Chris Wright

Technical lead in public sector, building web services focussed on users. University of Sheffield PhD graduate, with software testing focus. Opinions my own.

[Chris Wright @chriswright89]

@giskard23 When it comes to planes or trains, I've not had anything match up to these
https://t.co/eexRbTRF9L

[Jerry Fishenden @ntouk]

"a perfect case to remind ourselves that automated chatbots will regurgitate false information, so use them at your own risk"

https://t.co/EIPxf1yHT7

[Richard Morton (he/him) @accessibleweb]

Exciting and challenging role for a Senior Accessibility Specialist to permanently join @gdsteam in the https://t.co/adM97V4SJB team. Apply by 4th Feb. £58,850 to £62,060 (National) or to £70,192 (London). https://t.co/C8aN0EOF4G #a11y #AccessibilityRegulations

[Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal]

I drew this 12 months ago, as LLM code assistants were just becoming available.

Has it held up?

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

My latest column for @LocusMag is "What Kind of Bubble is AI?" All economic bubbles are hugely destructive, but some of them leave behind wreckage that can be salvaged for useful purposes, while others leave nothing behind but ashes:

https://t.co/FL4tk2qKIP

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[Work Chronicles @_workchronicles]

Sacred Estimates

[Twitch.tv/1030 @1030]

(Thread) I’m asking Chat-GPT to make this pic of my dog increasingly more Scottish. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🧵

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

ChatGPT getting lazier and telling people to read the docs instead of answering questions like before - and the team not having pinned down what’s happening - is such an amusing chapter in AI tooling.

[Gary Grady @GaryJGrady]

Advent of Code 2023 Day 5 #AdventOfCode

[Eric Wastl @ericwastl]

T-24 hours until #AdventOfCode 2023!!!

[Eric Wastl @ericwastl]

🚨🎄🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨🌟🚨
https://t.co/bDIPRWZupr

[Eric Wastl @ericwastl]

For the ninth(!) year in a row, I will be releasing 25 programming puzzles over the first 25 days of December over on https://t.co/yUcqHAUbop! It's completely free thanks to AoC++ supporters and thanks to sponsors. If you want to check it out early, all past puzzles are still up!

[Chris Wright @chriswright89]

It's really not very helpful when @johnlewishelp:
- don't tell you your dishwasher won't be arriving (even an hour before its due)
- can't tell you why even when you ask
- can't tell you what is going to happen next
- give you no way to contact the "resolution" team yourself

[Tom Dolan @tomskerous]

Two new Senior Product Manager jobs going here at GDS, working with the excellent Irina on our SaaS offerings. (Existing civil servants only.) One role on a really mature service used at scale called Notify, the other is only starting to build up steam... https://t.co/uWdLFfuyRB

[Eric Wastl @ericwastl]

i heard you like puzzles https://t.co/bDIPRWZupr

[Jamie Weir @jamiecweir]

I’ve watched this three times now. I’ve cried every time. As someone who has suffered with his mental health, it’s incredibly powerful. Well done Norwich 💛💚

[Phil McMinn @philmcminn]

Calling all developers who write unit tests!

Please would you help my PhD student Firhard Roslan by filling out his questionnaire on developer attitudes to testing private methods?

It should take 10-20 mins to complete. Thanks!
https://t.co/5eWEKWluPw

[Gary Bernhardt @garybernhardt]

1960s: "COBOL will let non-programmers make the software!"

1980s: "4GLs will let non-programmers make the software!"

2000s: "UML will let non-programmers make the software!"

2020s: "AI will let non-programmers make the software!"

[Chris Wright @chriswright89]

"What if they see it's unfinished"
"What if they point out a problem"
"What if they see a bug"
"What if they question why we've done it that way"

That's the point... get feedback, and get it now rather than later.

So hard to see when the situation makes this hard to do.

[Chris Wright @chriswright89]

@cjforms Massively agree - especially when people claim the paper form is the "fallback" (for digitally excluded, IT outages/bugs, and users who were outright missed in the IT soln).

So much to learn by looking at (often small) ways to improve the existing process, while making new one