Steve Brownlie

Why are ReachCreator links more expensive when they aren't ones you can get in a marketplace: Because they're not in a marketplace. Why can we get some marketplace sites so much cheaper? Because we do actual work and negotiate. I will return to non-sales posting shortly.

@asaio87 i'd say more like 90% but that difference can == many hours of your time telling it what it did wrong so... there's always that.

Are we at the point where local AI models are 97% as good as the Claude Code $200 plan?

It's funny when some vibe coder with no users vibe codes a stupid feature. It's less funny when it's a multi billion dollar company...

‼️🚨 ALARMING: Google now treats privacy as suspicious behavior by default. Users of GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, /e/OS, and other deGoogled Android phones are being locked out of millions of websites unless they install the exact Google Play Services software they deliberately removed. GrapheneOS is recommended by the EFF and used by journalists, lawyers, and activists in high-risk environments. The audience most likely to read Google's data practices and refuse its terms is now flagged as fraudulent for that exact decision. What happened?: ▪️ Google announced "Cloud Fraud Defense" at Cloud Next on April 22-23, 2026, branding it "the next evolution of reCAPTCHA." Existing reCAPTCHA customers were auto-migrated. ▪️ When the system flags traffic as suspicious, the old click-the-bus puzzle is gone. Users get a QR code instead. ▪️ Scanning the QR code requires Google Play Services running on the device. Internet Archive snapshots show this requirement has been live since at least October 2025, silently rolled out for 7 months before anyone noticed. ▪️ No Play Services = no QR scan = locked out. The bigger picture: ▪️ Google already tried this in 2023. It was called Web Environment Integrity (WEI), and it would have let Google decide which devices were "real enough" to access the web. Standards bodies and the public pushed back hard, and Google killed it. Three years later, the same idea is back, just hidden behind a QR code instead of a browser feature. ▪️ reCAPTCHA runs on millions of websites. Every developer who keeps using it is now, by default, telling deGoogled Android users they're not welcome...

@DavidGQuaid Given you can dump minified js in there and it can read it as if it weren't much of the time I'm inclined to agree with you...

Apparently now I have a "personal" grudge on Schema. And thats odd because its so important for AI Where? Where did Sama say they need/use schema?

Normalize calling AI regulation what it actually is: anti-AI regulation. Because most of it isn’t about making AI safer. It’s about slowing it down, raising barriers to entry, and protecting incumbents from competition.

I Will LITERALLY Pay $500 To Anyone Who Can Connect Me To Any Business That Can Show Me Actual Top Line Revenue Increases After Completing Google Ads Offline Conversion Data Uploads. I Want To Audit Your Google Ads Account. This Is $500 For Literally 30-45 Minutes Of Your Time If You Are Managing Ad Spend For A Business Or Are A Business That Fits This Criteria. Im Looking For Specific Instances Where A Business Was Spending The Same Amount Of Money On Google Ads And Then Completed An Offline Conversion Upload Or Connected Their Internal CRM And Then Their Top Line Revenue Increased Substantially As A Result Of This Data Upload. I Will Pay A Business For A Chance To Audit Their Google Ads Account If They Fit This Criteria. DM Me If Anyone Is Out There!

people on tech twitter think everyone is using ai now in reality more than 80% of the world still hasn't touched it once most people have never opened chatgpt never written a prompt never used ai in their daily life we are still absurdly early

It's frustrating to tell a client every 2 months you need videos for Meta, for 5 years on... Only to have them listen to someone that doesn't do paid ads tell them they need videos for Meta. And then client does backflips for this other person immediately and makes videos for Meta and then high fives them and gives them props when Meta blows it out of the water on performance, like you said it would for 5 years and dozens of times prior but no one wanted to listen to you.

@sdbrownlie @OpenAI Open source models are now the way to go for fine tuning.

a generation ago this idea was called 'business process re-engineering' and we also had the 'strategy from the ground up' phase. it turns out just having people you know will ask what the status is on something stops companies going totally off the rails once they get a certain size...

Serious question. We have an entire corporate class making $150k a year whose only actual job is to sit in meetings and ask "what is the status on this?" But if one guy with Claude can now finish a 2-week project in an afternoon... Why haven't companies laid off the entire middle layer yet?

@asaio87 From what I've seen they just declare it 'not that major an issue' and continue...

Don't you hate it when, after 3 days of prompting you have a bug that AI cannot solve ? It spins and spins, but makes it worse. And you have to code manually like the old days. What do you do if you are a vibecoder, I don't know...

Does anyone else spend the entire modern movie turning the volume up and down because there is zero sound consistency in movies anymore?

@theo As long as you're not going to admit you secretly have a team of 3 engineers managing your UUID database...

Do I have to do another UUID video?

Everyone will leave @openclaw and join the rest of us Hermes guys @NousResearch Let me tell you exactly why - I bet you spend more time fixing your open claw than using it - Every time you get a new upgrade with openclaw it breaks something else - Every time Hermes gets an upgrade it boosts your productivity - And your agents don’t randomly just stop working in the middle of your tasks I’m not sponsored by Hermes I just know a far superior product when I see one!

@YakuzaDaddy @openclaw @NousResearch yeah openclaw breaking itself making small config changes really took away from what was a really cool project. hermes has been more dependable.

new feature in opencode: warping never worry about whether or not you should work in a worktree again! now you can move sessions between worktrees and your local projects by warping them. it also brings any local changes with it!

That's a shame but I guess given that I once managed to fine tune the old 3.5-turbo to do a particular task better than many models that came afterwards, we probably can all have a lot of fun fine tuning some open models now instead :D. having an easy way to do it on openai was super nice though so this is def a shame.

OpenAI has announced they will be winding down fine tuning. I got the email today. Existing active @OpenAI customers can keep running fine-tuning jobs until January 6, 2027, but after that no new training jobs can be created. Existing fine-tuned models will still run, but only until the underlying base model is eventually deprecated. I get the argument that newer models follow instructions much better, and that prompts plus RAG cover more use cases than before. But not all of them.

Así se implementa un hotfix en el banco: 1. Te reportan un bug. 2. Creas un ticket para solicitar los logs. 3. Solicitas los pasos para replicar el error y preguntas si ese cliente tiene alguna configuración especial. 4. Sigues en espera de los logs. 5. Te comparten los pasos que realizó el cliente, pero no te pueden compartir las configuraciones porque es información confidencial. 6. Sigues en espera de los logs. 7. Replicas los pasos en tu ambiente local y producción... en ambos funciona bien, no se presenta el error. 8. Sigues en espera de los logs. 9. Pides a varios compañeros que repliquen los pasos con sus usuarios en producción y a ninguno le marca error. 10. El manager te presiona diciendo que, "cómo es posible que no puedas replicar el error si ya te dieron toda la información". 11. Te comparten los logs, pero ya fueron sobreescritos por el tiempo que tardaron en obtenerlos. 12. Revisas el código usando tus poderes de adivino para tratar de encontrar dónde podría estar el error y modificas el código. 13. Subes los cambios a un servidor de pre-producción (réplica de producción). 14. Le pides al cliente que pruebe nuevamente en ese ambiente. 15. Vuelve a fallar. 16. Solicitas esos logs. 17. El manager te dice que no pueden pedirle al cliente probar la aplicación, porque probar el fix es deber del programador que está solucionando el error. 18. Vuelves a modificar el código arbitrariamente esperando ver un resultado diferente. 19. Sigues en espera de los logs. 20. Le pides al cliente que vuelva a probar. 21. Sigues en espera de los logs. 22. El cliente te dice que no puede probar ahora porque está ocupado. 23. Sigues en espera de los logs. 24. El manager te dice que dejen de molestar al cliente, que eso es inaceptable! 25. Te comparten los logs. 26. Los revisas y descubres que el error es por una configuración incorrecta; un valor obligatorio no está presente... el negocio decidió volverlo opcional, pero solo se lo comunicaron al equipo de configuración de cuentas y no al de desarrollo que usa dichas configuraciones. 27. Haces el fix, lo subes a pre-producción. 28. Le pides al cliente que pruebe. 29. Todo funciona bien. 30. Creas el change request para subir el hotfix a producción. 31. Subes la documentación y las evidencias. 32. Consigues las aprobaciones del CR. 33. Te informan en qué horario pueden realizar la instalación. 34. El manager te dice que este tipo de errores no pueden repetirse! 35. Renuncias.

Let's Encrypt has stopped issuing certs. No reason given yet. Cloud flare and Discord down at the same time. Probably SSL cert compromise. Happy Friday.

🚨 NOUVELLE ARNAQUE TÉLÉPHONIQUE : ILS VOLENT VOTRE VOIX AVEC L’IA (TF1) ! 😱❗Vous recevez un appel… et personne ne parle au bout du fil. 💥C’est volontaire. Le but : enregistrer votre voix pendant ces quelques secondes de silence pour la cloner avec l’IA. En moins de 10 minutes, ils obtiennent une copie presque parfaite de votre voix. Puis ils appellent vos proches en se faisant passer pour vous : « Maman, j’ai perdu mon téléphone… envoie-moi de l’argent d’urgence. » C’est déjà en cours en France. Règle d’or : Si un numéro inconnu sonne et que personne ne parle → raccrochez immédiatement. Ne dites rien. Ne rappelez jamais.