If you are on Gran Canaria on March 8th, I strongly suggest you attend this event that celebrates women and programming!
www.meetup.com/gofigeeks/ev...
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AI enabler. I help people use AI to the fullest. English/Spanish speaker living in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria CTO https://secret-source.eu Founder of #GofiGeeks https://gofigeeks.org Schedule time w/ me: https://calendar.app.google/RuyCXSJQWcNP6Jad8
If you are on Gran Canaria on March 8th, I strongly suggest you attend this event that celebrates women and programming!
www.meetup.com/gofigeeks/ev...
What will happen if I consistently like (or consistently dislike) every ad I see in ChatGPT, without fail? OpenAI claims there is no relation between ads and my chats butβ¦
www.techradar.com/ai-platforms...
This thought was based on this experiment: www.wired.com/2014/08/i-li... (summary version)
Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911
"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
Went for a hike yesterday, really beautiful place...
17 year-old CEO looking for Head of Engineering on LinkedIn⦠Olé for him! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
OpenAI released initial estimates about the share of users who may be experiencing symptoms like delusional thinking, mania, or suicidal ideation, and says it has tweaked GPT-5 to respond more effectively.
I'm working on a personal project that requires the creation of hundreds of selfies. I compared 20 models and produced samples for each using the same prompt.
You can see the report here: www.chicagoitsystems.com/ai-model-sam...
I would love your feedback!
Your proposed solution may still be the correct one but I want you to reconsider the premise it is based on.
You said, "Jest may not be picking up the override properly" but this is impossible. Jest does exactly what it is told to do. Jest is heavily tested so it is unlikely it is not doing something properly.
(prompt continues below)
I'm doing a LOT of vibe engineering lately. Yesterday I wrote some instructions that I thought were particularly exemplary of the kind of prompt Claude, Codex et al normally respond well to and I thought I'd share it here. This is me responding to Claudeβ¦
Are any of my followers using Claude Code? Have you had any issues with it complaining with "Unable to connect to API due to poor internet connection"? If so, do you know a solution for this (because I can clearly connect and Anthropic's status pages says all systems go)
When I was a child, I had many bad teachers with good intentions. What about you?
I've been reading lots of Engineering Manager job descriptions lately and almost always, without fail, they are actually tech lead positions with virtually no mention of actual management responsibilities. Sad state of affairs when proper management is devalued in this way.
7 old smart phones, 2 old tablets, 4 sets of headphones, 2 with noise cancelling
Not too bad for a family of four over the course of 7 or 8 years, some devices even older. I do wish there was a better way to recycle this stuff though.
I'm still here! Lately we've been doing a deep dive on semantic search and how it compares to traditional search methodologies. We also looked at Supabase "orchestration" (sadly, a way to hobble together stored and Edge functions, cron jobs and queues to do more complex tasks).
Clearly defining the problem is half the solution. When you say, "starved for feedback on how our work impacts the world", what does that feedback look like? Is it citations in other research, lower poverty rates, higher overall GDP, something else? Honest question.
Tech people have laptop stickers of laughing pizza slices and upside down smileys and inside is like the most gnarled async code holding up a distributed system for 10 million users
It also seems reasonable to expect AIs to eventually stop writing human-readable code and just write bits and bytes with the expectation that humans will never be expected to intervene. Should we consider legislation against doing this even if limited to certain contexts??
Writing code that is difficult to maintain and modify is irresponsible but unless the operator, me, _knows_ what unmaintainable code looks like, there's nothing to stop the AI from producing it. It is easy to imagine a future in which codebases are so complex that only AIs can understand them.
Well organized code also has fewer bugs, normally, because it is compartmentalized and thus easily tested. AI and AI-enabled coding tools are great at producing functioning code but never include tests unless explicitly told to do so. It's as if they have no concept of responsibility.
Massive effort has been put into making code maintainable. Maintainable code has low complexity, follows predefined patterns, is terse, etc. AI tools enable us to "fill the gaps" where coding ecosystems fall short. They allow us to shove square pegs into round holes thus increasing complexity.
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages donβt exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
In 2025 top 3 uses of GenAI are: therapy/companionship, organising life, and finding purpose. I think something has gone pretty badly wrong here.
hbr.org/2025/04/how-...
For the past year a colleague and I have been developing a tool for helping bid writers write bids for public tenders. We have not actively promoted it but the few who've tried it, love it. If you are interested in a demo, schedule me here calendar.app.google/Ec9gCP5rNMZG...
bidwin.ai
I'm on Spain's IRS (Agencia Tributaria) web site. I don't know if this is just a really bad translation or someone being facetious but apparently they have a "deprive you area". This is not a joke or fake. This is real!
The problem with climbing mountains is they never seen as big from the top as they did from the bottom.
You're probably right...
If that were true it would be called "reproduction-right", but it's not.
So, how, exactly does the copy get from the source (their web sites) and into the training set (a database)?