I interned as a SWE at ARRIVAL after IPO in summer 2021 - learnt a huge amount from some extremely talented people. It's a shame that a potential bastion of UK tech has fizzled out like this. Hope that we see startups founded from employees and the ashes. bbc.com/news/business-…

It’s the little things.

Wendy’s selling a chicken sandwich for $30 to a single mother running late to pick up her kids:

Gemini won't return C++ coding help if you're under 18 because it "wants to preserve your safety". h/t: Tai Groot 🐧

Politico profile on AI lobbying has HILARIOUS anecdote: Tristan Harris showed lawmakers META chatbot could give instructions to make bio-weapon Mark Zuckerberg was present, took out phone & got same instructions using Google Room erupted into laughter! politico.eu/article/ai-con…

oh no

It is with great sadness that the Simons Foundation announces the death of its co-founder and chair emeritus, James Harris Simons. Jim was an award-winning mathematician, a legendary investor and a generous philanthropist. simonsfoundation.org/2024/05/10/sim…

“If an AI agent carries out a workflow consisting of 10 tasks autonomously but has a 10% error rate per task, the compounded error rate over the whole workflow is 65%.” There is a lot of nuance building production LLM systems

Why pay for Claude, when I can get my code written by amazon.

it’s so over

using more degrees of freedom to accomplish tasks slower is bad engineering

I'm sick tired of people pushing their "memory-safe language" agenda when a viable solution is within reach.

ugh claude just like me fr

just an average Stack Exchange question

cursor after I send “still broken” for the 15th time:

Nothing says personal growth like building a wheeled minion that judges you by size and shape. Learn Robotics with Raspberry Pi by Matt Timmons-Brown (Raspberry Pi Guy) now 30% off with code ROBOWEEK25 until 4/12: nostarch.com/raspirobots

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