Simon is @simonpcouch.com on here

Simon appears to be on Mastodon (from this blog) as fosstodon.org/@simonpcouch but not on Bluesky

So if you drive to work, then use CC, then the car journey is the bigger impact. For now.

Moving UK gov websites behind US infra seems a bad idea right now. World is fucked

10 runs per agent github.com/SeanHeelan/a...

I got almost the same form letter. They named the token after me. And all of these 0 follower accounts keep trying to neg me into taking the money and chilling for them. I even got somebody from Bags to email me, eventually. When I asked for help to get my name off their website, they ghosted me.

Lots of developers don't want to become managers or enjoy it. But managing agents starts to look more like that. I'm unconvinced by the replies saying 'product people will do fine' - I see them having the same problem from the opposite end

If the bar is 'tech but also social' then it's very high

I really don't know how this plays out. Next move from US is 'ok then, no AWS, no Azure, no Windows, no Android, no iPhone' - and that can be an immediate hit rather than a slow one (can't use AWS if you can't pay due to sanctions)

Ditto! It's awesome. Thanks!

Have you come acorss Gopnik et al's ideas of LLMs as cultural technologies? See the bit on 'summaries and remixes' in @himself.bsky.social post

www.programmablemutter.com/p/large-lang...

It's not the same as your viewpoint, but it rhymes (and they take it in different directions)

We're going to have to add "can't use MS or Google" to our risk register at work on Monday. Which is not something I had forseen

The timelag has been longer so far. But if we get AGSI, who knows

Maths keeps turning out to be useful

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._H._H...

and yes, I did write this on a Saturday night. I'm just that rock'n'roll

Lots of sass could be replaced by oss now, but it creates an ongoing operational task that companies don’t want. There’s opportunities there for new services around ai code/ops management imo