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There are armed police in the ticket hall. What do you do? Only 31 seconds now... Is the suspect black? (I'm asking this because there is evidence suggesting current facial recogni…

This seems like a problem with the level of abstraction the user interface is working at. It is highly unlikely that in any real world task lasting less than one day there were rea…

Yes - I'm objecting to the lazy use of terminology here. LLMs are useful in their own right and are not the real problem here. The real problem is people placing too much trust in …

Even if that's what they mean it would still be disturbing if commands that should have explicit user confirmation were being waved through - whether by users or the auto mode - an…

My point is that an LLM can't attempt to connect to anything by itself. All an LLM does is produce a stream of output tokens - and that was already quite useful as a coding aid. It…

If you don't understand clearly what an action proposed by your tool is going to do then why would you permit it?

LLMs are inherently dangerous tools I don't see how. An LLM just generates a stream of output and they became very useful doing no more than that. What is dangerous is then interpr…

Am I the only person reading the statistics in this announcement from Anthropic and the associated blog commentary and trying to work out how they possibly couldn't imply that a si…

You are misunderstanding the leadership structure of the EU. There are three main bodies that lead it - the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, and the European…

Just like EVERY OTHER democracy. Not really. In most representative democracies it is the elected representatives who initiate new law. In the EU the elected MEPs have no power to …

And what would happen next to ensure that von der Leyen was removed from office? It is worth remembering at this point how von der Leyen first became Commission President. She was …

How should EU citizens vote at that next election if they are unhappy with von der Leyen's actions as President of the European Commission in order to remove her if enough other vo…

Innovation is compensated by being first to market. That argument works if you're talking about something like a patronage model where most or all of the compensation for the creat…

Also, what does "code quality" even mean in the age of agentic dev? If the code works, and is secure, what else matters? AI pricing is mostly based on tokens consumed right now. Sh…

Some developers also take an active interest in the design and feature set of the product they're developing. IME those developers can often produce good results once a general dir…

I might not have much time to continue here in the next few days so I'll start by thanking you for the interesting and thoughtful discussion. I do agree with some of your important…

I don't know. But given that Beyoncé formed her own management company about 15 years ago I'm not sure the answer was going to make the point you were intending anyway.

This is demonstrably untrue. Today we have more access to far more works in more media on more subjects both entertainment and educational than ever in the history of the world. An…

Nobody has a right to have an economic value for what they sell. This is true. (It's true in every other industry as well.) But the opposite side of that coin is that if you want p…

Does it though? The incremental revenue from customers renting something and then renting it again is going to be very small. The "loss" from providing them with a permanent copy i…

No renting of copyrighted works for money. The customer owns a copy or GTFO. That immediately destroys several useful and viable business models that actually work in that they pro…

Making all this (for example) work nicely together can be tricky: Vite, ESLint, Prettier, Typescript and React, especially if it's full stack with SSR. Although about 98%* of that …

This is global trade and comparative advantage at work. If someone outside the country can produce an equivalent product to what a local producer would make, they can supply it to …

Maybe it's triggering ad blockers? I have JS enabled and I see a few elements but it's obviously broken here too. In any case it's not a great look if they want to encourage adopti…

I agree that one doesn't preclude the other. But the sky high valuations we've been seeing for the AI industry recently can only be justified if they bring about a fundamental chan…