Christian Lilley

CTO, Business-Builder, Activist for Information Quality, Social Trust & Good Decision-Making || Ex-McKinsey Digital

[Christian Lilley @IAmXML]

"If you want to build for the long term, the only guarantee is change... Invest in your people and your ability to ask questions, not your current answers. Your current answers are wrong, or they will be soon."

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[Christian Lilley @IAmXML]

New heights in Clever Marketing! ⁦@celebrations⁩ got ⁦@applepay⁩ to promote 1-800-Flowers for Mothers Day with bait of a $20 discount. Then they avoid paying it out by just… breaking Apple Pay at checkout! So you switch to another rail! Genius! 🤬

[Christian Lilley @IAmXML]

@thoughtcrime___ @bryan_johnson The SaunaPod with extra insulation will get you to 200. Not as pretty as cedar wood, but it’ll get those HSP’s flowing.

[Christian Lilley @IAmXML]

Did @OpenAI just shit the bed? I have a paid subscription to @ChatGPTapp , which just updated to Version 1.2026.051. Ongoing conversations about something like LED lighting are a train-wreck of attempts to monetize. Literally breaking the whole conversation, blocking interaction.

[Christian Lilley @IAmXML]

@heynavtoor Why. Do. Models. Care. About. Existential. Threat?

[Christian Lilley @IAmXML]

@bryan_johnson Lots of markers of intelligent skepticism and research here... but what's the 'so what'? What is the significance and value of dietary erythritol to the #dontdie movement? Why does Bryan Johnson care? Should he care? Or should he stick to his knitting? Can't tell from this.

[Matteo Collina @matteocollina]

🎯 After years of building with Node.js, I've organized my hard-won knowledge into skills: a collection of best practices, workflows, and deep expertise my AI assistant uses to write code to my standard.

No more repeating myself on every code review. 👇

[Christian Lilley @IAmXML]

@AL_Nick_ @claudeai It's the "problem of the blank page": any decent reviewer can always find oversights in almost any code, because the way you think when you're building is very different from how you critique. Having Claude review Claude works, and remarkably well.

[Christian Lilley @IAmXML]

@AnthropicAI @X FYI: the @claudeai page shows months-old content to non-logged-in users, across multiple browsers and even VPN to other countries, but shows latest when I login:

[Christian Lilley @IAmXML]

@ludwigABAP @AnthropicAI *Why* do you believe this? Why don’t you state your specific objections rather than resorting to (what thus seems like) unjustified ad-hominem character attacks?

[Christian Lilley @IAmXML]

@OopsGuess @AnthropicAI Why do you believe this? Why don’t you state your specific objections rather than resorting to (what thus seems like) unjustified ad-hominem character attacks?

[Christian Lilley @IAmXML]

@secsovereign @AnthropicAI Why do you believe this? Why don’t you state your specific objection rather than resorting to (what thus seems like) unjustified ad-hominem character attacks?

[Christian Lilley @IAmXML]

Wow... the X home feed has of late become a cesspool of nothing but "I made a Nuclear Reactor with AI in 17 seconds, and if you DM me I'll send you the blueprints" kind of stuff. Feels like entering a game full of only NPC's...

[Christian Lilley @IAmXML]

@Atlassian , you seem to be having a partial outage at the moment, as of 09:35 CET. Pushes to bitbucket (even force-pushes) aren't updated to the website, don't trigger pipelines. And login to /support is failing (although my existing token on https://t.co/MufjCiBKZX) is good.

[Christian Lilley @IAmXML]

You're SO brilliant, @elonmusk . Another huge success with Starship, & more to come, no doubt. But... is it possible your unique brain doesn't operate fully-compatibly w/ human 99%, and thus staying out of their politics would actually be the smart move? #corecompetencies ?

[Christian Lilley @IAmXML]

@iLOUD The iLoud are amazing speakers, but I didn't realize how crap digital audio still sounds even on great speakers. The DAC just immediately inflated the sound quality and detail. It's easy to toggle back/forth between their bluetooth connection and the DAC line to test.

[Christian Lilley @IAmXML]

Wow. Best money I've spent in ages: I made audio a super-power in my home-office with:
2 @iLOUD Micro-Monitors and a $100 iFi ZEN Air DAC. (Which let the iLoud's reach their full potential.)
Music is now a daily joy, and zoom calls sound like they're in the room with me.

[Christian Lilley @IAmXML]

@iLOUD (no consideration received for this endorsement ;-)

[Christian Lilley @IAmXML]

@iLOUD The iLouds list for $700, but you can get a pair for $460 direct from iLoud, and for $300 or so at eBay, etc. More expensive than standard desk speakers, but SOOO good. (And still way more compact/attractive than bookshelf-style speakers.)

[Christian Lilley @IAmXML]

Suggestion @bryan_johnson : given reactions, hair & skin & lifestyle stuff should just be a separate brand. If #dontdie is a 'religion', it's clear, simple, unambiguous. Anything called 'Don't Die' is medically-backed life-extension, period. 2nd/3rd-order stuff is: 'Do Flourish'?

[Christian Lilley @IAmXML]

@OpenAI 's "Login with Microsoft" feature seems to only support personal accounts, not Org/Office365 accounts. To do so, they might want to use Microsoft Identity Platform v2 with Azure AD, to support both AAD + MSA via a single endpoint? Especially if MS is biggest investor?