Yesterday on Bluesky someone asked what our all-time favourite song lyric was and it made me go and play a bunch of my favourite songs.
So here’s a little game:
Post a favourite lyric. Don’t tell us the song or artist – we have to figure that out.
I’ll start:
“Look, here comes a Ford Mondeo, isn't he Mr Inconspicuous?”
Gosh, I was using agent mode in copilot for a simple and repetitive refactor yesterday – the kind of thing it should be so very good at – and it got it totally wrong.
LLMs have failed to earn my trust, and they can’t learn from their own mistakes.
https://chaos.social/@swetland/114763087859442862
It is time. I have seen enough.
Back to basics.
Let's do computing like it's 1993!!
I have received a mysterious parcel.
Did YOU send me the avocado??
It was so good to get back to @BristolWPMeetup this evening and catch up with folks after many years – and meet some new folks too!
People who run meet-ups are so precious. Organising stuff like this really isn’t my thing. So I’m incredibly grateful for those for whom it is.