Laura
@ludwinas.bsky.social
software engineer (clojure!) ✨ she/they ✨ small, buff and slightly offensive
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okay grandpa, let's get you to bed
October 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
okay grandpa, let's get you to bed
something something Zero History's The Ugly T-shirt has a seahorse emoji on it
Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
Investigating the seahorse emoji doom loop using logitlens.
vgel.me
October 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
something something Zero History's The Ugly T-shirt has a seahorse emoji on it
July 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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I'd like people to stop using the term alignment (as in aligning AI with human values). it's just vacuous. human value is infinite & culture, history, ideology & context dependent & not something you can entirely quantify & automate either
If you could fix one☝🏻 piece of terminology in your field, what would it be?
I’ll go first👇🏻(replying to myself like it’s normal)
I’ll go first👇🏻(replying to myself like it’s normal)
December 10, 2024 at 4:01 PM
I'd like people to stop using the term alignment (as in aligning AI with human values). it's just vacuous. human value is infinite & culture, history, ideology & context dependent & not something you can entirely quantify & automate either
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My experience in experimenting with LLM coding so far:
Me: Write code that frobnicates
LLM: Sure here is non-functioningXYZ.code!
Me: That doesn’t work because of XYZ
LLM: Sorry here’s non-functioningABC.code!
Me: Now that’s broken because of ABC
LLM: My bad here is non-functioningXYZ.code!
Me: Write code that frobnicates
LLM: Sure here is non-functioningXYZ.code!
Me: That doesn’t work because of XYZ
LLM: Sorry here’s non-functioningABC.code!
Me: Now that’s broken because of ABC
LLM: My bad here is non-functioningXYZ.code!
December 10, 2024 at 12:45 PM
My experience in experimenting with LLM coding so far:
Me: Write code that frobnicates
LLM: Sure here is non-functioningXYZ.code!
Me: That doesn’t work because of XYZ
LLM: Sorry here’s non-functioningABC.code!
Me: Now that’s broken because of ABC
LLM: My bad here is non-functioningXYZ.code!
Me: Write code that frobnicates
LLM: Sure here is non-functioningXYZ.code!
Me: That doesn’t work because of XYZ
LLM: Sorry here’s non-functioningABC.code!
Me: Now that’s broken because of ABC
LLM: My bad here is non-functioningXYZ.code!
That’s one poorly aged tweet huh
November 23, 2023 at 9:27 AM
That’s one poorly aged tweet huh
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one of the biggest things about finding a partner is they absolutely must be the same level of hater as you. you cannot have a mixed vibes relationship
November 23, 2023 at 4:56 AM
one of the biggest things about finding a partner is they absolutely must be the same level of hater as you. you cannot have a mixed vibes relationship
this hit a little too hard
apropos some other conversations on the skyline: I think a lot about how long it took me to pursue an ADHD diagnosis, despite having basically self-diagnosed in my early 20s.
I didn't think any prescriber would believe me. Why? (1/?)
I didn't think any prescriber would believe me. Why? (1/?)
November 11, 2023 at 10:05 PM
this hit a little too hard
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Every time I click a news article only to be hit by a paywall I think about how every conspiracy website is absolutely free to read.
November 5, 2023 at 1:57 AM
Every time I click a news article only to be hit by a paywall I think about how every conspiracy website is absolutely free to read.
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That awful moment when you fix something fundamental and years of ugly workarounds are laid bare, squinting back at you in the headlights.
November 2, 2023 at 6:44 PM
That awful moment when you fix something fundamental and years of ugly workarounds are laid bare, squinting back at you in the headlights.
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Yes, and also, some things are NOT complicated, morally, ethically or legally, but the contexts in which they exist are so massively clusterfucked that any statement of that not complicated value can be challenged by both sincere and insincere alike, for different reasons, but with the same result.
I've been of this opinion for quite some few years myself, but phrased a bit differently:
The more you know, the higher the odds that the answer for any given question on any given topic begins with "Well, it's complicated..."
The more you know, the higher the odds that the answer for any given question on any given topic begins with "Well, it's complicated..."
November 1, 2023 at 9:58 PM
Yes, and also, some things are NOT complicated, morally, ethically or legally, but the contexts in which they exist are so massively clusterfucked that any statement of that not complicated value can be challenged by both sincere and insincere alike, for different reasons, but with the same result.
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What are you running from, Henry? What, or who, are you running to, Henry?
Who is your Delilah, Henry?
How close is your fire, Henry?
Who is your Delilah, Henry?
How close is your fire, Henry?
October 31, 2023 at 3:36 AM
What are you running from, Henry? What, or who, are you running to, Henry?
Who is your Delilah, Henry?
How close is your fire, Henry?
Who is your Delilah, Henry?
How close is your fire, Henry?
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Find yourself writing this and think "God, this isn't even for my extremely wizard-centric day job."
October 31, 2023 at 5:07 AM
Find yourself writing this and think "God, this isn't even for my extremely wizard-centric day job."
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Please welcome the Speaker of the Mojo Dojo Casa House of Representatives
October 4, 2023 at 2:27 AM
Please welcome the Speaker of the Mojo Dojo Casa House of Representatives
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What I miss about covid lockdown times is the fantasy that some aspects of society would come from it changed for the better, or that we would learn anything at all.
September 30, 2023 at 3:04 PM
What I miss about covid lockdown times is the fantasy that some aspects of society would come from it changed for the better, or that we would learn anything at all.
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you had an invisible hand and you decided to use it for economics?
September 14, 2023 at 8:48 PM
you had an invisible hand and you decided to use it for economics?
Wait until y’all hear about Amerigo Vespucci
So is the District of Columbia! And British Columbia! And then there's that whole country in South America
September 14, 2023 at 4:36 PM
Wait until y’all hear about Amerigo Vespucci
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Saw someone refer to "websites from the 1900s" and I took 1d4 psychic damage
September 14, 2023 at 8:49 AM
Saw someone refer to "websites from the 1900s" and I took 1d4 psychic damage
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Once again writing notes for a cat sitter and thinking this could be a genre of its own. Highlights include: "Sometimes Pavel likes to walk around and scream for a while after breakfast. Don't worry, nothing is wrong."
September 13, 2023 at 5:48 PM
Once again writing notes for a cat sitter and thinking this could be a genre of its own. Highlights include: "Sometimes Pavel likes to walk around and scream for a while after breakfast. Don't worry, nothing is wrong."
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A friend showed me this and I am going to need all of you to see it
September 8, 2023 at 4:09 PM
A friend showed me this and I am going to need all of you to see it