I just tried so, so hard to use GenAI for the venerated "rapidly do easy project in language you're trash at". I was writing a quick mobile app for a researcher at Uni of Melb as a personal favour, got like 30% of the way further than I had any business to... ... and then had to stop and just learn how to do it properly, the old-fashioned way, and I think I've mostly wasted time not doing it that way. I'm impressed I got that far but also it fell so far short of saving me real time.

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When I am an employee, employers are like "you have to accept Scrum". When I'm consulting, employers are like "oh, you must be elite, you're using something that isn't Scrum" This industry has brain worms

We're panpsychist guys, of course we immediately become confused about how to answer coherently when someone asks me if think LLMs are conscious

@npub1f8zu...vfds is a genius and I can't stop laughing. All I said was that the phrase "stable of engineers" was funny and he came out with this fucking masterpiece

Stable of Delivery Professionals

I've had a few programmers from third-world countries reach out, and a persistent problem is "buying even a used laptop is $500, which is extremely expensive in my local currency". Anyone have any giga-brain ideas on the cheapest possible development environment that doesn't freeze up? We'll not stress about the availability of parts in different parts of the world for now.

Great news everyone! I've outright threaten vehicular violence against some of the consultancies I've worked alongside!

Why I Will Always Be Angry About Software Engineering — Ludicity

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Tony Blair Institute reports on AI in the labor market — using numbers they made up with GPT-4. Again.

The Tony Blair Institute has issued another encyclical on the fabulous AI future: “The Impact of AI on the Labour Market.” The headline...

A student reached out to me to ask if they should have their profile picture on LinkedIn. Yes, they work in security. As I was writing the response about how it's mostly for people to know if you're a "legit person", it occurred to me that it's probably a huge discrimination vector. A glance will reveal to employers all sorts of things they can make snap judgements on, including visibly transitioning, being non-white, or having a face they dislike. All without a paper trail! Thanks, LinkedIn!

This is what put me onto Brennan Lee Mulligan and it will always be amazing: