Dominic Hopton

@grork
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Person, collection of elements producing something less than the sum of its parts. (Opinions are mine, and do not represent those of my employer)

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Websitehttps://codevoid.net
Bloghttps://codevoid.net/ruminations
GitHubhttps://github.com/grork
Storyvoid Apphttps://storyvoid.app
Dominic Hopton1d ago
Alice McFlurry Mar 4, 2023
It seems like every person born before 1980 has a baby photo of them being bathed in a kitchen sink and I have a theory that most of it stopped when people got dishwashers and realized it was a much more convenient way to clean their children.
Show threadDominic Hopton2d ago

Why do they persist? I just want to do a thing, but you force me to call, when it’s a very simple transactional task.

I’m not saying we don’t need to call a human occasionally, but that should be about discovery, or sales, not ‘fiddle with my service’.

https://www.codevoid.net/ruminations/2026/05/18/engineered-inefficacy.html

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Engineered Inefficacy

Dominic Hopton's personal blog

Thoughts, Ruminations, & Pontifications
Dominic Hopton2d ago
The need to call customer service is often, in reality, a failing of UX: a bug, an explicit decision to employ a dark pattern. ‘Why is my account not letting me do x or y’: bug. ‘Why can’t I cancel the website?’: dark pattern. ‘Why can’t I schedule this appointment right now’: UX failing. 1/2
Dominic Hopton2d ago
Why is it that TV shows don’t use real computer UI? I get it in sci, but some detective show is doing a ‘zoom call’, and… it’s custom operating system (on a surface laptop studio no less), and then a mostly correct Zoom UI…
Dominic Hopton2d ago
Show threadPaul Haddad 3d ago
Related anyone looking for a newly graduated kid with a comp sci degree?
Dominic Hopton3d ago
Show threadJoe Fabisevich 3d ago
Another trend I hate is posts where the first few paragraphs were definitely written by a human, but all of a sudden the writing style changes enough that you can tell they gave up and told Claude to finish the rest.
Dominic Hopton6d ago
ana «model a7m2» 🎶6d ago
why did they call them "ai datacenters" when they could have called them "slopping malls"
Dominic HoptonMay 10
@cocoawithlove It looks like your site was updated, but the RSS feed is serving localhost urls!
Dominic HoptonMay 9

All the models have improved ‘time to first token’, but Claude seems to have forgotten that theres also the time to second token.

Might as well make a cup of tea in the time it takes to get the rest of the tokens flowing.

Dominic HoptonApr 27
Saagar JhaApr 27
Not to sound like a thought leader and all but I was reviewing a bunch of hackathon projects and the fact that everyone is slopping them out now (code, frontend, slides, literally everything honestly) really highlights how ideas limited people are