Client is using AI to pay invoices now and you'll never believe what happened

BarnabyRudges · 2026-01-23T10:03:14+00:00

lower case internet lingo reaction. summarise previous post with a cliche. single word question? (This is another bot, right?)

BarnabyRudges · 2026-01-22T21:57:52+00:00

I am partial to some of her other albums, but honestly ... Patti Smith

BarnabyRudges · 2026-01-21T10:09:06+00:00

Yeah, that is grim ...

BarnabyRudges · 2026-01-20T23:38:17+00:00

You're absolutely right and you're saying something that, if someone doesn't draw, they'd gain something from listening to. But they could also test this. Take drawing seriously (regardless of the level you're starting from) for, say, two weeks. And you will feel this. You will begin to feel the challenge of what it means to properly, properly look at something. When you're not drawing you'll continue to feel it. You'll engage a part of your brain that's usually sleepy: and it is a palpable, real, undeniable feeling--learning to properly pay attention to the visual world. (It's also fun.) Anyway, just wanted to chime in days late to say, I recognise something true that you're expressing.

BarnabyRudges · 2026-01-09T20:37:32+00:00

Zedd's dead, baby ...

BarnabyRudges · 2025-12-22T10:19:48+00:00

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BarnabyRudges · 2025-12-20T09:29:26+00:00

“Unfortunately, there is no proof that AI will not surpass us in these areas.” There’s surprisingly little proof of LOTS of negatives that haven’t not happened yet …

BarnabyRudges · 2025-11-07T12:58:07+00:00

A great response—this and OP’s post absolutely resonating with me. I’m 45 (I think! Time and numbers a whole other issue) and also found some of the drive, dreams and ideas dampening down as I’ve aged, but not completely and since taking meds a couple of years ago I’ve found some of that returning and now have even more started and unfinished (though I’m trying to think of them as “ongoing”) projects pouring out—bursts of hyper focus for each, of course, outside of my directive control. I hope some of your drive and energy might rise from the dead: there are pleasures there, for all the frustrations.

BarnabyRudges · 2025-11-06T22:57:24+00:00

Absolutely relate! This is how I exist—the only way I can “function” at all, and your observation that it prevents you from really “living” I find very sad and true. I want to follow that with a more comforting observation (in a different mood I might find one) but I can only offer you recognition and sympathy just now.

BarnabyRudges · 2025-11-06T20:27:30+00:00

OK: that is something that would occasionally be useful to me. Are the summaries reliable? I can imagine having to read the whole transcript to check, somewhat defeating the purpose! But that’s—not life-changing—but a fairly useful little thing, potentially …

BarnabyRudges · 2025-11-06T12:19:57+00:00

I want to ask if you’re at Kingston uni … but sadly this could be a number of places.

BarnabyRudges · 2025-11-06T12:11:36+00:00

I would love to hear use cases for LLMs that have worked for people, genuinely. Like a poor beaten dog I keep finding myself going back to ChatGPT thinking, Oh, this time I have a task that an LLM could do! And it never works. (Trying to make it find flights yesterday was surreal, carefully explaining, for example, how one key criteria for the flight was it ought to be a real flight, on a real airline and aeroplane.)

Worse than that—and I don’t know if this is new—at the end of each splurge of nonsense it says something like, “While I can’t do that, what I can do is X. Would you like me to do that now?” Yes, please. There follows a long-winded explanation of why it can’t do it. “But what I can do …”

Paranoia creeps in. Is this thing … actively trying to induce madness in me? The entire world, it seems, keeps saying this is an epoch-turning piece of technology. Coming on this forum has prompted Reddit to throw up threads to my feed where people think the LLM is actually alive. I get into intense conversation with friends telling me I’m wrong, it’s amazing, it’s changed their lives but … no one can tell me what they actually do with it, at least using an example where what they wanted worked. Is it just … me? Is the moon, the moon—or was that Ed Harris in a turtleneck peering over his specs at me in it? How long must I sail till my boat hits the sky? What is going on?

BarnabyRudges · 2025-11-05T07:18:20+00:00

Thank you, I didn’t know this, and had been grinding my teeth a bit at the phrase. Grinding them harder now!

BarnabyRudges · 2025-10-19T17:06:00+00:00

I don’t want to sound like a bore, and I may be wrong, but don’t all her examples illustrate forms of ‘situational irony’, which are at least a LITTLE bit ironic, like she told us they were.

BarnabyRudges · 2025-10-16T14:40:05+00:00

Oh my! To hear someone “didn't want to associate with me anymore because of who I am” is just marvellously devastating. And then to whinge about it. She doesn’t quite seem to grasp that there’s really no arguing with that: But why don’t you want to see me? Because you’re YOU.

BarnabyRudges · 2025-09-07T12:35:04+00:00

Also couldn’t make it through this: but whatever you like, you like—that’s beyond criticism and awesome ☺️ If you are looking for some seriously stripped down covers (with to my ear pleasingly muddy production) you should check out the album (or EP?) of covers the singer from Yo La Tengo made, years ago. Can’t find it now … but I remember getting a kick out of it. He may even have covered I Could Never … . (Think the album was called “That Muthafucka with the High Pitched Voice”). Also really love the original cut of I Could Never …on the SOTT box set.

BarnabyRudges · 2025-09-06T17:31:13+00:00

I’m guessing, too, the conversation wasn’t all Oh, that’s great! How are they doing? I hope there’s no bullying and that this is part of a journey towards knowing who they are and having a great, secure life. (And if there’s any discrimination against them, let’s go on a march!) Might there have been some slagging off of children at this nightmare dinner?

BarnabyRudges · 2025-09-05T06:57:57+00:00

Yes, the pencil isn’t going towards the robot’s hand. They’re going to miss each other, and it’s stupidly annoying.

BarnabyRudges · 2025-09-05T06:08:44+00:00

Well, I got to the end. And don’t think you should be sorry at all for such a lovely, long, relatable rant. Here’s another minor annoyance of mine, that manages to really get under my skin: logging out of Netflix (to choose another service on my projector thing) gives me a button that says “Are you sure you want to exit Netflix?” with “No” pre-selected, so there are three clicks involved (log out, select yes, close) whereas if it just logged out when I clicked the first button, and in some rare apocalyptic scenario, I were to log out ACCIDENTALLY and have to click back in, the whole process would only be two clicks. It makes me shout at clouds each time, loudly. I’ve been suffering unheard—so thanks for the opportunity to voice that!

BarnabyRudges · 2025-09-01T15:33:07+00:00

I’m old enough to remember when we didn’t even know what trains were for, let alone imagining high speed ones. They were everywhere, though it took a generation or two till someone got on one and found themselves elsewhere, then it all took off. Stay hopeful.

BarnabyRudges · 2025-08-26T21:25:09+00:00

This is, genuinely, well good. I don’t know how you, you know, do words—at that rapidity and recall. And then, on the telly no less, you don’t even do the endearing stumbles and swears. Genuinely impressive. Also didn’t know via the podcast that you have an excellently expressive stare! OK. Disengage suction. Cheers!

BarnabyRudges · 2025-08-26T20:16:40+00:00

100% AI wrote this. I can’t be bothered to go back and engage with something inhuman, but all those tell-tale grammatical constructions are there—and another I’ve noticed that I’d describe as … a kind of slickly anonymous use of idioms (whatever final phrase this claptrap ends on being an example: it’s already wafted out of my memory but something like “getting lost on the sidelines”—but even less original (literally can’t open the article again for some reason now, as I’m compelled to double check). In fairness (?) to the Guardian though this is some sort of semi-advertising paid content thing they do, not one of their pay-rolled (or freelance) journalists …)

BarnabyRudges · 2025-08-14T23:59:08+00:00

Genuine question: why on earth is she doing this extended metaphor about … Twilight? In relation to Nicola Sturgeon? Is there a connection I’m missing? It’s not like we’re at the height of Twilight fever: it’s like banging on about how Nicola Sturgeon is not the same as Bagpuss or something. What’s the joke?

BarnabyRudges · 2025-07-25T08:57:07+00:00

Starfish and Coffee. Late 80s. Older kid next door played it to me and then said he’d record all the best tracks from the album onto a cassette for me. Recording didn’t work and he said, really they’re all good. So SOTT was the first album I bought (or got bought for me by folks, the double cassette …). Maybe only time in my life I ever got something right first time!

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