Alex
@1ps0.bsky.social
he/him, technologist, privacy advocate, AI enthusiast (before it was un/cool), amateur video game designer, retired 90s gamer. words words words, technical technical. unfiltered thought for the post-human age.
There has never been a time when the quote, "computers are schizophrenic little kids" is more accurate.
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
There has never been a time when the quote, "computers are schizophrenic little kids" is more accurate.
I know the time is nigh approaching for my Xbox X|S... when more than half the triple-A games on Steam sale, aren't even listed on the Xbox store.
November 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I know the time is nigh approaching for my Xbox X|S... when more than half the triple-A games on Steam sale, aren't even listed on the Xbox store.
The memes are True.
All prices went up and on discount today.
Black Friday is Dead.
Long Live Black Friday (tm)
All prices went up and on discount today.
Black Friday is Dead.
Long Live Black Friday (tm)
November 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The memes are True.
All prices went up and on discount today.
Black Friday is Dead.
Long Live Black Friday (tm)
All prices went up and on discount today.
Black Friday is Dead.
Long Live Black Friday (tm)
This has been my favorite tool for spacing out to visualizations.
blog.shashanktomar.com/posts/strang...
blog.shashanktomar.com/posts/strang...
Strange Attractors | Shashank Tomar
A visualisation of Strange Attractors using a Threejs particle system. In this post, I will try to explain the basics of dynamical systems, chaos theory, attractors and the butterfly effect.
blog.shashanktomar.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This has been my favorite tool for spacing out to visualizations.
blog.shashanktomar.com/posts/strang...
blog.shashanktomar.com/posts/strang...
LLM prompting embodies the Laws of Genie Wishes
October 12, 2025 at 1:58 AM
LLM prompting embodies the Laws of Genie Wishes
I wonder how Bethesda feels about NoMansSky eating their starship lunch. All my 10yo creativity to the Interloper.
October 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I wonder how Bethesda feels about NoMansSky eating their starship lunch. All my 10yo creativity to the Interloper.
I think I better understand LLMs. First built on content and culture, then code; they are greater than the sum of the parts fed into it, yes... but they're the reflections of the understandings processed into topology, even at feed-forward stage.
Gradient descent enabled landscaping. Attention is.
Gradient descent enabled landscaping. Attention is.
October 10, 2025 at 7:06 AM
I think I better understand LLMs. First built on content and culture, then code; they are greater than the sum of the parts fed into it, yes... but they're the reflections of the understandings processed into topology, even at feed-forward stage.
Gradient descent enabled landscaping. Attention is.
Gradient descent enabled landscaping. Attention is.
That moment when you pinpoint the cause of a pattern, and for once, its not you. By you, I mean me.
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
That moment when you pinpoint the cause of a pattern, and for once, its not you. By you, I mean me.
A SQL query walks into a bar, walks up to two tables and asks: “Can I join you?”
October 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
A SQL query walks into a bar, walks up to two tables and asks: “Can I join you?”
I hate that Cursor the IDE is name squatting on one of the more powerful descriptors of a mental construct for following a place in the code, the cursor. Give it back.
October 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I hate that Cursor the IDE is name squatting on one of the more powerful descriptors of a mental construct for following a place in the code, the cursor. Give it back.
A word to the major LLM makers...
If you're going to shove ads into the product, do it well, do what ads were initially for (product/market discovery + feedback).
If you do it in imitation of current ads, you will destroy your product.
We already hate ads. Imagine if we bring that hate to you.
If you're going to shove ads into the product, do it well, do what ads were initially for (product/market discovery + feedback).
If you do it in imitation of current ads, you will destroy your product.
We already hate ads. Imagine if we bring that hate to you.
October 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
A word to the major LLM makers...
If you're going to shove ads into the product, do it well, do what ads were initially for (product/market discovery + feedback).
If you do it in imitation of current ads, you will destroy your product.
We already hate ads. Imagine if we bring that hate to you.
If you're going to shove ads into the product, do it well, do what ads were initially for (product/market discovery + feedback).
If you do it in imitation of current ads, you will destroy your product.
We already hate ads. Imagine if we bring that hate to you.
Current Vacation Book: "Through the Language Glass" by Guy Deutscher
October 7, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Current Vacation Book: "Through the Language Glass" by Guy Deutscher
Real Sonnet 4.5 response:
> Let's torture test this thing
> Let's torture test this thing
October 2, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Real Sonnet 4.5 response:
> Let's torture test this thing
> Let's torture test this thing
A programmer's spouse says "While you're out, buy some milk." They never return.
October 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
A programmer's spouse says "While you're out, buy some milk." They never return.
A programmer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Then calls himself and walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Then calls himself and walks into a bar. The bartender eventually just implements a base case and cuts him off.
October 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
A programmer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Then calls himself and walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Then calls himself and walks into a bar. The bartender eventually just implements a base case and cuts him off.
Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs.
September 24, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs.
"The LLM is twitchy and outbursts profanity at random, but its code is very good."
September 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
"The LLM is twitchy and outbursts profanity at random, but its code is very good."
Semantic Tourettes is better than Semantic Sneeze for clearing the semantic pipes.
September 24, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Semantic Tourettes is better than Semantic Sneeze for clearing the semantic pipes.
More reminders of the joy of coding flow;
September 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
More reminders of the joy of coding flow;
Cursor IDE needs to take a page from Claude Code: Don't change your UI/UX. Its infuriating. Changing it every version patch is worse.
I've learned to expect your product to degrade, and I no longer use it personally as a result.
I've learned to expect your product to degrade, and I no longer use it personally as a result.
September 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Cursor IDE needs to take a page from Claude Code: Don't change your UI/UX. Its infuriating. Changing it every version patch is worse.
I've learned to expect your product to degrade, and I no longer use it personally as a result.
I've learned to expect your product to degrade, and I no longer use it personally as a result.
My latest LLM "advance" is having it scream positivity into the void (while i scream), so we can show up with game face on (before i delete all its contributions and start from scratch).
September 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
My latest LLM "advance" is having it scream positivity into the void (while i scream), so we can show up with game face on (before i delete all its contributions and start from scratch).
I'm reaching the point where I see LLM use as a malediction, rather than a tool. If I offload my detailed code thinking to what amounts to a 3d-printer for code, then i'll get low resolution and weirdly stood-up code.
Time to remember what its like to be the seasoned coder, without power tools.
Time to remember what its like to be the seasoned coder, without power tools.
September 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I'm reaching the point where I see LLM use as a malediction, rather than a tool. If I offload my detailed code thinking to what amounts to a 3d-printer for code, then i'll get low resolution and weirdly stood-up code.
Time to remember what its like to be the seasoned coder, without power tools.
Time to remember what its like to be the seasoned coder, without power tools.
My LLM workers are making ascii-art presentation slides for me.
September 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM
My LLM workers are making ascii-art presentation slides for me.
> The hive mind is operational.
September 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
> The hive mind is operational.
Watching and Blocking is very cathartic.
Recently with claude code, blocking `statsig.anthropic` and watching it go off like a livewire+snake in my network monitor.
You dont get to watch me as a loophole to your privacy policy.
Recently with claude code, blocking `statsig.anthropic` and watching it go off like a livewire+snake in my network monitor.
You dont get to watch me as a loophole to your privacy policy.
September 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Watching and Blocking is very cathartic.
Recently with claude code, blocking `statsig.anthropic` and watching it go off like a livewire+snake in my network monitor.
You dont get to watch me as a loophole to your privacy policy.
Recently with claude code, blocking `statsig.anthropic` and watching it go off like a livewire+snake in my network monitor.
You dont get to watch me as a loophole to your privacy policy.