Sam Black

@samwwwblack
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Just as exasperated with software as you.
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I am giving up drinking for a month. Sorry, that came out wrong. I am giving up. Drinking for a month.

Interviewer: Can you perform under pressure?

Me: I can do the Bowie part, but I don't have the upper range to sing the Freddie part.

The sun is shining, the wind is blowing a gale, and just 2.4% of British electricity is coming from fossil fuels. See the live data at https://grid.iamkate.com.

"If you want to improve the model's output, you can write skill files with more specific instructions!"

"Oh wow so like a file that tells the computer to do exactly what you want?"

"Yep!"

"You're never gonna believe this."

I love how vibecoded commits are called vommits. It's so perfect.

"Learning to work effectively with AI is quickly becoming a core professional skill. Ignoring AI today would be like refusing to adopt source control twenty years ago."

Oh golly, I almost forgot SVN stole hundreds of thousands of peoples' (and particularly artists) livelihoods, set us back decades in climate change emissions reduction and increasingly hurling towards global catastrophe while _also_ upending global economy in hogging the combined human output of equipment production to manifest _even more_ data centers that will propel us even further towards a hypercapitalist dystopian hellscape. Good to be reminded.

to whom it may concern:

how dare you email me

🤯 A visual physics lesson at 80 km/h.

Enthusiasts launched a man from a moving truck in the opposite direction - at the same speed the car was traveling.

The experiment spectacularly showed how relative speed works.

Today in InfoSec Job Security News:

I was looking into an obvious ../.. vulnerability introduced into a major web framework today, and it was committed by username Claude on GitHub. Vibe coded, basically.

So I started looking through Claude commits on GitHub, there’s over 2m of them and it’s about 5% of all open source code this month.

https://github.com/search?q=author%3Aclaude&type=commits&s=author-date&o=desc

As I looked through the code I saw the same class of vulns being introduced over, and over, again - several a minute.

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