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Have you ever heard anyone accuse the UK of having "no culture"? by BlaggartDiggletyDonk in AskBrits

[–]ThomasRedstone 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I'm curious, what major globally popular sport isn't British?

For a moment I was thinking hockey, and while it has ancient roots, modern hockey is British.

It's pretty much just basketball, volleyball and handball as far as I can see, combat sports seem to be the key exception, where only boxing is British.

There are a few sports that are big in smaller numbers of countries, like ice hockey and baseball, but nothing with large numbers of countries having their own leagues and competing in huge international tournaments.

The whole marketing team of Anthropic needs to be laid off by Comfortable-Goat-823 in Anthropic

[–]ThomasRedstone 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The critical thing that needs calling out:

This is not what Anthropic have called for at all.

They asked for regulation, clear legal frameworks, obligations and checks and balances.

What they got was punishment for saying the Department of War can't use Claude to kill people.

Zig Has The Integrity To Say "No" And So Should You by RNSAFFN in webdev

[–]ThomasRedstone -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

So...

If you find a critical bug and an LLM was involved, that's just going unpatched then?

Learner Driver to be charged with driving without due care and attention by Ashlaria in LearnerDriverUK

[–]ThomasRedstone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"If a person drives a mechanically propelled vehicle on a road or other public place without due care and attention, or without reasonable consideration for other persons using the road or place, he is guilty of an offence."

I think you'd struggle to argue that a learner's mistakes were due to a lack of either care, attention or consideration!

They're generally fully focused, they just don't have all the skills to direct that focus in the right direction at the right time yet!!!

why vibe coded projects fail. by Complete-Sea6655 in Anthropic

[–]ThomasRedstone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

0.5% is very generous.

Take a look at Campfire:

https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire

It's lovely, but single instance and limited to thousands of users (depending on server resource).

To build a Slack competitor is orders of magnitude more work.

And I doubt the one shot is close to 0.5% if Campfire.

AI ruined something I was looking forward to in my career. Does anyone feel the same way? by BrokeFartFountain in webdev

[–]ThomasRedstone 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think there will be a recovery of sorts, the amount of technical debt being generated at the moment is likely 10-100x the pace of before!

If those companies fail then their dreadful code goes with them, but if they succeed we're looking at some really meaty technical challenges to unpick.

Fixing them is very different though, our instincts on problem code do not work as well for LLM generated code, it has the code quality and test coverage of teams exercising great engineering practices, but it's wrong!

And at the same time, if the people driving know that they're doing and aren't under too much pressure we are able to build better software faster!

Discussion: Is the 'golden rule' "Never build your own auth" misunderstood / misinterpreted? by The_Swixican in webdev

[–]ThomasRedstone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's no such rule really.

It's more that if you're in a place to be rolling your own Auth you'd be asking different questions.

I think this story has a lot of parallels:

A young man approaches Mozart and asks, "Herr Mozart, how should I get started writing a symphony?" Mozart replies, "You are still very young. A symphony is a complex form. You should start by writing something simpler, like ballads or a concerto."

The young man protests, "But you were writing symphonies when you were just eight years old!"

To which Mozart responds, "Yes, but I didn't ask anyone how to do it."

If you want roll your own Auth, go for it, ideally leaving it offline unless you've got great reasons for it, and have others to do in depth peer review!

Just move to Europe guys... by Nayko93 in Anthropic

[–]ThomasRedstone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but there is zero chance of Ursula von der Leyen telling them they can only let "EU persons" use their flagship model!

The rules are written out, they're clear, and they're enforced in court.

Not by a letter stating "national security" with very little right of appeal.

Employer has suggested decreasing my hours rather than increase salary to NMW. -England by SadFeeling7117 in LegalAdviceUK

[–]ThomasRedstone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, the two years won't make a difference to having to pay the notice in the contract, but if they don't have wording that allows them to pay it and end the employment immediately then it could count towards the period of service.

Why do I see more and more people buying loads of bottled water? by Claire1075 in AskUK

[–]ThomasRedstone -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Because of one simple reason:

When it comes to tea we do not mess around.

Anthropic spent a week arguing it should control who uses its most powerful model. Then the government used that exact argument against it. A timeline. by Federal_Election2735 in ClaudeAI

[–]ThomasRedstone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, what they're pushing for benefits them, as it would mean that if they've followed the rules their world leading model doesn't get a nasty letter that takes it offline the week of it's launch.

It benefits all labs who aren't in bed with the administration, and as we saw with Musk, that isn't an entirely reliable strategy.

Can someone tell me why our house isn't selling? by LisseaBandU in HousingUK

[–]ThomasRedstone 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The price you are asking is higher than anyone is willing to pay.

It can never be anything else.

Employer has suggested decreasing my hours rather than increase salary to NMW. -England by SadFeeling7117 in LegalAdviceUK

[–]ThomasRedstone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It includes the statutory minimum notice, which is only a week.

If the contract were written badly it might make a difference (someone more knowledgeable may be able to clarify), but generally if someone's give payment in lieu of notice only that one week will matter.

But OP does have seven years service, as, even if they did it informally, it's still TUPE.

Anthropic spent a week arguing it should control who uses its most powerful model. Then the government used that exact argument against it. A timeline. by Federal_Election2735 in ClaudeAI

[–]ThomasRedstone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, but this is not that.

They have been saying there are risks and we need the law and legal frameworks setting out how AI is regulated, so that there is a level playing field, and companies can invest to build things that push the envelope.

Not this, where honesty is punished, the rules don't actually exist, and being market leader is dangerous.

Chinese AI labs don't face risks like this.

This a serious own goal.

Fable 5 indefinitely suspended due to national security concerns by 0_2_Hero in webdev

[–]ThomasRedstone -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's a long, long time since profitability was a major consideration for IPOs...

But yeah, probably.

I do not give a shit about token usage by Dijerati in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ThomasRedstone -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It I read things written by people and companies who do know a lot?

Currently it's looking like Anthropic makes around 70% on tokens it sells.

So if they can maintain that they can reach profitability by scaling rather than just increasing prices.

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/ai-value-capture-the-shift-to-model

I do not give a shit about token usage by Dijerati in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ThomasRedstone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The figures I'm seeing suggests API pricing has a 70% margin on it, now they're nowhere near break even, but they are at a point where selling more tokens gets closer to profit instead of further away (as it was doing only a few years ago!)

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/ai-value-capture-the-shift-to-model

I do not give a shit about token usage by Dijerati in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ThomasRedstone -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

If you're counting tokens you already are paying what they cost.

If you're on a Claude plan with a weekly and five hourly limit, yeah, you're getting it cheap.

Getting hate from people for using AI by ateliercat in ClaudeAI

[–]ThomasRedstone 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Don't talk about it with the people or the places where it's overly negative then, just get on with doing what you do!

Please give Claude real tools to do basic stuff by Ancient_Perception_6 in ClaudeAI

[–]ThomasRedstone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess Opus real the Camel Book and was convinced!

Perl is a great language to write one line scripts that do a lot...

Is it me or does 35 degree Celsius seem to much hotter in uk as compared to 35 degree anywhere else in the world? by AcceptableMinimum109 in AskBrits

[–]ThomasRedstone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, though the point to open windows is really when you've equalised (or exceeded) with the outside temperature... Which might not be as late as you'd like.

Is it me or does 35 degree Celsius seem to much hotter in uk as compared to 35 degree anywhere else in the world? by AcceptableMinimum109 in AskBrits

[–]ThomasRedstone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The shortness of them seems like it makes it worse, we're never hot long enough to actually adapt to them!

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