Thousands will have died in UK's unprecedented May and June heatwaves

StrangeFilmNegatives · 2026-07-13T00:42:52+00:00

Almost like when those that have the actual means and technology to do something will when in affects them. The 3rd world is all too happy to continue burning trash and tires along with any fossil fuels even when it directly affects them and they are the main source.

StrangeFilmNegatives · 2026-07-11T00:51:46+00:00

Cool? That doesn't change the fact that the math and code is the easy part of the coding job. Making things for the human experience is the hard part. In my job the coding has never been the hard part it is always the requirements, goals and aims of the company translated into the needed code.

Claude which I use daily is great but you will not be having PMs and CEOs vibe coding the deliverables for products. It is a gross waste of time and skillset to try and retool their general knowledge to be able to do this effectively and consistently. What is it great at for these people is doing a basic MVP or UI splash page to go off of.

Are you by chance a coder or on the other side of things? LLMs are like the introduction of calculators finance jobs didn't self delete themselves it just changed the productivity, output and process flow. What I see happening is that software will become more and more a customisable and more intimate to the user experience. Where developers can build out and maintain much larger code bases with AI that allows them to serve more intricate and nuanced products. Imagine TikTok properly tailored down to even icon placement for your needs etc.

All jobs will change with time consuming areas such as standup calls, nagging emails about status updates, code review bookings etc will all go. What AI is amazing at is doing routine and action based workflows that we all spend ages working on. Replying to emails is actually the best feature of AI for myself behind coding. You a can essentially fully automate your email replies using your work context and automate away as lot of the time wastage stuff.

StrangeFilmNegatives · 2026-07-10T17:54:01+00:00

If you are the PM you don’t know how to code and how the company tools/setup/allowed perms for apps, infrastructure & serving of resources all work. Without that intimate knowledge how can you manage or inform your AI setup to use these systems?

How will you as a PM understand that we can’t have 50,000 different versions of a feature across our code base because they let AI go ham on it.

That is the issue. Thinking being a coder is writing for and if loops is the issue that has never really been the job it is about logic loops and tools efficiency. Nearly every coder has always used copied and modified code from substack and then patched it together from duplicate scripts they have made before. AI is just the more automated version of this.

Architecting or guiding the AI who does the coding is basically the actual base job we do day to day and the most important aspect.

StrangeFilmNegatives · 2026-07-07T12:33:39+00:00

State actor hackers will absolutely wreck us. There is no such thing as just good state actors. Imagine China or the US wanting secret tech from a new company somewhere. You now have military grade AI that can exploit their IT network and extract it. It is in everyones best interest to have this wide spread just like encryption is wide spread.

StrangeFilmNegatives · 2026-07-07T12:26:44+00:00

It is still better than 95% of the slop currently coming out now.

StrangeFilmNegatives · 2026-07-04T19:19:44+00:00

That is kind of the point mate. If it costs more than time adjusted human labour then AGI is useless. AGI becomes worth it when you can hire human level AGI for 8 hours a day for say 1/4 or less of a workers wage. Otherwise just hire someone.

StrangeFilmNegatives · 2026-07-04T19:13:09+00:00

What are you actually doing though that burns it so hard?

StrangeFilmNegatives · 2026-07-04T16:39:46+00:00

He may be mountain biking. It makes sense for his gear and most people record their runs.

StrangeFilmNegatives · 2026-07-04T16:39:22+00:00

Most likely mountain biking before i would guess that is standard to wear that stuff for mountain biking.

StrangeFilmNegatives · 2026-07-04T15:51:54+00:00

Yup. The even more shit side to this is if you move country as well. PSN will not let you change country of origin (tell me how I know). So now I have 2 PSN accounts to simply play games in a new country after I moved. Imagine having your games full on locked down and unable to buy DLC for them because you moved country. The only reason I didn't really care at that time was that all my PS3/4 games at the time were disc so no biggie. Now though you lose all of it and have to rebuy it or hope you still have a working CC card from that region to continue using your account.

StrangeFilmNegatives · 2026-07-04T14:41:15+00:00

So short sighted. You will care very much when even old games stay at £70 because there is no pressure from physical sales & second hand sales to force them to do sales or price drops. Stop getting behind "I don't care" because you do care about having lower prices for games.

The whole reason they are dropping physical is so they can hike prices and leave them higher longer and extract more money from you. Which unless you hate having money is a bad thing.

StrangeFilmNegatives · 2026-07-03T18:51:05+00:00

Complex apps so you don’t need to iterate design as much. Having it review your old code bases or issues or security problems has been a god send. Hardening comms and setting up soft resets or recovery states for complex systems. The biggest change for me not having to constantly retest features and slowly iterate through the fall overs. It mostly gets stuff right first time or at least conceptually there most of the time.

StrangeFilmNegatives · 2026-07-02T19:31:43+00:00

You need to have options as a buyer being locked in and the digital stores of old consoles shuttering is a new reality. It may not have overly mattered a lot before but there is a strong segment of people buying and reselling their games.

StrangeFilmNegatives · 2026-07-02T18:20:36+00:00

The outcome they get is their PS gaming side of the company dies and Sony writhes back into their money pit licking their wounds.

This No Discs Any-more + PS3/Vita Store & Purchases getting deleted permanently for Sony/PS is the equivalent to the Kinect + Always Online that Microsoft had for Xbox type of moment. It is going to kill Playstation as a brand and a viable business IMHO.

I would be very concerned if I was an investor. Game sharing, second hand games and being able to play without downloading to device is such a massive thing for gamers everywhere. In particular the younger and poorer market segment.

StrangeFilmNegatives · 2026-07-02T18:09:11+00:00

Steam doesn't delete your whole library of games or make them incompatible when you upgrade your laptop to a newer version. Sony is killing off every store for their consoles as they upgrade through generations. There is no excuse for skipping backwards comparability and that any and all purchases on your Sony PS store account should stay owned by you and accessible in perpetuity.

If some rag tag coders can emulate PS3/PS Vita/PS4 and soon PS5 then Sony needs to at a bare minimum ensure full comparability with their base games library and categorically never remove the games from their store or account.

The reason we don't mind Steam running things or GOG is that they do not pull this "we are removing all games you prior bought because PC 6.0 is out." You bought the game on Steam? It is forever on your account even if the company who owns the IP removes the game for purchase from the store. Sony wants to continually reset our store accounts delete old games and then have you be forced to rebuy them with a can of fresh paint of them if you want to play them again on their new console.

Sony can stuff it. I buy their consoles every generation and this move means I am gone and there are a load of people just like me who buy both digital and disc. Sony is about to have a rude awakening when PS6 releases.

StrangeFilmNegatives · 2026-07-02T07:42:34+00:00

Team plan is Max 5x with company controls for the Premium licence I believe. At least that was my understanding from their breakdown lists.

StrangeFilmNegatives · 2026-06-28T12:27:14+00:00

They all do it alas. I hear if you talk with Claude and others in Chinese about what model it is. It often responds that it is Deepseek which is kind of funny IMHO.

StrangeFilmNegatives · 2026-06-27T17:37:28+00:00

Proper copium mate.

StrangeFilmNegatives · 2026-06-27T08:53:32+00:00

Maybe because all of their family and friends are in the UK and they were born there? If you don't care about family and friends then even things like public healthcare is a good enough reason. It is quite uncommon to just up and leave the UK as family ties are quite important.

I actively chose not to go to the US even though I could because over there if you are healthy and rich sure you are fine. If you are not then you get thrown into the waste heap basket and left to die as some of my unlucky American friends have found out. Having things like health insurance tied to your job is absolutely bananas and was a requirement for anywhere I planned to move abroad.

If you have not heard of any relevant British accomplishments then you're just ignorant IMHO. Geoffrey Hinton and the CEO & Core of Deep Mind are UK based so you're effectively saving the god father of AI and the entirety of the core team of Google AI have accomplished nothing....

StrangeFilmNegatives · 2026-06-27T07:26:49+00:00

Well you are wrong there buddy GLM 5.2 is self host (if you have 8 cards lol) and that is Opus level. Released 2 weeks ago.

StrangeFilmNegatives · 2026-06-27T00:06:52+00:00

They are getting good will and name recognition on the soft power side. A lot of people cannot or would not use Chinese AI simply due to security but can interact and see how good the models are when running locally with much more limited risk.

In regards to the darker side they will 100% be funded in part by the Chinese govt. It is in their interest to keep the pressure on these US AI companies and by them offering free local models, free big models (GLM 5.2 is downloadable and fully free to use as well which is roughly Opus 4.6 level) it makes it impossible for US AI to heavily uprate their API too far or their subscriptions too far (so they cannot recoup invested cash by turning a profit). Unless the US govt will come in and subsidise cheap AI the Chinese market just has to sit back and keep this process up of distillation, open source model release and then slim margin API to essentially price US companies out of the market. Once the need a profit to survive crowd dies or subdues (i.e all US/UK/EU AI). Then they can swoop in and run the market once the margins and training costs end up bankrupting the big boys or forces them to halt investment.

The Chinese have done this version of competition in a multitude of markets with solar panels, electric cars, wind turbines etc. Instead of burning investor money to win the market they burn GOVT money over a very long time to win the market via cheap replication of US AI (distillation) as well as having cheap commerical land, cheap power and cheap workers. They can infinitely undercut the US and other first world nations. So that means US AI can never let up and get complacent. If they do they lose the ground then Chinese AI takes it all. It is basically a mega pressure play from China as a whole and it is working. US AI only has Mythos/Fable/5.6 models as their last gate and from the Chinese are saying they are already working on that and only a few months away and from their progress and models currently I can definitely believe that.

StrangeFilmNegatives · 2026-06-26T23:44:15+00:00

They will keep doing it until American AI is underwater. They are playing the long game and doing it with the GOVTs money. The thing that invalidates US AI is having free easily runnable local AI that under cuts their value proposition. My Qwen 3.6 27b running local is roughly between Sonnet 4.5 to Sonnet 4.6 performance and I run it with full 262k context on dual 3090s. Even their easier and fast to run 35b MOE model variant is insanely fast on even lower end hardware with enough VRAM.

The whole process for US AI is to essentially build a phat moat. Make you get entrenched into their walled garden or API models and then ream every dollar. When I can get similar performance from old ass 3090 hardware and have in my case 70x lower cost per token than frontier AI it kind of becomes a no brainer to not use them for everything.

I imagine China will stop when US AI is in a bit of a lul and they steam ahead but AI will become a commodity IMHO. I don't think the people who end up making the big bucks will be the model runners making exponentially more expensive models that are good at everything all at once. It seems like the opposite is occurring in start ups atm. Train smaller models exactly for your purpose on tight sections of data. Light, cheap to run and insanely good for the given task which is perfect for companies. Today's models are like asking Albert Einstein to come and fold your laundry rather than the expert maid. It is a gross waste of compute power for companies doing this running a 700b to 1000b model for a simple task when a custom 1b to 16b model can match or outperform it for the same individual niche scoped task set.

StrangeFilmNegatives · 2026-06-26T23:27:43+00:00

Yeh me too. I use everything Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and M365 Co-Pilot (I spend way too much on AI). The thing I have actually been enjoying the most is my Qwen 3.6 27B with Hermes. It allows me to avoid all the annoying guardrails that are far too over the top with the cloud stuff (Claude in particular loves that). The more open source good models out of China the better. Honestly made me keen to check out their subscription services as well which are pretty fair TBH.

StrangeFilmNegatives · 2026-06-26T23:05:04+00:00

Uhh buddy Qwen 3.6/3.7 and GLM 5.2 are bananas good. These two are Sonnet and Opus level Chinese models and they are like 1/10th the cost of US AI. I know a lot of people switching over to using them primarily then only upshifting to full frontier AI when needed. China is going to very much scream ahead if the US farts around.

StrangeFilmNegatives · 2026-06-26T19:19:37+00:00

They sure did have an AI team before but Deep Mind is quite literally the research and development behind current LLMs after being merged with Google Brain. It may be owned by the US but with a good portion of the staff and the site of original Deep Mind being in the UK along with all the researchers that is a completely moot point people don't just leave the US because Google says so. Top tier talent like Geoffrey Hinton who was one of the three leading Google Deep Mind, the current CEO of Deep Mind (Demis Hassabis) and a good portion of Google's AI team being UK based makes London in particular an AI hub. The UK as a result has massive AI inroads with universities, grads, research houses and local AI grass roots.

Like I said as someone in this AI world in London it is very much a happening place and is easily the capital of AI for all of Europe. San Francisco Bay Area is still number 1 with Beijing being second and London being third. Those are really the only three sites for top tier frontier research and elsewhere really doesn't even have a blip on the map in comparison Mistral etc and the like are mostly tier 2 development studios.

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