Arthur Clune
arthur.clune.org
Arthur Clune
@arthur.clune.org
Geek. Likes bikes, climbing and tech

Work: IT at University of Sheffield
Simon is @simonpcouch.com on here
January 21, 2026 at 8:58 AM
Simon appears to be on Mastodon (from this blog) as fosstodon.org/@simonpcouch but not on Bluesky
January 21, 2026 at 8:48 AM
So if you drive to work, then use CC, then the car journey is the bigger impact. For now.
January 21, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Moving UK gov websites behind US infra seems a bad idea right now. World is fucked
January 20, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Reposted by Arthur Clune
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.
January 19, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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
January 18, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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)
January 17, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Ditto! It's awesome. Thanks!
January 17, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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)
Large language models are cultural technologies. What might that mean?
Four different perspectives
www.programmablemutter.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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
January 11, 2026 at 8:26 AM
The timelag has been longer so far. But if we get AGSI, who knows
January 11, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Maths keeps turning out to be useful

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._H._H...
January 11, 2026 at 7:45 AM
and yes, I did write this on a Saturday night. I'm just that rock'n'roll
January 10, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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
January 10, 2026 at 11:02 AM