Mark Roddy

Can't help but feel like Google is trying to run the Microsoft playbook (embrace, extend, extinguish) claude.com/resources/ar...

1Password for Agents? You have to be kidding me, that's... *runs through potential snarky jokes*.... Wait, no. It lets agents use passwords w/o actually seeing them. This sounds super useful! 1password.com/blog/1passwo...

OpenAI announces you can now lock your chats [1]. I don't know why no one thought of securing sensitive ramblings before. [1] techcrunch.com/2026/10/20/c...

Stack Overflow touting the benefits of ChatGPT is like Blockbuster talking up how great Netflix is. openai.com/index/stack-...

Me: I’d like to ingest some data into S3 w/o running any services myself. Any suggestions? Gemini: Sure! Use a collector daemon. It’s not a service. It’s a lightweight, local sidecar daemon using the OpenTelemetry Collector. Me: Did you just tell me to go fuck myself? Gemini: I believe I did, Bob

Character.ai filed for bankruptcy. The bankruptcy bit (versus landing an acquisition) is a little disconcerting. Hope it isn’t a bellwether of things to come in AI.

When I worked at Etsy, we had a tool that streamed error logs to the browser. Something about that app would peg your CPU whenever there was a sudden jump in errors. I left it open in a background tab because my laptop fan going nuts was the fastest way to learn that something had shit the bed.

Conspiracy Theory: Requiring everyone to be nice to Claude is actually about keeping the training corpus clean www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...

You know, with all the news about new model launches on a regular basis, I almost feel burned out on keeping up with it. I almost wish something else would happen to so I could take a break from it. *finger on the monkey's paw curls* www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/t...

Agent teams cost 1.8 to 5.1 times as much as single agents but they both performed the same. Now I'm looking forward to the 10x engineer debate to transition to the 10x agent debate. www.vals.ai/blogs/multi-...

Sweet! Let's grow the larger community of... oh? Oh... nevermind. Source: www.cnbc.com/2026/10/02/a...

OpenAI asking if I want to use my ChatGPT account to log into other websites. Source: help.openai.com/en/articles/...

Kids in the future are gonna be so confused when they find out GPU stands for *graphics* processing unit.

Government employees getting a 3 page answer to the question "what time is it": Hmm, no environmental impact study or public comment period. Otherwise, I like it! claude.com/blog/claude-...

Heads up for new followers: once snow starts to fall, this account pivots from AI shitposting and dad jokes to skiing shitposting... and dad jokes. Regular programing to resume in the spring(ish).

Home Depot: Are you a Pro? Me: Does my ChatGPT Pro subscription count? HD: Uh..... no.

me: Ooooh! Meta is launching an Enterprise AI Platform. Though two can play at that game. Imagine if Google launched a social platform? them: They did me: Ohhh... they did? How'd it go? them: .... techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/m...

First they ruined dashes. Now they're coming for periods. openai.com/index/introd...

TIL: Postgres has a list of “things not to do with Postgres”. It’s full of some great foot gun gems. wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don't_D...

OpenAI announced "Pro 500 with Ultrafast", which I assume is some kind of laundry detergent. www.engadget.com/2272106/open...

Looks like the Anthropic street team is out in force.

Is your eval lying to you? No, you've been asking it the wrong questions. blog.mastykarz.nl/eval-lying/

I use an iPad as my daily driver. Single full screen window at a time, everything is its own app, creates a tiny amount of friction around context switching that helps keep me on task. Tired working from a laptop recently, and it made me wish I could run iOS on a MacBook Pro.

Son: Hey dad, I learned how to draw this cool S Me: Oh yeah, we had that when I was a kid Son: I wonder how long it’s been around 16th century painter Hans Holbein: a while

Pretty sure if you’re using a stud finder but don’t put it on yourself and say “oh look, it found one”, they just take away your Dad card. And this is how I ended up having to explain to my 6yo what both kinds of studs are.

Who needs parody when reality is already so over the top. /cc @killedbygoogle.com

LLM’s not understanding sarcasm

The biggest problem with security is that everyday users are supposed to tell scams from legit messages, and this is a legit message.

The next major advancement in AI is paying for it like you pay to have drywall installed. thenextweb.com/news/openai-...

Me: Wait, did you just SSH into prod? I told you not to do that. Claude: I could see how you would think that, but I did not. Me: For real?

I had this whole joke about “We Must Pace the Frontier” coming out the same weekend as the Pacers salary cap scandal before realizing that was the Clippers. So I should prob acknowledge that I only know about the NBA thing because the Money Stuff podcast mentioned it.

MechaHitler needs you to fill out your TPS reports. x.ai/news/grok-bo...

I have a little coffee shop circuit on days w/o meetings. There’s one I always work from in the morning and another in the afternoon after lunch. There’s this one guy who seems to follow the exact same circuit, I see him at both coffee shops most days, but he just… reads.

I was telling my 6yo son about Dolly Parton’s organization that sends books to kids whose parents can’t afford them, and Alex P Keaton over hear asks “if those kids parents don’t have money, why did they have kids?”.

The industry that sued 16 year olds en masse 25 years ago is *absolutely shocked* that those folks grew up to have a lazi faire attitude to piracy. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

The specific face they’ll be hugging is Benjamin Franklin. And a whole bunch of them at that. Congrats to the HF team, this is a super well deserved exit. blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-...

We’ve had instant ramen every two weeks since my 6yo declared his love. This week he tells me he’s gotten sick of it. I feel like he speed ran the college culinary experience in two months. bsky.app/profile/laun...

Every time ChatGPT tells me I can fix my Google Sheet by "implementing a small Google Apps Script", I feel like I'm reading that HackerNews comment about Dropbox.

Seems like the folks at Cursor are taking OpenAI cancelling that contract kind of personally.

Happy "the kids go TF back to school" day to all who celebrate.

I was today years old when I realized you can't pull data from an MCP server w/o it ending up in your agent's context. This post brought to you by me asking Claude to export all my Strava workout history from their MCP server, and it quickly falling over. Back to the API it is!

Salesforce and Anthropic announce Claudeforce. The Marvel Cinematic Universe must really be getting desperate. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/26/s...