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I suspect you're not a pretty girl that gets stared at. Neither am I, but if I were I'd rather the stares weren't recordable.

> "Claude did it" cannot ever be a valid excuse. I think this an incredibly important point. As soon as we devolve reposnsiblity to computer progams, society cedes control to the a…

Yep, “instinct“ and “smoking gun” are LLM favourites. I find it really annoying when the LLM says “good instinct” as if I’m an animal barely able to think.

I'm against LLM usage in conversation, e.g. when discussing issues in open-source. It's like half-hearing a conversation, I'm missing the context that the other person has with the…

The Cornetto is truly important in British culture. For example, the Cornetto trilogy, which i'm surprised wasn't mentioned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Flavours_Cornetto

GNOME 2 was lovely. Then GNOME 3 came and I switched to Mac.

With all the myths and hyperbolae circulating regarding AI, I'd love to know what it's like at large software companies adjusting to this brave new world. It's easy for a small tea…

I tried that but Claude thought I was already outstanding in my field.

I would only take this article seriously if you have to support old iOS versions. NavigationStack has been around since iOS 16, @Observable since iOS 17. and I'm not sure if the au…

> The latest is NavigationStack, which is still pathetic. The only way to navigate more than a level deep is to create an array of one datatype to serve as NavigationStack's "path.…

No. What isn't reasonable about this approach? I think most people have got GeoAI backwards, creating derived imagery via AI is a terrible idea. Building better tools than we have …

> how is anyone going to determine what is real or fake anymore Through using AI to build tools that generate results with a verified chain of provenance.

This is absolutely the headache I’m having today, an enthusiastic contributor pasting AI generated wall-of-text comments to justify their 500 line PR. How can we have a conversatio…

My jaw drops every day. Small change in comparison, but today Fable created and benchmarked an RTree which was 100x faster to populate and 5x faster to query, compared to a previou…

Yes it does sound like a value judgement made by someone who "fits in", probably after drinking several pints down the pub. However I think the poem may be deeply ironic, given Rob…

> I don’t want to be sold the same thing over and once again. I don't want to be sold the same music, algorithmically recreated again and again to maximise profit while circumventi…

I wonder if this is this just the law of diminishing returns at play? My thinking being, it's been a few months since I thought the code generation machine was the problem, rather …

Also on a macbook, it took me a while to realise pinch to zoom doesn't do anything except zoom the page, pan is click and drag, and scroll is zoom. Cool project except for the cont…

Looks like Apple are making an effort to get agents to create decent code with Xcode skills, which someone has extracted here [1] but there is near zero mention of accessibility. W…

Vim is a bad example to use here. I certainly have no hacker-vibe pretensions, I use Xcode almost exclusively, but with the Vim key bindings which have been integrated very well. T…

Yes. I'm not sure whether Amodei's motivation for attempting to ban open-weight models was for safety or to strengthen Anthropic's position though.

I do hope Anthropic are better with IP, and I think they may be. Given Dario Amodei hasn't been sued by OpenAI while building Anthropic this seems likely. I think Amodei may actual…

This is a really bad look for a company that has vast quantities of our IP stored on its servers.