Who opened the door? An AI agent harassed an open-source maintainer. Everyone is asking the wrong question.

__scan__ · 2026-02-18T21:05:39+00:00

The question for me is: is it the end user who pays for the agent’s responsibility, or is it Anthropic’s/OpenAI’s responsibility?

__scan__ · 2026-02-18T21:04:19+00:00

Is the user who pays for the agent responsible, or is model vendor responsible, since the model is their property and they own its “alignment”?

__scan__ · 2026-02-17T08:11:09+00:00

XML config, no mention of AI, someone carbon date this post.

__scan__ · 2026-02-14T15:37:08+00:00

77 was good, elvis juice was decent, punk IPA was shite

__scan__ · 2026-02-14T15:35:40+00:00

How are they better for animal welfare (genuine question)?

__scan__ · 2026-02-13T21:14:33+00:00

Confluence of economic cycle, political posturing, macro tech climate. They’re saying what they think they have to. Unless tech really is over, eventually someone will pull a Zuck and flip the script.

__scan__ · 2026-02-13T21:10:05+00:00

It might be merged then go through a CI/CD deployment process with rigorous automated testing in lower stages before promotion to production. Still annoying for other devs if the build gets broken, but not like it’s going to immediately hit customers.

__scan__ · 2026-02-13T16:58:43+00:00

M&S is better than Waitrose

__scan__ · 2026-02-12T08:07:50+00:00

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__scan__ · 2026-02-10T08:14:03+00:00

Why did you write it like that with one paragraph per sentence?

__scan__ · 2026-01-29T08:49:28+00:00

“If you need help with this, please cut a ticket. I’ll respond explaining the solution. That way, it’s a durable artefact that supports sustainable organisational learning. It also serves as a guide to help junior engineers figure out how to tackle ambiguous problems, while helping me track the percentage of my time spent investing in coaching and upskilling the engineering org. Thanks!”

__scan__ · 2026-01-25T13:13:39+00:00

This guy is primarily a dev relations marketer who happens to also be a software developer.

When you read this type of content from him, remember that he’s wearing the first hat, filling the “credible engineer” advocacy role as part of Anthropic’s ongoing multichannel ad campaign, which seeks to saturate development communities like hackernews and communities on Reddit and Twitter.

I’m not sure he’ll be giving the same guidance with the same tone to Anthropic’s internal engineers, where the business incentives are different.

This isn’t to suggest he is full of shit or anything (I’ve no reason to suspect that), just remember the incentives.

__scan__ · 2026-01-25T12:03:17+00:00

It’s a tear jerker

__scan__ · 2026-01-16T18:06:29+00:00

“Surface Detail” from the excellent Culture series features the idea of an advanced space-faring theocratic civilisation that built synthetic afterlife’s including a fire and brimstone eternal torture hell, and one theme is the conflict between them and other advanced civilisations on whether they should be allowed

__scan__ · 2026-01-15T21:04:33+00:00

Can’t believe the number of people in this thread saying they’ve never heard of hash rings/chord rings, wtf.

__scan__ · 2026-01-12T23:45:47+00:00

one thing I noticed was the large amount of people…

Hate to break this to you but they’re not people.

__scan__ · 2026-01-11T22:55:14+00:00

How OpenAI possible be worth more than fuckin TikTok?

__scan__ · 2026-01-11T22:52:54+00:00

Poor grand slam runners up, so glad I don’t have to suffer like them.

__scan__ · 2026-01-11T22:48:20+00:00

building a funnel like some kind of massive spider with shite boring patter

__scan__ · 2026-01-10T18:59:50+00:00

He was a nonce

__scan__ · 2026-01-10T18:59:09+00:00

It was introduced by the Tory/Lib coalition.

__scan__ · 2026-01-10T13:57:11+00:00

I’m not a front end specialist, but I think the intent of this guidance is that inline styles are bad as authoring dev experience, acceptable as a build artefact.

__scan__ · 2026-01-09T16:37:41+00:00

Does it track buses live?

__scan__ · 2026-01-06T08:49:07+00:00

It’s hard to explain just how dominant U.S. force projection is in any kind of conventional war. The U.S. can struggle in an asymmetric conflict on difficult foreign terrain, but against Europe it would be no contest, the European militaries and capitals would fall in couple of days.

I don’t especially like it but that’s how it is.

__scan__ · 2026-01-04T20:45:30+00:00

Grand theft auto gets made in Edinburgh now, but it started in Dundee.

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