What coders lose by relying on AI. From our event with the University of Washington Office of Public Lectures.
(with @emilymbender.bsky.social)
06.03.2026 21:07
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What coders lose by relying on AI. From our event with the University of Washington Office of Public Lectures.
(with @emilymbender.bsky.social)
It’s weirdly written. As it (correctly) explains near the end, they could spend time in (eg) Dublin instead of Dubai
This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something
Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used
www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...
“for the day” sounds a little optimistic
What’s he doing with his hands? Is it a tell or media training? (Adds to the weirdness.)
Starmer's ability to find the exact sweetspot which pisses off everyone is extraordinary. He's a savant.
You don’t need to do a podcast.
In summary, I don't want OpenAI's snake oil, I want snakes
Stoneybridge, perspective host for the 1996 Olympic Games
It’s 33 years since the final episode of Absolutely was shown on Channel 4
Description of CEO encouraging staff to use AI for emails
CEO has a PA, not AI, to deal with her own emails
I’ve been thinking of this, from the FT, all week.
Nothing better sums up the current state of workplace AI push.
This guy gets it.
Prisoner cell block HRH.
Working well in the US...
We did this experiment at my former job. The highest paid employees (editors) ended up putting hours into editing and fact checking stories because the AI was wrong in unpredictable ways. Between coming up with the story idea, prompting, and editing they were the most expensive stories we did.
It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.
Things you should have done
Small Prophets
What a delight that both Small Prophets and Things You Should Have Done are on at the moment
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
Raw power from Bini⚡
Biniam Girmay wins Stage 1 of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana with a superb sprint, taking his first victory since July 2024 on his debut with the NSN Cycling Team.
Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
Civil litigator here with years of experience of business people’s emails to each other in disclosed evidence for disputes.
As a general rule: the senior the business person, the less effort they put into emails, and the more effort expected from those reading them.
Effectively a mark of rank.
I love that place - I hope your dram is as good as my Ardnamurchan I’m having at home in Manchester
When your result looks “too perfect,” that’s when you should worry most.
it's all like if texas instruments announced they're replacing their entire line of calculators with boxes that have a little microphone for natural language input instead of buttons, get the answer fundamentally wrong around half the time, and require a subscription. previous models are unavailable
I hope an Absolutely (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolut... fan shouted “And I knew it before you”
It’s time to ban social media for the over-60s, restrict their screen-time and implement upper-limit age verification.
If this happens, it will make literally everything better. All of it. Everything in the world.
@nigella.bsky.social in our living rooms every Tuesday throughout Autumn - genuinely life-changing stuff.
The cognitive dissonance of constantly reading that I need to spend some time mastering generative AI while not knowing a single person in my industry who uses it to do good work 🤙
