Andrew Shepherd
@shepherdsworld.bsky.social
Software Developer. Not really trying to cultivate a public online presence, but will occasionally share opinions.
My prediction: Ahmed al Ahmed will spend a few days being hailed as a hero.
Then, someone will uncover something that demonstrates he has human flaws. And the media will turn on him. Just to keep the clicks going.
I hope I'm wrong and this guy is boring enough to get left alone.
Then, someone will uncover something that demonstrates he has human flaws. And the media will turn on him. Just to keep the clicks going.
I hope I'm wrong and this guy is boring enough to get left alone.
December 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
My prediction: Ahmed al Ahmed will spend a few days being hailed as a hero.
Then, someone will uncover something that demonstrates he has human flaws. And the media will turn on him. Just to keep the clicks going.
I hope I'm wrong and this guy is boring enough to get left alone.
Then, someone will uncover something that demonstrates he has human flaws. And the media will turn on him. Just to keep the clicks going.
I hope I'm wrong and this guy is boring enough to get left alone.
I spent 15 minutes writing a bug report to Microsoft.
Pressed "Post your question", and instantly got a message saying it was deleted for violating the code of conduct.
Their large language model decided it was bad. No recourse.
Unbelievable.
Pressed "Post your question", and instantly got a message saying it was deleted for violating the code of conduct.
Their large language model decided it was bad. No recourse.
Unbelievable.
December 1, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I spent 15 minutes writing a bug report to Microsoft.
Pressed "Post your question", and instantly got a message saying it was deleted for violating the code of conduct.
Their large language model decided it was bad. No recourse.
Unbelievable.
Pressed "Post your question", and instantly got a message saying it was deleted for violating the code of conduct.
Their large language model decided it was bad. No recourse.
Unbelievable.
Mark Latham making the point that even awful people who you do not want to be associated with will speak occasional common sense.
Mark Latham is the perfect person to be delivering this point.
www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...
Mark Latham is the perfect person to be delivering this point.
www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...
www.theaustralian.com.au
November 19, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Mark Latham making the point that even awful people who you do not want to be associated with will speak occasional common sense.
Mark Latham is the perfect person to be delivering this point.
www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...
Mark Latham is the perfect person to be delivering this point.
www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...
I am going to try using DuckDuckGo as my goto search engine. I don't usually change my habits, but I dislike Google's AI Overview that much.
November 19, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I am going to try using DuckDuckGo as my goto search engine. I don't usually change my habits, but I dislike Google's AI Overview that much.
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I've been thinking about how we collaborate with LLMs. In an ideal partnership, each plays to their strengths. So I made a handy visual guide.
November 3, 2025 at 5:58 AM
I've been thinking about how we collaborate with LLMs. In an ideal partnership, each plays to their strengths. So I made a handy visual guide.
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Me: i’m Autistic
Them: Oh you take things literally
Me: No that’s kleptomania
Them: Oh you take things literally
Me: No that’s kleptomania
July 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Me: i’m Autistic
Them: Oh you take things literally
Me: No that’s kleptomania
Them: Oh you take things literally
Me: No that’s kleptomania
I like this drawing I did.
September 14, 2025 at 4:20 AM
I like this drawing I did.
There's a wikipedia page dedicated to the long history of Elon Musk promising self driving cars six months into the future.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
List of predictions for autonomous Tesla vehicles by Elon Musk - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
September 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
There's a wikipedia page dedicated to the long history of Elon Musk promising self driving cars six months into the future.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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"Now that we can deliver working software that would have taken months in mere days or even hours..." is the 2025 equivalent of "Now that we've established that UFOs are alien spacecraft..."
No. That really hasn't been established. Anything you say after that is building on smoke.
No. That really hasn't been established. Anything you say after that is building on smoke.
September 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
"Now that we can deliver working software that would have taken months in mere days or even hours..." is the 2025 equivalent of "Now that we've established that UFOs are alien spacecraft..."
No. That really hasn't been established. Anything you say after that is building on smoke.
No. That really hasn't been established. Anything you say after that is building on smoke.
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
When I was thirteen my father brought this book home.
I spent hours and hours learning how to play each piece and memorizing the lyrics, even the ones I didn't understand because I didn't know the history behind them.
I credit him for increasing my love for music and cold war politics.
I spent hours and hours learning how to play each piece and memorizing the lyrics, even the ones I didn't understand because I didn't know the history behind them.
I credit him for increasing my love for music and cold war politics.
July 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
When I was thirteen my father brought this book home.
I spent hours and hours learning how to play each piece and memorizing the lyrics, even the ones I didn't understand because I didn't know the history behind them.
I credit him for increasing my love for music and cold war politics.
I spent hours and hours learning how to play each piece and memorizing the lyrics, even the ones I didn't understand because I didn't know the history behind them.
I credit him for increasing my love for music and cold war politics.
Listening to some 70's instrumental tracks. It makes me ask - why don't they put music in porn anymore?
July 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Listening to some 70's instrumental tracks. It makes me ask - why don't they put music in porn anymore?
"Does an intern cost $20/month? Because that’s what Cursor costs."
That's what Cursor cost in early June. But now Cursor wants to charge customers what it costs them.
cursor.com/en/blog/june...
That's what Cursor cost in early June. But now Cursor wants to charge customers what it costs them.
cursor.com/en/blog/june...
July 9, 2025 at 11:47 PM
"Does an intern cost $20/month? Because that’s what Cursor costs."
That's what Cursor cost in early June. But now Cursor wants to charge customers what it costs them.
cursor.com/en/blog/june...
That's what Cursor cost in early June. But now Cursor wants to charge customers what it costs them.
cursor.com/en/blog/june...
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"I'm so impressed and scared by this" - a person that could be terrified by peekaboo
June 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
"I'm so impressed and scared by this" - a person that could be terrified by peekaboo
James Randi running controlled experiments on water dowsers. This video demonstrates:
- People will hold fast to their beliefs, even when presented with incontrovertible evidence to the contrary.
- You can be skeptical and at the same time be respectful.
youtu.be/PhzyXD5P9no?...
- People will hold fast to their beliefs, even when presented with incontrovertible evidence to the contrary.
- You can be skeptical and at the same time be respectful.
youtu.be/PhzyXD5P9no?...
James Randi in Australia - 45th Anniversary Edition
YouTube video by Australian Skeptics Inc
youtu.be
June 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
James Randi running controlled experiments on water dowsers. This video demonstrates:
- People will hold fast to their beliefs, even when presented with incontrovertible evidence to the contrary.
- You can be skeptical and at the same time be respectful.
youtu.be/PhzyXD5P9no?...
- People will hold fast to their beliefs, even when presented with incontrovertible evidence to the contrary.
- You can be skeptical and at the same time be respectful.
youtu.be/PhzyXD5P9no?...
An article by a coding LLM advocate who at least acknowledges all of the arguments against.
His response to each argument... Pfft.
His response to each argument... Pfft.
June 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
An article by a coding LLM advocate who at least acknowledges all of the arguments against.
His response to each argument... Pfft.
His response to each argument... Pfft.
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Autistic life is being labeled “difficult” for asking why something makes zero sense.
May 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Autistic life is being labeled “difficult” for asking why something makes zero sense.
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What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.
What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.
What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.
May 30, 2025 at 5:21 AM
What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.
What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.
What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.
An example of how the exciting headline isn't justified by what's in the article.
May 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
An example of how the exciting headline isn't justified by what's in the article.
I am bewildered to watch Satya Nadella talk about agentic AI.
If you understand what LLMs do, and understand software development, you know it's NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Not in our life times.
Is the Microsoft's CEO clueless? Or is he deliberately lying?
What happens to him when this doesn't pan out?
If you understand what LLMs do, and understand software development, you know it's NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Not in our life times.
Is the Microsoft's CEO clueless? Or is he deliberately lying?
What happens to him when this doesn't pan out?
May 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I am bewildered to watch Satya Nadella talk about agentic AI.
If you understand what LLMs do, and understand software development, you know it's NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Not in our life times.
Is the Microsoft's CEO clueless? Or is he deliberately lying?
What happens to him when this doesn't pan out?
If you understand what LLMs do, and understand software development, you know it's NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Not in our life times.
Is the Microsoft's CEO clueless? Or is he deliberately lying?
What happens to him when this doesn't pan out?
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It turns out the secret to getting it right is lowering the cost of getting it wrong.
May 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
It turns out the secret to getting it right is lowering the cost of getting it wrong.
One part of Australian elections that makes me proud of this country: the gracious concession speech by the losing candidate. There is a respect for the system. I will not miss Peter Dutton, but he is holding himself well as he bows out.
May 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
One part of Australian elections that makes me proud of this country: the gracious concession speech by the losing candidate. There is a respect for the system. I will not miss Peter Dutton, but he is holding himself well as he bows out.
At a townhall meeting where the local federal candidates are speaking. More fun than I thought, thanks to the independents. (I would never vote for them, but they make elections more fun)
April 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
At a townhall meeting where the local federal candidates are speaking. More fun than I thought, thanks to the independents. (I would never vote for them, but they make elections more fun)
