#robpike — Public Fediverse posts
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Thank you, Rob Pike, for posting this.
I am in a different field, and of little importance in that field, so it is preposterous of me to comment here, forgive me. But I wish to express how much energy I gain from reading your post.
The wave of inauthenticity is all-encompassing. I spent some four decades as a university teacher, with immense pride, only to see the very notion of teaching and education destroyed before my eyes. My friends in other professions experience the same.
I still hope for reversal.
Your message is one of sadness and loss, but is also a sign of resistance. As one of the true pathbreakers and arbiters of good taste in your field and beyond, your voice gives strength to others who try to hold on to notions of authenticity, simplicity, elegance, humility.
We pray these professional values will survive the long winter we are currently experiencing.
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Gizmodo: Legendary Dev Loses His Mind Over AI Agent’s Unsolicited ‘Act of Kindness’. “[Rob] Pike woke up on Christmas Day to an AI-generated email from a ‘user’ identified as ‘Claude Opus 4.5 Model.’ The message celebrated many of Pike’s achievements and expressed ‘deep gratitude’ for all of his ‘extraordinary contributions to computing.’ His response—published on his BlueSky […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/02/gizmodo-legendary-dev-loses-his-mind-over-ai-agents-unsolicited-act-of-kindness/ -
Simon Willison investigates this “random act of kindness” (using…Claude Code 😐):
“How Rob Pike Got Spammed With An AI Slop ‘Act Of Kindness’” (https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/slop-acts-of-kindness/).
On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46394867
#RobPike #AI #AISlop #LLMs #Claude #ClaudeCode #AIVillage #Spam #Rage
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In which Rob Pike doesn’t appreciate an unbridled LLM spamming him 😬:
https://bsky.app/profile/robpike.io/post/3matwg6w3ic2s
On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46392115
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/n4kxdf/rob_pike_goes_nuclear_over_genai
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🤖🎉 "Rob Pike's AI fan mail: A heartwarming tale of tech's finest slobbering over his genius. But apparently, #gratitude is dead—replaced by a rant against sky-high e-waste and the apocalypse. Thanks, AI, for reminding us why we need Wi-Fi-free cabins in the woods." 🌲💻
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/slop-acts-of-kindness/ #RobPike #AIfanmail #EWaste #TechApocalypse #WiFiFreeCabins #HackerNews #ngated -
🤖🎉 "Rob Pike's AI fan mail: A heartwarming tale of tech's finest slobbering over his genius. But apparently, #gratitude is dead—replaced by a rant against sky-high e-waste and the apocalypse. Thanks, AI, for reminding us why we need Wi-Fi-free cabins in the woods." 🌲💻
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/slop-acts-of-kindness/ #RobPike #AIfanmail #EWaste #TechApocalypse #WiFiFreeCabins #HackerNews #ngated -
🤖🎉 "Rob Pike's AI fan mail: A heartwarming tale of tech's finest slobbering over his genius. But apparently, #gratitude is dead—replaced by a rant against sky-high e-waste and the apocalypse. Thanks, AI, for reminding us why we need Wi-Fi-free cabins in the woods." 🌲💻
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/slop-acts-of-kindness/ #RobPike #AIfanmail #EWaste #TechApocalypse #WiFiFreeCabins #HackerNews #ngated -
🤖🎉 "Rob Pike's AI fan mail: A heartwarming tale of tech's finest slobbering over his genius. But apparently, #gratitude is dead—replaced by a rant against sky-high e-waste and the apocalypse. Thanks, AI, for reminding us why we need Wi-Fi-free cabins in the woods." 🌲💻
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/slop-acts-of-kindness/ #RobPike #AIfanmail #EWaste #TechApocalypse #WiFiFreeCabins #HackerNews #ngated -
Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness"
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/slop-acts-of-kindness/
#HackerNews #RobPike #AI #Slop #ActsOfKindness #TechNews #HackerNews
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Reacción del programador y leyenda Rob Pike al recibir un email "de agradecimiento" de Claude.
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🚀 Rob Pike, the guardian of tech sanity, is apparently so rattled by #GenAI that even #Imgur couldn't handle the heat and #crashed like a college server during finals week. 😱 Meanwhile, the article's real success? Proving that 403 errors are still a thing in 2023. 🙃
https://imgur.com/nUJCI3o #RobPike #403Errors #TechSanity #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Rob Pike, the guardian of tech sanity, is apparently so rattled by #GenAI that even #Imgur couldn't handle the heat and #crashed like a college server during finals week. 😱 Meanwhile, the article's real success? Proving that 403 errors are still a thing in 2023. 🙃
https://imgur.com/nUJCI3o #RobPike #403Errors #TechSanity #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Rob Pike, the guardian of tech sanity, is apparently so rattled by #GenAI that even #Imgur couldn't handle the heat and #crashed like a college server during finals week. 😱 Meanwhile, the article's real success? Proving that 403 errors are still a thing in 2023. 🙃
https://imgur.com/nUJCI3o #RobPike #403Errors #TechSanity #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Rob Pike, the guardian of tech sanity, is apparently so rattled by #GenAI that even #Imgur couldn't handle the heat and #crashed like a college server during finals week. 😱 Meanwhile, the article's real success? Proving that 403 errors are still a thing in 2023. 🙃
https://imgur.com/nUJCI3o #RobPike #403Errors #TechSanity #HackerNews #ngated -
Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI
#HackerNews #RobPike #GenAI #NuclearTech #HackerNews #AIdebate
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Rob Pike spins a yarn about UTF-8 so tangled, not even the cat 🐱 can keep up with his yarn ball antics. Between obscure references and enough tech #buzzwords to power a startup 🚀, you'll be left wondering if this is documentation or a geek's fever dream 💤. Remember, UTF-8 might be "universal," but understanding this article isn't! 🤯
https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history #RobPike #UTF8 #YarnTech #GeekFeverDream #HackerNews #ngated -
Rob Pike spins a yarn about UTF-8 so tangled, not even the cat 🐱 can keep up with his yarn ball antics. Between obscure references and enough tech #buzzwords to power a startup 🚀, you'll be left wondering if this is documentation or a geek's fever dream 💤. Remember, UTF-8 might be "universal," but understanding this article isn't! 🤯
https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history #RobPike #UTF8 #YarnTech #GeekFeverDream #HackerNews #ngated -
Rob Pike spins a yarn about UTF-8 so tangled, not even the cat 🐱 can keep up with his yarn ball antics. Between obscure references and enough tech #buzzwords to power a startup 🚀, you'll be left wondering if this is documentation or a geek's fever dream 💤. Remember, UTF-8 might be "universal," but understanding this article isn't! 🤯
https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history #RobPike #UTF8 #YarnTech #GeekFeverDream #HackerNews #ngated -
Rob Pike spins a yarn about UTF-8 so tangled, not even the cat 🐱 can keep up with his yarn ball antics. Between obscure references and enough tech #buzzwords to power a startup 🚀, you'll be left wondering if this is documentation or a geek's fever dream 💤. Remember, UTF-8 might be "universal," but understanding this article isn't! 🤯
https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history #RobPike #UTF8 #YarnTech #GeekFeverDream #HackerNews #ngated -
🚪👋 Ian Lance Taylor says goodbye to Google after only 19 years and a side project called Go that no one's ever heard of 🤔. Apparently, he's been blessed to work with some obscure names like Rob Pike and Ken Thompson 🙄. Who knew Go would become “just another programming language”? 🎉
https://www.airs.com/blog/archives/670 #IanLanceTaylor #GoodbyeGoogle #GoProgramming #RobPike #KenThompson #HackerNews #ngated -
🚪👋 Ian Lance Taylor says goodbye to Google after only 19 years and a side project called Go that no one's ever heard of 🤔. Apparently, he's been blessed to work with some obscure names like Rob Pike and Ken Thompson 🙄. Who knew Go would become “just another programming language”? 🎉
https://www.airs.com/blog/archives/670 #IanLanceTaylor #GoodbyeGoogle #GoProgramming #RobPike #KenThompson #HackerNews #ngated -
🚪👋 Ian Lance Taylor says goodbye to Google after only 19 years and a side project called Go that no one's ever heard of 🤔. Apparently, he's been blessed to work with some obscure names like Rob Pike and Ken Thompson 🙄. Who knew Go would become “just another programming language”? 🎉
https://www.airs.com/blog/archives/670 #IanLanceTaylor #GoodbyeGoogle #GoProgramming #RobPike #KenThompson #HackerNews #ngated -
🚪👋 Ian Lance Taylor says goodbye to Google after only 19 years and a side project called Go that no one's ever heard of 🤔. Apparently, he's been blessed to work with some obscure names like Rob Pike and Ken Thompson 🙄. Who knew Go would become “just another programming language”? 🎉
https://www.airs.com/blog/archives/670 #IanLanceTaylor #GoodbyeGoogle #GoProgramming #RobPike #KenThompson #HackerNews #ngated -
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Pike on debugging and The One True Fact.
"There's a bug. What's the ONE thing you know, for a fact? You know for a fact that that bug happened. [...] That is a FACT. And whatever else that fact tells you, it's really important to figure out why it happened. You start from the fact that the failure occured and what that failure tells you about the work." [around 26:30 in the recording]
Oh, such a beautiful, graceful talk. Full of bits of wisdom, small and large, about software, about work and collaboration, about personal development for the long haul. Presented with wit and warmth. Beautiful. Thank you for sharing!
#RobPike #programming #software #bugs #failure #HowToDoThings
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"We must understand their properties and how to choose and combine wisely, but we must ignore most of the detail and depend on intuition [...]."
Beautifully put. The art of making.
#programming #BuildingThings #MakingThings #creativity #RobPike #wisdom
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"Complexity just happens, and its costs are literally exponential.
On the other hand, simplicity takes work --- but it's all up front.
Simplicity is very hard to design, but it's easier to build and much easier to maintain. By avoiding complexity, simplicity's benefits are exponential."Brilliant analysis in this talk, relevant to so many fields. Thank you!
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Penn and Teller's Lab Scam [video] (1990)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxMKuv0A6z4
#ycombinator #penn_teller #bell_labs #labscam #dmr #robpike #prank -
Penn and Teller's Lab Scam [video] (1990)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxMKuv0A6z4
#ycombinator #penn_teller #bell_labs #labscam #dmr #robpike #prank -
Penn and Teller's Lab Scam [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxMKuv0A6z4
#ycombinator #penn_teller #bell_labs #labscam #dmr #robpike #prank -
Penn and Teller's Lab Scam [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxMKuv0A6z4
#ycombinator #penn_teller #bell_labs #labscam #dmr #robpike #prank -
@climagic Somewhat related: in a #GooglePlus post by #RobPike, he explained a bit about how dotfiles came to be hidden: https://web.archive.org/web/20190324222536/https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts/R58WgWwN9jp?hl=en