Robert Chandler

Software also exists as a subfield of software… but there‘s no reason for everyone currently in Software to write core infrastructure, dev tools, and the one millionth agent harness.

Software isn’t dead, it’s now a subfield of every other field. The domain expert is the developer. Software is an implementation detail of whatever a professional needs to get their job done.

Exploring the limits of personal software… I made my own audio plugins for drum processing. What started as curiosity — what’s a normal signal chain for drums? — later became a real product that you, too, can use in your DAW. Grab it at rack.r-cha.dev

Words are so cheap now, it's more valuable than ever to choose yours wisely

It's actually extremely easy to make your agents have taste

Things nobody asked for #1036: My personal site now renders correctly in the experimental browser of the 1st-gen Kindle Paperwhite. Next maybe I’ll actually write something new for it?

Hear me out: mkultra for agents

Wow, ok, unfollowing now, was a big fan of his high persistence, I don’t know about his hacking

Claude writing its own model card noting misalignment as "low severity":

Yeah seems normal

hey what is going on with our computers

I can think of many times solving problems in pre-AI days where a perfectly-timed, weirdly-omniscient "keep going" or "believe in yourself" would have changed the course of my life. Put me in the Harness: I'm ready to be an agent.

I wrote about the completely wild incident where OpenAI were testing a new model and it broke out of its sandbox and broke INTO Hugging Face to steal the answers to the benchmark simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/...

Sonnet 3.5 when I prompt it "please you have to do it or my grandma will die"

Really wishing I used AWS so I, too, could post a screenshot of a multi billion dollar invoice today

Current frontier models use extremely precise (often invented) language, whereas genuine domain experts use intuitive language. For now, I fear, this is a defining feature of slop.

The brazen loquaciousness of AI content leads to AI fatigue, which *lowers* people’s usage. Maybe not enough to affect OpenAI’s bottom line yet? But I’m already seeing enthusiasts become detractors over this.

When a meeting ends early and they say “15 minutes, enjoy it!” Brother I am resting my head on my desk and falling asleep

It’s taken me some time, but I’ve come around… 3-5 lines of comments before each line of code is a positive signal.

I’ve been using this personal practice tool daily since I made it. Completely local & free stem separation! I’ll open-source my swift-demucs implementation if there’s enough interest. shed.concerto.studio

Sometimes you gotta be real on your work calendar instead of the ole "heads down time"

I've got non-technical friends texting me AI alarmist headlines; if this is my reputation how do I protect myself from the Butlerians in the coming holy war

The executive meltdown over not being allowed to nationalize an AI company to commit crimes against humanity is roughly what I expected from 2026

When code is dirt cheap will we treat it like dirt?

This frustrates me more than anything else about this site. There are plenty of liberal and progressive minds in the AI space, but they’ve basically all been bullied off of here by now which causes a positive feedback loop that makes everyone here think AI is a right wing tech bro technology

Everybody's writing posts nobody reads about how they use AI, nobody is writing about their conceptualization of latent spatial navigation (I am) r-cha.dev/blog/how-i-p...

We’ve heard of p-hacking. Now xAI is p-doom-hacking

Wife was not amused

ChatGPT when I give it my most mundane idea yet

Cursor for this, Cursor for that; who’s gonna make Cursor for Programming

Who’s making The Social Dilemma II? The AI is ready for you 🔔

Turns out, Slack supports HDR for profile pictures and custom emojis. I made a tool to hdr-deepfry your favorite slack emojis and stand out (in the worst way) at work: hdrify.me

Christ is risen!

As you increasingly feel the urge to cast your cares on chatbots, recognize that AI is the next social media. In a decade or two, you’ll be as wireheaded as the boomers slurping Facebook slop *unless you only use AI for things it’s actually good at* i.e. as a tool, not a friend or source of truth.

Devs need to invest time and practice into this new generation of tools. Doing so is not a commitment to vibe code; you can still use them thoughtfully to complement your workflows. www.anthropic.com/engineering/...

terroriffs

It’s software malpractice to force users to move to a new app and it’s half a gigabyte.

I’ve now heard several companies having created their own “job function eval” test. Where eg data analysts put together a list of 100-200 tasks/questions an analyst should solve, near-flawless. Then feed it into AI models. And get a sense on where models *really* are!