Allen Pike

@allenpike.com

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Building Forestwalk.ai, hosting Infer and It Shipped That Way, and writing about software and other tricky things. ⭐️ Vancouver • @apike elsewhere • allenpike.com

A screenshot of a Google Maps search for beer in the city, which has somehow returned "Google Maps can't find beer"
Starbucks poster featuring their new “butterfly” refreshers
A modal popup that inexplicably asks me to connect a Yahoo! account to macOS.
Google explains that Kelsey Grammer is best known for playing Beast from X-Men
macOS claims I have run out of application memory, even though 1Password is only using 323MB, Calendar is using 182MB, and Cursor is only using 88,100 MB.
Image of somebody saying, "Okay let's just close the linear issue about the squirrel thing." and a confirmation that Cedarloop has closed the issue about "Add squirrel animation to homepage".
Claude Design has generated a tweaks control panel for a rich UI that's being designed.
A dishwasher app claims that it… misses me?
A delete confirmation dialog that forces you to type your OWN full name to confirm deletion.
OpenAI rates gpt-5-mini 4 lightning bolts in speed
The most important part of this post-mortem is crammed into a dense paragraph as long as a giraffe's vocal cord
ChatGPT trait hint: "You don't need to compliment me. Adopt the tone of critical thinking, and be willing to revisit and question assumptions. Push me or challenge me to do better. When something might not be true, equivocate - for example, use phrases like “might be” or “is probably”, or mention relevant tradeoffs. In voice mode, speak quickly."
A notification that says, for issue "Deploy prod server", that jenn changed the issue status to Done.
A github issue titled "Incompatible with React 19 due to use of __SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED". It is not clear fom the issue if the offender was fired
A screenshot of ChatGPT with 7 different LLMs shoved in a dropdown, each with complex tradeoffs summarized in a handful of words.
An AI slop poster with a demented shopping cart and a callout about “BEEFY DAIRY”
ChatGPT says "Sure, let’s break it down step by step. First, lie on your back on the floor. Then, bend your knees" then is interrupted by an error: "Content flagged."
A panel that claims Forestwalk has grown 2^31 percentage points over the last year
A console error showing a failure to find a route for a long chaotic string, which seems to be the contents of some CSS turned into a URL for some godforsaken reason
A photo showing a B-21 side profile alongside a dive-bombing peregrine falcon profile, and they're nearly the same shape would you look at that
Xcode generative autocomplete insults RealityKit's documentation quality.
A cross-eyed man looking into the once with a deformed hand
The “Illustration” style in iOS 18.2’s Image Playground creates some extremely unappealing avatars compared to other AI services.
A church behind its sign, titled “Standard Holiness Church”
The “expanding brain” meme, ranging from “Serverless is fraud”, through “Default to server less”, “It depends”, and culminating in the ideal, “Actually trying to advise on the problem under consideration”
Cats seem unpredictable until you realize their primary goal in life is to be on top of warm things.