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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 2d

The Green surge is breaking limits! 😲

Together, we can make hope normal again! 💚

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James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 2d

Last week I released my "Deep Dive: Solutions Architecture" course on Dometrain. This week, reviews have started coming in.

Feedback like, and genuienly helping people is the reason I started doing content creation in the first place.

dometrain.com/course/deep-...

#software #softwarearchitecture

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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · Dec 29

Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 5d

I think: knowing how to code with AI assistance: absolutely an essential skill for developers to have.

enshittifying everything by putting AI into everything consumer-facing? no, thanks.

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James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 7d

Roger that 🫡 I'll follow the repo.

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James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 7d

Oh nice, that sounds very cool. Do you have a link?

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James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 7d

Tell me more..... 🤔

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James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 7d

No worries, I appreciate your question 👍 when I announced the course on LinkedIn I mentioned it's a follow on. Damn character limits on Bluesky 😂

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James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 7d

Yeah, I completely agree. Most of the content in the getting started course is around requirements gathering, understanding the business, the domain, the problem etc. I had a lot of feedback on the getting started course that peopple wanted the 'next step'. Which is where this course came from :)

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Luciano Mammino 📙 Node.js Design Patterns @loige.co · 7d

Level up from dev → architect?

Check out James’s latest Dometrain course: modular monoliths, events, C4, observability, ADRs.

Even if you’re not into .NET, you'll get tons of value from it! 🚀

James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 7d

Excited to announce my new course on Dometrain - Solution Architecture Deep Dive.

The #1 feedback I got on the first course was the depth. Don't worry, this ones goes deeper. Deeper into what it actually means to be an architect in 2025.

#dotnet

dometrain.com/course/deep-...

Deep Dive: Solution Architecture

Master solution architecture and turn business needs into scalable, maintainable systems

dometrain.com

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James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 7d

Excited to announce my new course on Dometrain - Solution Architecture Deep Dive.

The #1 feedback I got on the first course was the depth. Don't worry, this ones goes deeper. Deeper into what it actually means to be an architect in 2025.

#dotnet

dometrain.com/course/deep-...

Deep Dive: Solution Architecture

Master solution architecture and turn business needs into scalable, maintainable systems

dometrain.com

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James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 7d

Oooo, hadn't heard of Qobuz. Thanks Ryan 👌👌

James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 8d

Ok, nice. Is that still the case now? I seem to remember reading that a big company had bought Bandcamp?

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James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 8d

So Bluesky friends, where would you go to buy high quality albums/music nowadays? As a long time Spotify user (just cancelled) I'm kinda lost as to where to start. iTunes would have been my go to. And I've heard a bunch about Bandcamp.

Discuss...

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 8d

That's Claude Sonnet 4.5, the latest model from Anthropic, "...designed for complex agents, coding, and long-running tasks with enhanced reasoning and computer use capabilities."

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 8d

CLAUDE: You can validate and test your dependabot config locally by installing dependabot cli "gh extension install github/gh-dependabot"

ME: "Could not find extension 'github/gh-dependabot' on host github.com"

CLAUDE: My apologies - that extension doesn't exist. I gave you incorrect information.

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James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 8d

🤢🤢🤢

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Annie Sexton • Comics @anniecomics.bsky.social · 9d

I know we’re tired of AI takes but please please please read The Oatmeal’s take. It’s the best one.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 9d

I've voted on both 'sides' over my relatively short life.

I think think is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of the 'wing' you consider yourself aligned to.

#tax #uk #politics

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Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

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Heather Downing @heatherdown.ing · 9d

Thrilled to announce I've joined Yugabyte as a Developer Advocate! 🐘

@yugabytedb.bsky.social takes PostgreSQL and scales it horizontally. I'll focus on developer experience and working with their community.

If you're building with Postgres or vector search, I want to talk to you!

yugabyte.com/ai

Architecting GenAI and RAG Apps with YugabyteDB | Yugabyte

Discover how YugabyteDB's flexible architecture and future-ready foundation can help you build AI-powered, data-driven applications.

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James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 9d

Yeah, agreed. That's my biggest problem with it. Its definitely useful, and not going away. But it being in everything, and people losing their minds at every new announcement is just getting annoying now 😂

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James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 9d

Can the over hyping of AI just piss off now please. Yes it will change things. Yes it's here to stay. Yes it has some cool use cases.

Absolutely fed up with all the talk about it. And the forcing of it into places where actually just a nice normal deterministic piece of software would do.

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dan @danabra.mov · 9d

activitypub is “many websites emailing each other”. there’s no prescribed data flow. there’s no shared identity. it’s a bunch of isolated apps that email each other behind the scenes

whereas atproto is more like a set of conventions to allow all apps to act as if their data is in a global database

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NDC Conferences @ndcconferences.com · 16d

Don't miss out on @jameseastham.co.uk and 90 other excellent speakers at NDC London in January! The Early Bird offer ends this Friday ⏰ Secure your tickets now at ndclondon.com 🇬🇧

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