Reposted by Tim PurdumKirill Osenkov @kirillosenkov.com · 28/09/2026A eulogy for the software engineer davekiss.com/blog/eulogy-... by @davekiss.comdavekiss.comA eulogy for the software engineer | Dave KissDearly beloved, we are gathered here today to bury the software engineer, along with a pair of headphones, a notebook, and a keyboard. A talk about what went in the ground, and what's still in your ha... 062
Reposted by Tim PurdumFlo 🔶 @faz.ms · 28/09/2026upping my p(doom) as old people music (third-wave ska revival) 10686
Reposted by Tim PurdumTommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Goalpost moving AI skeptics be like. 1024225
Tim Purdum @timpurdum.dev · 26/09/2026It's also going to explode new forms of creativity from those who never had the training to be a physical artist or performer, but still have a creative drive. 000
Tim Purdum @timpurdum.dev · 26/09/2026If you are an artist or musician who already was using digital tools, it's going to be harder to explain why your works are more authentic than someone who prompts a pc to generate a work. Maybe learning to be creative with AI is better for some. 100
Tim Purdum @timpurdum.dev · 26/09/2026I grew up around musicians and actors. Pretty much everyone had a "day" job, much of which was teaching. That's still going to be there, although it might change. But it's always been a hard field. 100
Tim Purdum @timpurdum.dev · 26/09/2026Performing artists and craft workers are best positioned to not be disrupted by AI, because they were disrupted long ago by audio/video tech and factory production. If you are actually making a living creating physical objects by hand or performing, it's already been a niche market for decades. 100
Tim Purdum @timpurdum.dev · 26/09/2026Not sure. I've never really cranked beyond low double digit sessions, and they do seem to get bandwidth issues sometimes, but I don't think I've seen a posted limit. 020
Reposted by Tim Purdumtweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 25/09/2026here is a succinct thing I can say: "alignment"-style AI safety risks DO NOT EXIST or need remediation with LLMs as such (there are lots of other problems) and OpenAI and Anthropic are in the business of TRYING TO MAKE THEM EXIST so that they can remediate them. 718348
Tim Purdum @timpurdum.dev · 26/09/2026lnkd.in/p/gNpKRACelnkd.in#gis #arcgis #fallfoliage #leafpeeping #esri | dymapticThe dymaptic design team has been hard at work on something new: the Leaf Peeping Forecast. 🍁 It's an interactive map that predicts peak fall colors week by week, broken down to the county level, wit... 000
Reposted by Tim Purdumjeffery --dangerously-skip-permissions @jefferyharrell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026IF YOU THINK YOU CANNOT AFFORD OPUS 5.5 please try using Opus 5.5 and see. Compared even to Opus 5 the new model appears to *sip* tokens. I can't believe how slowly my usage is ticking up. 61095
Reposted by Tim Purdumaustin @aparker.io · 25/09/2026have they tried putting the agents in a box made of something sturdier than sand 7875
Reposted by Tim PurdumEris @isolyth.dev · 24/09/2026Uhhhhh.. Free claude if there's capacity?! (confirmed myself, claude code DOES seem to have the option, no idea if it does anything yet) 5733
Tim Purdum @timpurdum.dev · 24/09/2026The routing skill/scripts I created refuse to route me to Sol 6 because of this. 000
Tim Purdum @timpurdum.dev · 24/09/20262 days in, I'm kind of shocked OpenAI hasn't gotten enough benchmarks on Sol 5 to fix the miserable ranking on llm-stats.com/leaderboards...llm-stats.comBest AI for Coding 2026 - Top Coding ModelsCompare the best AI for coding using live coding arena results, benchmark performance, and real generation examples for code generation, debugging, and software engineering. 100
Reposted by Tim PurdumMarco Z @ocramz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026tetranoid.netlify.app prepare to get ☄️rekt🧱 #FallingBlockJamtetranoid.netlify.appTetranoidPieces sink, a ball runs loose: one player builds lines, the other keeps the ball alive and chews the stack apart. 073
Reposted by Tim PurdumEpoch AI @epochai.bsky.social · 22/09/2026AI is getting cheaper more quickly than any other transformative tech in history. At a given level of performance, cost has fallen ~47%/quarter since 2023. That’s 4× faster than DNA sequencing, 6× faster than compute, 18× faster than lithium batteries, and (up to 1973) 54× faster than electricity. 112532
Reposted by Tim Purdumaly @aly.codes · 20/09/2026sorry people but the “atheist alt right chud” nexus just functionally does not exist, why do people keep insisting on this Atheists and Black Protestants are the most reliable democratic voters by far lol 1212616
Reposted by Tim PurdumDoll @dollspace.gay · 19/09/2026You do understand we already solved that problem yes? It doesnt do this anymore. We got to mythos class on a lot of synthetic data. When we talk about anti ai people not living in the present this is what we mean. You havent updated your priors since gpt 4o 812822
Reposted by Tim Purdumdanielroe @danielroe.dev · 19/09/2026don't be nice.roe.devDon't be niceSometimes, it's more important to be good than it is to be nice. 41734246
Tim Purdum @timpurdum.dev · 19/09/2026Kill switch is more of a pipe dream than banning AI outright. These are discrete pieces of software running in hundreds of locations alongside many other pieces of critical software. No one government or corporation controls it. Accountability for corporate actors is a better path. 010
Reposted by Tim PurdumMatt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Very quick and dirty Jev test for hiring bias. One resume for a Wall Street job; asked whether the applicant should get a first-round interview. 76 evaluations, changing only the first name. 19 of each: White-associated men/women, Black-associated men/women. console.typesafe.ai/playground?s... 19475116
Reposted by Tim PurdumLea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 19/09/2026“These five paragraphs of Claude’s PR description could have been a sentence” is a the new “this meeting could have been an email” 511615
Reposted by Tim PurdumRollofthedice @hotrollhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Or is this an example of mere skepticism, or an example of a real argument? rollofthedice2.substack.com/p/paperclip-...rollofthedice2.substack.comPaperclip Maximization Is a Failure of an IdeaWhy the thought experiment doesn’t add up 042
Reposted by Tim PurdumBasile Henry @basilehenry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It's subagents all the way down... 🤖 011
Reposted by Tim PurdumThorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 18/09/2026A lot of people outside of the software industry just don't seem to understand how rapidly LLM-assisted coding was adopted in the past 9 months or so 81937
Tim Purdum @timpurdum.dev · 18/09/2026I'm going through multiple rewrites with multiple models and refining a personalize humanize skill. IMO it's still shit until I edit it by hand, even after 4-5 passes. 111
Reposted by Tim Purdumdame @dame.is · 17/09/2026the leap from traditional software development to agentic software development is like when digital photography overtook film you can now make SO much software so easily (even non-developers) like how anyone can take infinite photos without having to consider restraints of film (cost, time, skill) 71057
Tim Purdum @timpurdum.dev · 16/09/2026Did DeepSeek 4.1 Flash turn dumb today? I've been using it for nearly a week, and today it started reverting commits and making branches without permission. 000
Tim Purdum @timpurdum.dev · 16/09/2026"Quite" is underselling the difference in cost vs the frontier labs, IMO. It's a breakthrough for affordability. 000
Reposted by Tim Purdummr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 15/09/2026Jev: Fable-level model that doesn’t charge for output tokens because they’re too cheap to meter it’s not general though, it only makes decisions, doesn’t generate text, but input tokens are measured by the billion ($42/btok) typesafe.ai/blog/introdu... 2830234
Tim Purdum @timpurdum.dev · 15/09/2026Looking up "Best LLM model for writing prose", and Opus is still at the top of most every list, despite the fact that it sounds like garbage and often has to be rewritten. Will we ever get consistent non-cringy prose from our models? 100
Reposted by Tim Purdumjoe ⧉ 🍷🌊 @joetforhire.com · 14/09/2026A Gouda frittata. It means no worries, for the rest of your days 4726
Reposted by Tim PurdumSMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Never thought software would ruin a philosophy problem, but here we are. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/scratc... PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com 728145
Tim Purdum @timpurdum.dev · 13/09/2026I guess once I'm down in the text it works, but when I open I can only see title and image and can't scroll. 000
Tim Purdum @timpurdum.dev · 13/09/2026Well, I can grab the scroll bar, but that's not very mobile friendly. 100
Tim Purdum @timpurdum.dev · 13/09/2026Fireworks.ai, in addition to being on the fascist support list for omarchy, has not been tracking billing on DeepSeek 4.1 flash for 3 days now, so I have no idea how much $ I'm spending. Guess I should look at other options, but its for work so that's not easy. 000
Tim Purdum @timpurdum.dev · 12/09/2026The latest open weight flash models provide similar value at costs low enough to be comparable to the subsidized frontier subscriptions, so I don't think we're going to see costs go up. If anything, this is only the beginning of the commoditization. 150
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