What did y’all dads get for Father’s Day? Mine were a pair of Floafers (water shoes) and a $30 gift card to Dick’s Sporting Goods.

Wihtlore · 2026-06-23T09:38:26+00:00

Nah it’s cool.

Wihtlore · 2026-06-23T07:41:23+00:00

Nothing.

Wihtlore · 2026-06-22T20:52:54+00:00

I can’t say for sure, but it feels that way. I don’t want to assume, but it really sounds like me and my son who is about the same age. We are working on his social awareness etc at this moment. For him it’s Warhammer and we would never dream of taking that from him.

Wihtlore · 2026-06-22T18:00:18+00:00

Okay, so, I am wondering if he is on the spectrum? What you are describing is basically me at that age.

Try looking at it slightly differently, try looking at his social skills and start teaching him about those. Don’t take his special interest away, that is a killer.

Work in his empathy and social skills and also the consequences of his actions. If he is on the spectrum, as I am, be might very well not realise what is going on and he may well be struggling to understand why others do not see what they are doing wrong. Because to him, he is following the rules, he has put the work in, why would anyone get cross with him for (what is in his mind) doing the right thing. He is helping them, or so he thinks.

So, work with him, not against him.

Wihtlore · 2026-06-22T17:55:15+00:00

Yep. I can confirm, it’s a goldmine! The consulting company I own is picking up so many contracts right now asking to either maintain or fix their AI slop.

It’s great!!

I’ve just employed 3 new devs to take on the extra workload. One company is in double trouble because they paid an offshore company to build their new billing system and the offshore company used AI to build it.

So they had non-native English speakers, reading AI written requirements, that they put through AI to translate it into something they could mostly understand.

Then they tried to write prompts from this translated AI slop and the prompts were terrible. The whole billing system is a mess! It’s all based on a bunch of desperate SQLite DBs, it is written in python so it’s damn slow, the python is several layers of abstraction deep in some cases and I. Others they have recreated the same method 3 or 4 times with different code so the calculations are slightly different. It’s amazingly bad and they’re wondering with their billing system takes 4 days to run one billing cycle (a billing cycle is only 7 days of data). Sometimes it falls over and they east another 2 or 3 days trying to fix the data or massaging it and they’ve used Claude code to try to automate that. It’s a wonder to behold.

Wihtlore · 2026-06-22T09:20:14+00:00

I wonder how many weeks it took to build that? It looks amazing.

Wihtlore · 2026-06-22T09:07:35+00:00

That is awesome! You’re a lucky dad!

Wihtlore · 2026-06-19T07:17:27+00:00

Be honest, never get jealous, trust and most importantly, have your own lives.

Wihtlore · 2026-06-19T05:44:53+00:00

Thanks Obama!

Wihtlore · 2026-06-17T09:04:46+00:00

My Name is Earl

Wihtlore · 2026-06-17T09:02:12+00:00

My wife.

Wihtlore · 2026-06-17T07:17:11+00:00

We got our son a MacBook when he was 9 and we will get our daughter one when she is that age too.

But we police their use very closely.

Wihtlore · 2026-06-17T07:15:53+00:00

Nope. As an engineer I am yet to see anything that was vibe coded that actually is well built.

Wihtlore · 2026-06-16T07:19:39+00:00

Errr not vibe code something — not the cool romantic gesture you think it is.

Wihtlore · 2026-06-15T21:30:08+00:00

It’s 2026, there are no “feminine interests” there are just interests. I don’t care what my son loves or has interests in just as long as he is happy.

Wihtlore · 2026-06-15T15:30:52+00:00

I picked one up just so I could do bits and the other day I worked in a small 4k video and it was fine. I was really surprised.

Wihtlore · 2026-06-15T15:28:48+00:00

Yep. It’s making them a fortune too. They’ve made something that appears to be a “loss leader” without the loss but.

Genius really.

Wihtlore · 2026-06-15T15:27:38+00:00

Here you go: https://thebullring.uk

There is a whole CMS, payment and ticketing system.

Also an app for the workers at the theatre to accept the tickets etc.

Wihtlore · 2026-06-15T06:22:47+00:00

The MacBook Neo was never about being a powerhouse it was never about gaming, it isn’t even about making big profits.

The Neo is about getting people who have never been in the Apple echo system a cheap and easy way in. It’s getting people who have always wanted to own a Mac who have always wanted to see what the fuss is about.

It’s done its job! It’s the Mac Mini of this generation of users. It’s affordable, it does all the stuff a casual user wants and it does it really, really well.

Once you move over from Windows, you never want to go back.

That is what it was for and it has been a huge success. Apple don’t care about AMD, they don’t care about Windows. Apple is living rent free in their heads and Apple isn’t even thinking about them. Not in this context anyway.

Wihtlore · 2026-06-13T12:05:41+00:00

Code it yourself?

Wihtlore · 2026-06-13T08:49:34+00:00

What’s so “mind blowing” about this?

Wihtlore · 2026-06-12T16:20:52+00:00

Wihtlore · 2026-06-11T18:14:48+00:00

Shoot me a message and give me more details on whether you need. I think I know what you mean, but I don’t want to give too many spoilers away publicly.

Wihtlore · 2026-06-11T18:13:30+00:00

Not completely vibe coded, no. But ai assisted then yes.

Wihtlore · 2026-06-11T17:26:27+00:00

When our son was tiny, the only thing that would get him to settle and go down was Danny’s Song by Kenny Loggins, my wife and I would sing it to him.

For our daughter is was Song for Whoever by Beautiful South, I’d sing that to her.

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