This happened to someone I know who worked a charity. Reckon it’s rife in the public sector. Senior leaders protecting themselves rather than the organisation.
Author Archives: Phil
Agents write units of changes that look good in isolation. They are consistent with themselves and your prompt. But respect for the whole, there is not.
I’ve been using an LLM for support while I set-up a new Linux environment. It gives me a sounding board and, I hope, some idea of good/best practice.
It also gives me commands, with most of which I am already familiar, so I am happy to copy/paste… BUT, even in a single conversation, I can see it deviating for it’s own suggestions, or making subtle tweaks to commands it already advised me to run and not always explaining why.
It’s clearly not building a holistic “mental” picture of what we’re trying to achieve. It keeps assuring me it is, but it is evidently not actually able to do that. Maybe this is demonstrated by the way it often regenerates ALL the advice it has previously given when asked for clarification on an apparent caveat. This is when the unexplained tilts can creep in.
Knowing a little of how an LLM works, I think I can understand exactly why that is.
With all that in mind, I can completely understand how it can’t reliably develop an actual code base!
It is pretty great at tedious shit like combining and transforming two simple JSON datasets, though!
“extremes are pushed, nuance is out and polarisation is in”
Ain’t that a fact? What makes it worse is that this is both sides of the political spectrum. On one side we have people refusing to use simple trans pronouns. On the other, we have people saying we should always use preferred pronouns (of any nature), which is equally ridiculous.
PhilUnless this REALLY picks up in the final two episodes, I’m baffled by this review. I can’t wait to get it over with. The plot is “Spooks” levels of “espionage” nonsense. Thompson’s character, while likeable and against type, is hardly transformational. Whereas, Ruth Wilson playing an e...
It did not pick up. It continued to be mostly ordinary and more than a bit daft.
Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.
I made a *monkey user script that simply hides the #related sidebar on YouTube. I use YouTube for ambient noise (like this video) to help my concentration but (ironically), I often get distracted by the sidebar content when I go to switch it on #adhd
The one where I get very annoyed with my email provider
I had a similar thing from Dominos. They sent me an email that explicitly described itself as a “service message” from survey@feedback.dominosmarketing.co.uk
So, I emailed their DPO and they, obviously, just waved it away. How is anything that directly encourages me to engage with a business for the business’s benefit not direct marketing? 🤷
Where does your customer feedback function sit? Under marketing. So, gathering customer feedback is a marketing activity? No.
Is there maybe space for another ballroom? Or some other sort of redecorating project? Can’t be THAT hard to find something to distract him.
Managers so quick to dimiss complaints about workplace software until they actually have to use it.
“Why do we have to do it that way?”
In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.
I cried so much at the end of this movie that we stayed so long the cleaners came in. Absolutely heartbroken, I was.
I could never watch it again.
★★★★★