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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 1h

"Locker room talk"

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 1h

Tonight's moviefilm is The Astronaut.

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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 7h

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h

Questions about "AI"
Some rambling thoughts on "AI" and LLMs. Things I think about.
https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-w025/x/r/

Questions about "AI"

ronjeffries.com

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Lance Walton 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 @lancewalton.bsky.social · 4h

This has been an ongoing issue with the thinking about immigration.

Those who go on about “we should only accept highly skilled immigrants with skills that we need” are basically demanding that the unskilled jobs are left to British people.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 5h

The people this is pandering to will no doubt be delighted to find themselves competing in a job market where every migrant knows English to a much higher standard than they do.

www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 6h

I can't recall any solution architect saying before 2022:

"You know what we need here? Predictive texting. Yeah. That should do the trick."

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 6h

This is why I think Finland got it right by banning private schools. It's amazing how quickly money can be found and services improve if they're the only option for *everybody*

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 9h

Just described the "art" of working effectively with "AI" coding assistants to an engineering leadership team as "Drinking from a firehose".

Yep. That sums it up nicely.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 10h

The message is clear: attach a code-generating firehose to a dysfunctional development process, and you'll make things WORSE.

We can theorise such a thing as an "AI-ready" development team, and that being "AI-ready" has got very little to do with AI.

codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/i...

Is Your Development Team “AI-Ready”?

From the 2025 DORA State of AI-Assisted Software Development report: “In 2025, the central question for technology leaders is no longer if they should adopt AI, but how to realize its value. …

codemanship.wordpress.com

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 12h

a man holds a sign that says careful now

ALT: a man holds a sign that says careful now

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 12h

I can't help thinking that automating your candidate search and selection processes using "A.I." might be a sign that you consider those roles fungible.

As a first point of "contact", that might tell me all I need to know.

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 13h

"Whether you agree with Zack Polanski or not it is important to have a different view articulated as effectively as some of the radical right have been doing.

"Potentially it helps rebalance the scales a little bit in everyday media discourse"

www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/zack...

Zack Polanski: Can the Green Party leader ‘rebalance the scales’ of UK politics? | The News Agents

In little more than a month of leadership, Zack Polanski has grown the party’s membership and become a powerful figure on the left-wing of UK politics. Can he, and the Green Party, take this further…

www.thenewsagents.co.uk

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Rob Bowley @robbowley.net · 21h

JLR, M&S, Co-op and Harrods all allegedly outsourced things like cyber security and service desks to the same supplier

The Elephant in The Biz: outsourcing of critical IT and cybersecurity functions risks UK economic…

Recently, there’s been three major UK ransomware and/or extortion incidents at three big UK companies — Co-op Group, Marks and Spencer and…

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me you haven't found your trillion dollar use case without saying, "We haven't found a trillion dollar use case."

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, software developers! Remember customers?

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 1d

Final Destination had nothing on British public information films.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 1d

I've just realised all my neighbours are out. Switching my BOSS Katana out of 0.5 W mode.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 1d

Forced to share pins, left open to fraud!

1 in 5 with mental health conditions risk financial abuse by sharing pins as banks don't offer carers cards, 3rd party notifications or controls. We want to change that. Full info www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/10...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 1d

I watch devs with inline completion switched on, and I find the recommendations very distracting.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 1d

That's inline completion, though. How would it know what to total?

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 1d

Sure. It's rare I find I need it, though. And most unit testing frameworks handle assertion failures by throwing an exception, so if the first one fails, the ones after that won't be run.

Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 1d

"Mad Transformer Disease"