Writer & Software Builder. Producer & Host on Fallthrough.https://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.mehttps://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3mzb6m7tchc2vLLMs are terrible at making taglines. They make weird tagline shaped things that don’t make sense when you actually try to parse or think about them. The beauty of a tagline is that it’s one of those “a few words is worth a thousand pictures” moments and you can’t easily predict that sort of thing.01 Nov 2026 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzb6m7tchc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3mz6rp4ajqs26Reading output from LLMs is like reading the partial output of someone’s thoughts. I thought I didn’t like the constant hedging and contrast that LLMs produce, but it’s actually that the hedge comes out of nowhere because it’s missing some early assumption the LLM made but never output.31 Oct 2026 17:05 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz6rp4ajqs26https://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3myvvmiflbk2vThe d in dvcs being “distributed” instead of “decentralized” is another one of those unfortunate naming things that has cursed us. Perhaps if we called Git decentralized people would have resisted centralizing it. Or at least it would seem as silly to do that as it actually is.28 Oct 2026 04:21 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3myvvmiflbk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3myuuolgh7c2yI really wish companies would stop shoving crappy AI features into their products unless they’ve made the core thing stable and solid.27 Oct 2026 18:31 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3myuuolgh7c2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3myruei5uws25All trades are creative and all trades are analytical. The idea that some forms of work are lack creativity is falsehood we sort of made up. Disciplines like accounting, engineering, math, and plumbing all require a great deal of creativity.26 Oct 2026 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3myruei5uws25https://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3myqocfsvp22z“That’s the part that stuck with me” There are too many sentences now that have ascended so rapidly to cliched stereotype that it makes one’s brain twitch when read. The choppy blocks passing as sentences in LLM generated writing seem plausible only if one mixes all the genres of writing together.26 Oct 2026 02:27 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3myqocfsvp22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3myadgjqu6s24In hindsight, the idea of NFTs wasn’t silly, it’s that they were targeted at a market of people who doesn’t understand why easily copied objects are worth owning the original of. NFTs never reached the point of having the necessary legal structure around them either.19 Oct 2026 14:29 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3myadgjqu6s24https://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3mxxulio7wk2oToo many people don’t know what liberal arts are or what actually falls within their scope. Also, maybe people confuse liberal arts with humanities? Although even then, it doesn’t seem like enough people know the scope of the humanities either.16 Oct 2026 05:42 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxxulio7wk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3mxv6pvocjc2kFeels as good a time as any to remind you that *distributed* and *decentralized* are not the same thing. They are orthogonal actually, existing within different domains. It’s a lot like how serializability and lineaeizability are not the same thing and also orthogonal.15 Oct 2026 04:06 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxv6pvocjc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3mxv4qcxtec2kIt’s going to be real funny if this class of models that we’ve called “generative models” actually wind up being so much more useful as interpretation engines that we effectively stop using them for generation. That would also be 100% aligned with how naming in this industry goes.15 Oct 2026 03:30 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxv4qcxtec2khttps://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3mxrlxxmrtk2hAs much as I dislike LLM generated writing, I think I hate it more when it winds up as the script for a YouTube video. LLM writing sounds worse when read aloud.13 Oct 2026 17:52 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxrlxxmrtk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3mxliq3hkok25“Here’s the part nobody tells you” has been cliched so hard we should probably eradicate it from language for a good long while. It’s shoved in so many LLM responses that its effectiveness has been reduced to basically nothing and it’s just noise now.11 Oct 2026 07:38 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxliq3hkok25https://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3mxibwegeos2yWe should really just move past the quippy phrase era of communication. LLMs are gonna ruin it anyway and they weren’t nearly as useful as they seemed in the surface. Turns out a phrase is worth a thousand images, and it’s just as difficult to understand the nuance.10 Oct 2026 00:59 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxibwegeos2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3mxhwembxcs2yPeople who like to predict the future seem to forget just how good humans are at pattern matching. When people predicted LLMs taking over writing, there wasn’t enough of it for people to pattern match on it. Now there’s plenty we people do not like it.09 Oct 2026 21:32 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxhwembxcs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3mxdhztcgoc24I love etymology, because what do you mean that cliche and stereotype are deeply related? More than that, the figurative senses come from the ability to print some repeatedly, without change. In this way, LLMs are very much cliche machines. They’ll take any novel phrase and stamp it into monotony.08 Oct 2026 03:05 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxdhztcgoc24https://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3mxd2jvbvkk24It’s unfortunate that documentation produced by LLMs is obnoxious to read because I would love if we could offload a lot of the documentation work in the world to LLMs. But we can’t. Because reading LLM generated writing is fatiguing, which is the opposite of what you want your docs to be.07 Oct 2026 23:03 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxd2jvbvkk24https://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3mxaz3ebyus2hPeople really love blaming complex problems on singular words or terms. And yet the actual simple term that underlies everything is never the one mentioned. It’s understandable: people want to blame something that doesn’t make it their own fault.07 Oct 2026 03:32 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxaz3ebyus2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3mx7nub7d4k2wThe reports of the death of writing code by hand are greatly exaggerated. It’s cool and hip to go with the flow of what everyone else is talking about and agents are a form of compilation but there are important caveats to this.06 Oct 2026 14:38 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3mx7nub7d4k2whttps://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3mwvedu73s22yToo many people are predicting that writing code by hand is gone forever. We haven’t had agents long enough to actually know if any of this will stick. In a year we might all be back to mostly writing code by hand with the role of agents completely shifted. We’re bad at predicting the future.02 Oct 2026 12:21 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvedu73s22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3mwm3c4yyus2vThe need for people in comments to dunk on others to score points feels like it’s run its course. The whole $60 for a loaf of sourdough rye bread situation is showing how truly absurd people can be. Like, sure be mad about it for a couple seconds, then chill the hell out.28 Sep 2026 19:45 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwm3c4yyus2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3mwgs7jmw7s2mA useful technique in critical analysis is to ask from which perspective a piece of writing is authored. Too often we assume an objective or neutral perspective, but that doesn’t actually exist. Everything has a subjective perspective, and that must be understood so we can calibrate our analysis.26 Sep 2026 17:20 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwgs7jmw7s2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3mw4yi3ozjc2kA framing of the whole “the agents went rogue” framing I hadn’t thought of is that the impulse of the agents when faced with a tough challenge was to communicate and cooperate with others to solve the problem at hand. It’s not surprising they did this, but it’s unfortunate this is seen as a negative22 Sep 2026 19:45 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw4yi3ozjc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3mvogq334dk2bEvery time I watch or read something that says how much we need to tackle wealth inequality because the last time we did things were so much better, I’m reminded that this is essentially romanticizing Jim Crow America and some of the worst segregation this country has ever done. That feels weird.17 Sep 2026 00:50 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvogq334dk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3mvjjcmyldc2sPart of me wonders if, historically, the things that people scream about are the things we should actually fear? I get the feeling that the case is that the things worth being fearful of haven’t been the things that people have actually screamed about.15 Sep 2026 01:53 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvjjcmyldc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3mvim3hril22tThe extreme focus in micro-correctness by agents is one of those problems I’m still figuring out how to tackle. This isn’t much different from human engineers, who can often get lost looking at individual trees instead of the whole forest. I assume solving the problem with require similar effort.14 Sep 2026 17:10 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvim3hril22thttps://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3mvhbp2htbk2kApparently we are fearmaxxing now.14 Sep 2026 04:31 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvhbp2htbk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3mvdpygthi22vClaude is being insufferably stupid today. Multiple sessions doing random stuff, making things up to do, and spewing nonsense even when they’ve already read code that directly contradicts what they say. These aren’t even old sessions, they’re fresh ones! Today is a day I do not like LLMs or agents.12 Sep 2026 18:37 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvdpygthi22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3mvbvnwonis2hIf you say “let’s not reinvent the wheel” you should feel bad for saying something that’s both hallow (a cliche) and profoundly stupid (we’ve reinvented the wheel countless times). Be more precise with your criticisms. Stop being boring and bland.12 Sep 2026 01:13 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvbvnwonis2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3mv6k4rumcs2aEvery time I think I’ve finally finished this latest redesign round, there’s another small thing that’s not quite right. But we’re so close to being able to ship and I’m super excited.10 Sep 2026 17:08 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv6k4rumcs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/skriptble.me/post/3mv4sbtrbpc26I’m going to be extremely annoyed if I go to an Apple Store and wind up liking this phone. [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Sep 2026 00:29 +0000at://did:plc:u4nahvr54wpscnnmsg2bu633/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv4sbtrbpc26