Timo Mihaljov

a lot of people have encountered the overconfident stem nerd, the guy who programs and so everything else must be easy from the outside it does look like "i'm smart at code, so therefore i can do anything", but i promise you that they're like this with code too

AI enables developers to think less about implementation details and focus more on what they actually care about: nothing. Nothing at all.

> A book cannot do something for you. Instead, reading a book can change you into someone who can do something for yourself. The role of a great medium is not to help people get things done, but to help people become deeper people ... dynamicland.org/2024/FAQ/#Wh...

This is exactly the principle that has fucked up everything from deli flyers to UX in billion-dollar products Once upon a time, even if you were doing something on your own, it took long enough to do that it made you think about what you were doing! You had time to think "hang on, this sucks."

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

"Every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turned out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high." --Kurt Vonnegut

The perfect metaphor for Apple design these days

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

This is it. This is my breaking point. We have to stop. We have to stop with computers. We have to stop computers. We need to stop computers so we can take a break for a decade and then build them back better.

you have to be fucking kidding me. Is this their real account? is this legit? why did @bsky.app post this on twitter, and not here

people were 100% convinced ELIZA was conscious even when you could see its 200-some lines of code and even when the guy who wrote it yelled at them over their foolishness

i've been saying "knowledge transfer is dead, people don't ask their coworkers questions anymore" for a while now, but honestly it's kinda funny that we're setting out to build a god and ended up with a tower of babel

I would simply choose a measure that remains a good measure even after being made a target

In the vein of "public libraries could never be created today," a pitch for a calculator would get you thrown out of the boardroom. What do you mean, it just maths? Where are the ads supposed to go? How does it send usage telemetry back if it doesn't even have wifi? There isn't even a leaderboard.

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

Coding agents reduce software development to a simple matter of: * specifying requirements * verifying correctness and quality * maintaining and operating software you didn't write As we all know, those have always been the easiest, most well-understood parts of the craft, so everything is fine!

Tekoäly-, kielimalli- ja datakeskussekoilu saa toden teolla pohtimaan sitä, mistä ihmisyydessä lopulta on kyse. Tämä teknovelihybris on nimittäin täydellisesti vastoin omaa ymmärrystäni ihmisyydestä ja inhimillisyydestä. Oikeastaan se näyttäytyy minulle jonkinlaisena antihumanismina. #yhteiskunta

Google cut down more forest than my team have created in five years for a slop bot. #FuckAI

My grand unified theory of this moment, after a few months of intense and variously high-stakes engagement with various corporate and public systems, is that pretty much nothing works. We just have each other.

"Software developers are not okay" www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-soft... The software industry is becoming increasingly hostile to those who work in it. The uncertainty is affecting even those who believe in the promises of tech. Direct link to the essay: www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-soft...

one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting

watching a video about the death of the internet www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-ul... and honestly it's pretty nuanced and more about the paperclip maximising world we live in

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

Imagine thinking "There's not enough software in the world, and what little we have is made with too much damn care! We don't need this kind of perfection – we need more apps!" I'm utterly unable to relate to the people in my field.

AI coding tools are no different from compilers: you take the compiler output, make your coworkers review it, and commit it to source control so other people can use their own compilers to edit it, just like we've always done.

they built C3PO for some kinda protocol crap too but you never hear him yapping about it

A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.

The tweet that immediately came to mind:

I wondered if I'd be excited about "AI" if I was just growing up now. Then I remembered that in my teens I used to spell Microsoft with a dollar sign and ran Linux back when the easiest way to get it was for some weirdo to mail you a stack of CD-Rs. So yeah, I'm pretty sure I would still be a hater.

Parasocial media: why influencers really aren't your friend www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/04-para... How the very design of social media supercharges misinformation and harm.

Researcher: In my paper I discuss the ways in which automation may expand rather than eliminate problems with the human operator Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Automation from classic research paper Ironies of Automation

Art doesn't often work this way. The work is the work.

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

These days I often end up deleting my own code comments that explain why the code is written the way it is. They're shaped like Claude's nonsense, so no human will ever read them, but without any comments the code itself might look human enough to make someone actually read it.

Abstract mic drop "Incompetence is so ambient that the term "competency porn" was coined to describe the escapist pleasure of watching someone simply do a thing well." ndcoslo.com/agenda/safe-...

Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got