Luke Spear 🌍

. Translation: 🇫🇷 or 🇸🇪 to 🇬🇧 (MCIL)
. Code: Python, DevOps, git, APIs, Linux

[Luke Spear 🌍 @LukeSpear]

Coding agents!

I've had lots of hands-on experience the last few months with Cursor, Codex CLI, across a few codebases.

Read about my experiences on the blog:

https://t.co/iwfOubPJI4

Includes the original post I wrote + an AI re-write, for no good reason.

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Confession: I've been neglecting my online presence for years, across various projects, while my site stagnated.

But thanks to some AI assisted theme migration, I finally beat the "I'll sort this out some day" inertia.

In under an hour!

Check it out: https://t.co/rozKYHkP0O

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I can't believe there aren't any ads in LLM responses yet.

I give it 6 months, as abilities plateau and new reasoning techniques are all that's left to squeeze out the last few %.

It'll take a memory, persistence breakthrough to avoid the adpocalypse.

Unblockable ads incoming.

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He describes the support they have received through the charity as well as the advocacy work done by Young Lives vs Cancer.

You are very welcome to contribute, all donations of course go directly to assisting the families facing these daily challenges.

https://t.co/N7TaBuqRoR

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🌟 Young Lives vs Cancer 🌟

If you're looking for a good cause to get behind, here's a fine one:

May's dad Clive has so far raised a phenomenal amount for Young Lives vs Cancer.

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It's the last few days before the marathon and so I'm sharing the fundraiser to see if anyone in my network or beyond would want to contribute.

Clive explains more in the link below, including the impact May's diagnosis and ongoing treatment have had on the family.

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@jonmorrow Sounds useful!

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@MALaviolette En anglais c'est plutot "single use plastic", donc c'est une erreur double de leur part !

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Let's see if this post can spread or be promoted on its own. Pretty sure the tweet above has hit the watchword list.

So much for free speech if that is the case!

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Anyone else noticing bigger amounts having problems with disappearing likes and followers? Feels like manipulation and corruption might be setting in already here.

Former Twitter staff have started https://t.co/PYkqQPHgkx and Bluesky, but latter invite only.

1/2

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Firefox now offers local, no-cloud machine translation of websites while you browse

https://t.co/ftwDwJX96z

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I've thought for years that most people are far more formulaic than they realise. Myself included.

It then boils down to free will and the extent to which we have agency in diff life areas.

It can be upsetting to think we don't, but there's a beauty beyond our actions imo.

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Serious question:
Do you think we also just predict the next token?

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- still can't hit that submit button in selenium, so set up a screenshot debug line to see what it's seeing when triggered
- looked at a handful of other technical probs the teams are having
- worked on the translation subscription business prelaunch #buildinpublic

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- still can't hit that submit button in selenium, so set up a screenshot debug line to see what it's seeing when triggered
- looked at a handful of other technical probs the teams are having
- worked on the translation subscription business prelaunch some more #buildin

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@khemaridh This actually inspired me a little more. Like yes we know that consistency is everything at the start but this puts it so clearly.

Where'd you hear him say it?

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@gurlwhoblogs Domain age?

Social presence?

Some intangible signal, or as someone above me said: identify who can pay for ads and drop them!

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Did it make me want it more, even if learning slower?

I have the same "passions" today. They really bedded in.

Will this be true of the hyper connected generations? Will they be able to learn more deeply and broadly than we did?

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When I was 16 studying A-level French I sat at the top of our house in the window trying to pick up Europe 1 on long wave radio. To hear spoken French.

I had similar struggles with programming, buying the student edition on CD and the books...

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@SimonJalbert Path to wealth that starts with "have wealth"?

Reminds me of the old trading joke: quickest way to end up with a million in trading?

Start with 2 million.

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@Area224 You might need someone to cosine.

Sorry to go off on a tangent.