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Almost any line of business system would be better off written in F# than C#.
C# still has a place in "lower level" .NET code such as core frameworks where mutability is still important for performance reasons. But that use-case doesn't need any of these recent C# "enhancements"
C# still has a place in "lower level" .NET code such as core frameworks where mutability is still important for performance reasons. But that use-case doesn't need any of these recent C# "enhancements"
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"AI fuels fastest economic growth in two years" -- UK economic news
I don't believe it. There's no GPUs here at all. Azure Foundry and AWS Bedrock don't even have a data zone for the UK. There is no way businesses can be UK GDPR and ICO compliant except for self-hosting models
I don't believe it. There's no GPUs here at all. Azure Foundry and AWS Bedrock don't even have a data zone for the UK. There is no way businesses can be UK GDPR and ICO compliant except for self-hosting models
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Nathan B. Evans retweeted
Conspiracy theory: I think the big labs have models with no guardrails, and they're using them to reverse-engineer every game and piece of software, then casually dumping the results into training sets.
According to the theory in this video, hundreds of Call of Duty-style shooters may have been recreated from scratch and added to the training data.
According to the theory in this video, hundreds of Call of Duty-style shooters may have been recreated from scratch and added to the training data.
I wanted to test Fable 5.2's quality with one-shot prompts without human feedback.
Everything in this game is from scratch: models, sounds, textures. ~$550 at API pricing, ~2.7M output and 445M input tokens, heavily cached. Took 8 hours!
Play it here: claude.ai/artifact/BGY1S…
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Remarkable rewriting of history. 2015 was very firmly in the social media age.
And just a year later the "Russian propaganda on social media caused Brexit", or at least that was the narrative, I thought?
And just a year later the "Russian propaganda on social media caused Brexit", or at least that was the narrative, I thought?
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Utterly remarkable, I cannot believe she tried to claim they were simultaneously engaging with YouTubers with front-bench MPs, but we were not in the social media age. WTAF?
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Some developers ask me what do I do when the agent is working? I say either:
- increase your WIP with more projects/deliverables
- start reviewing the code output immediately, and issuing steering commands as soon as possible
- start planning the next part of the current work
- increase your WIP with more projects/deliverables
- start reviewing the code output immediately, and issuing steering commands as soon as possible
- start planning the next part of the current work
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If you're waiting for your agent to finish. Then you need to get more WIP in your pipeline.
WIP used to be bad in "agile" era.
Now it is good, in the agentic era.
WIP used to be bad in "agile" era.
Now it is good, in the agentic era.
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There's a serious bug in the HM Passport Office passport photo cropping implementation.
You upload the photo, it crops half your hair off. Then they reject it for "Head is too high" reason. Understandable. But it's their own face recognition and photo cropping logic...
You upload the photo, it crops half your hair off. Then they reject it for "Head is too high" reason. Understandable. But it's their own face recognition and photo cropping logic...
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Apple has a new policy requiring every new app to provide a screen recording demonstrating the app to the app review team
The app stores are out of control
The app stores are out of control
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"Small Boat Crossings Hit Five-Year Low in English Channel"
The weather is cold and windy, folks.
The weather is cold and windy, folks.
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Let's build custom laser printer firmware which doesn't care how many pages a toner cartridge has printed, so then we can just drill a hole in the cartridge and refill the toner powder
The main reason why Sonos software is so bad and unreliable, and why they decided to deprecate the older hardware because it "only" had 32mb of RAM (btw, this is MORE than enough to play audio, much of which happens in the SoC in the hardware anyway)? Because they included junk!
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I've been using agents/llms long enough now to see them emit typos. Literally, typos. You think it should be impossible but it isn't.
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Nathan B. Evans retweeted
Long term, I think we’re going to see 3 roles in software:
- Product managers: self explanatory.
- Software factory maintainers: DevOps but focused on making sure software factories keep working correctly.
- LLM adversaries: Staff+ software engineers today. People good enough to be legitimately adversarial to an LLM including on issues like security, over engineering, test coverage, and guarding the company against alignment issues. There will not be many.
Other than that I have a hard time seeing any other roles exist if LLMs continue to progress at this rate. Unfortunate, but better to live in reality than pretend it isn’t coming.
- Product managers: self explanatory.
- Software factory maintainers: DevOps but focused on making sure software factories keep working correctly.
- LLM adversaries: Staff+ software engineers today. People good enough to be legitimately adversarial to an LLM including on issues like security, over engineering, test coverage, and guarding the company against alignment issues. There will not be many.
Other than that I have a hard time seeing any other roles exist if LLMs continue to progress at this rate. Unfortunate, but better to live in reality than pretend it isn’t coming.
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This is wild. In the future a UK business won't be able to send an invoice to another unless HMRC servers are online and working
Next little small business additional cost - no document invoices on email from 2029.
All have to be digital through software that speaks to other software.
gov.uk/government/pub…
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"WhatsApp Business" does not support conversational threads
"RCS Business Messaging" does not support conversational threads
Remind me, what part of these is for Business use?
"RCS Business Messaging" does not support conversational threads
Remind me, what part of these is for Business use?
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In the AI era a system like this isn't even complex. You could build it with 2 to 3 AI-cracked individuals in about a month, maximum 3 months.
But here the UK is about to give out a 5bn contract for 15 years, to some incredibly lucky consulting firm that doesn't deserve it.
But here the UK is about to give out a 5bn contract for 15 years, to some incredibly lucky consulting firm that doesn't deserve it.
HMRC's new customer system will cost somewhere between £1.7bn and £4.4bn. Give or take £2.7bn. Bold to buy software like it's 2015.
The entire sovereign AI fund is £640m.
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Since switching to gpt6sol xhigh, and since they doubled my Biz Premium usage the other day, my usage quota basically doesn't go down anymore... so I am ramping up the thinking to Max and using Fast mode more
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