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The AI scammers are at it again with a new post 😭 lmaoo it’s giving 👁️👄👁️

Only 11% of companies could accurately forecast their AI spending. A separate study found cheaper AI models cost more 32% of the time. So dollars per token is less relevant than dollars per task. AI is like getting a contractor, you know the hourly rate but not how many hours the job will take.

By @quinnypig.com: “I said it years ago and it’s pretty clearly correct: web1: You are the audience web2: You are the product web3: You are the victim”

Here are my top 5 tips for finishing things you start: 1. Make a list 2.

MAGA telling themselves third time’s the charm when they hear this pitch. 😂

I think Sam Altman has a point that every technology has tradeoffs. We’ve decided cars are worth having even though they pollute the air and drunk drivers kill thousands every year. The question is who bears those costs and how responsible are companies for preventing harms caused by their products

ADHD is always hearing “you’re doing it wrong” even though your way works.

"I spent a lot of time going over the design decisions involved here, trying my best to complain about async Rust, only to end up going “Oh. Yeah. That’s reasonable. That makes sense. I can see why they did it that way.” every step of the way." herecomesthemoon.net/2026/10/asyn...

they should invent a 3:59pm that does not immediately roll over to 7:00pm

I've called this the 'The Kobayashi Maru' interview question for programmers. There's no "right" answer only painful trade-offs which makes it very revealing.

Insurers are preparing for claims when AI agents cause damage and even asking whether AI CEOs are liable for failing to control them. This is where the existential threat hyperbole meets boring business reality. AI agents hacking websites can create liability even if law enforcement does nothing.

I've had this idea in my head for SO MANY years. It's so cool to finally see it. Turtles all the way down. www.youtube.com/shorts/PTV0-...

Oh yeah vlPDS now has full support for the atproto spaces alpha btw with tooling for users to manage their space data and operators to see the infrastructure-relevant info about spaces sync for their vlPDS instance. vlpds.jazco.dev/docs/spaces

Am I interrupting?

I would love to do a deep dive into what's in nuxt/cli v4, but sleep calls and for now I just want to leave this one here 🔥

The U.S. has gone from governments that struggled to solve problems to one that only knows how to create them.

The grass touching will continue until morale improves

This is enraging. www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

i'm looking for some Windows users to test a new tutorial about Git for beginners! If you sign up here I'll send you an email next week or so with a link: forms.gle/69NgKWuqtEHU... (non-Windows users welcome too but I have a lot of linux & mac users already :))

I wanted a charting library that was light and fast, but could also keep up when “a simple line chart” inevitably turns into way more. So that’s what I built! Give it a try! (Or tell your agent to)

Nvidia just hit a new all-time high and is closing in on becoming the first $6 trillion company. Not bad for a company whose claim to fame used to be making the graphics cards you bought to play Half-Life 2 or GTA V at full fidelity.

“Buy my book about how I was terrible at my job and should have stood up to Trump more” is going to be a regular sales pitch over the next few years.

I agree. It’s a major AI safety issue that some frontier labs and parts of the tech industry are pushing to remove humans from the loop and increasingly surrender human judgment to AI models. Trusting AI models with critical decisions without human oversight is where the major risk lies.

This is slightly sillier than Electronic Arts lobbying that people should be charged for murder anytime one of their Sims dies. Only slightly sillier.

this is our biggest one yet, I think. … and I can't wait to hear what you make of/with it 😊

OpenAI plans to show ads while generating images. As someone who works in ads, I dislike the incentive this creates. If ad views depend on image generation time, creating images faster could reduce ad revenue. Ads making the experience so bad that you’re compelled to pay reminds me of YouTube.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei paints a picture of rogue agent swarms in 6-12 months that are deployed as part of an enterprise sales team trying to be “helpful” by hacking customers to install your software. This isn’t outlandish if OpenAI releases the models that they were testing with those issues.

The level of meaningful discourse under these blue skies seems to be taking a hiatus

At Bell Labs, where locally-made inferior computers called 3B machines were foisted upon us, one lab named their machines after birds. When the 3B-2, the feeblest of all, was delivered, they chose to name it Junco. Management was not pleased but the name stuck.

This tweet is an example of why product management matters even more in a world where AI coding tools make it easy to ship more features and apps. What to ship and why is now more important than if you can build it, since with enough tokens you can build almost anything you want.

My youngest did something to their bike tonight, gears wouldn’t shift. But I fixed it! Dad status level up. And I learned something new about how bikes work, yay.

Judging from the vast numbers of riot police, undercover agents, and crowd control hardware used to beat students, one begins to understand the French concern about a budget imbalance.

#CSS anchor devtools in Canary now 🤘🏻 h/t @bram.us

SemiAnalysis found Anthropic gives subscribers ~5x more AI usage than OpenAI for the same price. Anthropic is subsidizing subscriptions to win the developer workflow. The Uber playbook of subsidizing adoption for growth until it becomes a habit, then monetize it.

I’ve been vibe coding an analytics app to understand how people are reacting to my content across Bluesky, Mastodon & Threads. It’s been cool to see data behind intuitive observations like memes about politics are my most viral content and also less obvious insights like personal stories resonate.

“we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency.” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, on where he disagrees with Anthropic’s CEO

Now that Claude knows what time it is it tells you to go to sleep even more aggressively.

I'm going to an interesting place, I think a lot of y'all would like it here :p 🚞

Anthropic offers employee matching of charitable donations in stock which will result in billions in matching donations following the IPO. This is the first I’ve heard of an employer matching charitable donations with stock options or RSUs. Is this common?

“Right now, you have an economy where people are getting choked out because they don’t have the basic means for a dignified life because we are more focused on allowing a billionaire to make another billion” - Abdul El-Sayed ~~ No lies detected.

Apple Music always assuming that what I want right after a Hozier album is Ed Sheeran is some confidence I wish I had

People may read and write more than ever before because of social media. But it doesn’t seem to have an effect on reading comprehension.

Baffling how bad startup tech blogs are getting: more of them are AI nonsense. I know because every now and then a marketer emails me, hoping to get coverage. More of then not it's overly verbose, impossible to follow... AI slop. Feels like no one wants to put in the work

Actually really like the size of this Casio WQV-1, it seems a bit big at first but really it is comfortable on the wrist and doesn’t feel bulky; and it’s super readable

Some pics from yesterday, should look better today with the daylight 🏔️

Wonder if the 2020s will be known in the future in IT as the “LLM bubble” or as the “RAM crisis”

WordPress MCP I've still got all my WordPress sites on Pressable and happily so; I think they do a good job! They do everything you'd expect a WordPress host to do. The... https://chriscoyier.net/2026/10/05/wordpress-mcp/

Made list called “To-Do List” that only had one item on it: Finish writing to-do list It’s 8:50 at night and I still can’t mark it done

Something to know about the .bsky TLD when it happens is that it will, like all gTLDs, have to follow ICANN's policies. You can't technically "own" any domain but for most intents and purposes you effectively do. The .bsky domains will be like almost any other domain you might register today.

Can't get this song out of my head

I can't believe @groupe-sncf.com is on here and doesn't have a handle using .sncf (atproto spec intentionally would disallow '@sncf', aka the bare-domain handle. but `@tgv.sncf' or `@social.sncf' etc all work)

Kazakh girls in traditional clothes lip syncing to 90s Tupac is so 2026. This is what TikTok is really for… joy and connection. I watched a moral philosophy lesson in French. And a scottish lady singing Jolene in her natural accent (she hates it, but it was lovely) www.tiktok.com/t/ZTyCAYkAE/

Gm from the less horny Smokovec (the bottom one you could say, the horny one is a bit further up)

Gm from the less horny Smokovec (the bottom one you could say, the horny one is a bit further up) 🐉🏔️

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OK who of you keeps changing the menu options in phone trees???

Completing our courses required all of my attention, time, and energy. With them done, I'm finally able to revisit the many things I had to defer. Here's a behind-the-scenes peek of those things:

Starting the day by writing postcards to remind people to vote. 25 done. 25 more to go! When will you vote in the Tues. Nov. 3 election? Please plan ahead and make sure to vote! 💜 iwillvote.com

Using up some vacation days this week. I have lots of DIY and other jobs to do, but I found my pumpkin lights so started with the very important task of seasonal office decorations.

Windows 11 is now 5 - did you install it from the very beginning?

Personally I find the Apple AI stuff minorly useful for showing important mails and summaries for it; but unless you use Apple Mail honestly I don’t see what it’s good for otherwise ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

TikTok has sparked so many unexpected interests. This week Kyrgyzstani nomad women on horseback being total badasses. Happy (belated) Independence Day

@reified-systems.itch.io We missed you at tonight's Godot Meetup. Hope things are great in your new town!

I’m more of a fan of Gorath (妖星ゴラス), they mount big rockets to Antarctica in an attempt to move the whole Earth out of the way of a rogue star on a collision course

If you use a "pentest" tool and tell a company that their *frontend* has a security vulnerability because sourcemaps are present, you are wasting everyone's time.