Dave Guarino
@allafarce.bsky.social
Software and complex (not complicated) systems. Pursuing the public good, sometimes with technology.
I guess I just don’t believe the change I care about can come from that; and also plenty of prior art on “performance management” or “good government” without tech. It’s fine to do something else! But at the core is “what does tech (now) enable that makes the solution space different?”
January 24, 2026 at 12:46 AM
I guess I just don’t believe the change I care about can come from that; and also plenty of prior art on “performance management” or “good government” without tech. It’s fine to do something else! But at the core is “what does tech (now) enable that makes the solution space different?”
(To be clear, luckily she has been discharged.)
January 22, 2026 at 12:32 AM
(To be clear, luckily she has been discharged.)
Ooo this led me to this fun @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy post
Simon I am most down to do some benchmarking via taste bud! Would make for a fun little SF event in fact.
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Simon I am most down to do some benchmarking via taste bud! Would make for a fun little SF event in fact.
simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/23/...
Cooking with Claude
I’ve been having an absurd amount of fun recently using LLMs for cooking. I started out using them for basic recipes, but as I’ve grown more confident in their culinary …
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January 8, 2026 at 5:51 AM
Ooo this led me to this fun @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy post
Simon I am most down to do some benchmarking via taste bud! Would make for a fun little SF event in fact.
simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/23/...
Simon I am most down to do some benchmarking via taste bud! Would make for a fun little SF event in fact.
simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/23/...
And this is where you get to a lot of tricky issues, like how effectively can you scale up *in person* verification if you're asking a government agency to be responsible for that scaling.
This sort of impedance mismatch is what worries me the most honestly!
This sort of impedance mismatch is what worries me the most honestly!
December 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
And this is where you get to a lot of tricky issues, like how effectively can you scale up *in person* verification if you're asking a government agency to be responsible for that scaling.
This sort of impedance mismatch is what worries me the most honestly!
This sort of impedance mismatch is what worries me the most honestly!
(Also sadly @davekasten.bsky.social I'm not aware of anyone else thinking about this systematically. Among the issues we need to sort are: 1. good rails for transferring funds securely + quickly, 2. an administering agency that is capable and nimble [I see few/none], 3. defense for AI-enabled fraud)
December 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
(Also sadly @davekasten.bsky.social I'm not aware of anyone else thinking about this systematically. Among the issues we need to sort are: 1. good rails for transferring funds securely + quickly, 2. an administering agency that is capable and nimble [I see few/none], 3. defense for AI-enabled fraud)
2020 revealed a lot about where this could go wrong moving very fast. One example: The unemployment insurance system didn't cover the self employed, and so they spun up PUA, but a lack of wage data to verify + poor identity verification led to sophisticated, scaled theft of funds via ID fraud.
December 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
2020 revealed a lot about where this could go wrong moving very fast. One example: The unemployment insurance system didn't cover the self employed, and so they spun up PUA, but a lack of wage data to verify + poor identity verification led to sophisticated, scaled theft of funds via ID fraud.