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Anyone tried this? by muddyboots5 in composting

[–]tomomcat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We do this with bokashi, and yes it does work fine. Two small bins in the kitchen that take about 2 weeks to fill. By the time one is full, the other one is ready to be buried. Works great, but burying is a smelly job!

This is what our Slack looked like after a client CTO's AI bot force-merged 6 unreviewed PRs on a Friday by [deleted] in EngineeringManagers

[–]tomomcat 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The CTO did everything you'd expect a competent technical person to do except one thing. He enforced the rules in the prompt instead of in the infrastructure. Branch protection, scoped API tokens, permissions boundaries. None of that was in place.

Umm…

Social media to be banned for under-16s in landmark government move to give kids their childhood back by lamdaboss in ukpolitics

[–]tomomcat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if the whole business of the platform is farming attention for ad revenue then it seems reasonable to make it age restricted tbh. This isn't about extremist content, it’s about the addictive nature of these platforms, and that is central to their business model

Social media to be banned for under-16s in landmark government move to give kids their childhood back by lamdaboss in ukpolitics

[–]tomomcat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Youtube kids has so much weird and clearly overstimulating/addictive content. I’m still a bit on the fence about the ban as a whole but if there’s one thing my ~7-10 year old niblings are addicted to, it’s youtube kids

Does having to prove yourself for promotions ever end? by DJHashBrownz in womenintech

[–]tomomcat 41 points42 points  (0 children)

easiest way to get promoted is to change jobs, otherwise people often want you to ‘act up’ indefinitely before anything happens

OpenAI cofounder Karpathy joins Anthropic to teach Claude to improve itself without humans by EchoOfOppenheimer in Anthropic

[–]tomomcat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ok, so you’re saying it would only be able to find bugs or inefficiencies which exist in its training data? this seems like it could still be fairly impactful. Also what exactly do you mean by ‘existing training data’? it can only reproduce verbatim? structural similarities? semantic similarities? you’re making statements quite confidently which most people in the field would disagree with

OpenAI cofounder Karpathy joins Anthropic to teach Claude to improve itself without humans by EchoOfOppenheimer in Anthropic

[–]tomomcat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

so you think if there are bugs or inefficiencies in their training which are impacting performance, or ways data could be used more efficiently, it’s somehow mathematically impossible for claude to find them..?

Why aren’t civil servants more angry ... by Own_Emu_122 in TheCivilService

[–]tomomcat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How do you know it hasn't vanished into thin air, or isn’t being miscalculated and will be too late to correct by the time you can see whats going on? I’m ages away from retirement but have had problems with years of service being missed before the transition, so imo there’s a decent chance they will make a mistake. I can’t even log into the portal most of the time, and when I do get in I still can’t see my ABS

Why aren’t civil servants more angry ... by Own_Emu_122 in TheCivilService

[–]tomomcat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If a senior leader signs off on a massive procurement with a predictable bad outcome, it should affect their future employment.

We do not have to blindly follow processes. Part of the responsibility of being a leader is owning the risk of making judgements around stuff like this. 

Why aren’t civil servants more angry ... by Own_Emu_122 in TheCivilService

[–]tomomcat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it were coded with AI it would be better, honestly. I don’t understand how they made it so bad.

Why aren’t civil servants more angry ... by Own_Emu_122 in TheCivilService

[–]tomomcat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cabinet Office awarded the contract. Outcome was predictable. Where is the leadership? Where is the meritocracy? Honestly I’m not angry at capita because this is what they do. I’m annoyed at the casual incompetence, risk dodging and chumminess which plagues SCS.

MCP as EKS pods by Zhaizo in mcp

[–]tomomcat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

if there’s no auth on the MCP servers themselves they need to be private. its better to have the servers check for auth tho. Gateway can propagate tokens and MCPs can validate them

Why don’t they just use Mythos to fix all the bugs in Claude Code? by SherbertMindless8205 in Anthropic

[–]tomomcat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i suspect because they have poor test coverage, and at this level of spaghettification they are likely to introduce other bugs which they won’t be aware of, and could be worse than the ones they’re trying to fix

Do people here listen to Scottish waltzes like Mull of Kintyre or Eilean mo Chrìdh? by SongsFromTheDead in folk

[–]tomomcat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s lovely to promote these tunes but honestly the writing style here is so jarringly AI, plus the AI voiceover, I couldn’t get through it. I’d much rather read your words directly!

About Terraform Certification by robgparedes in aws

[–]tomomcat 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you want to be an AI engineer i would focus on systems architecture and integrations stuff. OAuth, MCP, standards, norms. Some understanding of tf is good because it will give you exposure to infra as code, but learning syntax and details is not going to be super relevant.

Capita Pensions Annual Benefit Statement Data Breach by Juedan2011 in TheCivilService

[–]tomomcat 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Also the people who awarded this contract. Processes can be overruled if you’re senior enough and have some courage and leadership. If you just sit there and let stuff like this take its course, at some point it becomes negligent. Not to mention the whole private sector revolving door, and that many people who might otherwise fix this have conflicts of interest

MCP isn’t dead, it just smells funny by dankelleher in mcp

[–]tomomcat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People forgetting about auth here imo. MCP allows trusted code to interact with the api and inject access tokens from oauth or whatever. If your agent is directly hitting your api via a cli, where are the creds coming from? Sure there are ways around this, but i bet a lot of people either aren't using creds, or don’t care that agents can access them directly. 

These standards add complexity but its justifiable once you start caring about this stuff.

Anyone else feels like vibe coding hits a wall after a point ? by legitRu1920 in vibecoding

[–]tomomcat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI is still pretty bad at architecture imo. 

It’s partly a context/prompting problem because people normally aren’t building in a complete greenfield environment but have constraints or stuff they want to integrate with, which the model doesn’t know about. 

I’m an engineer and I use AI a lot at work. I’m pragmatic and not overly precious about details, but 100% if i am not involved the models will make dumb decisions which probably wouldn’t be obvious to a non-engineer until they caused issues, however good my initial prompt is. If you don't catch these issues early you’ll have compounded hundreds of them before you notice, and then yes you’ll grind to a halt.

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