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Linux user, sysadmin, husband, father, lord of cats

Located in Toronto area. Spent two years in Germany and Italy. Love good cheese, bread, olive oil and all the best things from Europe

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Starting to think the real risk is not AI replacing junior staff, but senior staff quitting because they just can’t take this AI bullshit any longer and just opt for early retirement.

@joeress You’re not missing anything.

I’ve used Claude professionally since about Oct last. I’ve manually written very little code since.

But I spend an inordinate amount of my time reviewing the output and issuing more prompts to fix things, and then reviewing again.

I was impressed at the start, but now I view it as a random bug generator. And it’s making me lazy as a coder.

So where’s the upside? I’m not sure there is one :-)

Why I'm such a jolly chap these days.
If you are in the Toronto, Canada, area on Thursday 12 March, why not spend the afternoon (15:45-17:30 EDT ) at a panel discussion on the history of academic computing in Canada? Hosted by York University, APL is likely to feature – their “York APL” implementation helped spread APL’s academic use in the 1970s. Reserve your place at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/computing-at-york-the-beginning-tickets-1983888703517 #Dyalog #APL #HistoryOfComputing
Computing at York: the Beginning

Exhibit features York computer artifacts, archival photos, and vintage hardware, highlighting early campus computing and its evolution.

Eventbrite

The number of infosec folks who are gung-ho about dropping openclaw agents onto their private machines (because *of course* corp does *not* allow those on corp devices) is astonishing.

And by "astonishing", I mean "seriously concerning". As in: we're fucked, this cannot end well.

I tried to walk like an Egyptian.

Now I need a Cairo practor.

Always a good time these days to repost this slide from an IBM internal presentation in 1979.

The only thing my brain gives me when I hear Google & Cloudflare talking about Merkle Tree Certificates:

#pqc

What if I could convince you that taking the same time to explain detailed requirements and carefully validate results with a junior colleague instead of a chatbot would not only give you two people who understood the code instead of zero, but if you do it a few times in a row you eventually get a senior colleague out of the deal for free.
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Good! Now use your infrastructure and brains of CS department to run a Mastodon server, please!
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