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@TeoSlehofer Use it to enhance what you do. But I asked Claude a few weeks ago and one of the answers was this: "We spent 300 years automating humanity out of production. Then we’ll spend the next era paying a premium to put it back in.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​" AI to educate the humans who write.

We must reject AI.

I am so excited.

I dropped everything to research agentic AI for three months because I saw the impact agents will have on individuals. Not chatbots. Agents. Autonomous systems that work for you, day and night, at near-zero cost. I built one for football. tacticsjournal.com/2026/03/24/tac…

@umirf1 Nice!

@TacticsJournal Thanks buddy! Replit or Vercel is what has worked for me pretty easily across projects like this

Project is done and live. A blog-archive-portfolio that I’ll publish thoughts to ranging from quick observations to frameworks I use to full essays and analysis. The search function is detailed so people can search ideas, sort by format, coaches, or teams over hopefully years.

@dillon_mulroy Workers AI >>>>>>>>

i'm really excited about the prospect of local/open source models. i think we're only a few iterations away from having really capable models also excited we've put a ton of investment in workers ai for being a great (and cheap) place to run them

@R_by_Ryo @umirf1 I created my own. Feel free to fork it. github.com/kyleboas/secon…

@R_by_Ryo @umirf1 x.com/gukevinr/statu…

i do want to try this eventually but still building out my own database right now... i've gotten most of my notes over the past 4~5 years & linked them together in obsidian. annoying thing is i mostly handwrote match notes pre-2023 so need to figure out how to OCR them lol

@MartinRafelt Ben Arfa would go triple platinum in today's game

Sadly, there are no real dribblers anymore. We need more players like Yamal. More players like Olise. Like Kvaratskhelia, you know? Real dribblers like Doku or Vinicius. Someone like Dembele or Doue. Ballers like Musiala or Wirtz or Cherki. Someone like Nico Williams maybe or..

@TheAthleticFC It is a league wide issue. For the sake of the sport in England, it would be a mistake to hyper focus on Arsenal. It is not up to the teams to stop. The game needs to be called differently by the referees. Less use of the hands. Less pulling and pushing.

Arsenal’s approach to set-pieces dismayed Fabian Hurzeler prior to Wednesday night’s game, and the 97 minutes that followed did nothing to alter that view. But are Mikel Arteta's side really so different to their rivals? And isn't it a sensible approach for a team chasing a league title anyway? 📝 @stujames75 🔗 nytimes.com/athletic/70904…

@JB_2024 @BBCMOTD Yes. 10 seconds to take it and no grappling/holding in the box.

@TacticsJournal @BBCMOTD Or have a stop clock like in Rugby. Ball out of play or game stops, time stops until ball is back in play. Eradicates set piece nonsense, time wasting nonsense too.

Ahead of their Premier League meeting on Wednesday, Brighton manager Fabian Hurzeler has questioned the amount of time Arsenal take before set-pieces.

@MarkOgden_ Can it get worse?

FIFA have no plans to address grappling / blocking at corners as IFAB claim the issue is ‘not getting worse…’ espn.co.uk/football/story…

@TheAthleticFC I agree

Liverpool head coach Arne Slot says most Premier League matches are “no longer a joy to watch” with so many teams so dependent on set pieces. The Dutchman described it as “the new reality” of top-flight football in England with games increasingly stop-start due to a greater focus on dead ball situations. “First of all, you have to accept it,” he said. “I think it’s mainly here in the Premier League. It’s the new reality. If I watch other leagues I don’t think there’s so much emphasis on set pieces. If I watch an Eredivisie game, I see goals being disallowed and fouls on goalkeepers being given and I’m like: ‘Wow, that’s a big difference.’ “Here, you can almost hit a goalkeeper in his face and the referee still says: ‘Just go on.’ Do I like it? My football heart doesn’t like it. If you ask me, thinking about football, I think about the Barcelona team from 10 to 15 years ago. Every Sunday evening you were hoping they would play. “Now, most of the games I see in the Premier League are not for me a joy to watch but it’s always interesting because it’s so competitive and that is what makes this league great because there is so much competitiveness." @JamesPearceLFC nytimes.com/athletic/70805…

@Squawka Nice rage bait

Declan Rice has created more big chances than any other Premier League player across all competitions this season (21). 🍚

@JaviOnData The possibilities for research are immense

Sports Analytics and Agentic Coding An extremely common challenge in Sports Analytics is that, to generate serious impact, you need to leverage advanced software engineering inside a non-tech company or team...

@yureedelahi Looks great!

@TacticsJournal Not currently

PitchMetrics is live for beta testing. PL 25/26 Analytics. It's live for a week so I can test and gather feedback. Let me know what you guys think. Data is only up-till Matchday 25. I'll regularly update it once site is up. pl-analytics.vercel.app