Rob Murdock

The doom of man: great and terrible. Software dev, nerd-culture enthusiast, cat owner, home owner, gamer, occasional writer, podcaster, and ridiculous creature.

[Rob Murdock @ZeGreatRoB]

arcane anti-legibility is a lifelong hobby

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

23-year-old Daniel Cressy just became the first person in Louisiana to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease through gene therapy https://t.co/snRE0wOGaP

[Standard Reference Margot @sickfootfour]

gay guy in my beach carpool just referred to chappel roan’s Hot to Go as “the she/they YMCA”

[Rob Murdock @ZeGreatRoB]

All of this has happened before and it will all happen again.

[Sunny @sunnyright]

Americans bullied a red monster puppet into having to root openly for the USA, and I do fucking love this country

[Rob Murdock @ZeGreatRoB]

LLM content is like the Jungle on a tropical island. If you look away, if you stop tending its borders for just one moment… it will engulf you.

Constant vigilance my friends. Constant vigilance is required.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

Ahh the UAE where they famously love human rights and free expression

[Gary Bernhardt @garybernhardt]

Both of these were on new subsystems. If you let it dump all of the slop in repeatedly, the slop grows superlinearly. It slops up a bunch of complicated interfaces to afford mocking, then in the next change it has to work around them to "preserve backwards compatibility".

[nic carter @nic_carter]

Anthropic: Claude identified and trapped the souls of 8 djinns in its new model. We believe that they are mostly benign

OpenAI: we have cloned the neural structure of the cockroach. This will make our model 8000x better at using Salesforce

Mistral: we exist

[Rob Murdock @ZeGreatRoB]

I think that niche is gonna stick with us.

[Rob Murdock @ZeGreatRoB]

It’s funny to read someone who is all “it’s time to move past code” and then they rattle off five or six things that are… basically code.

The code of today is human readable deterministic language. You can either loosen it up to be less mechanical, LLM style, or go more metal.

[Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey]

Feels like the timeline is turning into Moltbook

A slurry of writing that’s all very correct and polished and florid, and all lifeless in exactly the same way

It would actually be better if people just tweeted the prompt they gave Claude rather than the output it gave them

[Jakeup @myhandle]

know the Claude rules

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

You think politics is bad now, just wait until the median voter has never read a book

[Christopher Potts @ChrisGPotts]

Does a token buy you more or less now than it did a few months ago? We built a consumer price index (CPI) for AI coding output from Anthropic's Opus 4.6 model in SWE-chat, Feb 5–Apr 15, 2026. What we find looks like tokenflation:

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

John Lithgow winning a Tony at 80 for Giant, the oldest man ever to win acting Tony, 53 years after his first, is just about the most deserved thing I’ve ever seen. And for a play that stares at antisemitism dead in the eye. A lifetime of brilliance, and still getting better.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Skipping Independence Day because Trump is trying to coopt it is...letting him coopt it. Proceed as usual, because it's our country, our anniversary, and our celebration.
https://t.co/Tb5UyStjj5

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

🚨NEW TODAY🚨
@CatoInstitute launched the "Jones Act Waiver Tracker" - an interactive, almost-real-time visual database of every US commercial voyage that's occurred since POTUS issued an unprecedented, 150-day waiver of the protectionist shipping law: /1

[Sonny Bunch @SonnyBunch]

As I was saying, one reason PERSEPOLIS is a great work of art is that it causes a certain sort of person to show their true colors. RIP, Marjane Satrapi.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

It's hard to overstate how much of an outlier California is for its slow vote-counting relative to literally any other state or almost any other industrialized democracy.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

The fact that California elections often can't be resolved for weeks is kind of insane and not common in other electoral systems around the world.