@joneaves
Programmer/creator of Bouncy Castle Cryptography. Builder of software, teacher of developers. 'pewsey' on most gaming platforms Returning to cycling. Dad of George and Otto. Contains lethal doses of hyperbole. he/him.
Bellsy. Can play.
I'm expected to believe now that businesses who are using "AI" extensively in their software development processes are keeping it a secret?
If you want to see some guy from Melbourne with an Italian name write-off his car it's not hard. Happens all the time.
usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”
Can play.
They're fucking idiots to start with, and then no idea what they're doing with a drunk automation robot
More of the people posting things that I would take to my grave if I was this fucking careless and dumb. alexeyondata.substack.com/p/how-i-drop...
Superb. No notes.
I demand Charlize Theron marry me but here we are 🤷🏻♀️
This wins the internet today.
You summoned me?
Self important people getting their fee-fee all knotted is serious. Makes them all sad, and we can't have that
Just been talking with a mate about "AI mandates at their work". So, to actually get work done, and to "appease" they wrote some python scripts to do the actual work. Then, they wrote some Claude skills to call the python scripts when they needed to execute them.
David Boon has entered the chat.
Yup. Post-truth society. It's been going on for a lot longer than people recognise. Social media is not the cause, it's just (amusingly) democratised disinformation. I think about what I was taught growing up, and I'm horrified at how "white truth" it was slanted. Just astounding.
Go you good thing! They did a study about this in some wild socialist country (like Norway) where they found that if the other person perceived you were walking faster towards them than they were walking, they would yield.
Yup. It was a pretty cool infograph that showed all of that. Like 1979-ish it started (possibly before tbh). Showed the "date", the "reporter" and the "time to nukes" and it has consistently been 2m or less for 40 years. Manufacturing consent at its finest.
Somebody posted a timeline a week? ago showing the "reports" for the last ~20 years of "country we didn't like that has mostly brown people in it" is "within 1 week of nuclear weapons". It was very, very sobering and shows the underlying rationale pretty clearly.
I joke a little bit here, but for a long time I've discussed with teams if we care if meteorites hit the DC, and what that means for our resiliency.
Quickly adding "Impacted by objects " to my DR planning.
vmst.io/@vmstan/1161...
Another rapidly-growing risk with relying on "AI" coding assistants and - well, these days, pretty much any kind of software product - is geopolitics. As users of Claude Code may be about to find out.
My posts need an annoying typo to guarantee they get reposted
I'm just so astounded that the "latest technology" is equivalent to 1990's screen scraping of web-pages using cron to schedule and perl to process, but burning down a rain-forest each time.
AI developers who were willing to cause a hiring crisis and make workers and customers more miserable suddenly shocked their money is coming from unscrupulous military leaders who want just to use it for concentration camps and dubious military strikes.
Rising far-right populism? Festering discontent? Time to give the people what they want: austerity.
Victoria can't solve the nation's housing crisis alone.
Time for NSW in particular to lift its game.
We've carried that poorly run corrupt jurisdiction for far too long.
Fucking love it when people post things openly that you couldn't get from me via torture. x.com/summeryue0/s...
This can’t be right. All the Very Smart People in the media told me they are just ordinary frustrated mums and dads.
Planes are much faster than trains.
For me, to get to central Edinburgh by train takes about 5 hours.
By plane, about 5 hours.
It's not raw speed that determines how long these things take. It's the constraints on the system.