Ian Fosbery

Husband, Father, Canadian…and the co-host of Yelling at Robots!

[Alex @ajak1033]

The Spurs know how to TAKE the lead, they just don't know how to HOLD the lead. And that's really the most important part of the lead: the holding

[Ian Fosbery @fozcodes]

Omg. Spurs intro music for the Knicks was maximum trolling.

[Ian Fosbery @fozcodes]

@trashh_dev you need one of these for dem flies. Changed my life.

[Ian Fosbery @fozcodes]

1000000%.

I say robot, but for the same purpose.

Also, what the he’ll is wrong with people…?

[Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko]

More musings after some people got upset about the word clanker. https://t.co/gXPC6iRP0g

[Ian Fosbery @fozcodes]

And instead of watching the first trophy ceremony the knicks have had in that time, we’re gonna cut to Sportscentre so we can talk about one of the first Blue Jays games in May. Classic!

JFC.

[TSN @TSN_Sports]

The New York Knicks sweep the Cleveland Cavaliers and are headed to the NBA Finals for the first time in 27 years!

[Ian Fosbery @fozcodes]

@LowLevelTweets @teej_dv @KevinNaughtonJr +subscribe

[Ian Fosbery @fozcodes]

I thought this happened a month ago? Are we just reposting for likes now…?

https://t.co/HnnrWXP8UF

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Today, we share a breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, a famous open question first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946.

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids.

An OpenAI model has now disproved that belief, discovering an entirely new family of constructions that performs better.

This marks the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics.

[Ian Fosbery @fozcodes]

Good, he sees a headline he wants to read. Now, as he goes to click it, immediately reload all the headlines with completely unrelated headlines and he’ll end up somewhere he never wanted to be, probably the NY Post.

[Ian Fosbery @fozcodes]

First commit of Terraform was May 2014. First commit of Openclaw was November 2025.

This is unsustainable.

[Ian Fosbery @fozcodes]

Incredible episode of @Pragmatic_Eng with @badlogicgames and @mitsuhiko ...

https://t.co/XfAdUh8aPS

[Ian Fosbery @fozcodes]

Preach.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.

I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).

It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.

The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.

We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.

I worry.

[Ian Fosbery @fozcodes]

These Christof memes are the highlight of my day.

[THAT SOUTHERN DUDE @TSDmemes]

He just sat down after a long day. Have his wife yell something unintelligible from the other side of the house.

[Ian Fosbery @fozcodes]

See: first Iron Man movie.

[Heisenberg @Mr_Derivatives]

Thoughts?

[Ian Fosbery @fozcodes]

GitLab board: “GitHub is absolutely crushing us in outages per week.”
GitLab CEO: “Hold my beer…”

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: GitLab announces job cuts to reinvest in growth for the “agentic era.”

[Ian Fosbery @fozcodes]

Oh yeah, and definitely use and make more tokens cause that doesn’t affect anyone’s bottom line!

[Ian Fosbery @fozcodes]

What I read:

1. Reading more than 100 lines makes me tired
2. Sharing basic text files is apparently hard; humans only use browsers?
3. Let’s add more complexity to already complex and rapidly changing workflows

[Thariq @trq212]

https://t.co/MXt5XS4xBX

[Ian Fosbery @fozcodes]

I appreciate all these papers and insights. I probably wouldn’t know about them otherwise.

But, dude. Stop saying “just” and “new” when you’re posting papers from 6-12months ago. That’s not how English or time on the internet works.

[Ian Fosbery @fozcodes]

Someone should remix Fitter Happier from OK Computer with this post.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Ian Fosbery @fozcodes]

In the past months with all these incidents (security or otherwise), I keep wondering when the adults are gonna show up and put an end to the house party.

I think mom and dad may have died in a plane crash on their way back from vacay.

Party on, Wayne.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

A terrible incident coming from an infra provider. This is not an outage resulting in downtime, or data lost on the cloud (that is trivial to restore from local git.)

It’s a data integrity issue, which sounds hard and difficult to untangle by anyone hit by it.

A real WTH moment

[Ian Fosbery @fozcodes]

I texted this to Josh and said I was going to tweet it. Then this happened.

:old-man-yells-at-co-host:

[yellingatrobots @yellingatrobots]

"Slop" is the Michael Jordan of the English language.