Joel Martinez

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GPT 4o after people started checking out GPT5

What movie have you seen an unhealthy number of times?

It feels like the industry had made such progress towards _actually_ understanding that over the past decade ... only to see it suddenly reversed at mass scale. Dissapointing

The AI Breadline Here's a familiar pattern I’ve seen play out more than once. Recently, Anthropic reduced Claude’s usage limits after someone started consuming way more resources than expected. That’s understandabl...

On the eve of GPT5 launching, I start to wonder how the future will evolve. As we keep integrating these new tools into our workflows, will we (collectively) get to keep the generated value, or will it be increasingly extracted from us.

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just a reminder that sustained overwork leads to exhaustion and increased error rates — sustained 60 hr/wk employees are actually LESS productive than if they worked 40 hours

The ‘9-9-6 Work Schedule’ Could Be Coming To Your Workplace Soon Some U.S. companies are adopting China's 9-9-6 work schedule to win the AI race. Will you soon be working 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., six days a week Monday through Saturday?

Stop it, tech industry 🗞️

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GitHub - WildernessLabs/Chloroplast: Wilderness Labs docs engine that converts and hosts markdown and XML API docs into HTML. Wilderness Labs docs engine that converts and hosts markdown and XML API docs into HTML. - WildernessLabs/Chloroplast

Nice update just dropped for @wildernesslabs.bsky.social's Chloroplast ... it now generates sitemap XML files for an easy boost to your documentation site's SEO 👏🏼 Available via Nuget!

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Specialists vs Generalists Tiny teams move fast because nobody argues over job boundaries. One day you're tweaking CSS, the next you're writing a quick‑and‑dirty data migration. The product needs finishing, so hats get stack...

Feels like with every passing day, individuals are asked to take on a wider array of responsibilities; in previous years they might have been the responsibility of someone who specialized in that role. Increasingly frayed engineers ask, is this the only way forward?

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Jesus Christ, dude, listen I support the overall message but… What are we doing here?

Have you ever heard of Fugglers?

Mapping My Own Content I wrote This Post is Worthless about how the old web worked, back when links weren’t just SEO fuel but the actual connective tissue of the internet. If I’m going to talk about that, I figured I sho...

Doing a bit of experimenting with some alternate navigation mechanisms on my website. Does anyone have any good examples of graph based in navigation on different websites?

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I’m partial to the upside down emoji 🙃

I think a lot about the “harmless” part of “helpful, honest, harmless” which has been the (vague) rallying cry of AI Alignment. I consider AI doing student homework to be harmful at the individual and societal levels. Very much in conflict with “helpful”.

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Why is everyone talking about clams?

Screenshot of VS Code one click instsall button

Another weekend project launched. This time for the MCP community!

VS Code - MCP Install Button Generator

Check it out at VSCodeMCP.com

The backstory: I wanted an easy way for users to one-click install my Lokka.dev MCP Server to VSCode

This Post Is Worthless I’ve always loved what PageRank promised from the early days of Google: links as votes, authority that anyone could earn if readers found an idea useful enough to link to it. In that early blog era...

Possibly my most worthless post ever 🙈 The world is changing, and those of us that "exist on the internet" should understand that what is valued is changing before our very eyes (for better or worse)

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Saw Superman … it was pretty wonderful 🐒 #SuperShit

This has probably been the biggest issue with the community growing here on bluesky ... everyone's obsessed with still 👀 what's going on over there. And the more everyone does it, the more folks here get a weird sense of FOMO. Leave that mess there! 😅

Death By Status There’s a moment, early on in a team’s life, when everything just flows. You don’t need a status meeting because everyone already knows what’s happening. You don’t need a kickoff doc because someon...

Very common failure mode of teams as they grow ... or even teams that are already large if they don't continually revisit _how_ they work over time.

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Have you ever felt like every day was just a procession of one meeting after another? Eventually you ask yourself when exactly it is that you're supposed to do any of the work that you're talking about?

How Work Kept Changing In 2013, I wrote a post about how work was changing—a snapshot of what felt like the beginning of a broader shift. Remote work was still a bit of a curiosity for many companies but growing, side pr...

It’s always fun going back and looking at old posts … I was poking around my sites archives, and came across a post from 2013… Where I was just kind of reflecting on how work was changing. Wrote a post, reflecting on how things have gone since then…

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I know this probably is beside the point as far as time savings go ... but I kind of enjoy watching the github copilot session and watching it reason through the task 😅

You know, I’ll say it… I miss the community that built up around newsgroups in the early 2ks, along with the early “blogosphere”. The move to crowdsourced sites like slashdot, digg, hackernews, and eventually StackOverflow and other social media diluted and degraded the online community.

At some point though, you really have to wonder how valuable that stuff is if you've never gotten around to doing it in all these years 🤔

What I've noticed though, is that it's really enabled some serious bikeshedding 😅 When the perceived cost/effort of implementing some long-procrastinated feature or addressing some tech debt ... I've noticed that it feels really good to just get that stuff done.

So I've been using Github Copilot directly on github recently ... and generally speaking it's been great! Honestly, sometimes when I'm not in a huge rush, I weirdly enjoy just watching the live session as it reasons its way through the task I've assigned to it. 🧵

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Any founder that does this to their employees (shareholders, really) should be ashamed of themselves.

Having the need and opportunity for your engineering team to grow can be exciting ... but there are potential pitfalls along the way:

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yeah, I saw that ... didn't really click through as I'm not really interested in anything that account might have to say; but it _was_ funny 😅

xAI’s competitive advantage was supposedly that Grok could be trained on proprietary access to tweets on X.

Now that seems like competitive disadvantage. 😬