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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 06/09/2026

So I've dropped down from Pro to Plus to get the average #openai Astra coding experience. Good news: you can always use your phone to tell it to go ahead after it gets interrupted by the 5h limit. Bad news: you can blow through two 5h limits with a single prompt, no fast mode, GPT 6 High.

Screenshot of a Codex (ChatGPT) coding agent session showing a scrollable log of executed commands, including several 'tail', 'python3', 'jq', 'mkdir', and 'command -v ruff' entries with their run times. Below the log, an orange usage-limit notice reads: 'You've hit your usage limit. Upgrade to Pro (https://chatgpt.com/explore/pro), visit https://chatgpt.com/codex/settings/usage to purchase more credits or try again at 6:05 PM.' A downward arrow icon and a footer showing '2 files +337 −15' (added/removed lines) appear at the bottom.

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 03/09/2026

Zooming in on the latest DeepSWE lines: deepswe.datacurve.ai Gemini is now winning on cost but dramatically losing on number of agent steps, which doesn't sound so good for coding. Also this benchmark is getting saturated. SlopCodeBench when? #gemini #google #apple #aiagents

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 22/07/2026

"You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools" codeberg.org/Codeberg/org... Approved by 69% (nice) #genAI #openSource #Linux #FOSS #aiagents

Poll result screenshot titled ‘Disallow vibe-coded projects (Terms of Use amendment)’ asking whether to accept changes from Codeberg pull request #1253. Voting closed July 21, 2026. Out of 1,085 eligible voters, 517 votes were cast: 358 Agree, 144 Disagree, 14 Abstain.

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 14/06/2026

Turns out that before we enter the bunker in some post-apocalypse we preemptively bunker ourselves in our minds. We "this is fine" inside our preferred reality distortion field.

Comic panel of a cartoon dog wearing a brown hat, sitting calmly amid flames, holding a cup and saying "I’m okay with the events that are unfolding currently."

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 29/05/2026

This is is still the state of text input in #iOS pre 2026 #WWDC Weak keyboard, weak dictation and no way for third-party developers to meaningfully improve any of this. These are fundamentals that trip you over on the way to #ai hype fulfilment.

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 13/05/2026

"It's ok, we'll always have a human in the loop." The human in the loop:

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 08/05/2026

We couldn't slow LLM hype dow, so now it's the entire software sector that needs to take a breather.

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 29/03/2026

quick #photography #spring break hope you're having a nice sunday

A low-angle, close-up photograph looking up the trunk of a tree toward a bright blue sky. In the foreground, a tiny, vibrant green sprout emerges directly from the textured, dark brown bark, which is heavily covered in patches of orange and pale green lichen.

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 13/02/2026

This sequence of prompts is the reason why people think we don't need world models if we already have language models. Just add another AI on top, bro. Just one more, plz bro.

A screenshot of a conversation with an AI model (identified as ChatGPT 5.2 Thinking).
The user asks: "The car wash is only 50m from my house. I want to get my car washed. Should i walk or drive there?"
The AI responds with "Walk." It explains that at 50 meters, driving is a hassle involving cold-start wear and emissions for zero benefit. It lists exceptions for driving, such as heavy rain, carrying heavy cleaning supplies, or specific car wash queue requirements. It concludes by suggesting the user just grab their keys and stroll over.

A screenshot of a mobile application titled "AI Logic Fail: Car Wash Errand," which highlights a humorous reasoning error made by an AI.
The image content includes:
* The Prompt: A user asks if they should walk or drive to a car wash located only 50m from their house.
* The AI's Answer: The AI gives a definitive command to "Walk".
* The Reasoning: The AI argues that walking is superior to avoid the hassle of maneuvering, engine wear, and environmental impact. It only suggests driving for external factors like rain or heavy supplies, completely failing to realize that the car itself must be present to be washed.

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 17/11/2025

So I've realised that I’m using my steam deck as a steam machine: world.hey.com/ricardo.tava... 👈 a long term review of the original deck. #linux #arch #steam #valve

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 06/10/2025

Good thing I’m paying for this 🤔 It’s a mystery why newspapers are dying. @publico.pt #ads #tracking #privacy #journalism

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 18/08/2025

Hadn’t yet realised that because animations are so annoying in macOS, I turn them off and get flagged as wanting reduced motion for web animations 🤔

A pop-up explaining that reduced motion was detected in a website for a course called Whimsical Animations.

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 02/05/2025

real images of actual vibe coding in medieval times #LLM #GenerativeAI #vibecoding #webdev #vscode

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 06/04/2024

Kids having only a smartphone to learn how to code is how history repeats the ZX Spectrum 🤔😅 Is that progress?

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 29/03/2024

Reskeet with a picture of the first computer you ever used 😊

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 23/03/2024

Looking at keywords from #FOSDEM schedules since 2012 and I might put this on a repo for other people to play with as well. Curious to see how certain topics evolve, like what happened to #mysql recently.

84th - MYSQL appears 771 times
2012: 16 sessions
2013: 20 sessions
2014: 22 sessions
2015: 20 sessions
2016: 16 sessions
2017: 23 sessions
2018: 16 sessions
2019: 23 sessions
2020: 20 sessions
2021: 24 sessions
2022: 21 sessions
2023: 11 sessions
2024: 4 sessions

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 04/03/2024

By learning from what we're doing while remaining aware of the landscape, we can try to avoid getting stuck on local maximums world.hey.com/ricardo.tava... 👈 These are my notes on product-minded #softwaredevelopment taken from "The Software Engineer's Guidebook" by Gergely Orosz.

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 28/02/2024

Wonder if we were ready to delve this deep into the generative #ai cave... Yoda did try to warn us.

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 10/02/2024

me: night time is when I can get to learning something new dev talks: allow me to explain my white slides in my white editor and white terminal

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 10/02/2024

A lot of people have a considerable artistic vision but a limited ability to make a picture. A lot of people have neither. But everyone now has access to the same tools. It's a new era of exploring how bad something average can look like.