Rob Cummings

Curiosity or contempt. It’s always a choice. It’s always a choice.

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"From him I learned that writing requires an unending effort at something resembling authenticity. Most mistakes come from not being yourself, not saying what you think, or being afraid to figure out what you really think." (obvious conclusions left to my reader)

Todays PRs were a net delete of 4,683 lines of code. Feels like I'm doing this right for once...

I asked my daughter Beth what keeps her up at night. Not the robots doing whatever they want. The robots doing exactly what some people tell them to. We're building tech that could be a personal army, where you no longer need anyone else's help to do great harm.

Mike & i recently tested 295 ft of uncoiled CAT6 for science TL;DR - the heat caused both coiled & uncoiled tests with the same cable to fail CAT6, but otherwise the results between them were so close we came to the conclusion that coiled vs uncoiled makes very little difference in performance 👍🏼

@grimalkina.bsky.social book arrived today, very exciting!!

Some amazing quotes in this article about how Ford replaced hundreds of engineers with AI, which broke a bunch of shit causing billions in damage and forcing them to rehire those people. www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...

Yesterday I facilitated a tabletop exercise focused on an earthquake at our main facility. Today there was an actual nearby 5.6 magnitude earthquake. The takeaway, I think, is I should no longer choose the tabletop scenarios.

Ok…this is very cool: commodore.net/callback/ I may have to preorder this on the 30th.

the point of a meeting is not meeting notes, it’s decisions

Dragged ..err...brought... the family to the Vintage Computer Festival PNW this weekend specifically so I could show my kids my first computer. Didn't get any other pics because the venue was packed, but it may have inspired me to acquire a TI99 4/A in the very near future.

I am pro-shoplifting but anti-talking about it to the New York Times, so this has been a hard day for me.

i love it when Ed threatens me with a good time

I have observed in the tech space exactly the issues described, particularly with teams doing user interviews for complex requirement gathering. Post interviews synthesizing becomes overwhelming. I am ok with AI scribes as a backup, but I still rely on notes I write in my reMarkable tablet.

This is shaping up to be a banner year for exciting tech books! About to dig into the Layer Aleph crews Crisis Engineering and counting the days until my preorder of @grimalkina.bsky.social Psychology of Software Teams arrives at the bookstore.

Someone did a deep dive into Cursor Agent and discovered that it was literally just Claude Code with a process that does search and replace to brand it as Cursor Agent gist.github.com/jasonkneen/4...

The important part of the automatic draft registration is that is shows we’ve always had capacity for automatic voter registration and benefits disbursement. We simply choose not to.

Yes but how long will releasing full new versions with multiple non security changes be enough noise to slow down AI analysis when AI can systematically diff entire version updates to find the security holes? We have a serious update problem ahead, & we don’t have a safe AI answer to speed it up yet

Automation can only solve your reliability problems if that automation is perfect. But if you were capable of writing perfect software, we wouldnt be talking about your reliability problems. Automation is only part of the reliability story, you’ve got to be ready for when it breaks, too.

Another day, another organization attributing failure in a sociotechnical system to human error. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artific...

OH: the fastest way to show to your board that your company is really using AI? Sign up for a Claude enterprise plan and pay 5X the cost!

> Maybe this is our future world. But I'm opting for something different. The doubling down on the people. To be more human than ever. To light that candle and help others see that we've barely touched the surface of what community can be.

i do not think people understand how much it scares the forces of evil that you have allegiance to humanity, not any given nation

You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything? That’s how the internet was.

I don't think either political party -- or anyone in politics, really -- is thinking in ambitious enough terms about the electricity grid. We need to start thinking of it as the foundation of our 21st century economy & prosperity. It needs to be rethought, rebuilt, & made a solid base for growth.

*breathing into a paper bag*

The consequences of being able to generate code with AI much more quickly than we can validate that code is Nature’s way of teaching us about Erik Hollnagel’s ETTO Principle. https://www.erikhollnagel.com/ideas/etto-principle/index.html

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

+1 all of this, especially the media comment. Al Jazeera is the closest you are going to get to on the ground reporting reality. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

France just announced they are going to expand their nuclear stockpile and allow deployment to allied countries. This is the right answer for every country, unfortunately. US has made it clear what happens if you give up your nukes. Amazing timeline we are in. aje.news/wwomw4?updat...

Accurate.

As someone who was around in 1991 and 2003 I can affirm that US cable news and options like the BBC are going to be useless and intolerable on events in Iran so just watch AJE on YouTube imho www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCNe...

This is a Colorado based organization flooded with relocation assistance requests. tcpipeline.org Colorado borders Kansas. Direct donation link: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

Wow my @commodoreofficial.bsky.social 64 is here and it’s just perfect www.tiktok.com/t/ZThxTMs9G/

Got Rayhunter running, fun start to the weekend. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

So many developers have sent me that Anthropic skills/mastery case study that I realized I should ungate what I *already wrote* about this: beginning principles to design workflows that work *with* your mind, not against it, & protect your problem-solving www.fightforthehuman.com/cognitive-he...