One of my many agentic software mantras is “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should”.
I wrote about this almost a whole year ago: https://rosswintle.uk/2026/01/trust-me-you-dont-want-to-make-little-personal-apps-especially-not-like-that/
When I was a freelance dev, people often came to me with requests to build apps and I was very good at talking them out of it.
The LLMs don’t question it – they just comply.
Is there going to be a massive “stampeding herd” problem when Outlook comes back? Are mail sending queues and bounces piling up into some tsunami that will be unleashed on the internet at some point?
#hugops to everyone working on this – Microsoft or otherwise.
Aaah. Socials. You’re golden today. Thank you for all the laughs.
Turns out I wrote a really detailed “Philosophy and inner workings” document for my Turbo Admin browser extension a couple of years back.
Tooting my own horn, but this is an amazing little product that I made.
It doesn’t sell a lot, but I’m very proud of it.
https://rosswintle.uk/2024/11/turbo-admin-philosophy-and-workings/
I really need to get into gear and update https://caniphp.com/ for v8.6!!
A good little learning opportunity every year!
This is why we do “The Work”
This post is very good and finds words where I couldn’t. I find conversation about AI very dull for some reason. But it’s like this:
“I reviewed an AI paper the other day … the core contribution was simply: we asked an LLM to do this thing …”
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:h5kgtr755iczaqxomeh2pmh7/post/3mw4kbeqlos2f
Missing my gratitude.
First, fricking huge #thankYouToday to @RhysWynne🏴🇪🇺 and the mwug.uk team for the WordCamp on Friday. It was so good to be back.
Second: #thankYouToday for my gym membership. Really needed that swim tonight.
Kinda related: Last week I was at a tech conference where every conversation turned to AI within about 5 minutes – of
course!
The ONE thing that I was left thinking AI can do and maybe should be used for was to create simple, static web sites for small business.
No logic, no back-end, no user data. Well-understood, well-documented languages that don’t change much.
Design would need hand-holding, of course.
This might actually be a use case that I could get behind.
I have many, many thoughts about agentic coding. One of my main ones is that yes, you could get some great short-term gains with it. But it really feels that, like with “context rot”, the issues will eventually compound to a point where code is unworkable.
I guess, at that point, you have an agent rewrite from scratch against the same tests?
But will anyone know anything by that point?
Seems massively risky.
This morning we asked Alexa “How big is a tennis ball?” and it claimed that the International Tennis Federation’s standard ball size is 6.7 inches and this is stupid.
I love that music is going all 90’s/00’s indie again. 😃
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vax23oilyd4ui2kmqkzupio5/post/3mzbndiqsua23
I’ve been neglecting my gratitude. So #thankYouToday for – strangely – the Nintendo Wii. We plugged it back into the TV and started messing around with it recently, and we’ve had so much fun. Wii Sports still holds up as a great game.
Starbucks’s branding and ads emphasise the people side of serving and drinking coffee. But they actually want nothing to do with people. They may as well just be coffee machines.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1023440/starbucks-ai-personalized-menu-drive-thru
Content warning:Big Celebrity Traitors UK spoilers
A gay man and a black man winning Celebrity Traitors and giving the license fee money to refugee charities is really going to annoy some people and I’m delighted.
I don’t normally comment on celebrities dying. But Sir Stewart going is very sad.
I was fortunate enough to grow up with STTNG. And have always admired his humour, dedication, gentleness.
A social feed FULL of the goodness that he created and left behind fills my heart. ❤️
I love “cultural exchange” with my international co-workers. 😃
He’s really interested in video games, but not expecting that really. Something in IT or design though?
I’d love to know if you have ideas.
Thanks!
I don’t think I have many local folks here, but trying anyway.
Does anyone know places/near Swindon that offer (or want to offer themselves) a work experience placement to a talented, creative, technical y10 student for a week in March.
He codes in Godot and Python. Does graphic design,art & music
Even JMac vibe codes now?
😫
You know… I can see how I could think myself down the pro-AI path. I really can. In some ways I wish it were easy to go that way.
But the mere existence of the AI-is-so-very-problematic path means it’s so hard to make the choice to start in that direction.
😥
Hello, game, indeed! I wonder if this is any good.
(Alt: No Man’s Sky in the Apple App Store)