Andrew

Andrew

@aac.social

My debut EP "A Depression" is out April 10. Pre-save it here: https://aac.social/listen/a-depression/ More about me at aac.social.

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Andrew
@aac.social

"Startups are here to save the world", they repeat to themselves, as they genetically modify dogs, surveil society, manufacture weapons for wars of aggression, donate to fascists, kowtow to dictatorships, threaten mass casualty, etc. etc.

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CREW
@citizensforethics.org

Hear us out: The richest person in the world should not be allowed to dump hundreds of millions to affect the midterm elections. This is not a radical idea. We need campaign finance reform.

wired.comElon Musk Is Almost Single-Handedly Funding the Republican Midterms PushElon Musk has assembled a presidential-level field operation this midterm cycle, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the get-out-the-vote effort for the Republican party.

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Andrew Lawrence
@ndrew.bsky.social

every republican president destroys the economy and starts a war in the middle east

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social

Job creation numbers: "The blue columns point to Biden’s presidency, while the red columns point to Trump’s..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Andrew
@aac.social

What if we made a 90s era sitcom showing liberal and conservative neighbors finding out all the things they have in common? 90s TV could heal the world.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted)
@tylerfromtheinternet.com

According to too many, there is white and then there is political there is male and then there is political there is capitalism and then there is political there is straight and then there is political there is cis and then there is political there is non-disabled and then there is political

Andrew
@aac.social

You should prepare to be marching in the streets after the election, and you should expect that there will be authoritarian resistance to that action.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Andrew
@aac.social

Sorta odd at this point that the national emblem hasn't been changed from the bald eagle to the golden eagle. Sorta feels like that'd be fitting.

Andrew
@aac.social

AI stealing work from millennials.

Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social

An unexpectedly stress-reducing use of Codex/Code is just fixing problems with my various Windows machines: weird driver issues, game incompatibilities, even just tiny stuff that used to annoy me (why does the program that I set to run at startup not run at startup?). Hours saved. Annoying hours.

Andrew
@aac.social

Elon's face turning into Vader without the helmet

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

At one point she notes that AfD, the German political party that Musk supports, has "real neo-Nazis." Musk literally just shrugs.

Andrew
@aac.social

Releasing another tool from my workflow: reach. The piece that lets you get work done while you're away from your laptop. iMessage, email, push–no adapters needed. Your agent sets each channel up by talking with you, then routes by your rules. Free, open, Claude + Codex aac.social/posts/giving...

aac.socialGiving your agents reachreach is a skill that lets your agents contact you — iMessage, email, push, whatever you actually use — without shipping a single integration. Your agent sets up each channel itself, learns your routi...

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Rob Sheridan
@rob-sheridan.com

Meta is a staunchly anti-art, anti-artist company and has been showing you this for years with basically every product decision it has made with Instagram, and yet so many professional creative industries continue to rely on it. Spread the word on their latest attack on artists ⬇️

WIRED@wired.com

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content. www.wired.com/story/meta-n...

wired.comMeta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt OutAs part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.
Andrew
@aac.social

This is another reason why I think it would be interesting if games hardware froze for a while. If you're not dependent on selling new hardware - if you're just growing a unified install base - the economics of growth look different.

Tim Dawson@ironicaccount.bsky.social

the problem with the games industry is that it makes money in a sustainable way by creating stuff that people want to pay for this is in contrast to how big capital would prefer to make money, by trying to scale fake numbers to infinity using gambler brained investors lured in by impossible claims

Andrew
@aac.social

You could almost fantasize about a consortium of studios agreeing on a spec (or a set range-of-specs), and treating that as the universal platform. Doesn't require players to keep upgrading hardware. Supports a wider range of games because budgets can be approached differently.

Andrew
@aac.social

I wonder what it would be like if game hardware actually froze for an extended period – which isn't necessarily out of the question given AI's demand for compute and memory. If the hardware were locked for...a decade. How would that change resource allocation? What sort of games would get created?

Andrew
@aac.social

I know that not everyone following me is supportive of AI. I'm not here to be a cheerleader – there are broad societal issues that need addressing. For the work I've done and probably will continue to do, it's here to stay. When I post about it, I try be practical, and in line with my values.

Andrew
@aac.social

If you're still figuring out how to work with AI - if you feel a disconnect between how you use it and how others talk about it, or if you feel like you spend too much time babysitting and want more autonomy - try out these tools. They're lightweight (compared to other workflows) and impactful.

Andrew@aac.social

In my ideal AI workflow, I assign work and then walk away from the computer. I wrote up how two tools - a tracker for agent tasks, and an inbox for human tasks - are the foundation of how I work. They're not limited to coding work, either. aac.social/posts/two-tr...

aac.socialTwo trackers that keep work moving while I'm awayact is a durable, agent-first task tracker. ask is an inbox the agent fills with the things only I can do. Together — with surface and reach — they let me kick off work and leave, getting pulled back ...
Andrew
@aac.social

In my ideal AI workflow, I assign work and then walk away from the computer. I wrote up how two tools - a tracker for agent tasks, and an inbox for human tasks - are the foundation of how I work. They're not limited to coding work, either. aac.social/posts/two-tr...

aac.socialTwo trackers that keep work moving while I'm awayact is a durable, agent-first task tracker. ask is an inbox the agent fills with the things only I can do. Together — with surface and reach — they let me kick off work and leave, getting pulled back ...
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Andrew
@aac.social

I don't have an unlimited token budget. I pay for the Claude Max subscription, but I'm definitely not tokenmaxxing. These tools, combined with an orchestrator and some quota-management skills, allow me to utilize my subscription to the fullest, without squandering a bunch of tokens on wasted work.

Andrew
@aac.social

It's really easy to install act and ask. They're both plugins. They work in the CLI and desktop apps. Your agent will immediately know how to use them. Drop them into one of your projects.

Andrew
@aac.social

In my ideal AI workflow, I assign work and then walk away from the computer. I wrote up how two tools - a tracker for agent tasks, and an inbox for human tasks - are the foundation of how I work. They're not limited to coding work, either. aac.social/posts/two-tr...

aac.socialTwo trackers that keep work moving while I'm awayact is a durable, agent-first task tracker. ask is an inbox the agent fills with the things only I can do. Together — with surface and reach — they let me kick off work and leave, getting pulled back ...
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Andrew
@aac.social

Having agents iteratively pull tasks from the tracker, assign tasks to subagents, file new issues they encounter, allows work to flow autonomously. It also inherently supports dynamic workflows, e.g managing the design, review, iterate, plan, and execute stages of epics.

Andrew
@aac.social

The inbox means any work that isn't blocked on something that needs me can go ahead. When I get back to my computer (or back to that project), I can clear out the asks, unblocking any outstanding work, which can then proceed without me. The two tools together are the basis of an effective workflow.

Andrew
@aac.social

In my ideal AI workflow, I assign work and then walk away from the computer. I wrote up how two tools - a tracker for agent tasks, and an inbox for human tasks - are the foundation of how I work. They're not limited to coding work, either. aac.social/posts/two-tr...

aac.socialTwo trackers that keep work moving while I'm awayact is a durable, agent-first task tracker. ask is an inbox the agent fills with the things only I can do. Together — with surface and reach — they let me kick off work and leave, getting pulled back ...
Andrew
@aac.social

In short: a durable tracker makes it much easier for agents to work across multiple sessions, to coordinate with each other, and to create large, dynamic workflows. Inevitably, they hit something that they need a human (or another agent with different permissions) to do. Thus, the inbox.

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Ethan Mollick
@emollick.bsky.social

It is weird that there is still a substantial set of people who believe "AI is mostly hype" at this stage: Five Eyes is warning about AI, exponential revenue & token use at the AI labs, unit distance/Erdos proofs, and so on... There are many real issues with AI, not being real is not one of them.

Andrew
@aac.social

Frankly if all of our monuments started oozing slime it would feel no less heavy-handed than any of the other plot points from the last decade.

Dmitry Grozoubinski@explaintrade.com

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

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Tycho (or Omin, or Jamison, or Stavrenn, or...)
@cwtycho.penny-arcade.com

As I have suggested previously, the issue is that we are commingling a host of unique technologies under this "AI" banner and it's made it impossible to discuss.

TangentFoxOfficial@tangentfoxofficial.bsky.social

I find the obsession with saying no AI was used in something weird. AI has been used in core libraries and operating systems for years now, so the only way to *actually* say that is to be using outdated tools. No one seems to acknowledge this.