See also https://electrek.co/2026/03/17/former-uber-self-driving-chief-tesla-fsd-crash-supervision-problem/:

Tesla is asking humans to supervise a system that is specifically designed to make supervision feel pointless. As he puts it, an unreliable machine keeps you alert, and a perfect machine needs no oversight, but one that works almost perfectly creates a trap where drivers trust it just enough to stop paying attention.

Wrote to my MP about this, oh, let’s see… 2.5 years ago!

I do understand that it’s the Conservative way to “let the market decide”; to see how much money can be made, and what damage done, before regulation. This is going to happen far too quickly for that. It’s already too late, damage will be done, but better late than never.

I’ve done short guides, long guides, short videos, long videos. People never read/watch them. It’s almost like an aversion…

Glad that’s not a thing on eBay! My last second bids always end in the same odd number of pence in an effort to beat other people doing similar.

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!

It did not pick up. It continued to be mostly ordinary and more than a bit daft.

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.

OK, fine. I looked it up.

I think a lot of people just underestimate the danger from a blow to the back of the head. While extremely rare, kids die from head injuries just playing tag. The increased risk as a cyclist should be self-evident.

I felt a bit like that after I finally managed to watch the end of The Godfather. I’d given up halfway through SO many times.