Owen Mathews

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Programmer, teacher, and creative. Ex- instructional designer iOS/Swift.
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@carnage4life Every accusation is a confession.

@carnage4life Dear Jensen,

Go fuck yourself.

Sincerely, Owen

@shayman 😈🧑‍🤝‍🧑📍🏞️🏙️🧻🎱
@carnage4life Watch and see how long that lasts once this kind of thing recedes from the front pages.
@bens I think that’s largely what OpenClaw is doing—skills and integrations with agents as glue and orchestration. As amazing as the tech is, and as much as it appears to be gaining in sophistication, it’s still built on a fundamentally unpredictable foundation. Even *with* tool calling it’s perfectly capable of going off the rails at any moment. MCP calendar might help, but it might sucker you into trusting it too much.
@arroz @stroughtonsmith Kudos to Steve for boosting this rebuttal. I have been thinking about LLMs as abstraction layer for a while now. _If_ you want to apply that framework here, you have to come up with a term of art to describe nondeteminism in a layer. A leaky abstraction exposes lower-level details; a *freaky* abstraction has some level of unpredictability. I am coding with LLMs but remain clear-eyed about their inherent unreliability. A compiler or assembler they’re not. Useful? Depends.
@shayman “beverge“ 🤣

@shayman 😢

I really hope a CEO change is happening soon and that there will be an accompanying rethinking of culture and strategy. Too many great things from Apple’s past are being torn down or neglected.

@shayman But, Steve, “AI!” <waves hands wildly>

This by Adam Bonica: https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-wall-looks-permanent-until-it

“My deepest fear is not that we fail to survive this moment—it’s that we survive it only to return to the status quo that made it possible. That we exhale, declare victory, and leave in place the Electoral College, the filibuster, the gerrymandered maps, the money-soaked elections that allowed a minoritarian movement to capture the state in the first place. The point is not to get back to normal. Normal is how we got here.”

This is exactly correct.

The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls

On the optimism of preparation in a time of democratic decay.

On Data and Democracy