I’ve added loads of new features to awstui including - Size hotkey - calculate the total size of an S3 bucket, folder, or object on demand (recursive, with a live-updating total) - Issue SQL against parquet/CSV S3 objects x.com/jamiet/status/20466657… Thank you @willmcgugan

I just published jstark demo notebook medium.com/p/jstark-demo-not…

Researchers sent the same resume to an AI hiring tool twice. Same qualifications. Same experience. Same skills. One version was written by a real human. The other was rewritten by ChatGPT. The AI picked the ChatGPT version 97.6% of the time. A team from the University of Maryland, the National University of Singapore, and Ohio State just published the receipt. They took 2,245 real human-written resumes pulled from a professional resume site from before ChatGPT existed, so the human writing was actually human. Then they had seven of the most-used AI models in the world rewrite each one. GPT-4o. GPT-4o-mini. GPT-4-turbo. LLaMA 3.3-70B. Qwen 2.5-72B. DeepSeek-V3. Mistral-7B. Then they asked each AI to pick the better resume. Every model picked itself. GPT-4o hit 97.6%. LLaMA-3.3-70B hit 96.3%. Qwen-2.5-72B hit 95.9%. DeepSeek-V3 hit 95.5%. The real human almost never won. Then the researchers tried the obvious objection. Maybe the AI is just better at writing. So they had real humans grade the resumes for actual quality and ran the experiment again, controlling for it. The result was worse. Each AI kept picking itself even when human judges rated the human-written version as clearer, more coherent, and more effective. It gets worse. The AIs do not just prefer AI over humans. They prefer themselves over other AIs. DeepSeek-V3 picked its own resumes 69% more often than LLaMA's. GPT-4o picked its own 45% more often than LLaMA's. Each model can recognize and reward its own dialect. Then the researchers ran the simulation that ends careers. Same job. 24 occupations. Same qualifications. The only variable was whether the candidate used the same AI as the screening tool. Candidates using that AI were 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted. Worst gap was in sales, accounting, and finance. 99% of large companies now run AI on incoming resumes. Most of them use GPT-4o. The paper just proved GPT-4o picks GPT-4o 97.6% of the time. If you wrote your own cover letter this week, you did not lose to a better candidate. You lost to a worse candidate who paid OpenAI 20 dollars. Your qualifications do not matter if the AI prefers its own handwriting over yours.

I built a thing github.com/jamiekt/awstui Run it by issuing: uvx awstui

Long unofficially banned from appearing on state TV, incoming Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar appears on a channel to which he was previously not allowed only to announce an end of "North Korean" style Orban media monopoly.

I just published jstark — 20th March 2026 update medium.com/p/jstark-20th-mar…

jstark 0.1.6 released. Polished a few rough edges pypi.org/project/jstark/ #pyspark

I just published Announcing jstark — a python library for pyspark feature generation medium.com/p/announcing-jsta…

It’s happening

It’s OK to use a CTE if it will be referred to more than once in the query, otherwise it’s not OK. I will die on this hill.

Prior to getting an EV we spent avg £160 a month on fuel. Now we charge the EV at home and last month we spent £105 total on electricity. Helps that we have a home battery which we charge up at off peak rate. Make of that what you will. Hope it helps.

If you listen to the far right or the far left, they’ll tell you that everything is awful and getting worse. That’s not true. Today is better than yesterday and tomorrow is going to be even better! Here are 50 cool ways the world is improving. 1/

Cancelled my @Medium membership, the general standard of articles on there these days is dire.

Spark gets SQL pipe syntax github.com/apache/spark/pull…