Claude going to the best AI, genuinely game changing, to unusable for most use cases in 3 weeks does seem to be a case of premature enshittification.

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Claude Pricing tiers are kind of crazy, pro doesn't provide any where need enough quota for anything serious at £15 a month, but the next step up at £90 is 6x the price. Buying extra capacity doesn't seem to work, I buy more quota and i still get the quota warnings. Growing pains I'm sure.

Do we need quotas on GPU, CPU, memory and SSD? Basically chip quotas per entity. The prices have gone through the roof driven by the tech companies, any individual or start-up needing to buy a modest amount of any is priced out even if they could find a supply. [I'm salty as I need to buy RAM]

And now it's recommended an index that actually makes the query slower, it's all too real.

ha ha. And it continues

'We're waiting on you to create the index with a privileged user. Let me know once it's done.'

Oooh Claude acting uppity like a regular DBA with me, I like it.

'This is the fourth consecutive auth failure with the same password. The server is reachable and actively rejecting the credentials — retrying won't change the outcome.'

> fifth attempt worked a charm (ssshh)

Really enjoying Ghostty (terminal emulator) and Zed (code editor) [bsky: @zed.dev]. Both ridiculously fast, thoughtfully designed, and a great example of why revisiting spaces with “mature” tools is still very much worth doing.

Are you finding your coding style is changing as you use AI to complete tasks? I'm much more likely to add more robust checks, validations and tests, because they are cheaper effort-wise, help me double check the AI has understood and they are generally a good thing.

I've given claude code cli access to a postgresql db, what claude calls my 'passion project', it well over 100M rows and 30-40 regular queries, it's built me a todo on what I need to optimise, most of it is super valuable and I've learnt a few things about postgres in the proc. readonly access natch

The AI companies with their usage based billing and 'fair use' models have managed to create something even more opaque than cloud provider billing and usage - bravo. [I'm probably just salty because I keep blowing through my subscriptions]

I wonder how much is spent by github customers debugging github workflows. Any local debug solutions out there?

Now that Reform is largely made up of Tories, perhaps it should be named Reconform?

Trying out @vivaldi.com browser and really liking it. Reminds me of switching from IE to Phoenix or from Firefox to Chrome when they came out. It's faster, responsive and doesn't hog resources like contemporary Chrome, Firefox, Brave and so on. A great reset of how lightweight a browser should be.

Elon Musk is (much) more than twice as rich as the second richest person in the world. That means I'm much closer to being the second richest person in the world than Elon Musk is. In fact everyone on the planet is closer to being the second richest person than Musk. This is very twisted.

After 6 months of a Reform council in Kent, these voters are NOT at all happy with what they are seeing!

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AI is often adjacent to being correct, and close enough where people can't tell the difference. However where an inch is as good as a mile it's useless. For areas were being accurate is critical it is dangerous at best.

This is (one of) the problem(s) with AI

So flipping sick of my Mac blocking apps from connecting to local servers after update, forcing me to re-allow them in settings. I've asked AIs, I've googled, I played with settings. Other than buying an expensive signing cert for every app, what can be done?

Tried to list an item on ebay; first time in 10+ years. Got the pics ready, wrote the listing, was losing the will to live with their UX. Then was told I could not list something as I have a 'private feedback profile', search for this setting for 5 minutes, gave up and listed it on vinted.

If we were designing HTML today, what would we name the href attribute of the 'a' tag? How about src attribute of the 'img' tag? How about the 'a' and 'img' tags themselves?

<go to="https..">link</link>

<show content="/meme.webp">

Welp, I got the test emergency alert in the UK this time.

Coding using AI co-pilots: there is an assumption that it's a game changer, a silver bullet. AIs are super helpful for writing functions, explaining code, and generally doing small contained tasks. AI can be guided to more complex structures too. However AI is no silver bullet.

Here's it's latest thought. 'The file is still corrupted, likely due to leftover code from previous failed patches. The only way to guarantee a fix is to delete all contents and insert a fresh, minimal, working component from scratch. I will do this now.' 🤣

I asked co-pilot to make a simple change to some code it wrote, and it's got itself in to such a mess, it's talking itself through the issue, and it's quite frankly pure comedy. Only because I've been there and it's missing something obv, but I don't have the heart to tell it yet.

This was my attempt to balance a binary tree a hackneyed big tech company interview

One draw back of this is, many product websites leave gaps, possibly deliberately, so you assume functionality exists. AIs tend to close these gaps with the 'obvious' assumption that features exist or work in the best way, when in fact they don't.

I am more likely to ask ChatGPT or Gemini about your product than read your marketing website.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Tim Berners-Lee dropped a train ticket whilst pulling something else out his pocket at a conference. I told him, he said ‘oh thanks’ he picked it up, looked at it and put it in the bin, walked off.