RT @zeeg: My main conclusion: headless agents are not ready yet. They will impress you, but you spend a lot of time fighting against the cu….

JLR can find 500 headcount savings. Surely there are savings to be made amongst the millions of public sector employees?.

Interesting chat at @PyDataSoton social beers last night around Research Software Engineering, aka the university sector's initiative to adopt software engineering methods. Did raise the point about attempting to train researches into becoming expert software engineers when it.

RT @TheSecretAcct: @JokersWildUK Correct. Sort that out and you sort the NHS out.

RT @Keir_Starmer: Incompetence has become this Government’s watchword.

Re AI squeezing the software engineer market ++ the code monkey bit (ie the market did get overheated):. "Some engineers understand this, and use the chance to skill up. To succeed, you’ll probably need all the skills of an engineer, some of a PM, and even a bit of design taste.

RT @BuckCllr: @RichardBurgon Here’s how you can also raise £24bn, solve inefficient government spending. We know, you’re not interested i….

My experience with LLM Kool-Aid too :)

Want to know what ChatGPT knows about you ? Enter this prompt. “Please put all text under the following headings into a simple document overview, with long-form summaries: Assistant Response Preferences, Notable Past Conversation Topic Highlights, Helpful User Insights, User

Anyone tried to sell on @eBay_UK recently ?.Nightmare trying to set it to use anything other than Simple Delivery, eg if you want tracked / 48hrs / signed for / insured etc. Giving up - going back to Gumtree and Marketplace. Putting a card in the newsagent's window for 25p a.

We need a new chest freezer, so asked Gemini Deep Research. Amazingly deep answers. Beats the old Googling / ref library + Which? mag.

Hey @akavassis - photo from a previous life :)

Enabled Google Code Assist Standard in my VSCode IDE. It's sort of incredibly bright and incredibly dumb at the same time. Knows everything, but doesn't really know what is relevant. Early days yet though, probably more to do with me getting used to this level of tooling.

Google AI Pro also isn't designed for confidential use, at least according to my Gemini prompting.

Reviewing various AI assisted IDEs, and checking on IP security. Conclusion (as expected) - DO NOT use the free tiers for confidential work. See screenshot. Google Code Assist Standard is $23/mo. Just figuring our my new AI assisted workflows. 'Prompt

Trading vs eating sardines.

RT @waronweakness: The most potent anti-aging drug known to man is:

If you think about it, higher income taxes and NI is like raising the cost of mortgages; more ££ earnings per ££ borrowed. ie it's not just interest rates. @moving_charlie @LondonMoneyFS @John_Stepek.

Thanks @chatGPT for helping me remember Linux tar command syntax:. tar -cvf archive.tar folder/.->.Create Very Fine Archive of folder.:).

Learning a little game theory this morning.