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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 15h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23h

For those curious this is a negative 5900% gross margin

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23h

There's one person who pays them $250 a month who cost Augment $15,000. Amazing stuff. Can only imagine how bad things are for Cursor or Replit
www.augmentcode.com/blog/augment...

The user message model also isn’t sustainable for Augment Code as a business. For example, over the last 30 days, a user on our $250 Max plan has issued 335 requests per hour, every hour, for 30 days, and is approaching $15,000 per month in cost to Augment Code. This sort of use isn’t inherently bad, but as a business, we have to price our service in accordance with our costs.

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Jon Canning @joncanning.com · 1d

Audu Bulama Bukarti - Wikipedia

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Jon Canning @joncanning.com · 1d

You just know that the same companies will be contracted to fix them

Sky News @news.sky.com · 1d

Thousands of homes now need repairs after insulation fitted under government scheme

Thousands of homes fitted with insulation under a flagship government scheme now need major remedial work, or risk damp and mould, the public spending watchdog has warned.

news.sky.com

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 2d

“Never invent data” is sending me.

People should have their degrees or professional certifications revoked for admitting to doing this

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

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Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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Jon Canning @joncanning.com · 2d

The belly is a trap: 10/10 for the bait and switch @thecatreviewer.bsky.social

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Jon Canning @joncanning.com · 2d

Writing a cheque for the milkman there grandma?

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 4d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 3d

How it started: How it’s going:

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Mark Fraser @mfraz74.bsky.social · 3d

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 3d

🔗 Read the full piece

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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Jon Canning @joncanning.com · 3d

Me reviewing your vibe code PR

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 3d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 4d

I am begging companies to test out their interview questions, especially the coding tests, on their own senior people as calibration, before using them as a gauge for hiring new folks. An awful lot of them are functionally just random-number generators.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 5d

what if there were one car company that did every shitty thing imaginable

Ryan McManus @ryantomorrow.bsky.social · 5d

Tesla pulls an Apple U2. electrek.co/2025/10/10/t...

Tesla pushes Tron: Ares ad inside its cars, upsetting owners

Tesla has partnered with its recent foe, Disney, to promote its latest movie, Tron: Ares, with an in-car update that...

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Jon Canning @joncanning.com · 5d

The importance of a short feedback loop

The perils of letting AI plan your next trip

An imagined town in Peru, an Eiffel tower in Beijing: travellers are increasingly using tools like ChatGPT for itinerary ideas – and being sent to destinations that don't exist.

www.bbc.co.uk

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 6d

Bob Ross vibe coding was the AI slop I never knew I needed in my life

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 7d

DEI for me, not for thee.

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Jon Canning @joncanning.com · 7d

"We bring teams together for cross-tribe learn-ing by holding regular guild learning sessions and evening meetups."

You go to the pub right?

Jon Canning @joncanning.com · 7d

This is rather good

"How to Orchid" by Telepathic Instruments

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Jon Canning @joncanning.com · 7d

August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 8d

It's actually really impressive how much of where we got to right now stems from the top legal and political scholars in our media just declaring "well if that's true then the left is right, and we know they're not, so that isn't true" for like, thirty years

Jon Canning @joncanning.com · 7d

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Jon Canning @joncanning.com · 8d

Do the face! Do the face!

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Jon Canning @joncanning.com · 8d

Please do @data-star.dev 🙏

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Jon Canning @joncanning.com · 8d

Hang on a minute...

Shar A @sharal.bsky.social · 11d

Mini-picnic (plus sausage rolls in oven) for sister time.

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Jon Canning @joncanning.com · 8d

I look forward to the subtle product promotions

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