My mates a woodworking YouTuber and he's just got monetised on Facebook. He just posts all the bits when he's done something stupid as reels and doesn't read the comments.
Raking it in due to the rage baiting. 🎣
Yeah, they are on the list. He built a Tamyia 964 in lockdown so he's keen. Theon are in our village too, but they've just taken on a kid
He wants to work on classic cars, hence the Heritage apprentice route, fallback is college fulltime mechanic but thats just a fallback if we can't find somewhere
You’ll like this one then.
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Sadly not. We need to find him a company to take him on then he goes to the college in week blocks.
I’ve got a spreadsheet of garages to hit.
Plan is take a day off work and drive him and make him knock on the door with a bag of donuts and a CV.
I just get reels of golden retrievers. I must be doing this wrong.
I had kids around 30. My best friend had his around 40. He spent those 10 years having a great time, holidays etc. Used to rub it in as I was stuck at home. Now my kids are flocking the nest and he's knee deep in shitty nappies and soft play, . Not so funny now is it you cunt.
Next step in the journey is finding him a garage to take him on, as its not a full time study apprenticeship.
So if you have any contacts in a 30 minute drive of Banbury please shout! I've got a long list of people to contact, but any "in" would be very welcome.
This little boy (Who is now 6ft+ and about to sit his GCSEs) had an in-person test for heritageskillsacademy.co.uk Mechanic apprenticeship today.
He's been studying very hard for this, lots of prep, and a huge amount of effort on his part.
HE PASSED! 🎉
Even my fancy worktop caddy, eg it looks okay to leave out, can’t get the bag/handle thing right.
Guess it’s too hard to fix, so that’ll do…
The answer is buy a smaller caddy, which is what we did, and leave the big one outside.
But they’d get roasted for suggesting that I expect.
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Latest code focused models from claude, openai or google. All are equally capable.
Even if it's made illegal he'll just pardon everyone anyway. 🙁
Just get to what ever point you are trying to make
The code that generates the code, what else would I be talking about 🙄
It is good at writing code, I wouldn't use it in a professional environment for much else.
It's getting to the point where I'll be able to run local models that are good enough to write code on my machine, no DC required. (Expect that in about 12 months or less)
I've got no idea what this has got to do with it being good at writing code at putting data into a database and taking it back out again.
That is one class of problem.
I can see it being bad and dangerous in a big swathe of other problems, and wouldn't want it anywhere near research.
As long as the code that comes out follows the standards, meets the functional and non functional requirements, and it actually solves the problem I'm happy.
That is what I'm seeing at a decent scale (5 engineers producing 5x the amount of features they were producing this time last year)
It's not an "illusion", it's how it writes code. I'm struggling with why you care about how it writes code? Every engineer I've worked with writes code differently, I don't care how they write code nor try and push them to write code the same way.
I know it’s pretty good at producing python, Go, Swift, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, HTML, SQL amd CSS.
Which means that for things that take data and put it into a DB, then take data out of a DB and put a UI or and API on top of it, its good at
That’s a huge amount of jobs and people’s careers.
That’s just iteration, like normal software development.
I don’t care how it does it. I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make.
I can ask it to build something, with a well formed plan that I’ve done, and it will comeback with a working solution end to end that meets the functional and non functional requirements without me following up. One shot. I can run 5 of those at once.
This is happening across my industry.
Annoyingly, I don't have the races in my calendar and missed the first two! And I didn't know about the new race on Saturday.
Going to have to put together a race calendar so I get the reminders.
But last race was ace, Tom coming through was great fun.
yes yes I know. My point was that I'm not alone, this is a pattern seen across the industry.
Well new one on me. I sort of like it.
I might have to use AI to summarise that for me cause that’s a fair amount of words that I’m not sure I understand. 😉
It can be both can it not? An anecdote and a data point.
But hey, I’m in this industry doing this and seeing the shift all around me.
Software game is changing.
Also no need to be rude, we can all get along with different opinions right?
Sure. 👍