A good thread on AI haters that ai wish I’d written myself.

I see the ‘patriotic’ parts of the press are delighting in a US President having a go at the PM.

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

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Watched “Weapons” movie last night. Really liked it. Loved how it was filmed. Would recommend.

What the actual hell!?!?

Drones. Ukraine have been masterful at this with waves of cheaper decoy drones to waste Russian assets allowing other waves to get through.

Falling bits of rockets/drones far less dangerous than high explosives filled rockets/drones hitting a target so the blowing them up even over cities is better than them hitting as intended.

100% right on the cost and availability of intercept munitions which can be played and swamped with cheap

Here is the timeline on its own (easier to zoom in)

Tour de France! We keep claiming to be a cycling nation and love the medals but need to promote the next gen

Official Team GB Paralympic photo, with the the crests and everything, and a professional headshot, but it's for "Pickle, A Very Good Girl", who is a black labrador, with a hi-viz harness and a red collar.

Some of you like dogs, in which case you may appreciate that guide dogs of Team GB for the Paralympics get official photos

The hype though comes from coding building AI seeing it as amazing and doing exactly that fallacy “I find it useful so all will find it useful”, but it’s not all the same problem or skill set.

It is pretty damn amazing at coding if you keep it focused. I think it’s mind blowing and I’ve been coding for 30+ years.

But I don’t therefore think it’s great at everything. Coding is pretty specialised and testable. It works or it doesn’t. Not every job/industry maps to that.

I don’t see it as being able to build everything though. With a tight scope and task it is though damn impressive and incrementally building things with a good experienced code/architect at the wheel. I’d never ask it to build a whole app from scratch but expand on a feature no problem.

I feel a lot of this is from the coders building it using it, seeing the value in it and extrapolating the benefits to “everything” when as you say code can be tested, it’s a measurable and logical activity. That doesn’t mean it’s great at everything but it’s assumed so as it’s good at coding

Have you tried asking ChatGPT? It’s no doctor but it is pretty good at raising things you might not have tried. Give all your symptoms and history but try not to pass on any biases and see what it says. I’ve fixed tight hamstrings and a dodgy knee with it that have plagued me for years.

Did my first run for about 14 years. Out for a whole hour of run-walk-run and then a shopping trip at the end too.

Time to start putting my body a bit more up the priority list. Although not looking forward to not being able to walk in 2 days time if past experience is anything to go off!

I’ve been working with it a lot and I’ve got two habits that seem to help. One it atomic commits per feature with a good commit message and the other is getting the agent to add/update a mental model doc which is kept intensionally brief. This then allows me to both load up my brain and the AI’s

Coding with AI agents in Cursor IDE is like something out of StarTrek.

Very productive but the whole time you can feel your own coding muscle memory wasting away.

But I do sort of love it. 30+ years of coding and now I can have an idea and it just makes it happen before my eyes.

Are you open to doing commisions?

Oh I like that idea

I’ve a theory similar to this is common sense vs academic ability. My brother is insanely academic but can’t do any day to day life thinking/tasks.

Like there’s an allowance or some dials you have to choose from. You can’t have it all.

New job is keeping me very busy but in such a good way. Got my mojo back and my mind is firing on all cylinders again. Amazes me how much of a funk I’d got into through just being bored at work.

My mind needs agency and problems to solve. Now got that so it is flying!

Tiring in a good way.

Lakes? Bracing but it doesn’t half make you feel alive and special to be able to feel the space when it’s a cold one like that. Envious!

It’s a sign that your moving back up north

Some really striking numbers in this new survey showing the flip in European public opinion about America.

But bear in mind this is only Western Europe. In Eastern Europe, it has been harder to take the blinders off peoples' eyes.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Is the Leeds meet still going? I’ve missed the last few

If we assume they do try intimidation at the polls and it boosts voting turn out and Dems get more votes I can see Trump then just using the surge as proof of “dems rigging” and some how claim the whole thing is corrupt so he claims it null and void somehow (or something like that). Seems a win/win?

The authors "estimate that by 2025, the Brexit process had reduced UK GDP per capita by 6 to 8 percent, investment by 12 to 18 percent, employment by 3 to 4 percent, and productivity by 3 to 4 percent. These effects grew gradually over time." www.nber.org/202602/diges...

What a total disaster... 🇪🇺🇬🇧

Opens the door to some USA channels/dollar though I bet