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Jason Gorman

@jasongorman.bsky.social

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Trains and mentors software developers in... well... software development, come to think of it. If you're serious about your investment in your dev teams, visit https://www.codemanship.co.uk

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 10h

Tell me you haven't found your trillion dollar use case without saying, "We haven't found a trillion dollar use case."

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 12h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 13h

Hey, software developers! Remember customers?

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 13h

Final Destination had nothing on British public information films.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 14h

I've just realised all my neighbours are out. Switching my BOSS Katana out of 0.5 W mode.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 21h

Forced to share pins, left open to fraud!

1 in 5 with mental health conditions risk financial abuse by sharing pins as banks don't offer carers cards, 3rd party notifications or controls. We want to change that. Full info www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/10...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18h

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

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Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 16h

I watch devs with inline completion switched on, and I find the recommendations very distracting.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 16h

That's inline completion, though. How would it know what to total?

Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 17h

Sure. It's rare I find I need it, though. And most unit testing frameworks handle assertion failures by throwing an exception, so if the first one fails, the ones after that won't be run.

Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 17h

"Mad Transformer Disease"

Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 18h

It's pretty clear by now that the technology's no game-changer, and is unlikely to improve much in terms of reliability.

"Hallucinations" are a feature, not a bug, and unfixable without literally building a Dyson Sphere or three for the extra compute needed.

LLMs are a dead end.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 18h

Teams that weren't already high-performing are reporting productivity *losses*.

It seems the key to being effective with LLM coding assistants is being effective without them :-)

My phone should be ringing off the hook! But it's going to take a while for execs to catch on, I suspect.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 18h

Software development, which is being used as the "rabbit" in this, is seeing little sign of productivity gains except among teams that were already high performing, and even then, *reported* gains are meh.

Same story everywhere: when accuracy matters, extra downstream work cancels out the gains

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 19h

Not many are willing to make a bigger investment, though.

Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 19h

I think a hands-on course can be great for introducing a group of people to key concepts and give them a practical flavour, so as orientations they work way better than e.g., coaching.

But I try to impress on clients that they're just the beginning of the journey.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 19h

Is that Doctor Who writer Gareth Roberts?

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20h

Many on the right will try and belittle and undermine what’s happening.

But here’s the truth. Tens of thousands are joining Greens. Polls are at record highs. People are just starting to feel hope again.

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The truth about the green party's booming membership

Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 19h

They should take back his Nobel Peace Prize

LBC @lbc.co.uk · 20h

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 19h

What I'm wondering is this: is there a sweet spot in between "quicker to write the code than the prompt" and "quicker to write the code than do all the checking and rework afterwards" where we're actually *quicker*?

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 19h

Nowhere. But thanks to "AI", we can get there much faster ;-)

Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 19h

Won't someone think of the Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds!

Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 19h

"Write me a function that adds a list of numbers together" is probably not a worthwhile "abstraction". Yes?

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 19h

If prompts are abstractions (they're not, but let's pretend), then - like any abstraction - we should probably aim for them to be significantly simpler than the thing they're abstracting. No?

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 21h

This is for the purposes of training.

Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 21h

What would trigger *me* to ask those questions?