoglan.com · 23/09/2026also for many velocity problems exhibited by software projects, churning out code faster and doing more things at once makes the problem *worse*. do none of you know anyone that's read even half of a management book 2256
Reposted by Timo Mihaljovabsolute horses @jcoglan.com · 23/09/2026outside of very particular niches, the programmer pop culture is absolutely not talking about the process of writing computer programs at all any more. an awful lot of people are actively discouraging this as a productive endeavour. I hate it here 2435
Timo Mihaljov @timo.mihaljov.com · 23/09/2026It sucks and I hate it, but I guess I'm glad I'm not the only one seeing this. bsky.app/profile/timo... 120
Reposted by Timo MihaljovAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/20268. often, when people say LLMs "can do" something they mean LLMs can produce output that looks like the output of doing something 9. producing something that looks like the output of doing something is not the same thing as doing it 4448112
Reposted by Timo MihaljovChris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got 31798601563
Timo Mihaljov @timo.mihaljov.com · 22/09/2026I don't feel FOMO about AI. On the contrary, it's a Hope Of Missing Out, which also deserves to become a catchy acronym. 12714
Timo Mihaljov @timo.mihaljov.com · 22/09/2026I think it's a terrible idea to replace all our staple crops with brand new magic beans and plant nothing else because they're going to be so awesome, but if we're doing that anyway, then hell yes I'm crossing my fingers for a bumper crop. 030
Timo Mihaljov @timo.mihaljov.com · 22/09/2026I sincerely hope that I'm wrong and dozens of theories like the Lindy effect have all suddenly and simultaneously lost their explanatory power. Otherwise we're in for a really bad time in the 30's. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_e...en.wikipedia.orgLindy effect - Wikipedia 120
Timo Mihaljov @timo.mihaljov.com · 22/09/2026Even if all it took to replace a legacy system with a new one was a single wave of a magic wand, a large organization can easily take years just to agree on who will do the waving, and for all those years the legacy system will have to keep working and adjusting to the changes in its environment. 120
Timo Mihaljov @timo.mihaljov.com · 22/09/2026I'm still having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that my long-time policy of "let's wait three years to see how a new technology works out for the early adopters before we use it for something that we'll have to support for a decade or more" now makes me the radical risk taker. 120
Reposted by Timo MihaljovAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Baudrillard: "It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself... Never again will the real have to be produced: this is the vital function of the model in a system of death" 14813219
Reposted by Timo MihaljovBenjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 21/09/2026It’s not at all surprising that a bunch of white collar folks find that slightly improving their sense of satisfaction in their workplace is worth absolutely torching the earth and accelerating fascism. 1198
Reposted by Timo MihaljovCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026I promise you there would be no AI alignment problem if the CEOs of AI companies faced jail time if their AI killed anyone. 31077225
Reposted by Timo MihaljovAnnalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder. 21654502
Reposted by Timo MihaljovSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026when ai leaves u behind 75257509648
Reposted by Timo MihaljovRory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I don't even respect using it for the boring and tedious stuff, because doing boring and tedious things is important to your brain functioning and is an important part of any creative practice. 61957
Reposted by Timo MihaljovAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 17/09/2026hot take: it matters how things work if you are making things for other people, you should know how those things work "but then a lot of things wouldn't get built" yes correct 410819
Timo Mihaljov @timo.mihaljov.com · 18/09/2026> Spending upwards of 75% of my time directly or indirectly dealing with AI every day has absolutely robbed me of most of my enjoyment of my work. Most days feel like that Twilight Zone where you wake up and you're the same, but everyone else is different. www.netmeister.org/blog/everybo...netmeister.orgEverybody's Lost Their MindsThe AI brain worms have been spreading and I don't have a solution, I just want to get off this ride. 011
Reposted by Timo Mihaljovtaiga @taigasys.bsky.social · 17/09/2026google illegally cut down 300ha of forest where they're going to build a data center, before the plan to build the data center has even been approved and also before bringing the project to public knowledge. 26253
Reposted by Timo MihaljovErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It is truly wild to see a software company do press releases about their software being shitty, unpredictable, and unreliable like that's a good thing. We have a word for this, and it's malware. 113633
Timo Mihaljov @timo.mihaljov.com · 18/09/2026A baby is crying in the bus I'm on. It's a strikingly honest and human communication in this age of bullshit and posturing. 010
Reposted by Timo MihaljovErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Hey assholes, make better software. 56311
Reposted by Timo MihaljovTechnicallyRon @technicallyron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"We need a poster for our restaurant that makes the food look delicious so we get more customers" "Okay I've used AI to make it and all the food looks it's made of maggots and been at the bottom of a bin for three years" "Perfect put it everywhere" 0243
Timo Mihaljov @timo.mihaljov.com · 18/09/2026Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought. —Matsuo Bashō Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; use a Large Footstep Model to make new ones. Footsteps are no longer the bottleneck. Why aren't you making more footsteps? —Every manager right now 000
Reposted by Timo Mihaljovtef @tef.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"great news, we can spend twice as much money and get everyone to write junior level code a bit faster, " how's that going "great. we've got ten times the code and review is slower than ever before. we tried spending more money but it looks we're going to have to fix it with big-design-up-front" 34211
Reposted by Timo Mihaljovtef @tef.bsky.social · 16/09/2026read a long post about how the future of coding is going, and it kinda feels like people are now at the "reinventing software engineering from first principles" stage, down to a resurgence of the surgeon model 3989
Reposted by Timo MihaljovHappy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Do you ever feel like maybe you died a decade ago and have been living in a coma world that’s trying to give you subtle clues that your family back home is crying and telling you to go towards the light 202181299
Reposted by Timo MihaljovBaldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 16/09/2026“NVIDIA'S AI Climate hoax” ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/nvidias-ai… > With that in mind, we produced our own conservative estimate, finding that the climate impact from 2025’s use of NVIDIA’S AI products is on par with the state-owned Russian Coal company.ketanjoshi.coNVIDIA'S AI Climate hoaxWhat does the real climate footprint of the biggest company on the planet look like? It's a good question, but here's a better one: why don't we already know the answer? 0108
