Every single word of this 🧵. Yes.

My biggest gripe about tech conferences remains this: there is never anywhere near enough common area seating. It’s just crazy.

Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That’s 4x Higher Than Humans The incidents bring the robotaxi service to a total of 14 crashes since launching last summer. The new data raises concerns about how safe Tesla’s systems really are compared to the average driver.

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

I watched this SO MANY TIMES back in 2001

Literally nothing works anymore

I'm pretty sure I know. They aren't. We're not going to really be able to make a lot of progress in dealing with the implications of this tech unless and until we get rid of all this "woo-woo" talk about LLMs. Anthropic pushing this line is PR, unserious.

The thing that gets me about the “vibe coding is now so good” crowd is that you cannot possibly know how good new code is right away. It’s 6, 18, 24 months down the line you’re gonna find out, after several changes, service merges / splits, pivots etc. THEN we find out. Not now just cos “it works”

WHEN will everybody realise the guy is FULL of 💩 💩? “Elon Musk Pivots to the Moon, Calls It the Fastest Path to Saving Civilization” www.techrepublic.com/article/news...

And the last thing is that the fact that some coders wrote something that is good at writing code is sort of the least surprising part of this. They should be good at that stuff. The weird bit is when they make things that also try to be friends and therapists and lovers and artists.

Of VC-backed products, 78% fail: 42% fail because nobody wants them. 17% because they don't really solve the problem they claim to solve. 19% because they were no different from competing products or couldn't evolve with the market. And that's just VC-backed companies. 1/2

Remember all those years nobody danced to the Macarena because they couldn’t understand the lyrics?

Increasingly I find myself drawn back to my old old friend Django @djangoproject.com

Free idea: somebody should make a periodic publication that reports on current events without bias or influence. A newspaper, if you will.

Prompt Fidelity: Measuring How Much of Your Intent an AI Agent Actually Executes How much of your AI agent's output is real data versus confident guesswork? Telegram AI Digest #ai #news

What could possibly go wrong?

THIS THIS THIS 🧵

Important education message: "independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it." A few profit and the most vulnerable pay www.economist.com/united-state...

Vibe-coding your app then bringing in dev expertise to “productionise” it before deployment is akin to running a bakery using cake mixes then bringing in chefs at the end to “just fix” the big bowls of shit before they go in the oven

Expect an unprecedented deluge of sock puppet pre-made rage in the UK press this week 👇👇

Anything that inconveniences a right wing populist is censorship, part 1000. This depraved prick uses that term bc it puts his enemies on the defensive. They cower. Fact-checking is censorship. Labeling is censorship. TRANSPARENCY is censorship. Now, “no nonconsensual nudes” is censorship.

Me: ALL illegal access is wrong Also Me: LOL

Much of the dysfunction you find in organizations, and most of the problems you find in software development, come from the fact that people—engineers in particular—believe that complex systems (in the Cynefin sense) can be understood and controlled. They can not. 1/7

Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features. We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this. …

THIS 👇👇👇👇

Shout out to everyone who honestly thought a deep BTC position would be a great way to shore up their balance sheet

If he’s this clueless and Bambi-eyed naive about his place in the history of our species, WHY WE WE TAKE SERIOUSLY ANYTHING HE EVER SAYS ABOUT ANYTHING?

Ah, how safe and innocent the bow and arrow must have looked, neatly piercing that rosy apple atop that chap’s head

Ok. I’ve spent five months without a paid gig now. And I have LOADS of relevant skills. This is nuts.

"The problem with Agile is <goes on to describe rigid plan-driven command-and-control approach>"

good grief WHY ARE ALL THE OPPORTUNITIES ON AZURE?????

AWS Lambda provisioned mode for SQS is here! Same principle as provisioned mode for Kafka, but 20x (!) cheaper - making it a viable solution for high-volume, near-realtime event processing. aws-news.com/article/2025...

Well. Moving AWS SDKs from Python to Rust certainly hits different

LLMs are trained on public sources of code examples. The vast majority of those examples are poorly-written. This is why LLMs are so good at generating poorly-written code. So, when someone says they're *impressed* by LLM-generated code...

Today I wrote a Python offchain program to call my onchain #solana program and I know for some folks that’s not a lot but BLOODY HELL did I feel good about figuring it out and debugging it all by myself. ProTip: discriminators can have custom lengths. IYKYK

A petition urging the UK government @ukparliament.parliament.uk to set out a pro-innovation strategy for blockchain and stablecoins petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73... #stablecoins

Here we have @thetimes.com, seemingly failing to recognise the most recognisable aspect of a bubble: that it expands

The Blockchain revolution is REALLY gonna happen this time www.mcbh.co.uk/blog/blockch... #solana

the amount of academic research now using llms in research (synthetic data generation, to classify, annotate, or analyse large scale data, etc) is astounding. remember, just cus use of llms in research is becoming normalised does NOT erase the fact it degrades the research & undermine your results

How the release of the Tether Wallet SDK will supercharge the Blockchain revolution www.mcbh.co.uk/blog/blockch... #blockchain

Tether WDK opens the door to the #Blockchain future… vm.tiktok.com/ZNdcqVBbP/

If you have to use “cursor for x” or “uber for y” to describe your startup, it’s already over. It’s done. You’re done.

I watch a lot of open source projects’ issues on GitHub. On a regular occurrence, maintainers are politely asking “could you please disclose if you used LLM to generate this PR”. This is the polite and exhausting way to say “this looks like incomprehensible bullshit, why are you wasting our time?”

Nice to see people still talking absolute 💩 about the AWS outage, with great authority

Updating my LEGO White House

Pumped for Serverless Days Cardiff today 🥳 #serverless

Spending my Wednesday evening doing the Solana Anchor bootcamp tutorials. Too much fun 🤓

Job adverts for "Developer" have fall by ~80% in recent years. But advertised "Junior Developer" vacancies are near the floor. Weapons-grade short-termism.

Reassuring to find out that we live among so many AWS experts

With their new “Agent Skills” feature, @anthropic.com continue to investigate ways to enrich integration and enhancement processes for AI / GPTs. www.anthropic.com/engineering/...