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spinosa @spinosa

The Human in the Loop

Joined April 2008
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AI support bots are the new phone tree. Keep replying with "0" until you get a human. the more things change, the more they stay the same
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RIP Cursor, you were loved and will be missed, but 2026 has been dominated by Claude Code
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spinosa@spinosa
14 Nov 2025
Language will emerge from the world models. LLMs are a subset of Large World Models.
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spinosa@spinosa
18 Feb 2025
To reach and help more folks, the lens through which I build Breakpoint needs to be expanded. open.substack.com/pub/dspino…
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spinosa@spinosa
10 Feb 2025
How I use Breakpoint.now (almost) every day: Journal open.substack.com/pub/dspino…
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spinosa@spinosa
6 Feb 2025
How native does a native app feel when it's built with @rails 8 and native.hotwired.dev/ ? Time to find out, hacking breakpoint.now in @cursor_ai …
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spinosa@spinosa
31 Jan 2025
dspinosa.substack.com/p/took…
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spinosa@spinosa
28 Jan 2025
Love using ai all over the place. And realizing “the more things change, the more things stay the same”
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spinosa@spinosa
26 Jan 2025
If you keep getting penalties moving the football half the distance to the goal, it will be a touchdown? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%2…

Zeno's paradoxes - Wikipedia

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spinosa@spinosa
23 Jan 2025
Imagine the power you could yield as a child, if you had known about 0 indexing? Like, your brother says “I go first” and you can just respond “Ok sure!  …dad, I go zeroth…”
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spinosa@spinosa
21 Jan 2025
A bit off-putting when Apple sends me 2FA codes over SMS instead of iMessage
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spinosa@spinosa
11 Jan 2024
Local AI/LLM, running in my Safari browser, to scrape and organize the details *I care about* from these healthcare.gov plans. Be great if @Apple built it (or hired me to help?)
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spinosa@spinosa
3 Jan 2024
I’m building a game 😏 Just now, I was just writing code! The important, hardcore stuff that Elon would be proud of. Like making a text input where you can input 1 and only 1 emoji.
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spinosa@spinosa
5 Jun 2023
“A colorful undulating fluid texture swirls and ripples to shape the Apple logo” … dropped the apple.com WWDC alt text into Midjourney:
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spinosa@spinosa
15 May 2023
LLMs happily handing over their confidential rules is one of the most entertaining parts of AI rn. When AI does destroy humanity, it will be an unintended consequence of being helpful, not SkyNet.
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spinosa@spinosa
5 May 2023
A butcher shop named “Good Beef, Charlie Brown!”
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spinosa@spinosa
24 Apr 2023
Without better training data, AI will increase our rate of descent into division and negativity. Reading too much contemporary hate on the internet and “if it bleeds it leads” journalism is a problem for humans and LLMs. #garbageingarbageout
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spinosa@spinosa
28 Mar 2023
I started with BASIC on MS-DOS ❤️ 🦍 🍌. Stepped up to VisualBasic on Windows, hacking AOL 🤣. Upgraded to C( ) @BrownUniversity. Did Java b/c work 🤷‍♂️. Fell in love with @rails super powers. Swift is fun Excited like a little kid again(!) adding ChatGPT to toolbox
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spinosa@spinosa
13 Mar 2023
I think I understand what happened, thanks @matt_levine
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spinosa@spinosa
9 Feb 2023
Pair this with The Creative Act by @RickRubin : youtube.com/watch?v=VnSMIgsP…
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