Meta support is just a chatbot that knows 200 ways to say sorry and zero ways to actually help. We were promised AI would fix customer service. Bold claim. #MetaSupport #CustomerService #UselessAI

People tell me that using an LLM to create code will rot my programming-language skills. So? We work in a changing landscape, and agility is essential to survive. My goal is not to be the best Python (or whatever) programmer on the planet. My goal is to produce the most valuable, high-quality product in the shortest time possible. To do that, I want to use the most effective tools available. That might be a programming language, an LLM, a combination of the two, or something else entirely. Toolsets are constantly evolving. Keeping up is part and parcel of being a developer. I need to be skilled with the tools I'm using right now, not the ones I used in the past. People who rest on their laurels quickly become unemployable. I guess the difference between the critics and me is that I've never seen myself as just a programmer (though I'm pretty good at that, if I do say so myself 😄). I'm a developer. I develop products and tools. To do that, I need to know how to program, but I also need to know architecture, product discovery and refinement, systems thinking, testing, TDD, UI/UX, and a host of other skills, including communication and process improvement. Every one of those things is integral to what I do, and most of them are not impacted by the LLM at all. As for those rotting coding skills, I still need to code to use the LLM effectively. I need to read and understand the code, refactor it when needed, and write things by hand that the LLM can't or won't write. With the tool, however, I can work faster. When I moved from assembly language to C, from C to C , from C to Java, from Java to Kotlin, from Kotlin to Python, the earlier skills indeed rotted away. I didn't much care. I can get them back easily enough if I need to. I'm with Sherlock Holmes, here. When Watson told him that the Earth goes around the Sun, he said that now that he knew it, he'd do his best to forget it. "What the deuce is it to me? … You say that we go round the Sun. If we went round the Moon, it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work."

Cheers @GuinnessIreland the Nitrosurge has improved the Glastonbury beverage 10-fold

I just published Builder.ai Was a Complete Shambles — I Lasted 3 Days medium.com/p/builder-ai-was-…

Developers working with eSRO what’s the deal? Whole thing looks old and clunky as hell. Have I missed something?

🤣 Voice imitations of players are fun, but imitations of playing styles and subtle on court behaviours are SO much better. This guy nails it as: Murray Djokovic Wawrinka (the subtlety in this one is superb) Federer Nadal Kyrgios Tsitsipas Del Potro Thiem Stelios Gkontsaris YT 👏

#triplive what do you think of my drawing?

Uh oh @VodafoneUK maybe give your developers a li nudge that when you are writing “else if” for the 11th time… maybe think about what you are doing… Unrelated to that… my Order ID probably isn’t T00Undefined

Having nightmares that the future Match of the Day host ends up being @GuillemBalague

Absolute brilliance again. The power of tech in shaping a better, equal future.

At JOHN LEWIS PLC: Women's median hourly pay is 5.8% lower than men's Women's mean hourly pay is 7.9% lower than men's Women's median bonus pay is 33% lower than men's Percentage of women in each pay quarter: Upper: 46% Upper middle: 53% Lower middle: 60% Lower: 64%

Has it happened yet if not when do you think a ChatGPT-written speech will be delivered in parliament by an MP? Wonder if the first MP will know they are and whether it will be intentional or not. Clue will be Zahawi referring to him self as an AI language model...

My first back flip today ever! Age 38.

No @Uber, I'm not going to let you look at all of my gmail emails. Why? Why do product managers think that this is ok? Travel convenience is nice and all, but there are tons of ways to solve this problem without getting access to root.

What kind of fresh hell is this?

bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/62644… @NickKyrgios don’t worry bro. I’m ready to testify. #ISawHerDrinkAtLeast4InTheFirstSet