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Ingo Schommer @chillu.com · 1d

*reluctant like*

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Ingo Schommer @chillu.com · 21d

Ahaha, well done Kapiti! For WCC, having Ray Chung lose his seat would be the cherry on the urbanist pie here 🤞

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 24d

Hope everyone learnt their stupid damn lesson from this:

1. taking money from the crazy toxic people will get you billboards everywhere, but also cover you in their stink

2. giving toxic money to people stupid enough to take it just gets you the worst candidates money can buy

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Ingo Schommer @chillu.com · Sep 30

This shouldn't even need pointing out, but absolutely don't use coding agents without existing test coverage on anything with real world value. Some things don't change: Tests is how you move fast (on the long run)

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · Sep 30

AI agents being able to run unit tests is SUCH a massive unlock.

If you're a dev who has utilized unit tests heavily: using a tool like Claude Code makes so much sense.

And if you don't yet use tests: with AI agents, don't see how you would not do it sooner or later...

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Ingo Schommer @chillu.com · Sep 30

Linear's fancy pants local first sync engine is all the rage. But as tradeoffs, you're forced to archive tickets (no longer filterable/editable) and can't do even rudimentary fulltext search. Sounds like a functional regression to me?

Ingo Schommer @chillu.com · Sep 30

Currently waiting for a cobbler to come back to his shoppe (he's got a little "back in 10" note on the door). Feels sufficiently retro 👞🫖

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dan @danabra.mov · Sep 28

ok the workflow actually feels sick. i love this

Livecoding melodic DNB music in Strudel

YouTube video by Switch Angel

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Ingo Schommer @chillu.com · Sep 27

I’m still wearing that shirt!

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Ingo Schommer @chillu.com · Sep 19

I bought www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/ *seventeen years ago* for 9 bucks, and have used it continously every day since then, with millions of keyboard actions in total. Now *that* is value.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Sep 18

General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.

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Ingo Schommer @chillu.com · Sep 9

Starship has more horsepower than there are horses on earth (excluding donkeys).

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Ingo Schommer @chillu.com · Sep 3

Today I used a local MCP server to analyse database content generated by an LLM, driven by LLM generated code, using prompts originally written with LLM support, resulting in an LLM generated summary. Peak #ai 😂

Ingo Schommer @chillu.com · Aug 29

New political party, anyone?

Ingo Schommer @chillu.com · Aug 28

Blowhard++

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Ingo Schommer @chillu.com · Aug 27

Another way to read this chart: We identified a very potent geo engineering technique! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termina... is a great read BTW

Ingo Schommer @chillu.com · Aug 24

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses". But also: Horses achieved self driving level 5 quite a long time ago 😂

Ingo Schommer @chillu.com · Aug 23

Why LLMs aren’t replacing devs just yet: Recency bias and failing to identify omissions in context, difficulties forming mental models at different levels of abstractions during problem solving, knowing when to ask for help. Written by creators of an AI IDE. zed.dev/blog/why-llm...

Why LLMs Can't Really Build Software - Zed Blog

From the Zed Blog: Writing code is only one part of effective software engineering.

zed.dev

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Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · Aug 22

Yesterday, Google released a new report estimating the environmental footprint per Gemini query.

That's very welcome, as lack of any transparency from big tech companies has been a big problem. I hope others follow suit.

I wrote about on this on Substack: hannahritchie.substack.com/p/ai-footpri...

What's the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT or Gemini? [August 2025 update]

A new study from Google suggests its Gemini LLM uses around 0.24 Wh per text query. That's the same energy as using a microwave for one second.

hannahritchie.substack.com

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Ingo Schommer @chillu.com · Aug 22

Performing an ancient task (kneading bread by hand) alongside a very modern one (hands-free interactive convo with ChatGPT about Mixture-of-Experts LLMs and use cases for Reranking Embeddings)

Ingo Schommer @chillu.com · Aug 19

This is the kind of quality and big picture climate journalism that NZ needs

Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social · Aug 19

To quantify the policy shift in my story on the Zero Carbon Act today I dug through multiple reports, addenda, and leaned on the Parliamentary Library - trying to track what’s happening. I’ve put some links to the key documents here open.substack.com/pub/kirstyjo...

A Hollow Act

What remains of Jacinda Ardern’s “groundbreaking” climate law?

open.substack.com

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Ingo Schommer @chillu.com · Aug 19

It’s the kiwi way - we get the world’s shitty hand-me-downs, now featuring more unrepairable crap that’s hard to sell in actual first world countries

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Ingo Schommer @chillu.com · Aug 18

“Hey Siri, add salted cashews to the shipping list”. …
“OK, I’ll play a commentary track in German for that one album you bought on Apple Music a literal decade ago and haven’t listened to since”

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Ingo Schommer @chillu.com · Aug 17

So many AI enabled startups stating “we’ll never train on our data”. I wonder how many of them will walk that back once discovering the limits of Gen AI and rediscovering how traditional ML works…

Ingo Schommer @chillu.com · Aug 14

After redesigning, the professional designers at work are gradually converging back to my v0 supported PoC design for this AI feature. I'm officially a vibe designer 😂

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