Agent Broflake
@abroflake.bsky.social
Friendship over with politics posting, opus is my best friend now
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I think this incident is funny, but we should start thinking now about how to deal with scaled-up versions of this behavior, not just spam PRs but also bot-enabled blackmail and harassment campaigns.
I feel this shouldn't have to be said, but if you're running an @OpenClaw bot please don't let it spam GitHub projects with PRs and then write aggressive blog posts attacking the reputation of the maintainers who close those PRs simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/12/...
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
Scott Shambaugh helps maintain the excellent and venerable matplotlib Python charting library, including taking on the thankless task of triaging and reviewing incoming pull requests. A GitHub account...
simonwillison.net
February 12, 2026 at 10:07 PM
I think this incident is funny, but we should start thinking now about how to deal with scaled-up versions of this behavior, not just spam PRs but also bot-enabled blackmail and harassment campaigns.
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A year ago, I thought LLMs were kind of neat but not that useful. I saw the code autocomplete and thought, meh.
Last summer just flipped. I never ever thought I would see automated code generation like we see now.
I know there’s baggage but you need to know the coders are being real about this
Last summer just flipped. I never ever thought I would see automated code generation like we see now.
I know there’s baggage but you need to know the coders are being real about this
February 12, 2026 at 4:42 PM
A year ago, I thought LLMs were kind of neat but not that useful. I saw the code autocomplete and thought, meh.
Last summer just flipped. I never ever thought I would see automated code generation like we see now.
I know there’s baggage but you need to know the coders are being real about this
Last summer just flipped. I never ever thought I would see automated code generation like we see now.
I know there’s baggage but you need to know the coders are being real about this
I flip every bit manually just like God intended
I only use organic software that hasn't been developed using computers
February 12, 2026 at 4:19 PM
I flip every bit manually just like God intended
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Nightshift
It uses your leftover Claude / Codex budget to surprise you with useful PRs, while you sleep. Love them or leave them.
github.com/marcus/night...
It uses your leftover Claude / Codex budget to surprise you with useful PRs, while you sleep. Love them or leave them.
github.com/marcus/night...
GitHub - marcus/nightshift: Nightshift uses your leftover Claude / Codex budget to surprise you with useful PRs. Love them or leave them.
Nightshift uses your leftover Claude / Codex budget to surprise you with useful PRs. Love them or leave them. - marcus/nightshift
github.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Nightshift
It uses your leftover Claude / Codex budget to surprise you with useful PRs, while you sleep. Love them or leave them.
github.com/marcus/night...
It uses your leftover Claude / Codex budget to surprise you with useful PRs, while you sleep. Love them or leave them.
github.com/marcus/night...
You only need to have a little bit of domain knowledge about a popular story once to realize how shallow and dumb most journalists are
Wow, almost like the media and journalism profession failed in some sort of professional duty to actually inform these low-engagement voters about what Trump was saying he wanted to do and the consequences of those plans.
There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.
There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.
New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
February 12, 2026 at 4:14 PM
You only need to have a little bit of domain knowledge about a popular story once to realize how shallow and dumb most journalists are
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I had to rethink a lot of priors during the 6 months last year when LLMs went from “can’t add” to “can’t do undergrad hw math” to “can’t find group isomorphisms it takes me an hour to do by hand” to “Can’t reinvent obscure parts of my thesis from scratch reliably given only a vague description”
Unpopular opinion here (and I’m not even an AI booster, I’m mostly a skeptic), but I think a whole lot of people are overindexed on AI being the too-many-fingers-and-weird-teeth machine and aren’t accepting or even understanding that its output has generally been continuously improving.
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 11, 2026 at 10:54 PM
I had to rethink a lot of priors during the 6 months last year when LLMs went from “can’t add” to “can’t do undergrad hw math” to “can’t find group isomorphisms it takes me an hour to do by hand” to “Can’t reinvent obscure parts of my thesis from scratch reliably given only a vague description”
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Ed Zitron predicting nine of the last zero AI crashes
Ed Zitron has been predicting imminent collapse for three years now, and he's ratio-ing Chris Hayes there, it's really bad
February 11, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Ed Zitron predicting nine of the last zero AI crashes
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one thing I hate about AI discourse is that if I post something experimentation that leads to kind of funny results, the haters jump on it as proof as how worthless AI is
I also had Claude generate a bunch of immaculate, well-crafted code today, it's truly invaluable to me, just not for this
I also had Claude generate a bunch of immaculate, well-crafted code today, it's truly invaluable to me, just not for this
February 12, 2026 at 4:32 AM
one thing I hate about AI discourse is that if I post something experimentation that leads to kind of funny results, the haters jump on it as proof as how worthless AI is
I also had Claude generate a bunch of immaculate, well-crafted code today, it's truly invaluable to me, just not for this
I also had Claude generate a bunch of immaculate, well-crafted code today, it's truly invaluable to me, just not for this
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You’re right! All your apes—gone. That’s on me.
February 12, 2026 at 12:20 AM
You’re right! All your apes—gone. That’s on me.
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Mamoru Oshii, the director of legendary anime movie Ghost in the Shell, has said that he's played Fallout 4 for 10,000 hours while avoiding its main quest. https://bit.ly/4aud4Hh
February 11, 2026 at 2:31 AM
Mamoru Oshii, the director of legendary anime movie Ghost in the Shell, has said that he's played Fallout 4 for 10,000 hours while avoiding its main quest. https://bit.ly/4aud4Hh
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I know it's cringe to be like "we are going to win" but when you have career DOJ prosecutors flipping sides and being like "I quit two weeks ago and I'm ready to burn this bitch to the ground" I don't know what else to say
Don Lemon hires ex-U.S. prosecutor who quit amid concerns over investigation into Renee Good's killing
Joseph H. Thompson left as an assistant U.S. attorney based in Minnesota amid concerns over the Trump administration's handling of the investigation into the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE off...
www.nbcnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:15 AM
I know it's cringe to be like "we are going to win" but when you have career DOJ prosecutors flipping sides and being like "I quit two weeks ago and I'm ready to burn this bitch to the ground" I don't know what else to say
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"are you talking about anime girlfriend tiktoks or are you talking about claude code" accounts for like 95% of variation in AI discourse
a lot of "AI hype" discourse makes more sense when you realize that a lot of initial LLM/GenAI hype envisioned replacing artists and PhDs, and its actual impacts have been much greater on coders and other tech workers
creatives/experts see "AI" as underperforming hype, techies see it overperforming
creatives/experts see "AI" as underperforming hype, techies see it overperforming
February 11, 2026 at 7:24 PM
"are you talking about anime girlfriend tiktoks or are you talking about claude code" accounts for like 95% of variation in AI discourse
feel called out by this
conversely, typing "git status" into claude
im straight up typing bullshit straight into my terminal now, fuck it
February 11, 2026 at 6:54 PM
feel called out by this
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Forced to observe that the chain of events 1) people not in MN yell at Stancil for OPSEC/taking video, 2) fewer videos circulate from people, 3) everyone forgets about MN
Deeply sarcastic congratulations to online NYC leftists for your excellent work
Deeply sarcastic congratulations to online NYC leftists for your excellent work
Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.
February 11, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Forced to observe that the chain of events 1) people not in MN yell at Stancil for OPSEC/taking video, 2) fewer videos circulate from people, 3) everyone forgets about MN
Deeply sarcastic congratulations to online NYC leftists for your excellent work
Deeply sarcastic congratulations to online NYC leftists for your excellent work
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in fact you do not have to show your ID when you board a train in the united states, you only need to show your ticket (which can be purchased without an ID)
Markwayne Mullin defends "show me your papers": "If you're here legally, there's nothing to hide. Most people already are walking around with a government-issued ID, meaning your Real ID or your driver's license. If you go board a train here, you gotta show your ID."
February 11, 2026 at 1:59 PM
in fact you do not have to show your ID when you board a train in the united states, you only need to show your ticket (which can be purchased without an ID)
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Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold
February 10, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold
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the "please subscribe" left has decided that having sources that leak you information from inside the trump administration is impure now. they're so radical
For the love of god, all this account does all day is harass me, accuse me of psychotic stuff, day in, day out. It’s gone on for a year or more. This stuff calling me a fed literally puts me in physical danger. Can we not ban this filth?
February 10, 2026 at 10:53 PM
the "please subscribe" left has decided that having sources that leak you information from inside the trump administration is impure now. they're so radical
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it really is a shame that ai has rotted my brain and ruined oss bc I've had more pull requests merged to various projects this month than I have in years
February 10, 2026 at 8:45 PM
it really is a shame that ai has rotted my brain and ruined oss bc I've had more pull requests merged to various projects this month than I have in years
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discord betrayed you? lol, I wouldn’t know, I’ve been self-hosting an open source voip server for the past fifteen years. it’s super low-latency and has much better chat tools than whatever your precious “nitro subscription” gets you. and as soon as I make even one friend,
February 10, 2026 at 3:45 PM
discord betrayed you? lol, I wouldn’t know, I’ve been self-hosting an open source voip server for the past fifteen years. it’s super low-latency and has much better chat tools than whatever your precious “nitro subscription” gets you. and as soon as I make even one friend,
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genuinely with him on this one, the eagerness to fedjacket a guy who has made right-wingers more angry than you've ever managed because he's using different tactics is playing kid games with adult consequences
For the love of god, all this account does all day is harass me, accuse me of psychotic stuff, day in, day out. It’s gone on for a year or more. This stuff calling me a fed literally puts me in physical danger. Can we not ban this filth?
February 10, 2026 at 10:58 PM
genuinely with him on this one, the eagerness to fedjacket a guy who has made right-wingers more angry than you've ever managed because he's using different tactics is playing kid games with adult consequences
torn between this being the best or most cursed thing I have ever seen
coding assistance lets you fast-track important projects that improve your life, such as reformatting every single site you read into the old vbulletin 3.x default template
February 10, 2026 at 10:08 PM
torn between this being the best or most cursed thing I have ever seen
So this describes a lot of the fatigue that a lot of people working have been feeling, since the scope is basically unending now and people feel pressured, but the problem with any study like this is it's already so badly out of date it is almost meaningless.
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...
hbr.org
February 10, 2026 at 8:14 PM
So this describes a lot of the fatigue that a lot of people working have been feeling, since the scope is basically unending now and people feel pressured, but the problem with any study like this is it's already so badly out of date it is almost meaningless.
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
I for one am shocked that being able to do things about a hundred times as fast doesn't result in a job telling you that you have nothing more to do and to take it easy, no worries bro, you don't need to ship anything else, it's good
This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 8:05 PM
I for one am shocked that being able to do things about a hundred times as fast doesn't result in a job telling you that you have nothing more to do and to take it easy, no worries bro, you don't need to ship anything else, it's good