Max Schmeling

Building stuff @automattic. Husband, father, drummer. #Royals and #Chiefs fan.

Creator of and

[Max Schmeling @maxschmeling]

This robot let the intrusive thoughts win

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

A robot wearing a blue clown wig in China appeared to strike a young child with a spinning kick, causing the child to double over in pain.

[Max Schmeling @maxschmeling]

My OpenClaw can’t sign up for @ElevenLabs to set up better text to speech because they block bots with a captcha challenge. The irony.

[Max Schmeling @maxschmeling]

I get it when the robots take our jobs. They don't have to take our hobbies too! 😂

[SciTech Era @SciTechera]

Wow. This is crazy.

A developer trained an AI agent in simulation and deployed it onto a real robotic air hockey table using reinforcement learning.

This robot can track the puck with millimeter-level accuracy and react in roughly 20 milliseconds, fast enough to challenge even skilled human players.

We’re moving from robots that follow programmed rules to machines that learn strategies in simulation and execute them in the physical world.

[Max Schmeling @maxschmeling]

I don’t understand why the pope is going on about this. It’s software. Does anyone think it possesses a body or feels joy or pain?

I do think the impact it will have so the world requires consideration from all sorts of thinkers. But I don’t understand what he’s trying to get at

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Max Schmeling @maxschmeling]

Should have been a flagrant, ejection, and suspension. No place for this in basketball. Clearly just trying to hurt the star player.

[BrickCenter @BrickCenter_]

Spurs sending a message to SGA 👀

[Max Schmeling @maxschmeling]

Just because you are rich doesn't mean you know what you're talking about.

[Yonan @yonann]

Kevin O'Leary says Apple's genius is making people pay 5x more for a laptop they could buy for $350

"you can buy an Apple laptop, average price about $1,800, or you can buy the same functionality for $350 on a Windows laptop"

"but you still pay $1,800. Why? Brand"

"you're paying a 5x multiple in some cases for something that is exactly like a Windows machine"

"I put that out to people, they say, yeah, but it's not an Apple. So there is the genius of Jobs"

[Max Schmeling @maxschmeling]

If the coach really called for this, the coach should be arrested. The opposing coach should 100% have followed the tournaments advice to call the police himself.

[Ev Hand @Evan_Hand]

Youth sports are cooked. In an 11U travel baseball game over the weekend, a coach allegedly instructed his pitcher to hit a batter in the head AND throw a 70MPH heater DIRECTLY into the dugout. And the tournament is doing… NOTHING!?!

[Max Schmeling @maxschmeling]

@Ghostrider05NWI @SasquatchVinnie 15 lawyers in the room, anyone know what it means?

[Matías Ventura @matias_ventura]

My speed month project: what if WordPress was an OS you interact with in an open canvas... The canvas holds the objects (posts, pages, media, etc) organized to your needs and taste.

[Max Schmeling @maxschmeling]

I want to love @Cloudflare but every time I try it, it's so painful. The AI Gateway is buggy and just doesn't work. Bindings never seem to actually make stuff easier.

[Max Schmeling @maxschmeling]

Training AI to push the "Accept all changes" button 1000 times per day doesn't seem very useful...😂

[Charles Rollet @CharlesRollet1]

Scoop! Meta staff are outraged over a new program that trains AI off their keystrokes and mouse movements.

"This makes me super uncomfortable. How do we opt out?" was the top-rated comment in response.

"There is no option to opt out," Boz wrote to a slew of angry-face emojis.

[Max Schmeling @maxschmeling]

@chapcrap You can’t set them to a fast enough value through the UI. It’s a painfully slow key repeat.

[Max Schmeling @maxschmeling]

It’s mind boggling that they don’t allow you to set sensible values in the UI. I have to set them with the command line on every new computer.

[Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav @reach_vb]

If you own a Mac, do yourself a favor and run the following in a terminal:

defaults write -g KeyRepeat -int 1
defaults write -g InitialKeyRepeat -int 10

[Max Schmeling @maxschmeling]

@IcyVert I’m actually taking the at bat against Miller. I would just put my bat over the play and hope he hits it and the bal rolls like a bunt into play. I’m never getting a hit against him or a bucket against Wemby… but at least with Miller there is a chance he hits the bat

[Max Schmeling @maxschmeling]

@KatieKeithBarn2 @photomatt @Joost_Boer This is a cool PoC by @GaryPendergast in that space: https://t.co/Fs3VrHbLzW

[Max Schmeling @maxschmeling]

@karan_gadhavi @WordCampAsia And a team isn't just multiple people, a team can be a person with AI agents! So RTC is for everyone.

[Max Schmeling @maxschmeling]

You aren't a real baseball fan. Real baseball fans prefer to be angry for the entire duration of a baseball game. 😡😂 #Royals

[coop @LocalLegendCoop]

Took an edible and sat in the outfield seats at a Royals day game last year and it was so serene i didn’t want it to end

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

"Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer."

Simon Willison (@simonw) is one of the most prolific independent software engineers and most trusted voices on how AI is changing the craft of building software. He co-created Django, coined the term "prompt injection," and popularized the terms "agentic engineering" and "AI slop."

In our in-depth conversation, we discuss:
🔸 Why November 2025 was an inflection point
🔸 The "dark factory" pattern
🔸 Why mid-career engineers (not juniors) are the most at risk right now
🔸 Three agentic engineering patterns he uses daily: red/green TDD, thin templates, hoarding
🔸 Why he writes 95% of his code from his phone while walking the dog
🔸 Why he thinks we're headed for an AI Challenger disaster
🔸 How a pelican riding a bicycle became the unofficial benchmark for AI model quality

Listen now 👇
https://t.co/wlEIyOehU8

[Max Schmeling @maxschmeling]

For an LLM product, this is crazy bad detection.

"omfg you're the best"

"You really helped fix my shitty code, thank you!"

"This was so frustrating until you made it better"

Those would all register as negative.

[Humi @byteHumi]

lmao I can't stop laughing

claude-code has a "Frustrated User Detection"

There's a regex that detects when you're angry
( fully hard coded btw)

When triggered, it changes Claude's behavior/UI state.

Claude literally knows when you're cussing at it.

[Pablo Postigo @iamposti]

A few weeks ago, I switched teams to start leading Studio. Here's our first release since then.

More to come!

https://t.co/K1wnLGdFWc