I’m not going to pretend that the monarch chooses them. The prime minister chooses them and has done for a looooooong time.

Half of the UK parliament is chosen by the monarch.

No.

The other half is chosen through the problematic and undemocratic first past the post voting system.

Yes.

UK streets have CCTV everywhere.

It’s not the CCTV you want to worry about. The CCTV is overwritten regularly and typically goes nowhere. It’s the internet-connected stuff you wanted to worry about, and the blanket surveillance by Google and meta. Carrying a smartphone and worrying about CCTV while you post pictures of yourself where LLMs can scrape them is utterly irrational.

It’s time for people to admit to themselves that the UK, especially England, is a dictatorship.

No, just a half-police state. But at least you tend not to get murdered by the police for being black in charge of a vehicle in the UK, and the healthcare is free.

This, though, this is AWFUL and they went OUT OF THEIR WAY to deny these people justice. If you deny the defendants the right to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, you have denied them justice.

Twinkertastrophe
Twinkergeddon
Twinkiesinkie

I’ve had a few bosses who were great at shielding the team from shit and sticking up for the department in front of everyone. I’d do absolutely anything for them and we all pitched in because it was us.

I applied for my current role partly because I knew who my boss would be and I knew he’d be great. He has my back and I have his. Same is true for the whole team.

• Subscription coding.
• It looks like you’re writing an app. Can I help you with that?
• CrappyCodey
• Clueless coding
• Klutz code
• Mañana coding
• Brain-free coding
• Developerless development
• Self-driving systems
• Humanity-free development
• If claude can do this it can replace management next
• Claude codepirated
• Good luck copywriting this intellectual property theft
• AI pwned
• I never really understood the codebase in the first place
• Blagger’s code
• I’m so much more valuable to my employer now that I’ve outsourced all that tedious thinking, understanding and creating I used to do.

Yup. In the uk, you pay the same charge for each prescription you pick up, whatever it is (or you get an annual flat fee pass if you get more than one a month). So if the pharmacy only found an expensive version, that’s a them problem, not a me problem.

I never used to eat carrot and hated it ever since primary school and the soggy disks that taste truly awful. I don’t mind it in things as long as it’s small. Carrot cake is fine.

So I started trying the smallest bit raw after my wife cut up the carrots ready to boil them, and it didn’t taste too bad. I kept doing it more and more. I now quite like raw carrot, and I can eat small amounts of cooked carrot as long as it’s not overdone and still has a bit of bite.

Start small, do it regularly, build up over time. You can learn to eat anything with a bit of persistence.

Hope this helps.

That’s… not religious freedom, Jenna. That’s the opposite of religious freedom, and the government policing religion is the opposite of what the founding fathers wanted.

This one right here, officer.

What a way to live. I salute you.

We’ve all had nights like that.

You’re treating the two wolves as identical, and that might not be the best approximation.

Jamie says his wife isn’t ok with it. What’s it gotta do with her? She doesn’t have a penis, and she’s not allowed in the men’s room.

I have to agree with you there. Yes, definitely.

Your 40% depends a lot on how you ask the questions and the field of these questions.

Dude, they fail that exam with even worse error rates than I see!

When you can verify it, it’s OFTEN and REGULARLY wrong. It’s stupid to trust if for anything you can’t personally verify.

The designed purpose of LLMs is to respond to human interaction, not to be correct. They are the showoff who pretends he can answer every question. They are the confident drunkard at the bar who will tell you anything that pops into their head. Intelligent, knowledgeable people say “I don’t know” when they don’t know. LLMs don’t do that. Ever. Trouble is, they don’t “know” anything. They’re a chatbot from the bottom up. Chatbot through and through. It’s their fundamental nature.

Yes there was knowledge and deep understanding in their training data. Also, I ate chicken curry for tea. However, I am not a chicken, I do not cluck, I haven’t started eating worms, I cannot produce any chicken, and my poop is not chicken either. My poop smells faintly of curry. So it is with LLMs and the knowledge and understanding in their training data.

How come it’s inaccurate about 40% of the time when I know the answer then? It’s a bullshit factory. A chatbot that’s fundamentally designed to sound like a person and be able to respond to any prompt. But truth isn’t any part of the fundamental architecture of an LLM.

Slop software houses are gonna PAY BIG for losing human talent.

And which vehicle you go to work in dwarfs them both. Two things can be true at the same time.

Let’s hope the winners are slightly less ghoulish than our Oil barons.

What a foolish hope!

$200,000,000,000 debt.
Who well pay it?
You talk like gravity doesn’t exist!

You’re wrong if you think that it won’t be heavily reliant AI customers like software companies who spend five years removing codewriting skills from their workforce and building up technical debt in their codebase because no one has to understand it in those five years and there’s a lot of subtle, hard to spot bugs that got through code review because humans simply don’t make those kinds of errors and no one ever had to spot one in their life before claude came along.

Did you think that enshitification wouldn’t affect the product? Yesterday’s computers and cars were easy to disassemble to replace parts. Now it’s much, much harder, and it’s very common to void your warranty if you do that. Today’s ai generated code is easy to tinker with and you can do what you like with your end product. Why would it stay that way? Why wouldn’t they engineer it to make that harder? It’s not difficult to make code confusing by changing variable names. I could fuck up your codebase for humans by simply swapping names like productSKU and customerID, let alone writing obfuscated code for any purpose whatsoever and with whatever variable names I like.

Some software companies are outsourcing their talent to AI behemoths with mountains of debt to recoup. Guess who’s going to pay the debt! And what’s the point of such a company in the long run? Why are you speedrunning paying to replace yourself?

There will be an AI crash and “consolidation”, meaning a switch to monopolies or near monopolies. Some companies are shedding institutional knowledge and programming skill like it was waste water. Once dependence comes, value extraction will follow it like disease follows unvaccinated infection.

There is already $200bn in debt and growing rapidly. The shareholders aren’t going to be paying it. The ai customers are.

There was an article a bit ago explaining that most AI companies are making a 95% loss. You know, spending 100, receiving 5 loss. All that debt is going to mean the price for AI is about 20 times lower than it needs to be just to break even. The software teams that came to rely on AI to save costs will soon enough find themselves on the hook for this mountain of debt. Enshitification is real. Enshitification is coming. AI will not stay cheap, convenient and free of advertising.