Nick Gideo
@engid.bsky.social
Obsessed with software. Married with children. Building music software (stay tuned). Looking for the bright side of the absurd.
brightsideofabsurd.com
brightsideofabsurd.com
ransom notes keep falling from your mouth
Ransom Notes Really Starting To Pile Up https://theonion.com/ransom-notes-really-starting-to-pile-up/
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
ransom notes keep falling from your mouth
November 3, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I've been on X a lot over the last year or so. it's where most of the discourse amongst AI folks seems to happen, and I want to keep up with that.
It's mostly fine; I block a lot of folks that are outright alt-right. But then there's a lot of subtle stuff from folks in tech. And then there's this
It's mostly fine; I block a lot of folks that are outright alt-right. But then there's a lot of subtle stuff from folks in tech. And then there's this
September 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I've been on X a lot over the last year or so. it's where most of the discourse amongst AI folks seems to happen, and I want to keep up with that.
It's mostly fine; I block a lot of folks that are outright alt-right. But then there's a lot of subtle stuff from folks in tech. And then there's this
It's mostly fine; I block a lot of folks that are outright alt-right. But then there's a lot of subtle stuff from folks in tech. And then there's this
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EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!!
reactormag.com/reading-rain...
reactormag.com/reading-rain...
Reading Rainbow Is Back, With Mychal the Librarian Hosting! - Reactor
The butterfly is back in the sky; can’t wait to fly twice as high.
reactormag.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!!
reactormag.com/reading-rain...
reactormag.com/reading-rain...
i don't know why i was compelled to request this from chatgpt but here you go @bcantrill.bsky.social . It even got the diet coke in there for accuracy.
September 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
i don't know why i was compelled to request this from chatgpt but here you go @bcantrill.bsky.social . It even got the diet coke in there for accuracy.
this is disappointing. I have admired DHH's work on Rails and his general engineering philosophies, but his essay "As I Remember London" is concerning.
September 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
this is disappointing. I have admired DHH's work on Rails and his general engineering philosophies, but his essay "As I Remember London" is concerning.
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hey y'all. as some of you may know, I have been unemployed for about 4 months
as the rejections keep coming over and over things start to get... scary
I hate doing this, but if you you wanted to throw a couple dollars my way or share this I would be forever grateful to you
paypal.me/superboinkmp3
as the rejections keep coming over and over things start to get... scary
I hate doing this, but if you you wanted to throw a couple dollars my way or share this I would be forever grateful to you
paypal.me/superboinkmp3
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September 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
hey y'all. as some of you may know, I have been unemployed for about 4 months
as the rejections keep coming over and over things start to get... scary
I hate doing this, but if you you wanted to throw a couple dollars my way or share this I would be forever grateful to you
paypal.me/superboinkmp3
as the rejections keep coming over and over things start to get... scary
I hate doing this, but if you you wanted to throw a couple dollars my way or share this I would be forever grateful to you
paypal.me/superboinkmp3
using coding agents is so exhilarating. you go from an idea to a working prototype in almost no time. the hard part is getting your specification right, but once you master how to do "dialog driven development" you feel like a fucking god.
September 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
using coding agents is so exhilarating. you go from an idea to a working prototype in almost no time. the hard part is getting your specification right, but once you master how to do "dialog driven development" you feel like a fucking god.
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I refuse to add Groyper to my personal lexicon by discovering what it means. I refuse it with all that values sanity within me.
This is NOT a call to inform me. I'm already dealing with the horror of finding out who Charlie Kirk was.
This is NOT a call to inform me. I'm already dealing with the horror of finding out who Charlie Kirk was.
September 13, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I refuse to add Groyper to my personal lexicon by discovering what it means. I refuse it with all that values sanity within me.
This is NOT a call to inform me. I'm already dealing with the horror of finding out who Charlie Kirk was.
This is NOT a call to inform me. I'm already dealing with the horror of finding out who Charlie Kirk was.
reading this makes me believe AI is going from an art to a science thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeati...
Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
Reproducibility is a bedrock of scientific progress. However, it’s remarkably difficult to get reproducible results out of large language models.
For example, you might observe that asking ChatGPT the...
thinkingmachines.ai
September 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
reading this makes me believe AI is going from an art to a science thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeati...
any mutuals going to Sync Conf? It'll be my first time visiting SF so I'm pretty excited!
September 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
any mutuals going to Sync Conf? It'll be my first time visiting SF so I'm pretty excited!
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Really frustrated to say that you really should read this and know your rights traveling into the US: www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
Know Your Rights | Enforcement at the Airport | ACLU
At the border, you are likely to encounter Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, and you may encounter Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents. HSI is part of U.S. Immigration and Custom...
www.aclu.org
August 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Really frustrated to say that you really should read this and know your rights traveling into the US: www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
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I started reading "Technically Radical: On the Unrecognized Potential of Tech Workers and Hackers" last night after a few people tipped me off to it, and it's really good so far! looking forward to finishing it
wedontagree.net/technically-...
wedontagree.net/technically-...
Technically Radical
Over 2024, we saw major tech investors and company owners overtly turn toward the right, overtly backing Donald Trump in his electoral campaign. This group of individuals, which commentators have take...
wedontagree.net
August 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I started reading "Technically Radical: On the Unrecognized Potential of Tech Workers and Hackers" last night after a few people tipped me off to it, and it's really good so far! looking forward to finishing it
wedontagree.net/technically-...
wedontagree.net/technically-...
DSL + LLM is the way to go
Perspective: stop embedding an LLM into your app when you really need a scripting engine. Consider a hybrid model
July 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
DSL + LLM is the way to go
The Discover feed feels a lot better on here. It used to be extremely political, but now it’s a nice mix
June 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The Discover feed feels a lot better on here. It used to be extremely political, but now it’s a nice mix
Is AI merging with Christianity?
June 5, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Is AI merging with Christianity?
There may be alpha in exfiltrating AI news/articles out of X.
AI Engineering Is Dead
bloop.ai/blog/ai-kill...
AI Engineering Is Dead
bloop.ai/blog/ai-kill...
bloop | AI Killed The AI Engineer
Tales from building a coding agent
bloop.ai
June 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
There may be alpha in exfiltrating AI news/articles out of X.
AI Engineering Is Dead
bloop.ai/blog/ai-kill...
AI Engineering Is Dead
bloop.ai/blog/ai-kill...
@steveklabnik.com brought up some ideas i've been thinking about, how LLMs today resemble early compilers, but also how undefined-behavior can lead to crazy outcomes, so i want to publish them even if it's a bit rambling. Better out than in, as they say..
brightsideofabsurd.com/posts/llms-a...
brightsideofabsurd.com/posts/llms-a...
LLMs Are Crazy Compilers
Long beards who craft systems level software often speak of Undefined Behavior, where if you break the rules of a language, and do things that the compiler assumes can never happen, you can elicit the...
brightsideofabsurd.com
June 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
@steveklabnik.com brought up some ideas i've been thinking about, how LLMs today resemble early compilers, but also how undefined-behavior can lead to crazy outcomes, so i want to publish them even if it's a bit rambling. Better out than in, as they say..
brightsideofabsurd.com/posts/llms-a...
brightsideofabsurd.com/posts/llms-a...
This was great; @steveklabnik.com is proving that you can be AI Maxxing without having to scroll on X all day, so that is inspiring
Perhaps unsurprisingly, @ahl.bsky.social and I are going to be joined by @steveklabnik.com today to talk about his disappointment in the AI discourse. Join us, 5p Pacific today! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...
June 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
This was great; @steveklabnik.com is proving that you can be AI Maxxing without having to scroll on X all day, so that is inspiring
tired: touch grass
wired: touch bass 🎸
wired: touch bass 🎸
May 31, 2025 at 6:05 PM
tired: touch grass
wired: touch bass 🎸
wired: touch bass 🎸
What’s your favorite gen-alpha slang? I think mine is “lock in, chat”
May 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
What’s your favorite gen-alpha slang? I think mine is “lock in, chat”
If anything pops the AI bubble it may be consumer rejection. It’s taking off like wildfire inside the tech industry, but most people aren’t nerds like us
Even if Duolingo is helping you as it once did me, deleting your account is the only correct move right now. The company posted record profits, but capitalist greed means they're killing jobs, lowering quality, and will be creating an increasingly inferior experience for increasingly higher prices.
I have completely deleted my Duolingo. I was informed by one of my kids that the company has removed most of its employees and 70% of the company is run by AI.
I urge everyone to delete their app.
I urge everyone to delete their app.
May 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
If anything pops the AI bubble it may be consumer rejection. It’s taking off like wildfire inside the tech industry, but most people aren’t nerds like us
I am once again asking you to get this awesome book, Building a Debugger, by @tartanllama.xyz
April 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I am once again asking you to get this awesome book, Building a Debugger, by @tartanllama.xyz