A knockout blow for LLMs? LLM “reasoning” is so cooked they turned my name into a verb

AI isn’t hitting a wall, but LLMs probably are

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Joe Hoyle on Building Human Made, Family Life, and WordPress Enterprise | Seriously, BUD?Joe Hoyle - Seriously, BUD? Joe Hoyle shares how he balances family, global travel, and leading Human Made, reflecting on his minimalist upbringing, WordPress growth, and the future of tech.

Want to know how to be the co-founder and CTO of @humanmade.com and knock off work every day at 2PM (not AM)? Hey @joehoyle.bsky.social I hope I don't get you in trouble. :-) seriouslybud.com/episode/joe-...

WordPress 6.8 will use bcrypt for password hashing The underlying algorithm that’s used to hash and store user passwords in the database will be changed in WordPress 6.8 from phpass portable hashing to bcrypt.

So great to see bcrypt shipping in @wordpress.org - this was way more complex than just "swap out the function"! make.wordpress.org/core/2025/02...

Looking very nice!

Good luck!!

If only I could pay to edit my post!

This is why mangers love JIRA!

Discworld QOTD, from Unseen Academicals

“Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.”

Introducing Node.js for Altis Cloud - Altis Altis Cloud now supports server-side Node.js rendering, leveling up your capability to deliver headless solutions at scale.

As 2024 draws to a close, we’ve got one final gift to take us into the holiday season: announcing Node.js support for Altis Cloud! 🎉

We’ve been quietly working away on this over the past year, and it’s a game-changer for headless solutions at scale 💪

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WordPress, and what should be on its roadmap I was reading Hendrik Luehrsen’s excellent post “WordPress isn’t WordPress anymore“, and I decided I had to write more about this. I recently spoke at WordCamp NL about “The missing features of WordPr...

Enjoyed reading @joost.blog’s latest post joost.blog/wordpress-ro...

Exceptionally excited for our customers to start using this, it’s class-leading in the WordPress enterprise space.

Under the hood, we encrypt secrets using customer-dedicated hardware security modules, and only keep values in memory.

I want an LLM that has read my 15 years of emails, access to all Slack data and Gdrive docs. That could get close to having my context. Is there a service / tool that can do that?

Yeah last 4 years I’ve not managed to get anywhere! I guess it all averages out in the long run!

Glasto tickets secured! The SeeTickets new queue a lot less frustrating than how it used to be #glastonbury

I’ve been wanting this too!

Here for the great content, thanks