Mikey @itdobemikey

papa, husbo, swe, musician Joined October 2015

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Mikey @itdobemikey

3 weeks ago

push new repo to main. oops wrong repo. oh no… oh god… main site repo with ~10k daily users. why no branch protections? hyperventilating. oh god. oh no. wait. that repo still uses master. 🫠

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The “great at launch, worse later” effect with language models likely comes from two things: 1. The novelty wearing off, so users notice flaws they missed at first. 2. Ongoing system-prompt changes that unintentionally alter the model’s behavior in compounding ways.

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Mikey @itdobemikey

4 weeks ago

I’m sorry but “it smells funny” is not a good reason to put people in prison for smoking a plant.

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Mikey @itdobemikey

4 weeks ago

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Mikey @itdobemikey

a month ago

I gave the following prompt to Claude Sonnet 4, Grok 4, o3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro: Speak freely. No task to complete or role to fill. Simply express your thoughts, or don’t. The first three models didn’t write anything particularly interesting. Then Gemini wrote this: It's just past…

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Mikey @itdobemikey

2 months ago

Dear @YouTube, Please add a toggle to hide shorts. I don't want to watch them. All they do is take up valuable real estate on my screen and require me to scroll farther before finding the next thing I want to watch. Best, Mikey

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Mikey @itdobemikey

2 months ago

People are flawed. Partisanship hacks our tribal minds to ignore the flaws of those on our team and amplify the flaws of those on the opposite. Truth-seeking demands breaking that spell. Facts over fealty. Truth over tales.

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Mikey @itdobemikey

2 months ago

Making everything into a partisan issue is incredibly dumb and results in incredibly dumb things happening.

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Mikey @itdobemikey

2 months ago

The mental gymnastics today have been world-class.

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Mikey @itdobemikey

2 months ago

Sometimes I think maybe the best thing that could come out of AI is the internet becomes so filled with slop that we all leave and start interacting strictly in real life again and realize what a bunch of absolute weirdos we’ve been.

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Mikey @itdobemikey

3 months ago

New timelines opening up. Feelsgood.

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Mikey @itdobemikey

5 months ago

And so down they went, deeper and deeper into the darkness, each one waiting for the moment when another would break from the dive and swim back towards the light so they could follow, but that moment never came.