bryan's Avatar

bryan

@bengl.dev

πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Staff Software Engineer - Datadog APM (he/him/his) Dad Royal Oak, MI https://bryanenglish.com

1,361
Followers
481
Following
1,108
Posts
14.06.2023
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by bryan @bengl.dev

Here in suburban Michigan it's closer to 55p/litre today. I took a look at some UK prices and if it were sold for those prices around here, people would simply die.

06.03.2026 18:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ai is driving people to suicide, but it also destroys the wages and working conditions of multiple industries without adding real value, so it's impossible to say if it's bad or not

04.03.2026 23:55 πŸ‘ 342 πŸ” 79 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 6

Yes, and even worse, Peter Cushing. But still, easily the best Star War.

04.03.2026 20:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Counterpoint: Rogue One

04.03.2026 20:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i've said this many times, today even: if you use ai in your job, your employer should be paying for it.

04.03.2026 18:48 πŸ‘ 49 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

No questions yet, but I'm happy to talk about my use case. I'll take it there.

04.03.2026 18:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@mvsamuel.bsky.social just thought you should know, I'm mucking around w/ @temper.bsky.social this week πŸ˜„

04.03.2026 18:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And by "tested in court" I mean specifically with respect to code.

03.03.2026 20:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If this gets tested in court ... yeah. They'll start shutting this all down real quick, or make some other action, go all in on lobbying or something.

It ought to be trivial for someone to construct a case to test this with.

03.03.2026 20:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

We're all gonna sit here and pretend that this won't affect similar decisions for code.

Good luck enforcing copyright on all the stuff Claude spits out at you.

(While you might not care about this, I guarantee your employer will!)

03.03.2026 19:56 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I am aware of companies (big ones!) not just allowing, but requiring them. And also red-flagging if they say anything disparaging about them.

02.03.2026 21:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A computer can never be held accountable, therefore we gave it a gun.

01.03.2026 17:32 πŸ‘ 253 πŸ” 76 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

We should have never legitimized gambling or outsourced our thinking.

01.03.2026 16:18 πŸ‘ 479 πŸ” 80 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 4

Bonjour Paris! πŸ‡«πŸ‡·πŸ₯–πŸ₯πŸ·πŸ§€

22.02.2026 10:42 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is there a term like "Chicagoland" but for Detroit?

19.02.2026 17:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Nope. (From Ottawa/Montreal)

19.02.2026 17:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting.

In other words, like most AI hype β€” it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...

19.02.2026 01:17 πŸ‘ 4573 πŸ” 1619 πŸ’¬ 62 πŸ“Œ 208

Easy question easy answer: oil

19.02.2026 02:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

18.02.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 20818 πŸ” 5586 πŸ’¬ 217 πŸ“Œ 376

RISC-V

18.02.2026 16:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

SOAP > MCP

18.02.2026 15:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

For whatever reason, the lighting makes me think these are house hippos.

18.02.2026 13:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It is definitely not just Adobe

18.02.2026 12:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It seems the tech industry is hell bent on making things even worse by betting the entire planetary climate on LLMs.

17.02.2026 01:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That Tim, he never goes forward.

16.02.2026 22:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Reframing β€œOpen Source AI” with Meredith Whittaker: AI Impact Summit 2026
Reframing β€œOpen Source AI” with Meredith Whittaker: AI Impact Summit 2026 YouTube video by The Maybe

> Half of tech is just running around praying to a sky god that lives on an nvidia chip

> a bunch of people who have no idea about tech, but are pretending to have an idea about tech … and a bunch of septuagenarian CEOs are taking their word for it β€” it’s almost an elder abuse issue going on

16.02.2026 13:15 πŸ‘ 219 πŸ” 53 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 4

good morning

15.02.2026 21:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ai;dr

AI; didn't read.

15.02.2026 21:06 πŸ‘ 253 πŸ” 62 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3

if this is your life now I genuinely believe you need to stop

15.02.2026 16:38 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

The company I ordered from is very much in cahoots with DHS, unfortunately.

15.02.2026 14:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0