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by alanb99 2mo ago
My 9 year old is similar: He wanted to learn to code a Roblox game. It gave 3 modes for the tutorial - do it yourself, copy-paste some examples or use AI. He rejected AI because he's seen AI games and they're all bad. Oh, also, Ch
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"We can't ask AI, it lies" vs. "Here is my superpower prompt"(alanbuxton.wordpress.com)
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by alanb99 3mo ago
You get the sense that Keir Starmer has found something that the silent majority really want to support him on. We'll see what it does to his approval ratings ahead of any leadership contest. Whether it's achievable or not is a di
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by alanb99 3mo ago
Next time we see something obviously AI-written we should ask for the prompt instead of the finished artifact. At least this way you'll know what the person was really thinking.
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by alanb99 3mo ago
"Explain X like I'm 5" (or 10 or whatever) is a killer use case for AI tools.
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by alanb99 3mo ago
One one level it's real to say that these are the official numbers cited by different countries. But it's not meaningful. The numbers are not counting the same thing. e.g. in the UK if you make a hoax emergency services call then
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by alanb99 3mo ago
> International data on ‘online comments’ arrests not comparable E.g. in the UK a hoax emergency services call counts within these stats. https://pa.media/blogs/fact-check/fact-check-international-d...
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by alanb99 3mo ago
Couple of other anecdotal data points: 1. Guy I know who is an exec coach says that a chatbot can do a lot of what he does. 2. I am absolutely seeing lots of people asking ChatGPT a question and treating its answer as the truth. So I can we
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by alanb99 3mo ago
DHH on the Pragmatic Engineer podcast gets right to the nub of what it feels like coding with agents in the Spring of 2026. > I didn't want to be a project manager for agents > Running a bunch of agents feels less like being a pr
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by alanb99 3mo ago
I had been using ChatGPT for help with some coding stuff - sometimes it worked reasonably well but for anything tricky it just failed. But then recently I asked Claude Code to upgrade a particular library for me that I had forked and to rea