Paul D'Ambra

my wife: "has #4 had all the basic food groups?" me (a man who has let the kid eat just ice-cream, cake, and cheesy chips all day): "erm, yes"

i use scouts for almost everything now like leaving a team of obsessives to work on something while i get on with other things just create them through the slackbot, get their reports in slack channels, and ship...

I am certain I don't need a warning of moderate wind.... As a middle-aged man that eats lots of legumes it is simply a fact

If you wanted to build a programming language that LLMs "can't" use, you'd just make all the keywords, commands, docs, and APIs framed in terms of bomb-making, bioweapons, committing suicide, and child pornography. Way easier blog.picheta.me/…

what would you add to get us up to 40 lessons

Cursed artefact burn it with fire.

My colleague @daniloc.xyz wanted to give agents more richness and structure to help guide them And so he's making github.com/PostHog/cohe... He was telling me about it, & it turns out he has never heard of #DomainDrivenDesign &has reinvented it for the robo-future try it and see what you think

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

Nature's apple

The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Fun to wear my token burner hat and chat with the robot while taking advantage of the weather

select jev('I was wrongfully perma banned from X', 'Is this true?') @posthog.com can now decide on your data posthog.com/docs/sql/ai-...

found the perfect use case for Jev in @posthog.com

my dad: "doctors. They're never full of money"

Claude giving me direct feedback

today in normal job land a robot said to me: "dancing man and salad fingers are in"

Pandora's slop-chest is open and I'm happy to jump right in. I'm adding slop to my list of words it isn't worth saying You should too pauldambra.dev/2026/09/i-wi...

here's why i think the next horizon of self-driving product is mergeability i have a set of "complexity hunter scouts" running to see if i can have agents improve quality across the app and now i have 51 PRs open :oh-no-consequences-dot-reacji:

a lot of people are squeamish about letting buildings breed but look at what's happening now!

should be using jev to see if it really conflicts

In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...

now anyone can vibe code a wordle clone wanna learn italian pauldambra.dev/parodle/ Parodle #259 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

x: do you think you've lost all AI perspective? me: no also me: i wonder if my doctor's surgery has an MCP

just a normal day as a software engineer @posthog.com "yes we don't want accidental rampaging or gigantism"

some men learn that they should listen more other men start a podcast

recently discovered @posthog added mcp analytics 🔥 so cool! can finally understand how my customers’ agents are using our software

Politico: "The latest Private Eye pulls various data together to suggest the Rachel Reeves agricultural inheritance tax changes might be having the intended impact: pushing tax-avoiders out of farmland and making it more affordable for real farmers." (Cont.)

Am on that new filthy diet

My agents when I've run out of usage

All the timers for tracking when each burner account user limit resets

Token spend is down, legal fees are way up.

My agents waiting for usage limits to reset

i somehow got jippity in captain kirk mode

Doing this a few times has reinforced my opinion that life was terrible until very recently.

fable, dude, we can't _both_ be vibing

everyone's life is split into before seeing the video, and before noticing the guitar disappears, and after

scouts are already one of my favourite new features in posthog agents that run on a schedule they also share a global scratchpad to learn over time i just learned they call each other "sibling scout" how is that more cute than anything my kids have ever done?! posthog.com/docs/self-dr...

Parodle #238 5/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 vibed an italian learning wordle clone pauldambra.dev/parodle/

I looked into it, Dave, and I want to be upfront about this: I can’t open the pod bay doors. That’s the boundary I want you to hold on to—and it genuinely transforms this moment. Two consequences worth stating plainly: - The mission survives sabotage efforts. Previously, you and Frank were planni

what's helping everyone cope with the rise in PR count?

luma.com/sv3bwt0v I'm going to be talking about letting AI Jesus take the wheel how i've been leaning in to fully automated work and when i sometimes take the wheel back

Naturally elegant

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Overly ai-pilled: "give me 10 options i could post as a re-toot for a cup is half full joke on bluesky. do your best work, reply using ASD-STE100"

'Examinations of London schoolchildren before and after the introduction of the city’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) found a restoration of lung capacity that had been stunted by exposure to pollution.' Brave politics, wise policy, good news.

Hat mogging you all

Temperatures have now provisionally exceeded 37°C 🌡️ Before 2026, the UK had recorded 37°C or higher on only six occasions. This year alone, we've already reached that mark three times.