Category Archives: IT

Obituary for programming…

Jeremy Scheff poignantly captures the key loss caused by coding agents for career programmers who enjoyed the puzzle of developing code: Programming turned into one of the greatest jobs you …

“They would give us a problem and we would solve it the way we wanted.”

My obituary for programming

I’d never seen it like that before but that’s what it was. It’s also the joy of many computer games.

However, the internet brought stacks, frameworks, complexity, and many things that reduced the puzzle and made it more like work!

Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier…

This is going to age badly. In a hundred years people will be looking at this and scratching their heads. What were they thinking? Support a government that boycotts the UN and then expect it to lead regulation globally.

Democratic Coordination. Frontier AI companies within democratic countries coordinate to establish common safety standards as well as limits on the rate of unchecked AI progress. Some forms of coordination that would be impactful for pacing are legally challenging, and will require government support.

Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier

GPT-6 Astra: And the future of work…

These product videos, especially at the start of a new technology, are always important in showing people how to use the new technology. So a couple of notes.

  • It’s a home setting. Obviously a studio but it represents a home.
  • There is no team work.
  • It’s dark. There are no windows.

The future of work?

GPT-6 Astra achieves state-of-the-art results on benchmarks for long-running computer-use tasks across professions and desktop apps, which means anything you…

Introducing GPT-6 Astra: the most intelligent and aligned model in the world. – YouTube

Why is this not built-in?

Why is my MacBook charging slowly? WhatCable shows USB-C cable speed, charging power, and e-marker data in plain English. Featured in The Verge, ZDNet, and 9to5Mac.

WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can really do

Richard Wilkinson on AI infrastructure at Scale | Data Centre Magazine

Episode 3 of the Data Centre Podcast: DXC’s Richard Wilkinson discusses AI at scale, data sovereignty, quantum computing and the future of data centres

Episode 3 | Richard Wilkinson on AI infrastructure at Scale | Data Centre Magazine

The Brutal Cost of Digital Sovereignty & The AI Catch-22…

The data centre industry has suddenly become the centre of the corporate universe—but European enterprises are about to run straight into a massive regulator…

Richard Wilkinson: The Brutal Cost of Digital Sovereignty & The AI Catch-22 : Data Centre LIVE 2026 – YouTube

10 Years of Daring Fireball…

It’s the blog that I check first and the only one where I have the T-shirt! It’s been an interesting ten years. I started reading before I understood what he was talking about.

I think that Gruber’s writing has had too much influence on me. When I started reading I didn’t own a single Apple product or admit to liking 2001 too much!

Distant Shape: 10 Years of Daring Fireball.