Lawyer, coder, baker. Govt (Deputy US CTO for Obama and Biden), non-profit (Trust & Safety Professional Assn & Foundation, Data & Society, Public.resource), startup person (Google, Twitter). Curious tinkerer. @amac on the other thing. Now in London.https://bsky.app/profile/amac0.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/amac0.bsky.social/post/3mnknohzppe2xLions playing, #nature #GrainSocial https://grain.social/profile/did:plc:shzwxt4dylelme3eksq4wwoi/gallery/3mnknodu4pk2m05 Jun 2026 17:22 +0000at://did:plc:shzwxt4dylelme3eksq4wwoi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnknohzppe2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/amac0.bsky.social/post/3mnhykvp5qv2qLeopard, Leopard with hare. #nature #GrainSocial https://grain.social/profile/did:plc:shzwxt4dylelme3eksq4wwoi/gallery/3mnhyksefon2q04 Jun 2026 15:59 +0000at://did:plc:shzwxt4dylelme3eksq4wwoi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnhykvp5qv2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/amac0.bsky.social/post/3mnddiz7b2k2jAI is changing how products behave and how they are built. Product lawyering has to change too. Here's my attempt to describe how. I'd love to hear if this rings true to folks who are still product counseling. https://www.bricoleur.org/2026/06/product-counselling-in-ai-era.html02 Jun 2026 19:32 +0000at://did:plc:shzwxt4dylelme3eksq4wwoi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnddiz7b2k2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/amac0.bsky.social/post/3mmylqsa4gk2xIf you are considering a lens for Safari, I'm a big fan of the new NIKKOR Z 70-200mm. More photos at https://share.google/mikgGTfYqJAKwExzR29 May 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:shzwxt4dylelme3eksq4wwoi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmylqsa4gk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/amac0.bsky.social/post/3mmtbekhsfk2pMy current AI codegen setup https://www.bricoleur.org/2026/05/my-current-ai-codegen-setup.html What am I doing wrong? What's your setup?27 May 2026 10:11 +0000at://did:plc:shzwxt4dylelme3eksq4wwoi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmtbekhsfk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/amac0.bsky.social/post/3mmbmoap6q22o"The AI Race Isn't Real" by @mtokson.bsky.social and Yonathan Arbel argues that the "race" metaphor in AI is neither a good description nor helpful. Good article, worth a read. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-ai-race-isn-t-real20 May 2026 09:45 +0000at://did:plc:shzwxt4dylelme3eksq4wwoi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmbmoap6q22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/amac0.bsky.social/post/3mm7oyfyihs23This long "I don't know" on AI + Jobs in the Economist is OK but, like many other pieces, it fails to talk about the human costs in human terms. Jobs vanish in passive voice. "History holds a final lesson. If disruption is coming, it will show up in a recession. ... 1/219 May 2026 15:21 +0000at://did:plc:shzwxt4dylelme3eksq4wwoi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm7oyfyihs23https://bsky.app/profile/amac0.bsky.social/post/3mlpuxhxbms2lEnjoyed Bill Gurley's Runnin' Down a Dream. Non-conformity pushes are always good. I'd add: Have the same calculus when you get to your dream, don't then run away from it up the ladder. Too many folks take promotions that replace what they love with management. https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/runnin-down-a-dream-how-to-thrive-in-a-career-you-actually-love-bill-gurley/6a1d5327ee2e8c10?ean=9781911709855&next=t13 May 2026 08:26 +0000at://did:plc:shzwxt4dylelme3eksq4wwoi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlpuxhxbms2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/amac0.bsky.social/post/3ml4dc6xwf22lAm a little late to this but @eff.org's Cindy Cohn's memoir is wonderful. A great description of a fight well fought and a life well lived. https://bookshop.org/p/books/privacy-s-defender-my-thirty-year-fight-against-digital-surveillance-cindy-cohn/366f2e03e0f8a632?ean=978026205124805 May 2026 13:49 +0000at://did:plc:shzwxt4dylelme3eksq4wwoi/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4dc6xwf22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/amac0.bsky.social/post/3mbys4olnc223Made a bot that posts an old "Suck.com" article every day. It tries to use one related to today's news. Follow it at @barrelofsuck.bsky.social Read about it https://www.bricoleur.org/2026/01/finally-finished-up-bot-for-posting.html09 Jan 2026 15:17 +0000at://did:plc:shzwxt4dylelme3eksq4wwoi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbys4olnc223https://bsky.app/profile/amac0.bsky.social/post/3lqaiwlpd7s22AI vibe coding best practices look a lot like waterfall development, with all of its pitfalls. 1/428 May 2025 15:20 +0000at://did:plc:shzwxt4dylelme3eksq4wwoi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqaiwlpd7s22https://bsky.app/profile/amac0.bsky.social/post/3lq5tc5osek2uQuick blog post about a tool I wrote* to help understand Claude Code sessions. https://www.bricoleur.org/2025/05/understanding-claude-code-sessions.html *mostly this was guiding o3 and Claude Sonnet 4.27 May 2025 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:shzwxt4dylelme3eksq4wwoi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lq5tc5osek2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/amac0.bsky.social/post/3lprstjcmpc2dClaude Code logs a bunch of stuff via jsonl. The logs are a little hard to read, so I made a rough and ready parser that can also show git commits in the log timeline: https://github.com/amac0/ClaudeCodeJSONLParser All coded via LLM, mostly o3 & when o3 had trouble, switched to Claude 4 Sonnet (in Claude Code).22 May 2025 19:07 +0000at://did:plc:shzwxt4dylelme3eksq4wwoi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lprstjcmpc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/amac0.bsky.social/post/3lp52rqt5xs2hA good example of Claude Code teaching me stuff. Claude code says: "Let's try a different approach - instead of using a .bandit file, let's update the pre-commit config directly to skip bandit checks for tests:" 1/14 May 2025 13:04 +0000at://did:plc:shzwxt4dylelme3eksq4wwoi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp52rqt5xs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/amac0.bsky.social/post/3lp4l7vzlcc2qAlondra Nelson (@alondra.bsky.social‬) is a beacon, as usual. "To watch these changes unfold without naming them for what they are is to participate in a collective amnesia about how knowledge infrastructures shape power relations. ... 1/14 May 2025 08:25 +0000at://did:plc:shzwxt4dylelme3eksq4wwoi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp4l7vzlcc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/amac0.bsky.social/post/3lp4iutxv5k2qSaw An Oak Tree last night at the Young Vic. Most unusual play I've seen in a while and I don't really know what to think of it -- which I'm enjoying a lot. Anyhow, I'd recommend it if you get a chance to see it. https://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/an-oak-tree-review14 May 2025 07:43 +0000at://did:plc:shzwxt4dylelme3eksq4wwoi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp4iutxv5k2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/amac0.bsky.social/post/3loydf7t4fs2lPublished a short thing on one of my Claude Code experiments. https://www.bricoleur.org/2025/05/claude-code-theater-scraper.html Key takeaways: 1) be prepared to throw everything out (also, learn & incorporate git); 2) make the spec and the prompts simple -- no, simpler than that; 1/12 May 2025 15:54 +0000at://did:plc:shzwxt4dylelme3eksq4wwoi/app.bsky.feed.post/3loydf7t4fs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/amac0.bsky.social/post/3lopxcjuugk2nAm angry and sad about this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/08/donald-trump-library-of-congress-carla-hayden/c7c8bdca-2c73-11f0-a724-3bc879c9f843_story.html Carla Hayden is a wonderful public servant and has been a great Librarian of Congress.09 May 2025 07:57 +0000at://did:plc:shzwxt4dylelme3eksq4wwoi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lopxcjuugk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/amac0.bsky.social/post/3lookena4bs2xOne sad (?) learning from this great @timoreilly.bsky.social conf on AI Coding (https://www.oreilly.com/CodingwithAI/index.csp) is that I finally have to really learn git and use it (including pre-commit hooks). If anyone has good resources to suggest, please do.08 May 2025 18:33 +0000at://did:plc:shzwxt4dylelme3eksq4wwoi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lookena4bs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/amac0.bsky.social/post/3lobgot3oy224Claude Code continues to get better. The update that allows Claude to manage a todo list within a task set is great. Keeping that todo list as well as the first line of your last prompt visible while working would be a good upgrade.03 May 2025 13:22 +0000at://did:plc:shzwxt4dylelme3eksq4wwoi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lobgot3oy224