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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)2m ago

There's one very important thing I would like everyone to try to remember this week, and it is that AI companies are full of shit

Only rarely do their claims actually bear scrutiny, and those are only the mildest of claims they make.

So, anthropic is claiming that their new, secret, unreleased model is hyper competent at finding computer security vulnerabilities and they're *too scared* to release it into the wild.

Except all the AI companies have been making the same hypercompetence claims about literally every avenue of knowledge work for 3+ years, and it's literally never true. So please keep in mind the highly likely possibility that this is mostly or entirely bullshit marketing meant to distract you from the absolute garbage fire that is the code base of the poster child application for "agentically" developed software

You may now resume doom scrolling. Thank you

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)11m ago

Grickle 14h ago

Furniture Fantasy. #grickledoodle #dungeonsanddragons #fantasy #adventure #ikea #furniture #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)18m ago

@Slash909uk

Cheeses with chillies in them make excellent cheese on toast.

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)10h ago

Steve Troughton-Smith 14h ago

Mac OS X v10.0 running on the Nintendo Wii. Amazing

/via @Rairii

https://bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-os-x-nintendo-wii.html

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)11h ago

Two good dogs this evening!

Winston, who lives in a flat nearby and is often out on the balcony. He is basically a tube of dog with a happy face on one end. When I first met him, he had the confused-but-happy face of a dog trying very hard to work out if I was his new friend or his new best friend. Today I almost talked to his human, but when I started he noticed that the scritches had stopped and tapped my leg with a paw to remind me that, in fact, I was on the pre-approved list of Winston scritchers, and this came with some obligations. And then proceeded to lean on my and make sure I didn’t get distracted.

Then Alphie, who was a toy poodle (so soft!) who I met for the time, but who was very happy to meet a new admirer.

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)11h ago

My favourite thing about the iPad is how many almost-identical gestures do completely different things. Especially the fact that some have no undo functionality.

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)11h ago