Some Coder (@tullycraft.mas.to.ap.brid.gy)

@tullycraft.mas.to.ap.brid.gy Oct 13, 2026, 1:00 PM

Monster blanket finally done. Took me nearly 2 years to complete it.

It is SOOOOO huge. Super king-sized. You could hide a whole family under this. This was for my daughter. Now working on one for my son. That one will be a mosaic crochet […]

[Original post on mas.to]

A humongous crochet blanket done in tapestry crochet style. The blanket is done in rows of different repeating patterns, reminiscent of fair isle knitting patterns. The rows are done in colors that mimic the 'ROYGBIV' pattern of rainbow colors. Groups of three rows are done in colors next to each other in the rainbow: three rows of orange, yellow, red, followed by three of yellow, green, followed by green/blue, followed by blue, purple, violet.

@tullycraft.mas.to.ap.brid.gy Sep 4, 2026, 4:27 PM

I've pivoted from developing them as fanfiction. Now, I am writing original character bios and working on the world-building for an original universe. And it's so much fun! Maybe this would have happened without doing the first fanfiction with the assistance of AI Studio. It's really hard to […]

@tullycraft.mas.to.ap.brid.gy Sep 4, 2026, 4:17 PM

I've been working on a fanfiction for 6 months with the help of AI Studio. It's mostly finished (70%). I started posting chapters on AO3 back in May and now have 16 chapters published. I disclosed my use of AI in the summary because readers hate being tricked into reading works with AI input […]

@tullycraft.mas.to.ap.brid.gy Sep 2, 2026, 4:29 PM

@UkeleleEric

I also have several junior human devs that work under my supervision. Some of them have taken to this process likes ducks to water. Others are still struggling with it. But I am making an effort to train them in how to use the tooling and where it falls short. And they're learning! […]

@tullycraft.mas.to.ap.brid.gy Sep 2, 2026, 4:26 PM

@UkeleleEric I may be off-base here, but your reply to me is coming off as semi-hostile. It is true that the benefits were less than advertised. AI tooling did not accelerate me 10x. It improved my throughput, but at a rate of 30-50% of the advertised rate. I wasn't 'sold a lie'. There was too […]

@tullycraft.mas.to.ap.brid.gy Sep 2, 2026, 3:00 PM

I think much of this change will be disorienting for us. It will be frightening. Not all the things it brings will be positive. But it could accelerate so much that might otherwise take us decades to achieve. I don't want to return to a simpler, pre-industrial past, to return to a 'purer' state […]

@tullycraft.mas.to.ap.brid.gy Sep 2, 2026, 2:55 PM

I don't want know the future holds. I don't think people are crazy to see AI as a job-killing machine. The tech bros aren't even trying to lie to us about that. They are salivating at the idea that AI will replace vast quantities of human labor because they expect to make trillions of dollars […]

@tullycraft.mas.to.ap.brid.gy Sep 2, 2026, 2:48 PM

I am busier now that I ever have been. I am moving 3-5 times faster in terms of my throughput, but the burden of reviewing all the work my AI tools do has leveled up the stress level of my job. In a way, I feel like I am now having to supervise a team of extremely literal-minded entry level […]

@tullycraft.mas.to.ap.brid.gy Sep 2, 2026, 2:43 PM

It has however, introduced significant bottlenecks. The AI tools generate a lot of code. This puts a huge cognitive burden on the human code reviewers. Because we're not writing all of our code by hand, we are forced to do quality control on many many lines of AI-generated source code that we […]

@tullycraft.mas.to.ap.brid.gy Sep 2, 2026, 2:35 PM

A few months ago, I posted that my employer was pushing us hard to use AI in our jobs. I was really apprehensive about this. I didn't have much confidence or optimism about them when this started. But, I really like working for them. The engineering organization is easily the best one I've seen […]