Netherlands, Belgium and UK.

Driving with a nav system is a part of the driver license test here.

They said it can write code. They never said it can fix code or debug issues.

That’s like saying you can drive, bit can’t navigate or park.

Reality is already fucking him sideways but he keeps escaping reality. He’s like a financial Houdini.

My current boss: so I sold this at least 10% below budget and we have to make it work.

“Do you have any questions for us?”

“You have three engineers in one room. The order comes to let one go. Who do you let go and why?”

“Wut?”

In the book it was a huge amount of scope creep, Hammond refusing to pay for it and then acting all entitled.

Translation: we want some dirt cheap foreign H1B worker for this position but can’t legally say so

This sexy hunk is the inventor of C++

Or spell script

https://github.com/sirbread/spellscript

We use one very old software package. Every modern one asks “save? Yes/no”. This one asks “discard? Yes/no”. And out of habit you tend to click yes to save it. I warn every junior for this trap, but they all fall for it at least once.

Faking personal interest as a ritual greeting between business types. It’s about as real as the greasy laughter they use for each other’s often misogynistic tinted jokes when the managers gather.

There be lightning in the internet cloud, and because of the thunder your computer can’t hear the cloud no more.

The money doom loop:

The rich are that rich because they are competent. Because they are so competent we better listen to them and give them what they want. They want money, and so we make them richer.

Flashbacks to programming a Siemens PLC. That was on a “portable” PG with a CRT screen.

{god, god, god, season, god, god, ceaser, ceaser, number, number, number, number}

It’s been reported the latest model has been optimized for reduced power use, and abilities got reduced somewhat in the streamlining.

You also have the circular investment. NVIDIA puts money into OpenAI. It uses that money to buy computing power from Oracle, who then fills its datacenters with hardware from NVIDIA. Everybody’s valuation rises.

Edit: valuation, not validation

“prompt injection” if you want to be technical about it. It’s a dangerous thing these days.