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No we won't.

Everything looks brown, it's crammed together, those not-photos make it feel really cramped in the third column, it looks like every other AI-generated menu and it's lost the clari…

Also why do they have sea life in it at all, surely that's not something that's meant to be in the pool.

Yes, because LLMs make stuff up all the time. Still. Anybody who's using an LLM for search isn't serious about the answers.

You could just not use LLMs and retain your brain function.

If you can't review the code faster than you could write it yourself, write it yourself.

The only way to even start to counter that is to make it a firm company policy that if you use an LLM to hallucinate any documents you absolutely must thoroughly review them yourse…

Not much ROI, if any. My employer's been making some studies and come up with very modest productivity gains - so of course they want us all to use it, but I'm not sure they're tak…

Ah the good old "move the thing you're about to click on just before you click it" thing. Soooo many UIs have this problem and it is driving me crazy. I feel like there needs to be…

Exactly that - the headline is unsupported by the article, but works very well as clickbait.

And this changes over time, because for me cyan IS a basic colour term and I'm a native English speaker.

Your analogy with CI/CD is flawed because while not all were convinced of the merits of CI/CD, it's also not technology built on vast energy use and copyright violation at a scale …

Of course, nobody is claiming that there aren't lots of Firefox crashes which are caused by bugs in Firefox. Quite the opposite, based on these figures. What people find interestin…

Reactive UIs may have been made popular on the web, where they're an absolute nightmare, but native code does them better still. Best time I ever had in a job was writing WPF appli…

It would be excellent to reduce Windows memory requirements using the very tools which are making memory so expensive... Oh wait no that would be incredibly painful for everyone. Y…

Maybe it's because there's no overall benefit to these things. There's been a lot of talk about it for the past few years but we're just not seeing impacts. Oh sure, management tal…

It's a minor point but the Earth doesn't radiate all of that heat to equilibrium, that's why we have climate change.

Scaling up PV production to the point where we could convert the entire Earth's electricity generation to solar is incredibly significant. Yes there's the problem of intermittency,…

Less damage... with his CSAM-making bot. Yeah. Less damage.

Absolutely. Labour betrayed their core voters, who are looking for something else, but won't touch Reform UK because they're even more disgusting than the current right-wing Labour…

Applying those things equally to people regardless of skin colour, gender identity, sexuality or any other line along which people have historically been discriminated against isn'…

Come on, mercury vapour sounds like sooooo much fun! Where's your sense of adventure? /s

I'd dispute this, as I count myself as a tech enthusiast but I'm an enthusiast for tech which works well. I increasingly find myself having to put up with stuff that doesn't work w…

True, however if you want to be great on the world stage and have people look at you and say "wow they can do amazing things" I'm not sure landing on the moon really has much value…

That's not actually what the reply said, it was extremely noncommittal as you'd expect. If you contacted one of your MEPs they might have a stronger opinion they'd want to promote,…