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Well, there goes the share price. Dear me. It's quite amazing they have actually tried this.

It is a wonder isn't it? The absolute determination to debase ones own country. It does, however, make complete sense when you consider the incentives at play (and that is where British governance is genuinely on the back foot).

I don't say this lighly, but I am concerned for Karpathy. The economic context appears missing from these analysis. I get the impression / image that a large cohort want us to assume the 'hands are off the wheel' and that AI 'is in another dimension of intelligence' and 'we have no idea what is going on'; i.e. total abdication of professional duty, which is a hell of a thing to be triumphantly tweeting about.

I would argue that we all know the roles that have been barely justifiable, and now are glaringly obvious came to be as a result of the giddiness of agile and that 'culture'. As I can see now, those who wield a heavy sword are those who are 'allowed' to continue in the LLM-age of product development; I can see managers now developing build projects over teams (which is and can only lead to _less_ productivity and _less_ efficient orgs).

But I think it is important we all emphasise that this LLM-age giddiness sits squarely in those businesses where influence and product have always been their thing. It is unfortunate but, here we are. I don't believe a VP or MD or CXO is ever going to admit they were played by their peers on this one (agentic development).

The positive perhaps is the hardening of personal development, by need or necessity. LLM and agents are terrible at domain expertise still, and only until memory availability becomes abundent again (in end-user equipment), that is not going to change.

My big concern for the industry is when that happens, and anyone can build anything, but with the ability to tune to domain expertise via their own terms; this is the collapse, where no 'moat' exists at all, we are already seeing the collapse of the subscription model, and I believe pay-on-demand / purchase _is_ authentication is a tracking metric to that collapse. I forsee regulation being pushed to ensure the model however and foresee regulation on user equipment.

Larger institutions are perhaps 1-2 years lagging (for regulatory reasons) on uptake and perhaps that is the point in all this giddiness.

Decisions in the sense of defined branching, yes. The existence of prior and potential branches are necessary to be defined (branches cannot be 'invented'). This is unlike humans, who can form decisions by all manner of means / wants (by deception being the most striking I would wager). Even in the LLM age, the existence of branching - prior art, or context, or prompt, the result of a prior branch - is necessary, no matter how hard the marketing might cloud this.

The parralels with how Orson Welles learned how to be a film maker are striking. There is a sweet spot in both Wallace & Grommit and Citizen Kane where both film makers are doing things they had no idea they _'weren't'_ supposed to do. A lesson to us all perhaps.

Very unfortunate that this article is written by an LLM. Reading over, the premise and the conclusion are what a chat session filled with RAG and MCP calls would bring about. Disapointed in the OTel leadership, the blog is usually a nice place to read about what is happening with the community.

I've read OP blog and writings for a time. The one takeaway - for me - is how negative/defensive the writing is. And, I'm not sure why it has to be that way.

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Node kept doing its thing when Bun, Deno, etc. was all the rage. And I do respect Node team for trying to improve little by little. It's not an ideal runtime but, it is _trying_... and that's a positive story.

Will be interesting to see how Ericsson - if at all - responds to this

Exactly the same issues we are facing right now. And, well why wouldn't it end up like this? The promises of going 'faster' while ignoring the organisational processes capability to handle it is - and continues to be - the greatest delusion of this new age. But, even in the face of all of this, we are seeing leaders asking for more. At some point the culture will collapse in on itself, and no one will understand anything anymore.

That was so well written, a lovely read. So refreshing to be brought along on the authors journey into thought.

Cost of living is an interesting comparison to invoke. For low, mid, high income households and individuals - per region - would the cost of living - in the UK - be higher or lower considering the same factors (income, region, family) of the US?

It's the usual responses isn't it: _'I'm saddened'_ or, _'what has happened to Britain'_. Had a look at America, Russia, or Belarus, etc.?

Living in the UK is fantastic.

Yes. I agree with most, if not all of this. For instance, I am seeing folks either relying in the LLM as an _assumed_ expert or, assuming someone - who knows the structure of skill definitions - also has some expertise (in the area of the skill). It's a difficult situation; there is not much point in explaining _why_ the LLM output or skill in use (on a domain problem) isn't what the person actually _needs_ to address the domain problem, because the person isn't a domain expert or indeed, adjacent to domain expertise. But, it is an interesting experiemnt to arm folk with little domain expertise with the _skill_ necessary to be able to extract the right solution from the model.

> _"...Canny..."_

What a time to be alive