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2026-10-03 12:59:58

A screen grab of an online learning platform showing the answer to a maths problem as 58.800000000000004

Child: “Daaaad! What just happened in my online physics homework??”

Most parents: 🤷

People like me: “Ah, allow me to introduce you to the imprecision of floating point arithmetic!”

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2026-10-03 09:42:35

It’s a great TV season right now in the UK. We’re in the midst of The Celebrity Traitors, Taskmaster, Ludwig and Ted Lasso.

However, as well as Ted Lasso I’m also catching up on S3 of Colin from Accounts, and I’m SO confused because Keely/Ash + Roy/Gordon are basically the same story, aren’t they?

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2026-10-03 08:11:20

Did someone I know post a script or something for removing the AI packages from a new Laravel project? I can’t seem to find it and I’m sure I saw it.

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2026-09-30 23:29:41

Anyway, I’ve mostly been ill for the last two days and all that has, apparently, been brewing in my neurons while my immune system worked (and boy was it working hard!!)

🤷

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2026-09-30 23:27:30

I do really lament the apparent lack of (or possibly mis-directed?) curiosity that LLMs seem to have created.

Sensible assessment is mostly drowned out by hype.

And I really worry that we’re handing over critical thinking to corporate-controlled machines that may not be there in the future.

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2026-09-30 23:21:32

But mostly I’m thinking about how there is this AI divide in tech.

I’m sure there is something about neurotypes or personality types involved.

I’m a moderate, curious thinker. And I wonder how we can bridge this divide and find some helpful common ground. 😕🤔

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2026-09-30 21:57:32

Like, I was _genuinely_ excited about learning how to do a new thing the other day. I like learning how to do new things. That’s exciting.

But the world thinks it’s more exciting that a computer did a thing for them and that they had to do nothing!

“Look at all the learning I’m NOT doing!!”

Sigh

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2026-09-30 21:57:32

I’m also hearing, and deeply thinking about, the relentless (and possibly toxic) positivity of the pro-AI crowd.

I get why one could find this era attractive and exciting.

But how can the alternatives be presented in a positive light without sounding glib?

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2026-09-30 21:40:48

Thing that I’ve not seen discussed anywhere:

Chat interfaces must be a real accessibility boon for some.

But do they exclude people who struggle with words?

Like, is this LLM world really problematic for people with dyslexia?

Is literacy going to become even more important if LLMs persist?

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2026-09-30 21:37:47

I’m also thinking about chat as an interface.

Text chat is a crap interface for many tasks. It has no affordances. It’s often very slow. There’s cognitive load. And with LLMs involved there’s the possibility of the wrong thing being done.

Plus… like… just LEARN TO DO THINGS!

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2026-09-30 21:21:07

New models arrive every week. Just because we can. And orgs want to own to own the news cycle.

And what of these things will be here next year? MS’s Recall is dead. Sora video is dead.

The “more” of everything is relentless and stupid.

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2026-09-30 21:21:07

Today I’m thinking about product release cycles.

How Jev arrived and it will quickly be ripped off by one of the LLM houses.

How Meta’s Muse arrived and we already have OpenAI’s Dots as a response.

Everyone has to do the same thing as quickly as possible. Just because we can!