anthony restaino

Finally released version 3.x of my testing framework Mockingbird. Rewritten as a Kotlin compiler plugin, instead of KSP, to improve the ergonomics and support Kotlin multiplatform targets github.com/anthonycr/Mo...

I've been seeing a number of bugs popping up in a few of the apps I use, that are so egregious, that I have to wonder if the developers are running the apps during development, or if it's just AI checking the work.

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

Another day, another GitHub outage. Of course, there's nothing in the UI to indicate this, you just have to sit there and try to do something 5 times before remembering to check the status page. You'd think they'd have some sort of banner they could show to save you the clicks 🫩

Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.

Spurs in Disarray

Screaming into the void some thoughts on AI coding. androidessence.com/leave-me-beh...

I'm not exaggerating when I say that I routinely see LLMs suggest 10x the amount of code needed to solve a problem. Something you could solve by changing a few existing lines of code is suddenly a whole new branch of logic with its own tree of classes and test cases.

THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION

PSA: The Amazon wishlist doxing threat is much greater and more immediate than folks might realize. Attack works like this: Stalker who wants your address opens an Amazon seller account and lists themselves as a third party seller for any item on your public wishlist. Then, they order the item […]

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

not saying it can't get worse but this week really feels like a straightforward depiction of what worst-case 'post truth' information apocalypse ppl were warning of in the late 2010s

It's only been 12 hours since the US invaded Venezuela and there's already AI generated propaganda videos going around Instagram in support of the invasion. US tech is so innovative.

I think this administration has vastly overestimated the rest of the world's willingness to put up with imperial oil war bullshit right now. I don't think this ends well. No war.

showed my parents how to identify AI generated music yesterday, and proudly watched them identify which YouTube Christmas playlists were AI and then choose a playlist with real music

Disappointed in Droidcon's decision to move the conference from NYC to Orlando. I attended every DCNYC event since I graduated in 2015 and cherish my memories of every one. Unlikely that I will be traveling to Florida anytime soon, so I guess it's the time to start attending London and Berlin confs.

fun thing I encountered at work this week – we discovered that LLM Agents decided to start setting environment variables that are only supposed to be set on CI on developer's machines, of course breaking the build for them :/

GET OUT AND VOTE NEW YORK

it always makes me happy to open my work computer on a Monday morning and see that even with 70+ contributors to the project, there hasn't been any code merged since Friday.

this was one of my favorite talks at DPE summit. it's a must watch for Android platform teams. my team has already been able to benefit by implementing some of the guardrails he explained.

The president of the United States has said *multiole times* that he hates Americans who are democrats. That is a FUCKING HUGE SCANDAL. Nobody will treat it as one.

Android’s new security screening feature is bad and I fucking hate it. They wanted a mechanism for Google’s security team to block malicious developers. But the same mechanism can be used by the state to control what we can do with our devices.

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

Why should a person on a bike get a criminal summons for traveling 16 mph, while the driver of a 5,000 pound SUV doesn't even receive a ticket for speeding at 35 mph? Mayor Adams continues his war on biking with this backward rule — despite >90% of public comments opposing it.

This is what a bubble looks like (image with alt text)

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My latest newsletter is about how generative AI companies are risking the lives of the most vulnerable by releasing tools that affirm dangerous delusions -- and the potential human consequences. And it's about why nobody seems to be freaking out about it. whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-many-p...

I did figure out how to rewrite it as a compiler plugin, but yeah my brain hurts