alanb99
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Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
You get the sense that Keir Starmer has found something that the silent majority really want to support him on. We'll see what it does to his approval ratings ahead of any leadership contest.
Whether it's achievable or not is a different question of course.
Comment · 4 months ago
Next time we see something obviously AI-written we should ask for the prompt instead of the finished artifact. At least this way you'll know what the person was really thinking.
Comment · 4 months ago
"Explain X like I'm 5" (or 10 or whatever) is a killer use case for AI tools.
Comment · 4 months ago
One one level it's real to say that these are the official numbers cited by different countries.
But it's not meaningful. The numbers are not counting the same thing.
e.g. in the UK if you make a hoax emergency services call then that gets counted in the stats.
https://pa.media/blogs/fact-check/fact-check-international-d...
UK isn't perfect, obviously. Most recently there has been a lot of debate about whether Palestine Action is really a terrorist organization or whether allowing Kanye West into the UK is a good idea or not.
But it's clearly nonsense to suggest that the UK is more repressive than these other countries.
Comment · 4 months ago
> International data on ‘online comments’ arrests not comparable
E.g. in the UK a hoax emergency services call counts within these stats.
https://pa.media/blogs/fact-check/fact-check-international-d...
Comment · 4 months ago
Couple of other anecdotal data points:
1. Guy I know who is an exec coach says that a chatbot can do a lot of what he does. 2. I am absolutely seeing lots of people asking ChatGPT a question and treating its answer as the truth.
So I can well believe that, in an age where you can get a quick answer to anything for free, that the market for books is collapsing.
Having said that, I also suspect that many of these self-help books are effectively a blog post stretched out over hundreds of pages, so maybe a decline in their sales is no bad thing.
Comment · 5 months ago
DHH on the Pragmatic Engineer podcast gets right to the nub of what it feels like coding with agents in the Spring of 2026.
> I didn't want to be a project manager for agents
> Running a bunch of agents feels less like being a project manager for agents and more like stepping into this super mech suit where suddenly I don’t just have two arms, I have twelve.
He wanted to learn to code a Roblox game. It gave 3 modes for the tutorial - do it yourself, copy-paste some examples or use AI. He rejected AI because he's seen AI games and they're all bad.
Oh, also, ChatGPT lies.