Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti
@theletterf.bsky.social
Docs engineer. Tech writer. Collector of old manuals. Retrocomputing enthusiast. Opinions my own, etc. Don't panic! My blog is https://passo.uno
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I interviewed Claude and Gemini about my 2025 blog posts
I never posted so much as in 2025. Instead of analyzing my own blog production, I chose to interview Claude Opus 4.5 and Gemini Pro 3 about it and get their predictions for next year (with a surprise ...
passo.uno
I interviewed Claude and Gemini about my 2025 blog production. They never said “You’re absolutely right”, which is reassuring. They were also quite humorous at times. I had a blast co-writing this with them.
passo.uno/interview-cl...
passo.uno/interview-cl...
I created a simple tool to interview several LLMs at once and make them interact between each other, so you can play the puppeter. Repo: github.com/theletterf/l...
December 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I created a simple tool to interview several LLMs at once and make them interact between each other, so you can play the puppeter. Repo: github.com/theletterf/l...
Reposted by Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti
I interviewed Claude and Gemini about my 2025 blog production. They never said “You’re absolutely right”, which is reassuring. They were also quite humorous at times. I had a blast co-writing this with them.
passo.uno/interview-cl...
passo.uno/interview-cl...
I interviewed Claude and Gemini about my 2025 blog posts
I never posted so much as in 2025. Instead of analyzing my own blog production, I chose to interview Claude Opus 4.5 and Gemini Pro 3 about it and get their predictions for next year (with a surprise ...
passo.uno
December 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I interviewed Claude and Gemini about my 2025 blog production. They never said “You’re absolutely right”, which is reassuring. They were also quite humorous at times. I had a blast co-writing this with them.
passo.uno/interview-cl...
passo.uno/interview-cl...
Making robots talk is fun. It's a bit like those conversations between R. Daneel and R. Giskard in Asimov's stories. Or minds talking with each other in Iain Banks' The Culture series.
I interviewed Claude and Gemini about my 2025 blog production. They never said “You’re absolutely right”, which is reassuring. They were also quite humorous at times. I had a blast co-writing this with them.
passo.uno/interview-cl...
passo.uno/interview-cl...
I interviewed Claude and Gemini about my 2025 blog posts
I never posted so much as in 2025. Instead of analyzing my own blog production, I chose to interview Claude Opus 4.5 and Gemini Pro 3 about it and get their predictions for next year (with a surprise ...
passo.uno
December 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Making robots talk is fun. It's a bit like those conversations between R. Daneel and R. Giskard in Asimov's stories. Or minds talking with each other in Iain Banks' The Culture series.
Verbal demoscene.
December 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Verbal demoscene.
I interviewed Claude and Gemini about my 2025 blog production. They never said “You’re absolutely right”, which is reassuring. They were also quite humorous at times. I had a blast co-writing this with them.
passo.uno/interview-cl...
passo.uno/interview-cl...
I interviewed Claude and Gemini about my 2025 blog posts
I never posted so much as in 2025. Instead of analyzing my own blog production, I chose to interview Claude Opus 4.5 and Gemini Pro 3 about it and get their predictions for next year (with a surprise ...
passo.uno
December 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I interviewed Claude and Gemini about my 2025 blog production. They never said “You’re absolutely right”, which is reassuring. They were also quite humorous at times. I had a blast co-writing this with them.
passo.uno/interview-cl...
passo.uno/interview-cl...
Reposted by Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti
An excellent read about maintaining open-source projects. Covers the high and lows, including many difficult topics, with care and thoughtfulness.
What They Don't Tell You About Maintaining an Open Source Project
i built kaneo.app - an open source, self-hosted kanban board. turns out shipping code is the easy part. here's what maintaining it actually looks like.
andrej.sh
December 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
An excellent read about maintaining open-source projects. Covers the high and lows, including many difficult topics, with care and thoughtfulness.
I like to think that not giving up and showing a third way of cautious and rebellious optimism is useful.
Yes, AI can be misused and misunderstood. Yes, there will be pain and confusion. But we can use those tools to get to the other side and avenge what's good in our humanity.
Yes, AI can be misused and misunderstood. Yes, there will be pain and confusion. But we can use those tools to get to the other side and avenge what's good in our humanity.
December 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I like to think that not giving up and showing a third way of cautious and rebellious optimism is useful.
Yes, AI can be misused and misunderstood. Yes, there will be pain and confusion. But we can use those tools to get to the other side and avenge what's good in our humanity.
Yes, AI can be misused and misunderstood. Yes, there will be pain and confusion. But we can use those tools to get to the other side and avenge what's good in our humanity.
I'm getting terribly tired of reading doom and gloom posts on Reddit that are basically asking rhetorical questions.
"Should I start a career in tech writing now that...?"
Yes. If that's what you want to do, yes, by all means. Don't replace your will by crowdsourced heckling.
"Should I start a career in tech writing now that...?"
Yes. If that's what you want to do, yes, by all means. Don't replace your will by crowdsourced heckling.
December 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I'm getting terribly tired of reading doom and gloom posts on Reddit that are basically asking rhetorical questions.
"Should I start a career in tech writing now that...?"
Yes. If that's what you want to do, yes, by all means. Don't replace your will by crowdsourced heckling.
"Should I start a career in tech writing now that...?"
Yes. If that's what you want to do, yes, by all means. Don't replace your will by crowdsourced heckling.
Had a fantastic Senegalese dinner tonight: Fonio (ancient grain) tabouleh, Thiebouyapp (rice and meat), and Ngalakh, an incredible millet porridge with baobab powder and peanut butter. So, so good.
December 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Had a fantastic Senegalese dinner tonight: Fonio (ancient grain) tabouleh, Thiebouyapp (rice and meat), and Ngalakh, an incredible millet porridge with baobab powder and peanut butter. So, so good.
Reposted by Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti
I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …
simonwillison.net
December 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...
Almost 200 likes. I should nerd post more often.
Changed my keyboard to a Keychron V1 Max 75%. I prefer the more compact layout. And yes, I always have a Blood Raven space marine to keep me company.
December 19, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Almost 200 likes. I should nerd post more often.
Good night, y'all.
December 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Good night, y'all.
But of course breaking changes and bugs surface two days before xmas holidays.
December 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
But of course breaking changes and bugs surface two days before xmas holidays.
Changed my keyboard to a Keychron V1 Max 75%. I prefer the more compact layout. And yes, I always have a Blood Raven space marine to keep me company.
December 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Changed my keyboard to a Keychron V1 Max 75%. I prefer the more compact layout. And yes, I always have a Blood Raven space marine to keep me company.
When the backlog is shrinking... www.youtube.com/watch?v=38ED...
2010 Odyssey - Jupiter Ignition (Final scene)
YouTube video by cellexpert
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December 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
When the backlog is shrinking... www.youtube.com/watch?v=38ED...
Please don't repost folks who don't allow quotes or replies. I'm not interested in one-way conversations.
December 17, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Please don't repost folks who don't allow quotes or replies. I'm not interested in one-way conversations.
Street photography before photography.
December 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Street photography before photography.
Friend: "I've always known my problem and always work to improve, but it's never enough no matter what I do"
Me: "It's never enough. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. 🥲"
Me: "It's never enough. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. 🥲"
December 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Friend: "I've always known my problem and always work to improve, but it's never enough no matter what I do"
Me: "It's never enough. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. 🥲"
Me: "It's never enough. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. 🥲"
I loved this post. marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
marcusolang.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I loved this post. marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
Today I would pick 1.
Strategies for responding to AI:
1. Go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all this to blow over.
2. Point out the failings of AI and try to convince everyone it's a bad idea.
3. Dive in headlong and hope to be seen as a pioneer and expert.
4. Inch forward slowly.
1. Go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all this to blow over.
2. Point out the failings of AI and try to convince everyone it's a bad idea.
3. Dive in headlong and hope to be seen as a pioneer and expert.
4. Inch forward slowly.
December 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Today I would pick 1.
You know, if I knew that I'm competing against authentic superhuman AI, I would feel better. I could ask it for a job. But no, I'm just competing with a slot machine of human cliches.
December 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
You know, if I knew that I'm competing against authentic superhuman AI, I would feel better. I could ask it for a job. But no, I'm just competing with a slot machine of human cliches.
Reposted by Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
Serving LLMs is making us realize how poorly we've been serving humans — because LLMs always provide feedback, and success is immediate to measure.
December 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Serving LLMs is making us realize how poorly we've been serving humans — because LLMs always provide feedback, and success is immediate to measure.
@simonwillison.net shared the thoughts of a copywriter on his site, picked from a rather depressing list: www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forc.... I'm offering an alternative vision here. At least for tech writers, there's a bit of hope.
Instead of writing my tech comms predictions for next year like I did in 2024, I’ve written a fictionalized account of my day as a technical writer in 2030. passo.uno/my-day-tech-...
My day as a technical writer in 2030
Instead of writing my tech comms predictions for next year like I did in 2024, I’ve written a fictionalized account of my day as a technical writer in 2030. It’ll be interesting to see whether we get ...
passo.uno
December 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
@simonwillison.net shared the thoughts of a copywriter on his site, picked from a rather depressing list: www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forc.... I'm offering an alternative vision here. At least for tech writers, there's a bit of hope.
Reposted by Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti
Instead of writing my tech comms predictions for next year like I did in 2024, I’ve written a fictionalized account of my day as a technical writer in 2030. passo.uno/my-day-tech-...
My day as a technical writer in 2030
Instead of writing my tech comms predictions for next year like I did in 2024, I’ve written a fictionalized account of my day as a technical writer in 2030. It’ll be interesting to see whether we get ...
passo.uno
December 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Instead of writing my tech comms predictions for next year like I did in 2024, I’ve written a fictionalized account of my day as a technical writer in 2030. passo.uno/my-day-tech-...