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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Aug 03, 2026

I went with my parents to a pizza place. When we were done I went to the bathroom. I came out, flagged down the kid behind the counter, whispered to him, and showed him to the bathroom. Then I ushered my family out of the restaurant without bussing our table. They thought I clogged the toilet.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Aug 02, 2026

Intelligence is now a liquid and my job is to design human-problem-shaped containers and the plumbing that connects them. (Still workshopping this.)

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Aug 02, 2026

You could say there’s a… fault in our stars. Eh? Couldn’t you say that? Right?

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Aug 02, 2026

I have not opened Xcode in at least one year and I have done more and better Apple platform development than ever before in that time. I don’t know what I should take from that observation. One day you’ll pick up your child for the last time ever and there’s no way to know when it will happen.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Aug 01, 2026

When I deboard a plane every movement is calculated. I act with complete serenity in contrast to the chaos around me. Every breath intentional. I stand not a second too soon. I dance with grace.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Aug 01, 2026

JetBlue does not allow you to use USB battery packs onboard. Selling all of my Anker stock.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Jul 31, 2026

Replying to @imclaren@infosec.exchange

@imclaren@infosec.exchange @simonbs@mastodon.social For some anecdata: I hotswapped a huge React Native app for a huge native app and the review for the update went through in 3 three hours. The follow up, much smaller, bug fix build has been stuck for 4 days.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Jul 29, 2026

Replying to @nicklockwood@mastodon.social

@nicklockwood@mastodon.social can we trade https://mister.computer/@kyle/117003590118101938

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · May 27, 2026

I put the unc in uncrustable.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · May 27, 2026

It’s where the amusement goes.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · May 26, 2026

Does anyone have experience using baguette for headless iOS Simulators? I wanted a solution to having six Simulator windows on my desktop. It looks super slick.

https://tddworks.github.io/baguette/

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · May 25, 2026

I will need an extension on my encyclical, I didn’t know it was due today.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · May 25, 2026

Replying to @grork@mastodon.social

@grork@mastodon.social Millennials and Gen Z have an easy time identifying Gen-X-sourced humor—the repost is an example. One common tell is that the joke relies on pointing out hypocrisy with edgy language or cuss words. Most people my age won’t find that interesting. I wonder what are the Millennial styles of humor that Gen Z could articulate in the same way but I can’t separate myself from?

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · May 25, 2026

A lot of Gen X humor, as observed by younger generations, is “pointing out hypocrisy with edgy language.” It doesn’t land for anyone else. What is the flavor of consistent Millennial humor that only Gen Z can articulate?

@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · May 25, 2026

I may not have grown them, but they’re mine now.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · May 24, 2026

If yer conflatin’ AI with GLP-1s, you might have psychosis.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · May 24, 2026

Replying to @manuel@iosdev.space

@manuel@iosdev.space You can bet your bottom dollar I still have it.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · May 24, 2026

18 years ago I tried to watch Michael Clayton in bed on my PSP and I fell asleep. Last night I decided that surely I could better appreciate it as an adult. Fell asleep on the couch.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · May 24, 2026

My AI subscriptions save me a lot of money because I’m pretty sure I haven’t done anything except make software for 16 hours per day since November.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · May 23, 2026

I can’t psychologically grapple with thinking about /goal-like workflows for agents + computer use + non-coding use cases.

/goal sell my MBP for +20% higher than the median selling price

/goal get rid of the moles in my yard

/goal open the Strait of Hormuz

/goal close the Strait of Hormuz

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · May 23, 2026

lol the Ai Pin backed by Opus 4.7 or GPT 5.5 would be great

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · May 23, 2026

I didn’t see anyone talking about this: at Google I/O they announced that AI Studio can generate and install full Android apps from the browser, no local development environment required. Soon they will allow Play Store distribution. The slop horizon is imminent.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/05/build-android-apps-google-ai-studio.html

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · May 16, 2026

Replying to @mergesort@macaw.social

@mergesort@macaw.social the way to know this is because they banished the hell out of cloud threads

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · May 15, 2026

Replying to @kylebshr@mastodon.social

@kylebshr@mastodon.social @mergesort@macaw.social it has more to do with the harness

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · May 13, 2026

Replying to @mergesort@macaw.social

@mergesort@macaw.social thanks to Indigo I only have to read this once

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · May 11, 2026

Replying to @kyle@mister.computer

I am not lamenting a loss of a feeling of expertise or control, or really anything. Just noticing this growing sensation of an overhang… a sloughing off of the friction that gave structure to interests and concerns and hopes and despairs that is happening more quickly than the momentum of those things can be slowed down.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · May 11, 2026

Replying to @kyle@mister.computer

I have this profound sense that nothing I care about in software development matters anymore, and that there may still be things that do matter now and in the future, and I could know them right now, but human processes and adoption are the bottleneck to rebuilding our shared understanding of human-computer interaction. Like… there can't be that many more times in my life I will need to think about or type "UICollectionView." The last may be this year. It feels dumb to not be there already.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · May 11, 2026

I did a 4,000-line refactor from SwiftUI ScrollView + LazyVStack to UICollectionView + UIContentView in about 6 nonconsecutive hours with little actual attention spent. It's wonderfully performant and the only things I had to tweak were spacing. This would have been the highlight of the quarter for me a year ago and now it is the least significant thing I will accomplish this week. It is also why all the air has gone out of so many topics for me. Declarative or imperative UI? Who cares?

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · May 09, 2026

Replying to @mergesort@macaw.social

@mergesort@macaw.social get a room

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · May 02, 2026

GPT 5.5 in Codex vibe-migrated me off of my bespoke AWS-native microservice-based Mastodon infrastructure to a single EC2 host. If you don’t hear from me again, well, we’ll both be better off.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Apr 27, 2026

Replying to @andy@dotgr.id

@andy@dotgr.id this was GPT 5.5 Pro :)

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Apr 27, 2026

Replying to @mttaggart@infosec.exchange

@mttaggart This would really give up the game for the Chinese models because they are being distilled from American frontier models.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Apr 27, 2026

Replying to @andy@dotgr.id

@andy@dotgr.id Is it this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKXk1VhAuvE

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Apr 26, 2026

Replying to @kyle@mister.computer

@nick@sloan.host @hynek@mastodon.social To the second point: there was never a pipeline or roadmap to break. Software engineering as a career has been entirely organically grown because of durable, outsized demand compared to supply. e.g. we had interns because we literally needed more bodies, forever. If I’m wrong on my first point in my first post, the way we fix this is to actually build a roadmap and pipeline; something like formal apprenticeships.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Apr 26, 2026

Replying to @nick@sloan.host

@nick@sloan.host @hynek@mastodon.social FWIW I fall into the first camp but I still think the math supports making as much money as possible in software while it is still possible. One additional year of a salary will handily beat getting through an apprenticeship a year earlier. But, I also think that the end of knowledge work will turn most cities into Detroit, and trades work is heavily reactive to the local economy, so that career shift would also have to be paired with a huge move. Not confident I can pick a winner.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Apr 24, 2026

Replying to @tikitu@mastodon.social

@tikitu@mastodon.social tell that to Buddha

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Apr 24, 2026

GPT 5.5 in Codex has been able to independently fix complex issues that GPT 5.4 and Opus 4.7 in Claude Code could not solve in several days, even while collaborating.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @me1000@mastodon.social

@me1000@mastodon.social I guess that will ultimately come down to whether Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and xAI can outcompete companies that can't stand up their own software factories. I don't think it is a guarantee that these are all developer platforms forever, just for now. See: Claude Design.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @kyle@mister.computer

Being struck by the first arrow (iOS 26) was painful. Being struck by every additional arrow (griping about Liquid Glass for an entire year) is a pain you inflict upon yourself. Drop the bow.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @cocoaphony@mastodon.social

@cocoaphony@mastodon.social @mattiem@mastodon.social by many measurements we are still on many different exponential curves https://joelbkr.substack.com/p/straight-lines-on-graphs

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Apr 23, 2026

To all of the people still resisting Liquid Glass: welcome to the rest of your life as a curmudgeon! It will never be fun. You can get off the ride at any time, though.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @mattiem@mastodon.social

@mattiem@mastodon.social “highly correlated” doesn’t rule that out, they just lose on the numbers

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @mattiem@mastodon.social

@mattiem@mastodon.social IMO that is the biggest threat of AGI. Civilization has the moral arc that it does because, thankfully, being bad is highly correlated with being stupid. e.g. we can rely on the MAGA world to not actually be very effective. AGI would end that correlation, especially because having the most capital is highly correlated with being bad.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @mattiem@mastodon.social

@mattiem@mastodon.social I think…

We are more knowledge-transfer-and-compounding bound than anything. It takes a long time to teach people, disseminate information, come up with cognitive abstractions, etc. My agent can easily use your writing to make better concurrency decisions than I can, and much faster than I can internalize what you wrote.
Our intelligence has “too much” agency tied to it. i.e. people with aspirations, hobbies, beliefs, other things to do. Labor is inefficient in this way.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @mattiem@mastodon.social

@mattiem@mastodon.social That’s more than I can reasonably hope for. Who reads this shit?

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @kyle@mister.computer

If AGI is achieved then the winner will have an infinite money glitch. They will be able to get more marginal utility out of every atom in their supply chain than anyone else in the world. That is why I am bearish on the existence of consumer electronics during AGI: there will always be greater utility for that silicon in data-centers-full-of-geniuses because it compounds. It is notable that all of the frontier labs are behaving like they are racing to a finish line that materialized in 2026.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @kyle@mister.computer

I am bearish on the threat of local models to frontier labs. It may placate hobbyists–for as long as consumer compute exists–but the effects are different in the market. If you can trade money for guaranteed work products, and the utility of those work products compound, you will always be incentivized to throw as much money to the best and fastest compounder. Imagine if local models matched Opus 4.7 today but Anthropic was selling access to Mythos. They would still be saturated with demand.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Apr 23, 2026

Does it make sense now why I’ve been saying all of the idle compute and silicon we have in consumer electronics is an anachronism? Why we will be compute-constrained for the rest of our lives? Why this is not an asset bubble comparable to previous ones? Why we are on the path to capital replacing labor? Companies are already falling over themselves to spend senior-engineer-level salaries per engineer on AI that isn’t close to the top of the S-curve (if there even is one).

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Apr 22, 2026

Replying to @stevestreza@indieweb.social

@stevestreza@indieweb.social What variant specifically? Dense or MoE? I downloaded Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-4bit-DWQ on a hunch but haven't tried it yet.

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Kyle Hughes @kyle@mister.computer · Apr 17, 2026

Replying to @danielmgauthier@mastodon.social

@danielmgauthier I can hear this in Devin’s voice 🎶

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