glawre

It uses 50 words when 10 would do.

I get Claude to write code and tests and then I review these carefully. I'm not doing any cutting edge SWE work, so this works fine for me. I also enjoy the bonus that once written it's deterministic, costs no tokens, and is no longer coupled to the AI provider or the government where they operate.

Don't forget Trump rubbing shoulders with al-Sharaa either.

What are Ofcom realistically going to do when providers refuse to comply?

We've seen the X/CSAM issue this week and both the government and regulator are clearly unwilling to stand up to American big-tech.

At our company we have enough systems reliant on holiday dates that we have a Holiday system that emits events when there are changes.

This happens surprisingly often, given that religious dates change and there are holidays/closures for storms in some regions.

Back when I worked at a consulting and MSP place this was taken pretty seriously as it violated some kind of standards we’d signed ourselves up to. Security would also happily pickup your laptop and take it away if it wasn’t Kensington locked to the desk.

It's not just the batteries that need regular servicing, the pads do too. They expire on a similar timescale to the batteries but most AEDs don't alarm for expired pads.

It's not uncommon for AEDs to also need firmware updates, although this typically doesn't effect the usability of the device.

He claimed, incorrectly, that people who live near abortion "buffer zones" in Scotland were sent letters by the government warning them about praying privately within their own homes. This was nonsense.

What are you defining as a BigCo? In the UK I can only really think of FAANG, a small number of hedge funds / HFT firms, and more recently some AI firms that are paying that level of salary.

I'm also guessing that salaries in football might be suppressed similar to video games jobs. There'll be a lot of people willing to work under market rate because they enjoy the football environment.

I'd aim for a giant bank / financial services company. Some still mandate dedicated Ops/Prod Support teams. It can definitely have it's drawbacks, but you're very unlikely to ever be called out.

This is quite a common policy in safety critical industries. I consulted at a large oil company a few years ago and they had a similar attitude in their head offices.

I like the C4 Model as a guide on the different levels of abstraction that you might need for your system.