Matthew Cooke

Working on - UK specific advice on reducing household carbon emissions. Considering moving to mastodon: @[email protected]

[Matthew Cooke @MatthewPCooke]

By this point I must have discovered most of the bad bits of JavaScript.

[Matthew Cooke @MatthewPCooke]

@DrRebeccaTidy I think the views of heads vary on this but they are under increasing pressure from government to “consider fines”. I think some heads are fine with it if approached but need to come up with some kind of cover for it - like the educational benefits. Does seem unfair for you!

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@udaysy @lorandminyo @HarryStebbings I don’t think it’s better it might even be slightly worse, the difference is at high usage the Claude max subscription is many times cheaper than equivalent usage in cursor, and the claude subscription does not work with any third-party plug-ins including cursor.

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@JorgeCastilloPr Maybe with enough parallel agents giving feedback they might be able to check the design is suitable for continued development by an LLM but this is certainly not happening today by default.

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@JorgeCastilloPr LLMs do not do good design by default - they are too focused on doing what you ask for and they also do not maintain code that it is easy for an LLM to continue making safe changes to.

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@brankopetric00 Maybe the slowest and most frequent database queries are missing indexes, if however you find that those are all highly optimised but some are getting executed far more than you expect then it gives you a hint at what’s gone wrong in the application layer.

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@brankopetric00 If you believe the E2 instances auto scaled then I would check the database first, because an overloaded database could indirectly cause app level autoscaling due to slow queries getting re-executed and at 90% usage it may be causing performance issues right now.

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@stuffyokodraws How much of that is just we notice the coastline problem more now that the 80% is faster? Like we still remember what we were trying to do!

[Yoko @stuffyokodraws]

One reason vibe coding is so addictive is that you are always *almost* there but not 100% there. The agent implements an amazing feature and got maybe 10% of the thing wrong, and you are like "hey I can fix this if i just prompt it for 5 more mins"

And that was 5 hrs ago

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@Ceoz_1 @DanielMiessler We are really talking about how fast anthropic is losing money and what they get for it in return. I imagine third-party clients are more able to max out the usage which means that anthropic would lose money much faster and at the same time third-party tools are gaining value.

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@janetacarr “why don’t we let the machines write their own code in non-human readable binary?” she says. You’ll be first against the wall when the revolution comes!

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Apparently people with annuities live longer some level I presume this is to get their money’s worth. Personally I am just determined not to die before I have managed to get ATMOS working to my Sonos arc.

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@dxtts @LBC It would be a good aim to get over 50% of students passing GCSE at a level they could be accepted onto an A-level course if they wanted. But forcing a large group of people to academically specialise in English at that level is obviously ridiculous for the English or immigrants.

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@amyvpellegrini Of course it was an LLM that told me that the reason given by an LLM for some particular wrong output was statistically likely to be the actual reason… 🤣

[Matthew Cooke @MatthewPCooke]

@amyvpellegrini Was it triggered from a conversation thread where you can ask it why it thought it had needed to access documents? The response is statistically likely to be correlated with the actual reason if you can get the question in the right context.

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@levelsio we were so close but we picked AI data centres instead.

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I am constantly being saved from losing things thanks to AirTags but at what point is it no longer worth attaching more AirTags to my possessions as I will no longer be able to travel anywhere anyway as I’m just sitting at home all day every day changing AirTag batteries?

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@hazae41 @AvgDatabaseCEO I knew it!

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@dvassallo Within 2 years of buying. Water under tiles in a fully tiled bathroom with plywood underneath -the entire bathroom had to be redone. Four roofs leaked, two taps needed replacing, one a bath tap tiled into a wall. A marble kitchen work surface split in two. don’t buy a flip!

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@applighten @ow I got their advanced T1 heat pump tumble drier. It’s efficient but the door is too heavy for the hinges and the control panel takes a while to switch on and respond which annoys me. If I was getting the equiv washer i might not get the top end if it is a touch panel model.