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   Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 17-Apr-2026 15:21:58 JST Annika Backstrom

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   • mikesusz

   @mikesusz All the "success stories" I've heard are these types of applications of LLMs, and none of it has existed for long enough that it's had to be maintained

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     mikesusz (mikesusz@front-end.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Apr-2026 15:21:59 JST mikesusz

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     • Matthew Haughey

     @mathowie this is something Grady Booch described as the difference between software that is “disposable” versus software that (needs to be) “durable” AI excels at disposable software - single purpose, limited user, reliability is not paramount.

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     Matthew Haughey (mathowie@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 17-Apr-2026 15:22:00 JST Matthew Haughey

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     I'm getting more into AI for projects like this, things I always wanted to build if I had time to research all the syntax of various programming languages, stuff it can do in mere seconds to produce prototypes and single-user web pages not meant to be massive software platforms.

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     Matthew Haughey (mathowie@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 17-Apr-2026 15:22:02 JST Matthew Haughey

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     • Scott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮

     AI is a mess for lots of reasons but I ike how @shanselman calls himself an "ethical AI vegan" in that he never uses it for generating images or video or essays, instead adopting it to automate daunting tasks that would take forever for someone to code by themselves.

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     Matthew Haughey (mathowie@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 17-Apr-2026 15:22:03 JST Matthew Haughey

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     I'm honestly amazed that in less than ten minutes Claude could grind through my local directory of files and produce a webpage that runs on its own with SQLite and it does exactly what I always wanted. It indexed 2Gb of images and mapped them to tweets in less than a minute. Truly remarkable stuff.

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     Matthew Haughey (mathowie@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 17-Apr-2026 15:22:04 JST Matthew Haughey

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     This is the kind of tedious single-user kind of task I had put off for the last ten years. The three giant JSON blobs were all different formats, the images folder was a mishmash of 256SHA hash file names and I wanted to someday be able to search any of my old tweets and find them, and now I can.

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     Matthew Haughey (mathowie@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 17-Apr-2026 15:22:05 JST Matthew Haughey

     From 2007-2022 I posted 56,000 tweets to Twitter before I quit forever. I had three different backups saved as json and 3Gb of images I posted.

     I saved it all to a directory and asked Claude to make me a standalone web page for me in a few minutes and it's really incredible.