Kerry Buckley

@kerryb
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Computering, running, cats and general incompetence
LocationIpswich, UK
Bloghttps://kerrybuckley.org/
Me, a programmer, shouting at a podcast for laughing about how the 64 in “$64,000 Question” is “weirdly random”.
Resist "AI"!
Yes, the "AI Genie" seems actually to be useful. But it is also seductive, selectively harmful, and in important ways harmful to us all. Executive, manager, consultant, developer, ordinary person: Resist!
https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/x/t/
Resist "AI"!

This is RonJeffries.com, the combination of new articles, XProgramming, SameElephant, and perhaps even some new items never before contemplated. <br/>Copyright © 1998-forever Ronald E Jeffries

I wrote up a deliberate process of narrowing down a performance issue using a profiler (with a brief digression into benchmarking tools). Fortunately (given that I was writing the post in parallel with doing the actual work) it turned out well, delivering a 30–40× speedup. #MyElixirStatus

https://www.kerrybuckley.org/2026/03/18/zooming-in-on-slow-code-with-profiling-and-benchmarking-tools/

Zooming in on slow code with profiling and benchmarking tools « Kerry Buckley

Weeknotes 2026-11: a quiz and a half (by which I mean neither a very good quiz nor 1.5 quizzes).

https://www.kerrybuckley.org/2026/03/15/weeknotes-2026-11/

Weeknotes 2026-11 « Kerry Buckley

Weeknotes 2026-10: high blood pressure all round.

https://www.kerrybuckley.org/2026/03/12/weeknotes-2026-10/

Weeknotes 2026-10 « Kerry Buckley

In France, we don't say "vibe-coded contribution" but "merde request" and I think it's beautiful 💩

#AISlop #ChIAsse #NoAISlop

Resisting the urge to bother commenting on an internal “suggested GitLab branching model” that somehow manages to be even worse than GitFlow, while optimistically claiming to be consistent with continuous deployment.

Oh look, the government’s uninformed parroting of AI companies’ investment hype turns out to be smoke and mirrors. I’m shocked.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/09/revealed-uks-multibillion-ai-drive-is-built-on-phantom-investments

Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’

Exclusive: Rented datacentres and unrealised supercomputer site raise questions for Starmer’s push to ‘mainline AI into veins of economy’

The Guardian
I'm no artist, but hopefully this gets the point across. A comic in three panels.
If you don’t like programming, I invite you to do something else with your time instead of promoting the machine that lets you not do it. Some people actually like it, you jerks.