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Present: https://nitter.cf/t.co/5radCJsI4z. Past: Chief Digital Officer & Founder of MA Digital Service, @Whitehouse44. LinkedIn: https://nitter.cf/t.co/XUsgB5Imys RT ≠ +

Boston, MA
Joined April 2009
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I re-ran an experiment @colin_fraser ran against GPT-4o a while back to see how good it was at adding long numbers, only this time I tried Qwen 3.8 27B running locally in both reasoning and non-reasoning modes simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/4…
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Every developer needs an AI shed: An always-on machine running on their tailscale network where the majority of their herdr agents are running.
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Oh my god, Firebase’s SDK started to crash ALL iOS apps that were using it, for ALL sessions, just like that, no way for any of these apps to do anything… How amateur is all of this from any SDK, but especially one from a company with as high of an engineering bar like Google…
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Bury your head in the ground at your own risk. I aim to not jump on any hype trains, but since Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.2 + the harnesses it was clear that these things can write code nearly as good as I can in my best language; better in other languages. But we won't see non-devs push production code for a long time; possibly forever, if you ask me. Software still needs to be built in robust ways, and it's our profession to do this well, and use the new tools we have, which create new and interesting (+tough!) challenges
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The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and knowledge
Replying to @GergelyOrosz
Bury your head in the ground at your own risk. I aim to not jump on any hype trains, but since Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.2 + the harnesses it was clear that these things can write code nearly as good as I can in my best language; better in other languages. But we won't see non-devs push production code for a long time; possibly forever, if you ask me. Software still needs to be built in robust ways, and it's our profession to do this well, and use the new tools we have, which create new and interesting (+tough!) challenges
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Bryan Hirsch retweeted
Omarchy is a perfect fit for the iPad, because tiling already makes the most sense. What an awesome setup!
Replying to @seekinggradient
Okay, here's what I've been working on: Cloud Window 🙂 getcloudwindow.com After the last demo, a bunch of you asked how to try it. I've been making the setup easier, and the first DIY release is now available. An Omarchy desktop in your own AWS account, streamed to your iPad, phone, or laptop. Same files, same apps, same session. I really love using this on the iPad. Here's a look at the experience, with the setup walkthrough below.
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In 1997, a developer publicly told Steve Jobs he had no idea what he was talking about. Jobs paused and answered with the most important business lesson ever delivered under pressure. Bookmark & watch today, no matter what.
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Here's a Blender model of a Pluribus themed Fabergé egg I had GPT-6 Astra build - I generated the concept image using ChatGPT Images 2.5, then pasted the image into Codex and told Astra to turn that into a Blender file Details here: simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/9…
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Ghostty (and libghostty!) now has a 100% complete implementation of the Kitty Graphics Protocol. We support every feature, every option. We are the first terminal beyond Kitty to do this. Most terminals stop at basic image placements, then give up on the long tail of other features. Ghostty covers all of them: - Unicode placeholders (so it works in tmux) - Relative placements (so images can be positioned relative to other images) - Animation - Scroll region handling (so images scroll properly with terminal scroll regions) - All transport mediums: shared memory, temp files, etc. - etc... All of these features don't impact steady-state use (CPU or memory, besides raw code size). And for libghostty consumers, you can use the compile-time features flags to disable them completely. I read the spec myself a hundred times. I read Kitty's source code to validate behaviors (our implementation is markedly different, so no GPL violation). I also utilized agents, primarily for validation. I spun Fable and Sol in a loop for 3 weeks (pausing only when their dedicated subs exhausted limits) with a prompt to find mismatches between the spec, Kitty's reference implementation, and Ghostty. And now we're done. Ghostty is the most compliant Kitty Graphics implementation (ignoring Kitty itself of course). And, this is all in libghostty, so now everyone can be perfectly compliant.
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I had Claude Code for web experiment with smolvm as a code execution sandbox Fable 5 spotted that its environment couldn't run that (no /dev/kvm)... so, without asking me first, it wrote a GitHub Actions workflow to run the experiments and pushed that directly to GitHub instead!
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PSA: If you are tired of Claude-lish or Chat-lish, tell your AI to read the Google Developer Docs Style Guide and build a skill that follows it It’s like magic. Suddenly your AI will make sense again! I’ve tried both and this is much better than the ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English skill And friends at the labs: please invest more in AI comms skills! A brilliant agentic AI that cannot speak English is dramatically less useful and undermines the utility of RLVR developers.google.com/style
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Really rough day for folks at @github :(
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It might be more dangerous than it’s ever been previously to be incurious right now.
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I try not to get excited about models before they've been released, but I gotta admit I'm very much looking forward to the upcoming laptop-sized Qwen 3.8 models
Replying to @ddalcu
We promise this 27B comes with a whole new level of capability!
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I fucking love the new batch version of /grill-me Makes smashing through easy questions so much faster
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Claude is a game changer for enjoying free summer Shakespeare! I had @claudeai create this primer before taking my wife to see Midsummer Night’s Dream by @commshakes. Wow! What a different experience it is to have context and understand what’s going on! bryanhirsch.github.io/primer…
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We removed ~80% of the Claude Code system prompt for our newest models, this is what we've learned about writing system prompts, skills and Claude.MDs for them.
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I think loops were a short-lived patch for models that couldn't reliably keep working on long problems until they hit a defined goal Fable and GPT-5.6 (and probably Kimi K3 as well) can just do that out of the box, unassisted
I think loops are bullshit
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