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I am a polite software developer and I am always committed to the bit. I will be your favorite app maker’s favorite app maker. I am enamored by user-facing software, especially mobile, and especially iOS. Swift is my current weapon of choice but I will use any made-up word to solve any problem. I ship my side projects for free. I run this single-user Mastodon instance in good faith and I intend to keep it that way.

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Kyle Hughes

I am a polite software developer and I am always committed to the bit. I will be your favorite app maker’s favorite app maker. I am enamored by user-facing software, especially mobile, and especially iOS. Swift is my current weapon of choice but I will use any made-up word to solve any problem. I ship my side projects for free. I run this single-user Mastodon instance in good faith and I intend to keep it that way.

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@kyle@mister.computer · Mar 08, 2026

I would actually rather be immersed in a place that pretends AI doesn’t exist (Mastodon) than a place that is talking about AI consciousness (Bluesky). The long and winding road…

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@kyle@mister.computer My ambivalence derives not from what the tech can do, but what it means moving forward. My fear (which may turn out to be unjustified, for sure) is that it encourages reliance on

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I am a polite software developer and I am always committed to the bit. I will be your favorite app maker’s favorite app maker. I am enamored by user-facing software, especially mobile, and especially iOS. Swift is my current weapon of choice but I will use any made-up word to solve any problem. I ship my side projects for free. I run this single-user Mastodon instance in good faith and I intend to keep it that way.

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Kyle Hughes

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I am a polite software developer and I am always committed to the bit. I will be your favorite app maker’s favorite app maker. I am enamored by user-facing software, especially mobile, and especially iOS. Swift is my current weapon of choice but I will use any made-up word to solve any problem. I ship my side projects for free. I run this single-user Mastodon instance in good faith and I intend to keep it that way.

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@kyle@mister.computer · Jan 05, 2026

@agiletortoise@mastodon.social That’s a nonobvious part: I strongly feel, and am experiencing, that this is going to let us shrug off a lot of dead weight. Once we can describe a computer task we have a much cleaner path to automating it. That means we can abstract a lot more, which means we can think of larger and more abstractions—the same as ever. In many ways I think we have plateaued at the level of software complexity that humans can manage and this should provide a meaningful new lever.

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@kyle@mister.computer Didn’t say it was unethical. But I do believe it’s undesirable. It’s another step, like driverless taxis, supermarket self checkout and dozens of other examples where human being

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@kyle@mister.computer

I am a polite software developer and I am always committed to the bit. I will be your favorite app maker’s favorite app maker. I am enamored by user-facing software, especially mobile, and especially iOS. Swift is my current weapon of choice but I will use any made-up word to solve any problem. I ship my side projects for free. I run this single-user Mastodon instance in good faith and I intend to keep it that way.

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Kyle Hughes

@kyle@mister.computer

I am a polite software developer and I am always committed to the bit. I will be your favorite app maker’s favorite app maker. I am enamored by user-facing software, especially mobile, and especially iOS. Swift is my current weapon of choice but I will use any made-up word to solve any problem. I ship my side projects for free. I run this single-user Mastodon instance in good faith and I intend to keep it that way.

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@kyle@mister.computer · Dec 20, 2025

@gedeonm@mastodon.social When a job can be done by a computer, what is the heuristic to use for when it should not be? These jobs have existed for about 80 years: why are they special, when-if-ever should they be allowed to transition to automation, and who should make that decision? Who will decide what technology is available to which industry and which profession along what timeline? I agree that all of your examples seem like negative externalities. To avoid them we need to answer the questions above.

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@kyle@mister.computer @cameronmcefee@mastodon.social Sounds right, yes. Usually I'm just looking for a good starting point on a new API area - and finding I'm better off with the LLM's second, third o

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I am a polite software developer and I am always committed to the bit. I will be your favorite app maker’s favorite app maker. I am enamored by user-facing software, especially mobile, and especially iOS. Swift is my current weapon of choice but I will use any made-up word to solve any problem. I ship my side projects for free. I run this single-user Mastodon instance in good faith and I intend to keep it that way.

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Kyle Hughes

@kyle@mister.computer

I am a polite software developer and I am always committed to the bit. I will be your favorite app maker’s favorite app maker. I am enamored by user-facing software, especially mobile, and especially iOS. Swift is my current weapon of choice but I will use any made-up word to solve any problem. I ship my side projects for free. I run this single-user Mastodon instance in good faith and I intend to keep it that way.

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@kyle@mister.computer · Nov 28, 2025

@agiletortoise@mastodon.social @cameronmcefee@mastodon.social good news is that strategy should work forever (?)

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