ME ON A TRAIN: Oh no, I accidentally clicked a video with sound! Oh god, people heard a second of loud sound from my phone. I have torn the social contract. EVERYBODY ELSE ON TRAIN: Shit yeah, train time, time to watch the loudest TikToks

Honestly quite surprised at the extent to which this makes me want to strange a horse - which I have so far failed to do.

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I always try and get my daily 2,000 fucking swears in.

Thanks, I hate it.

new image for every Kubernetes presentation just dropped

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realistic Star Trek

Small businesses, improve your revenues with this one neat trick: just answer your goddamn emails.

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This is less surprising than learning that AOL still offered dial-up.

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@jonty.bsky.social is this one of yours?

Sharing with you a highly useful meme format:

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Please don’t give your AI agents write access to your production data stores jfc.

I’m building this amazing AI event in London! You can join us on 15-16 Oct! Early bird tickets end today!

Look, just make sure your wife knows about all your side pieces. Follow me for more CEO tips.

Did Shopify get appreciably better more quickly, or cheaper since 2021?

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Vancouver, I am in you.

MFA is now a hard requirement for #AWS root access 🔒 Happy to see AWS is taking #Security by design approach for high level access 👍

Also: avoid pregnancy during alcohol

Of all the AI coding assistants, the one you’d expect to best be able to handle modifying code from using Bedrock’s InvokeModel API to the Converse API is Amazon Q Developer. Guess what? Nope!

I… what?

It’s the @awsuguk.bsky.social meetup! Solid turnout 👌🏻

See you there?

It’s worse than that. A lot of what’s available online as training data is far from best practices. See scalefactory.com/blog/2021/03...

Just back from a relaxing week on Fuerteventura. Aside from the weather, and the fact I spent the week lying by the pool reading in the sunshine, I think part of the reason it was so restorative is that volcanic islands are almost devoid of plant life and, by extension, pollen.

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On your own projects. Don’t inflict this sort of shit on your employers’ code base, or your current and future colleagues.

This blog is SO good at pointing out what should have been obvious about AI for coding (Copilot and others) These tools are good for re-creating whatever they’ve been trained on. They are not what will create the next, better generation of frameworks, libraries, technologies.

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Have you met sysadmins?

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Mine had an Usbourne book ready to go when, watching Eastenders, aged ~12, I asked how Michelle could have had Dirty Den’s baby when she was obviously married to Lofty at the time.

Good morning!

I guess the solution to this is to have all students write all essays under strict exam conditions.

It can fucking do one, tbh.

In which @tantacrul.bsky.social fully encapsulates the experience of trying to use GIMP. youtube.com/shorts/tFYkG...

And presumably they’ll use AI for this? Worth noting that the EU AI Act would likely forbid it, if it applied here. Which I guess it might if the applicant is from an EU country 🤔

Apparently you “can’t just choose the AWS executive you think most deserves it”.

Presumably this is intended to repel the healthcare professionals whose conference is down the hall from here.

Nat West have also implemented Amazon Connect, migrating 9,000 call centre agents who support 19 million customers - which makes 19,009,000 people who aren't looking forward to the day they decide to replace most of that with AI agents.

Today, Amazon S3 contains 400,000,000,000,000+ objects. But only because you lot never clean up after yourselves.

Quick fit check: I’m wearing the latest in Scale Factory/Ten10 couture, with headgear and hydration from the AWS Ambassador community. My bag is vintage Puppet, from their limited 2015 speakers edition.

This food truck I spotted earlier sets some expectations.