Raphaël Pinson

dev.toThe Badge Was Issued, but the Goal Wasn't Achieved.Applying Theory of Constraints to technical enablement systems for continuous platform improvement.

27 Aug

Most technical education systems measure labs completed, content published, badges issued. None of that is the goal. The goal is turning knowledge into confident, independent action, and the constraint on that flow can sit anywhere, including outside what you own. dev.to/raphink/the-...

raphink.infoRaphaël Pinson — Interfaces for people and systemsTwenty years of tracking constraints and building interfaces that enable people.

26 Aug

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When neurotypical people read someone's expression, it happens automatically: parallel processing, fast, effortless. Like a GPU rendering a scene. #autism #actuallyAutistc #neurodiversity 🧵

When an autistic brain does it, I run a different process: observe, decode, match, select, output. Sequential, non-automatic, constructed from scratch. The result looks similar, but the cost doesn't.

This is why masking is exhausting: not because autistic people are bad at social interaction, but because they're running a CPU process where everyone else has a GPU. Same output. Different architecture.

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7 July

A few years ago, I realized my wife's condition had something in common with #autism and I thought I'd make a comic strip about it, to help understand both. 👉️ raphink.info/autism #actuallyautistic #neurodiversity

dev.toClean Edges: Using a PNG Alpha Mask on AI-Generated AnimationsHow I solved the background removal problem for AI-generated animated WebP tiles, and why color detection and chroma key both fail.

4 July

AI video generation destroys color precision. Color detection → hollow eyes. Chroma key → magenta speckles everywhere. The fix: stamp the original PNG's alpha channel onto every frame. No detection, no approximation. The mask was already there. New post 👇 dev.to/raphink/clea...

28 June

Would you trust a sci-fi author to program critical AI systems for humanity? No? Yet, that's what we've been doing. LLMs are autocomplete engines trained on human culture. Sci-fi authors spent decades writing how robots fail. That's the training data. That's the completion. 🧵

New post in The Misallocated Machine series 🤖

dev.toWe Let Sci-Fi Authors Code AI For UsLLMs are autocomplete engines trained on human culture. Sci-fi authors spent decades writing how robots fail. That's the training data. That's the completion. This isn't a bug, it's the design working...

28 June

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This isn't a bug, it's the design working exactly as intended.

27 June

Most people picture autism as a line from "a little autistic" to "very autistic." That's not what the spectrum means. #Autism is not a dial, but a different way of seeing. 🔗 raphink.info/autism #actuallyautistic #neurodiversity

blog.raphink.infoAutism AwarenessRaphaël Pinson's personal blog

24 June

J'ai eu plusieurs demandes de traduction de mes posts sur l'autisme en français. J'ai donc pris mon courage à deux mains et j'ai ajouté ça sur blog.raphink.info/fr/series/au...

23 June

Chat threads are the wrong tool for AI image generation. 4 years of drift taught me that. So I built panelgen: declarative, idempotent image generation from a YAML spec. 🚀 brew tap raphink/tap && brew install panelgen Full story 👇 dev.to/raphink/four... #ai #generativeAI #opensource #automation

22 June

Two kinds of anxiety — completely different sources. 🧠 Psychological (top-down): all sensors green, but the cortex generates a loop anyway. "What if..." Cognitive strategies can help here. #autism #actuallyAutistic #neurodiversity 🧵

On the outside: calm. They're used to managing this load manually. On the inside: the control room is redlining.

22 June

When the hardware runs at permanent 97% alert status, you don't crash from worry. You crash from biological burnout. Don't confuse a hardware alert for a software bug.

🚦 Physiological (bottom-up): subcortical sensors are natively running above the normal alert baseline — even when everything is safe. Cognitive regulation doesn't fix it. The loop didn't start in the cortex.

17 June

So I watched Bicentennial Man yesterday evening. If it wasn't for the robot disguise, I'd be sure Robin Williams was trying to portray an #actuallyAutistic person -- and probably doing a better job at it than if it had been intentional. The whole time, I was like -- hey, that me 🤔 🧵

17 June

That got me to think (especially after my last post on AI and humanity) about how defining humanity by (a certain form of, most likely NT-shaped) empathy would exclude most #neurodiversity people from that definition.

dev.toWe're at Risk of Losing Human Dignity to Machine ProductivityThe AI debate is forcing us to define intelligence. Every definition proposed, when applied consistently, ends up drawing a line through humanity itself.

17 June

AI spread doesn't just question our definition of intelligence, it challenges our definition of humanity. Now is a time to stand for dignity if we care. dev.to/raphink/were... #AI #Ethics #Humanity #Tech #Discuss

dev.toAutism Awareness Series' ArticlesView Autism Awareness Series' Articles on DEV Community

16 June

Today is both my birthday and Neurodiversity Pride Day (which I just discovered has always been on my birthday). I'm not much of a pride day person in general, BUT if any of my posts on autism have been useful to you, sharing one would be a lovely gift. The series is at dev.to/raphink/seri...

15 June

On Mastodon, I use the @autistics@fedigroups.social group to share my posts on autism awareness. Is there an equivalent group/starter pack on BlueSky?

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dev.toAI Doesn't Hallucinate. Your Architecture Does.Hallucination isn't a bug in LLMs — it's the mechanism. The real problem is misallocating non-determinism, and why "SKILLS.md is enough" is exactly backwards.

15 June

Everyone is talking about hallucination. That's the wrong diagnosis. Hallucination isn't a bug — it's the mechanism. Turn it off and you don't have a more reliable model, you have a lookup table. The real problem: non-determinism misallocated. dev.to/raphink/ai-d...

dev.toDefining Autism: The Shadow and the ObjectThe DSM defines autism by observable symptoms. But a definition and a diagnostic test are not the same thing. One bar has been cleared. The other hasn't. And mistaking the proxy for the definition has...

12 June

Defining Autism: The Shadow and the Object The DSM defines autism by what clinicians can observe. But describing the shadow isn't the same as defining the object. Maybe we need to redefine it? dev.to/raphink/defi... #autism #autismawareness #neurodiversity #actuallyautistic

dev.toGen AI is an Amplification MachineMost people misunderstand what generative AI actually does. It doesn't add quality — it multiplies what's already there. Which means the people it serves best are the ones who least needed it to begin...

11 June

#GenAI is an amplification machine. Good ideas in → sharper. Bad ideas in → worse, more confidently. Nothing in → statistical word soup. The gate was never the tool. It was always the ideas. #AI #Writing #LLM dev.to/raphink/gen-...

dev.toReturn to the Planet of the AutisticsA field journal from an imaginary researcher studying a puzzling minority neurological condition called allism, which affects approximately 1% of the population.

8 June

What would it look like, in a world full of autistic people, to study and try to understand how allistic (non-autistic) people function? Attempting to explore this (in a cheeky way) in this new article: dev.to/raphink/retu... #autism #actuallyAutistic #neurodiversity

31 May

Confession: I manually add em dashes to my texts

dev.toWhy autism hasn't disappeared — a hypothesisWhy has autism persisted across all human populations, across cultures, across centuries? A hypothesis: not because of individual advantage, but because groups that contained the profile were more rob...

30 May

Why has autism persisted across all human populations, across cultures, and most likely across centuries? A hypothesis: not individual advantage, but group survival. dev.to/raphink/why-... #autism #autismAwareness #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodiversity

My last post on #autism introduced a diagram intending to conceptualize Milton's double empathy problem at the core. Does that speak to you?

Hear me out: MidJourney UI with GPT-image-2 model...

dev.toTwo survival systems, two empathy modesThe double empathy problem, made concrete: not a deficit on one side, but two coherent systems that are mutually opaque to each other.

Two survival systems, two empathy modes What if autistic and neurotypical empathies were two different systems, driven by two different survival instincts? #autism #autismawareness #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodiversity dev.to/raphink/two-...

dev.toRest is not what you thinkRest as low novelty load, not low stimulation — known vs unknown inputs, threat/navigation system, beach vs metal music

27 May

Society tells us rest is laying down and doing nothing. That's not what it looks like for everyone. In fact, it can be quite the opposite for some. #autism #actuallyAutistc #neurodiversity dev.to/raphink/rest...

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25 May

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dev.toSharing is caringAutistic people who talk at length about their interests are often read as self-centered. I think the mechanism is almost the opposite. A follow-up to my series on autism from the inside, on why infor...

25 May

Autistic people who talk at length about their interests are often read as self-centered. I think the mechanism is almost the opposite... #autism #actuallyAutistic #neurodiversity dev.to/raphink/shar...

dev.toNeurodiversity and the two layers of cognitionWhat if the way you think and the output you produce are two completely separate things — and the gap between them has a cost? A post about internal process, expected output, and what autism adds to t...

22 May

#Neurodiversity and the two layers of cognition What if the way you think and the output you produce are two completely separate things — and the gap between them has a cost? A post about internal process, expected output, and what autism adds to the picture. #autism dev.to/raphink/neur...

dev.toYou can't know what you don't knowThis series almost didn't happen. A comic strip, a colleague's question, and thirteen posts later: here's what masking actually is, why the right framework matters more than most people realise, and w...

29 Apr

Fourteenth (and last) post in the #autism Awareness series: dev.to/raphink/you-... Take care of yourselves! #autismawareness #actuallyAutistic #neurodiversity

dev.to'I don't know' — The invisible crisisWhen 'I don't know' means the ground you're being told to step on doesn't exist

28 Apr

Post 13 in my #autism awareness series, on "I don't know": dev.to/raphink/i-do... #autismawareness #actuallyAutistic #neurodiversity

dev.toAutism as a catalystAutism hardly create effects directly: it amplifies whatever is already present, in both directions. The same wiring that produces unusual pattern recognition also produces sensory overload. The geniu...

27 Apr

Post 12 in my #autism Awareness Series, on autism working as a catalyst for other conditions: dev.to/raphink/auti... #autismAwareness #neurodiversity #actuallyAutistic

dev.toTesting GCP Cloud Functions Locally with Docker Compose and SummonTesting GCP Cloud Functions locally can be tricky. This setup uses Docker and Summon to easily run them with cloud secrets.

24 Apr

Testing GCP Cloud Functions Locally with Docker Compose and Summon dev.to/raphink/test... #security #devops #development #serverless

dev.toMaintaining friendships on the spectrumMy wife tells me I have friends. She's probably right. But I don't feel like I do — not in the way the cultural template describes. This post explores why maintaining friendships is harder than making...

24 Apr

Post 11 of my #autism awareness series is on maintaining friendships: dev.to/raphink/main... #neurodiversity #autismAwareness #actuallyAutistic

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22 Apr

Google Wave was 16 years ago and we're still fighting with email and doodle links 😥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1qz...

dev.toAutism and the "genius" effectRain Man or Sheldon Cooper — those are the two faces of autism most people know. But the vast middle is invisible, largely because it masks. This post explores the three dimensions you need to underst...

22 Apr

Post 10 in my #autism awareness series, on autism and the "genius" effect. dev.to/raphink/auti... #autismAwareness #neurodiversity #actuallyAutistic

dev.toBuilding MCP Servers for Genealogy: AI-Powered Historical ResearchUsing Claude & MCP servers to enhance genealogy research.

21 Apr

Building MCP Servers for Genealogy: AI-Powered Historical Research dev.to/raphink/buil... #genealogy #familyhistory #ai #opensource

21 Apr

I built an MCP server for meta-search in online Newspapers archives, and in a matter of one hour, Claude found 5 major documents I had never found before and documented them in Notion 🤯 #genealogy #ai