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.”
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!
Ten years ago I wrote this…
OK. I don’t think that I was particularly original but I was right! Today Azure is 30% of the company and still growing at 40% a year.
From the reviews of I’ve seen, one thing stays with me.
This is how the Americans test the hinge. I suppose it gets points for Maker chic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxDTWuL9GxY
And this is the Chinese one…
https://youtu.be/o1qc29t04GI?si=BU-CVi988wmAsyZm
Does Maker chic work for an Apple review? More seriously, this is a sign of something.
I think that we are all agreed that this is not shopping by any normal definition of the word…
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.
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
As climate scientist Gavin Schmidt at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies pointed out on Bluesky, the energy content before use of all the fuels used worldwide in 2024 was 186,000 terawatt-hours. He said Earth receives 6000 times as much energy as that each year.
Moreover, Schmidt said, if you take into account the fact 60 per cent of fossil fuel energy is lost while converting it to useful power, then Earth receives 18,000 times as much energy from the sun as would be needed to meet the current energy consumption.
Of course, existing solar panels capture only around 20 per cent of the sun’s energy, and you can’t put them everywhere. But a 2021 report by Carbon Tracker estimated that 0.3 per cent of the world’s land area – yes, just the land – would be needed to meet the current energy demand from solar alone, which is less than the current land footprint of fossil fuel infrastructure. In principle, solar and wind could supply more than 100 times the current global energy demand, according to the report.
Why solar power is the only viable power source in the long run | New Scientist
Schools go back in France tomorrow. The big difference is that children are to be separated from their phones at the entrance.
A lot of the commentary states that technology is the issue. I think that we may be missing the point. Each generation needs to learn about the technology and, so far, we’ve not learnt to deal with Social Networks.
However, turning off all access is probably a mistake…
While those discussions dragged on, students fell further behind in math and reading, with Green Bank consistently posting the lowest test scores in the county. “Our kids are no different than the other kids in the county,” said Principal Melissa Jordan. “The only difference, in my opinion, is their lack of access to engaging technology.”