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)
Sorry for many AI thoughts. I’m keeping most of it in. But I have a week off looking after school-holiday kids and my mind is racing and I have time to write.
If they were priced at what they actually cost then they would only be thoughtfully used for the high value work.
Maybe then the real advances would be clearer and the usage and output more trustworthy?
Really struggling with it this week though.
A conversation this morning is giving me the thought that the value equation is way off with LLMs and agents.
I am convinced that there is some value somewhere. But the high value work done with them is drowned out by low value work.
So #thankYouToday for Ticket To Ride – our family’s new favourite board game!! 😃
Anyway. Trying to focus on what I CAN do and what I’m grateful for.
We got Ticket To Ride digital edition a while back. And we played quite a lot. So we invested in the physical version and it’s a delight! (Well, I wish the trains were wooden)
If you want to try digital there’s a Humble Bundle on!