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Updated the 1st ending to better lean on collaborative software dev while slightly hinting at semantic ui for humans and agents. Multiple people join a new 'committee' the antagonist started

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It feels fun to push and market the bleeding edge but customers buy the 'job to be done'. If that's not common nor clear, it's a harder sell overall to general and highly targeted prospects

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To do that, I’m leaning on the book “The Goal” in second ending, and learning about generative UI ala CopilotKit for the first. If anyone has resources or recs on who to talk to, let me know 🙂

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 05/05/2026

My editor Eric updated the story today, and am now looking to refine the first 2 endings. Design systems are adapting to serve humans & agents. The protagonist needs insight and a glimpse into how his role will need to change.

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Anyone want to playtest a game about dev culture? winky.vellandi.net Feedback appreciated 😀

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 07/04/2026

die Kommunikation (Firma u. Medien) Gestaltung ist das Problem. Es fördert wirtschaftliches fomo u. konkurrenzfähigen Gedanken und gesellschaftliche Unsicherheit. Die echte positive, innovative Geschichten und verwendungs Potenzialen werden selten berichte.

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 06/04/2026

Are tech media influencers validly whining about Anthropic or is it just sad rage bait? I understand the updated TOS, enforcement, and 3rd party tool use pricing…I just thought the generous subsidies would eventually end and membership tiers would be limited to their products

Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 05/04/2026

When I occasionally look at SWE job opportunities in Germany, I get sad how seemingly 95% involves PHP or Java 😒

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 04/04/2026

An extension to slow down animations and tech demos slowmo.dev

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 03/04/2026

Reach, positioning, and editorial influence for a daily 4-hour “Larry King live” interview show where guests get an unconditional PR stage. Ain’t much diff from a16z buying Turpentine

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 03/04/2026

I find it hilarious OpenAI bought the “tech bro PR net” TBPN. Reminds me of a16z buying Turpentine podcast net, a few years after shuttering a16z future.com It’s always about buying reach to influence editorial + ad impressions

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 02/04/2026

Last day of NYC vacation before flying home

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One thing that I watch out for now is when apps or commands offer help to install plugins/etc, is WHERE it's actually done. Bc right now, it feels like a 'npm install -g' moment and I'm waiting around with a fly swatter

I considered adding beads, but that seems more appropriate at a project-level if doing long term iterative development

At the User level, I now only have the following: claude-mem (or mem0 for other agents), context-mode (process output saved outside chat), context7 (multidocs search + retrieval), and superpowers

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Asking the agent to analyze each skill, plugin, mcp has been enlightening to understand how much is being plugged into the context window and how often (system vs. each turn).

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This week I've been learning where agent skills/plugins are installed, optimizing them, and reverse-engineering an image annotation skill from screenshots + descriptions with nano banana pro (very cool!). Now doing various remotion + agent tuts, optimizing github.com/remotion-dev...

Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 13/03/2026

I just heard about "autoresearch" by @karpathy; here's a plausible notebooklm summary gist.github.com/mvellandi/84...

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 09/03/2026

I researched 84 different tactics and examples for brands to engage with people in the following categories: Market Validation Official Comms Media and Publishing Community and Identity Learning Interactive Engagement Innovation Operational Transparency docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Big Audience Engagement Map by Mario Vellandi

Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 06/03/2026

In an age of endless media, I‘ve increasingly admired great interviewers whether it be Conan O’Brian, Ira Glass, or broadcast news journalists.

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 04/03/2026

It's great, but a tough read at times! I stopped halfway through waiting for a 2nd edition

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 24/02/2026

It’s a bit cringe when I think of tech YouTubers who mix drama farming, sensationalism, rage baiting, mixed with occasional great insights. From the Economist style guide:

Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

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cant.stop.laughing

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 20/02/2026

shit, cool, now I do. There's just so much going on, plus these damn mega co's are competing on various weekly announcements it's hard keeping up with the actual meaningful

Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 19/02/2026

Yeah, isomorphic JS apps without rsc mental overhead is better. I dig TanStack youtu.be/wkXvv0iJffg?...

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Frameworks don't matter anymore...

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 14/02/2026

At that scale it totally makes sense to get inference capacity for full-featured open models

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 08/02/2026

Coolify rocks! I started using it on hetzner in October and never looked back

Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 08/02/2026

The core of swe balances technical, economic, and ethical forces—a human-centric task that AI currently can't do. Those who master systems theory & high-level complexity mgmt are poised to thrive, as industry shifts focus from "plumbing" & raw code gen to orchestrating complex, large-scale systems

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 07/02/2026

I hear great things about their a/v segmentation and multilingual translation models

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 07/02/2026

I miss the band 311. their sound was fun and only slightly melancholc, “drugstore cowgirli“ aside

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 04/02/2026

Whoah, that's a coffee 'upside-down' world I happily would enter with biscotti

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 02/02/2026

Learned a little Pulumi infra-as-code today. Neat and high level

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 02/02/2026

I’m at an infra conference and a speaker expressed serious concern about a future inability to hire juniors, as ai-related automation will already reduce mid-level workforce

Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 30/01/2026

I'm on the bus heading there too! 🤓

Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

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Last summer, as OpenAI sought to transition from nonprofit to for-profit, civil society groups pressed the company for accountability. Tyler Johnston, the founder of an AI watchdog, was among them. Then OpenAI showed up with a subpoena at his door. My latest for @moreperfectunion.bsky.social.

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OpenAl Showed Up At My Door. Here’s Why They’re Targeting People Like Me

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Which brings up an open-ended question of how particular interfaces can adapt to what the person is doing, how far are they along, etc. This being related to CC asking qualifying questions with multiple choice responses before proceeding.

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Makes me wish Claude Code plugin had a simple "ask" mode as well, as well as stopping after a plan is accepted instead of jumping right into implementation. The editor layout and usage made me realize it's an adaptive interface for different users including designers.

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Am enjoying this interview with Cursor's design lead, demoing an OS research project using agents and the internal browser, along with software and interaction design. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdh8...

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Seems obvious a 3-tiered PR system for internal, reputable external, and external submissions. This would better mimic the real world In clubs where longtime members, but not staff organizers, have prioritized and higher regarded contributions than new members and attendees.

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And members are actively encouraged to downvote other submissions that are wrong, overreaching, or miscategorized.

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What's interesting is that it actively encourages categorizing a segment into different types, so that it's not necessarily just about ads, but a variety of other segment types. That way, viewers can whitelist/filter segments. Submitters see an attribute checklist to review before sent.

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Gotta say, SponsorBlock is a neat example of crowdsourcing. It's a browser plugin for YT where people can easily submit time segments of a video to a central DB that's then synced to all other users, allowing the playhead to auto skip noted segments. sponsor.ajay.app Obv not fab for producers

Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 26/01/2026

hot damn, this takes care of the entire planning & dev as a plugin: github.com/obra/Superpo... Isolation is just something you agree on before building

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 26/01/2026

following this anthropic article on iterative agent dev www.anthropic.com/engineering/..., I'm trying to build a a meta-scaffold for greenfield projects, system isolated using local containers and mounts, used for pre-planning and subsequent dev

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 26/01/2026

Tut mir leid zu hören! hoffe es dir bald besser geht