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Trek Glowacki

@trek.bsky.social
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Helped start Ann Arbor's OG Coworking community, couponed at Groupon, usually working to get some startup acquired. Ember.js core emeritus. Paul Irish once called me a hero. ❤️ Ruby and JavaScript. 🏳️‍🌈. 📍Chicago.

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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Those who used the Agents became mighty in their day, managers, directors, and tech leads of old. They obtained glory and great wealth, yet it turned to their undoing. They had, as it seemed, unending productivity, yet code became unmaintainable to them...
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Probably the #1 thing I hate about Jira is how much work is required to rethink a decision or undo a mistake.
In Jira, you cannot directly edit or switch the relationship type (reason) on an existing link in-place. To change it, you need to remove the existing link and recreate it with the correct relationship:
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I knew advertising would start to catch up to anti-AI sentiment but did not expect it before like late 2027 tbh
A painted wall ad with the text “ talk to real live humans about hiring live humans. You don’t have to worry when it just works”
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
hey qq for product people is it good or bad when you develop a feature and it's so useful you have to disable hiding it.
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Right to jail
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
RETVRN
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
ok.
It can be used as solar collector for solar hot water heating system, for training project, or demon collectors, or as small solar collector for the water heating system at home. etc.
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It just scrapes the web and makes stiff-voiced GenAI podcasts, but also can make you a chore list for some reason. I feel bad for whatever team got forced to make this.
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
basic text search is rapidly becoming useless. people have collectively lost their fucking minds.
Search results for "only happen when it rains". An "AI Overview" claims "That phrase completes the famous lyric "Thunder only happens when it's raining" from the 1977 song "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac. Written by Stevie Nicks, the track is featured on the band's hit album Rumours."
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The one thing that makes them lose their mind more than the middle finger: look them in the eye and give them the old pollice verso. I’ve had drivers follow me down the street, car totally abandoned and running, door ajar after this.
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This a VERY smol Rails project so far. Rails is HIGHLY conventional, succinctly expressed, and has been in use for 20 years at point. It should be everything an LLM excels at using. The second-most-recent model shouldn't be making glaring logic errors with a 4kloc app.
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
me, out on a walk, tossing back Brie bites
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
it's the perfect crime.
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The very intentional theme of the patio this year is hearty, native species and I in no way just was lazy and let whatever was wafting through the air take root.
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
y tho?
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I wonder if user generated content sites know how cooked they are as this shit accelerates
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Celebrated by taking a trip to a classic Pizza Hut. You have to really hunt for it on my busy shirt but yes I AM waring my Boot It! pin from the '80s.
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This birthday is a big one, meme wise!
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
When I see this I know I'm getting a good review*
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Me watching random European dudes argue against adding 100+ year old climate control technology to their homes in an ever increasingly warming Europe because it's too American or something.
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The sears tower staring into your soul
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I once showered in a train while crossing the US in a sleeper car.
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
It's fun hearing about all the tooling people are adding around their company's AI use and knowing basically 0% of people are testing whether these additions make the output better, worse, or unchanged. Just full on magical thinking era. The word made manifest!
In LLMs, chaos arises from small perturbations to the input tokens. LLMs are highly sensitive to changes in formatting, and different models respond differently to the same formatting choices. Simply phrasing a question differently yields strikingly different results. Rearranging the order of sentences, even when logically independent, makes LLMs give different answers. Systems of multiple LLMs are chaotic too, even at T=0.

This chaotic behavior makes it difficult for humans to predict what LLMs will do, and leads to all kinds of interesting consequences.
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Me relaxing in the bath: "OK Google, what time is it?" "What Time Is It by Zac Efron Vanessa Hudgens Lucas Grabeel Corbin Blue Ashely Tisdale Monique Coleman playing on bathroom speaker"
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
rmi.org/insight/trac... The tech won't work for everyone but the trend is pretty clear that heating your home by burning methane is going to sound like heating your home by burning coal in the not-distant future.
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Reality is indistinguishable from satire now
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
SOON
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I went with "spectrum mushroom"
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
omfg
Like this post to be added to the "AI Slur Users" list. It is for people who use slurs for AI (eg, clanker, wireback), or who thinks doing so is not antisocial or problematic at all.
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Today's adventure, converting JavaScript file to TypeScript, which these tools should honestly excel at. Given a specific direction to not use `rm` or `mv` (which I don't allow-list) preferring instead `git mv` (which I do allow). Over and Over and Over.
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
RETVRN
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
a little twinsie to my childhood home
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
lol, so it WASN'T just me seeing this github.com/anthropics/c...
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
What the fuck is even ON that civil war cap? It's like a mush of
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Very important question: what color replacement cushions should I get: www.patiohq.com/seat-cushion
A photo of outdoor furniture
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Someone using an LLM tried to help me debug an issue and was confidently talking about how a specific option we passed had these specific behaviors that might be the cause. cool story, I CREATED that option. Yesterday. *After* the bug cropped up.
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I'm VERY, VERY convinced that "well know fact", "known limitation" etc is an LLMs highest probability output when it can't generate anything else.
A conversation between me and an LLM where it claims something is "well known" only to be caught saying bullshit
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Claude spent 2 hours and god only knows how many credits making circular changes because it didn't bother to verify the value in an `if` statement. It's like this all day long. I simply do not understand the excitement.
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
YEAH NO SHIT
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
oh ffs you we all know there were literally no talks and yet the news continues to report on unverified claims and the markets continue to react like this walking markov chain generator has an actual goal or policy in mind.
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
every day, all day long.
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
You can basically do this version and people think you're a visionary
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