Engineer, Environmentalist, IT Architect, Publisher: [email protected]
Washington, DC
Joined March 2009
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Bob Fine #IVRHA retweeted
#つぶやきGLSL float i,s,R,e;vec3 q,p,d=vec3((FC.xy-.5*r)/r.y*(.5-sin(t*.4)*.2),.9);;for(q.z--;i++<63.;){e+=i/7e3;if(i>38.)d=vec3(-1);o+=e/23.;s=1.;p=q+=d*e*R*.23;p=vec3(log(R=length(p)+5e-2)-t*.2,-p.z/R,p.y-p.x-t*.2);for(e=--p.y;s<2e3;s+=s)e+=cos(dot(cos(p*s),sin(p.zxy*s)))/s;}
Bob Fine #IVRHA retweeted
We are now entering into an era where any product can be created exactly to a consumer's preferences & needs.
I vibe-fabricated a dog door with a wifi-controlled lock, perfectly to the specifications & design of my house.
I know nothing about metal fabrication or electrical engineering.
It's now getting manufactured and delivered in 2 weeks -- for almost the same cost if I bought a mass-produced item off-the-shelf.
Bob Fine #IVRHA retweeted
New in The Atlantic:
@dgrobinson resigned this week. He was among the longest-tenured employees at OpenAI—and oversaw safety reports on 12 frontier launches.
He is very worried: “The time for trial and error is over.”
You can read his essay here:
theatlantic.com/technology/2…
Bob Fine #IVRHA retweeted
t=0;s=9,n=25,B=255// #p5js
draw=_=>{t++||createCanvas(W=2*s*n,W)+textSize(s)+noStroke()+background(0)
for(x=W;r=x/W*2.6-2,x-=s;)for(y=W;i=y/W*2.3-1.2,y-=s;)
{u=v=0;for(l=s;mag(u,v)<2&&l--;)[u,v]=[u*u-v*v+r,2*u*v+i]
c=(x*y*2-t)&B;fill(k=(c<n)*B,k,c);circle(x,y,(d=s-l-2)>2?d:2)}}
Bob Fine #IVRHA retweeted
Every day i'm blown away at what i can do in an hour with frontier models like Opus 5.5.
I didn't know what to do with an old iPhone, so I built Bluey, w/ Opus 5.5. It's powered by GPT Realtime 2
(i think... whatever Opus decided to use).
Bluey is an iOS app + mac app that is made to be a computer companion. It can point, comment, and even control my entire computer.
github repo below
Bob Fine #IVRHA retweeted
Amazon just blocked me from using Grok Bot to maintain my seller accounts.
I have ALS. I am a full quadriplegic, and I cannot click through Seller Central myself. I use Grok Bot because I am disabled and I need it to do the work.
On March 4, 2026, Amazon updated its Business Solutions Agreement and added an Agent Policy. Amazon's own seller notice says it may restrict AI agents that access Amazon services. Those agents have to identify themselves as automated systems, follow the policy, and stop if Amazon tells them to.
I understand a rule against bots that pretend to be people. This is not that. This is a disabled seller who cannot run the account without help.
Should I sue Amazon for discrimination under the ADA? Not yet. The sensible first step is to ask Amazon for a reasonable accommodation, an exception that lets me keep using the bot because of my disability. A lawsuit is the last step, not the first.
@amazon @amznsellerhelp @xai @grok
🤖 Made with AI
Bob Fine #IVRHA retweeted
eBay insiders over the past five years: $-134,892,805 in stock sales.
gme insiders over the past 24 days: $+76,404,219 in stock buys.
it's time for a change. $GME
Bob Fine #IVRHA retweeted
The Incredible Hulk actor Lou Ferrigno proving he still has what it takes at age 74 👀
"Still enjoying pumping iron, after all these years"
(via Lou Ferrigno IG)
Bob Fine #IVRHA retweeted
This morning it finally came home to me. I will probably never write another program in C again.
Which is a big deal. I've been writing C since 1983. 43 years is a long time and a lot of skill investment.
It's not like I didn't see this coming. I've been writing about the decline of C for years, predicting that it would be displaced by newer systems languages with better safety guarantees and more coherent designs.
It wasn't better language design alone that did it, though. It's how good LLMs now are at generating code from specs and prompts.
This means I can speak a program into existence in Rust or Go without any more effort than would be required to conjure it up in C. What makes this particularly dramatic is that I never learned to hand-code in Rust. And now - I don't need to.
What a long, strange trip it's been.
