Maggie Appleton

Maggie Appleton

Bluesky @maggieappleton.com
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Followers
19.9K
Account age
3 yrs

Known for

We have reached a moment where instead of releasing software you simply release the detailed spec for software and tell people to prompt their agent to build it themselves From the README of OpenAI’s new Symphony orchestrator: github.com/openai/symph...200 views We have reached a moment where instead of releasing software you simply release the detailed spec for software and tell people to prompt their agent to build it themselves From the README of OpenAI’s new Symphony orchestrator: github.com/openai/symph... Obsidian & Claude Cowork are doing all the house management and renovation tracking that I don't have brain space for right now. I ramble at Claude about things we need to fix in this very old and rundown Victorian we recent bought and it makes plans. Works great - both just operate on markdown.161 views Obsidian & Claude Cowork are doing all the house management and renovation tracking that I don't have brain space for right now. I ramble at Claude about things we need to fix in this very old and rundown Victorian we recent bought and it makes plans. Works great - both just operate on markdown. Got to talk at @aidotengineer.bsky.social conf last week about the need for collaborative AI engineering. All our current coding agents are single player. We're trying to scale up individual productivity, but creating tons of alignment problems in the process. We have no good tools for...157 views Got to talk at @aidotengineer.bsky.social conf last week about the need for collaborative AI engineering. All our current coding agents are single player. We're trying to scale up individual productivity, but creating tons of alignment problems in the process. We have no good tools for... Putting together the final touches on slides for my talk at AI Engineer conf this Thursday @aidotengineer.bsky.social Talking about how we need realtime, multiplayer, collaborative agentic dev tools. Not isolated, single player terminal instances. And showing one we've built at @githubnext.com!53 views Putting together the final touches on slides for my talk at AI Engineer conf this Thursday @aidotengineer.bsky.social Talking about how we need realtime, multiplayer, collaborative agentic dev tools. Not isolated, single player terminal instances. And showing one we've built at @githubnext.com!

📊 Post engagement

87
Avg engagement / post
0.4%
Engagement vs followers
Apr 2023
On Bluesky since

🔥 Top post: We have reached a moment where instead of releasing software you · 200 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.57 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 4 text · 7 image · 1 video.
Follower / following
38×
Follows 524 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post We have reached a moment where instead of releasing software you simply release the detailed spec for software and tell people to prompt their agent to build it themselves From the README of OpenAI’s new Symphony orchestrator: github.com/openai/symph... ★ 200
▶ Got a little too into making poppies for this reflection on great WWI novels and digesting the horrors of the war. maggieappleton.com/in-memoriam ★ 33 Obsessed with “Yesteryear”. So well written, funny, a necessary critique of the tradwives. I had to ask Claude for the gist of the twist at the end before reading, because it’s labelled a “thriller” and I am too soft to read anything trul… ★ 12 How is everyone managing their agent SKILL.md files? Is it just chaos? Global skills, repo-specific skills, keeping them in sync between machines, figuring out which ones you have installed, authoring new ones. What are we doing? ★ 70 Extremely jelly of everyone who have a set of clear, measurable, computable metrics that define their tasks as “done” No 12 hour autonomous agent runs for designers who live in the tight feedback loop 😭 ★ 54 Got to talk at @aidotengineer.bsky.social conf last week about the need for collaborative AI engineering. All our current coding agents are single player. We're trying to scale up individual productivity, but creating tons of alignment pr… ★ 157 Putting together the final touches on slides for my talk at AI Engineer conf this Thursday @aidotengineer.bsky.social Talking about how we need realtime, multiplayer, collaborative agentic dev tools. Not isolated, single player terminal … ★ 53 After an unexpected flood of messages from my kid’s nursery about the “Easter bonnet competition” deadline, I have now learned this is a thing. Very camp. Very British. It’s giving Victorian children with more access to crafting supplies … ★ 13 Obsidian & Claude Cowork are doing all the house management and renovation tracking that I don't have brain space for right now. I ramble at Claude about things we need to fix in this very old and rundown Victorian we recent bought and it… ★ 161 God grant me the wisdom to understand the internal logic of the credit system ★ 44 What’s everyone’s physical labour backup career? I’m thinking family photographer. Maybe interior designer? I’m not good at either of those things… yet. But I reckon I could make it work if all white collar jobs melt down into the GPUs. ★ 75 First full, uninterrupted night of sleep in 10.5 months. The baby finally got with the programme. It’s a brave new world. ★ 171

🦋 Handle & authenticity

✅ Domain-verified
@maggieappleton.com
The handle is the domain maggieappleton.com. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real maggieappleton.com account, not an impersonator.
On Bluesky since
Apr 2023
An early adopter from the invite-only beta (before the Feb 2024 public launch) — an original, established account.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 87 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.6× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.

🛡️ Audience credibility

72/100 Good
  • Est. 94% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Engagement (~0.4% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Bluesky.
  • Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
94%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
High

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Staff Research Engineer @githubnext.com. But actually a designer. Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology. 📍 London 🌱 maggieappleton.com

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Got a little too into making poppies for this reflection on great WWI novels and digesting the horrors of the war. maggieappleton.com/in-memoriam Obsessed with “Yesteryear”. So well written, funny, a necessary critique of the tradwives. I had to ask Claude for the gist of the twist at the end before reading, because it’s labelled a “thriller” and I am too soft to read anything truly horrifying. But it’s not that kind of thriller. Sort of… Got to talk at @aidotengineer.bsky.social conf last week about the need for collaborative AI engineering. All our current coding agents are single player. We're trying to scale up individual productivity, but creating tons of alignment problems in the process. We have no good tools for... Putting together the final touches on slides for my talk at AI Engineer conf this Thursday @aidotengineer.bsky.social Talking about how we need realtime, multiplayer, collaborative agentic dev tools. Not isolated, single player terminal instances. And showing one we've built at @githubnext.com! After an unexpected flood of messages from my kid’s nursery about the “Easter bonnet competition” deadline, I have now learned this is a thing. Very camp. Very British. It’s giving Victorian children with more access to crafting supplies than expected. Obsidian & Claude Cowork are doing all the house management and renovation tracking that I don't have brain space for right now. I ramble at Claude about things we need to fix in this very old and rundown Victorian we recent bought and it makes plans. Works great - both just operate on markdown. God grant me the wisdom to understand the internal logic of the credit system We have reached a moment where instead of releasing software you simply release the detailed spec for software and tell people to prompt their agent to build it themselves From the README of OpenAI’s new Symphony orchestrator: github.com/openai/symph...

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