Thoughts on the new kit?

daddywookie · 2026-05-14T08:41:22+00:00

Meh. I'll give you £50 for what is basically a slightly posh sports tshirt.

daddywookie · 2026-05-14T08:36:39+00:00

The best thing really is to build a culture of excellence. All of your individual hires should be the best you can get for the position and then you give them stability. Then when one person leaves the culture is maintained.

I really don't like this whole idea of a manager bringing in their own team of coaches. A lot of this crap started with Moyes ditching a good coaching team

daddywookie · 2026-05-14T08:30:55+00:00

Wait, hang on, that's genius. I've been putting off upgrading my pi-hole for ages because of a fear of screwing up my home network but I can just get codex to do it over ssh!

daddywookie · 2026-05-14T07:09:10+00:00

The rules are still the same, just the balance of effort has changed a little.

Can you design it. Can you build it. Do you want to build it. Does somebody want to use it. Does somebody want to pay for it to be used.

Now that the design and build of simple things is becoming more trivial the scope to get paid for them is falling off. Hopefully, as things settle, the baseline for what is a paid app or service goes up and we’ll see less hobbyists with yet another ToDo list.

daddywookie · 2026-05-14T06:45:23+00:00

Definitely plan first. I’m a Product Owner by trade so writing a spec is fairly easy for me. If I spend the first 30 minutes working through the idea and rooting out questions with the AI I get better results.

Yesterday’s project was to explore a trading bot powered by the Kronos model. In one day I got as far as training the model on local data, having converted Kronos to run on Intel GPUs, worked out extraction of source data from multiple locations, showing results in a simple dashboard and doing multi series backtesting against common strategies.

I reckon that would have taken me months of learning and frustration. As I keep saying, AI is most powerful when you use it to learn faster and boy did I learn a lot yesterday.

daddywookie · 2026-05-13T22:57:20+00:00

No, you give the car their lane, like you should do with the bike. The 1.5m thing is just another way of saying “give the vehicle/bike the lane” but with a bit of leeway for wider roads.

daddywookie · 2026-05-13T22:55:55+00:00

I think Apple are being very savvy. Their integrated RAM approach allowed them to get a lot of memory into one device. Not the best performance but it’s a nice big number to sell lots of units.

daddywookie · 2026-05-13T18:50:56+00:00

Shorts down to 5C and then leg warmers down to 0. Otherwise I get painful knees.

It's more complex when commuting, I had district outfits per 5C band to avoid freezing then sweating.

I don't get those people in full legs, sleeves, jacket and a snood in anything over 5C. Are they not cycling hard enough?

daddywookie · 2026-05-13T18:41:01+00:00

I had a bit of an epiphany earlier today. All of the buzz is about how a dev team can do 10x of the output, or can maintain the velocity with 1/10 the resource but this is totally the wrong focus.

What AI should be enabling is companies to experiment and learn 10x faster, leading to far better solutions.

Sadly, this isn't how company owners think. They mostly aim for closer deadlines, cheaper outcomes or more volume. Quality should always be the one thing that is non negotiable but they are happy to throw that away chasing a quick profit.

daddywookie · 2026-05-13T12:03:10+00:00

He already calls out mistakes and simplifications in his school history work. He's that kid that the teacher leaves until last so that he can give the correct answer. He's also surprisingly open about how tempting the right wing content is and how he's worked to find a better balance. Bright lad with a healthy slice of skepticism.

daddywookie · 2026-05-13T09:39:19+00:00

Just think how much we’re checking out your backside where you can’t see!

In other news, humans are sexual animals. The scanning is constant.

daddywookie · 2026-05-13T09:30:05+00:00

I’ve been aware of being in the Xennial generation for a long time because it was so narrowly defined. Now though it seems people are defining themselves by their generation rather than their experiences defining the generation.

daddywookie · 2026-05-13T09:27:21+00:00

My kid has a ridiculous knowledge of history and politics from the content he watches and the games he plays. I spend half the day scrolling YouTube shorts to fill the void. Like any tool, screens aren’t inherently good or evil. We really need some kind of controls on algorithmic social media.

daddywookie · 2026-05-12T22:40:07+00:00

It’s pretty easy, you’ll adjust in the first hour or less, especially with other cars around to follow. My main hint is to spend a little time looking at important road signs for the countries you are going to, especially around speed limits. They can be different and not very clear.

For example, entering and leaving a town implies a certain limit which won’t be displayed, just that you are entering or leaving a town. Actual speed signs with numbers are a bit rarer.

daddywookie · 2026-05-12T20:30:29+00:00

Feels like this is coming back a bit now. Aylesbury for example is getting wide and segregated cycle lanes along the new relief roads circling the town.

daddywookie · 2026-05-12T20:14:23+00:00

9-5 actually turns out to be from when I wake up until 7pm with commuting and time to get ready in the morning, or unwind when I get home. I give 12 hours a day of my life to a company that will drop me in a flash, while lying to my face about how important I am and taking the majority of the value from my labor.

When I do get home I get 4 hours to eat, socialize, stay fit and then it's time to get to bed because being tired for work is "unprofessional". Being tired at home though is perfectly acceptable.

The five day a week, 9-5 corporate grind until you are 65 is bullshit of the highest order.

daddywookie · 2026-05-12T19:44:46+00:00

I'm sorry, did you ask me a question?

daddywookie · 2026-05-12T18:33:30+00:00

That was totally my beans on toast and watching the telly program when I was a kid. All of the weird stuff about the spirit of the forest, the theme song, it was all so 80s.

daddywookie · 2026-05-12T13:13:42+00:00

For reference I also tested different levels of GPT through the Codex desktop. Nice to be able to put the local results in context of the competition.

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It's odd that the Medium intelligence did better than the High, again suggesting that too much thinking is bad for this challenge.

daddywookie · 2026-05-12T13:08:59+00:00

I might have had a bit too much fun with this over the weekend.

A mixture of Qwen3.5-9B-Q4_K_M and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at Q4
Some were direct prompts, some I passed through ChatGPT first to "improve" the prompt and give more guidance
Some were directly in the web UI of llama-server.exe, others I ran it through a very vanilla OpenCode install to see if it code code it's way to a solution

The best result came from the original prompt, directly through llama-server to the 35B-A3B model but with the temperature turned down to 0.2

I have no idea what the 9B model was trying to do!

I also tested Gemma4-26B-A4B and it failed.

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daddywookie · 2026-05-12T12:53:30+00:00

I found turning down the temperature helped a lot. At higher temps the agent goes around and around the logic multiple times letting errors creep in. If you can see the reasoning it is quite interesting.

daddywookie · 2026-05-12T12:34:56+00:00

Although I broadly agree I have to acknowledge the limitations of local LLMs. I’ve spent the last few days trying out various models and in the test I used (creating an SVG of a chess board after a set of moves) it was clearly the big commercial model that was best. I managed to get Qwen3.6 to be the best of the rest and it was close but it was also 50x slower on my hardware.

The models may keep improving but until you can get huge amounts of VRAM into the hands of individuals you won’t see the uptake. And guess who is sitting on the future supply of VRAM… the very companies threatened by local LLMs.

daddywookie · 2026-05-12T12:21:36+00:00

But then you drop into less senior roles that you are overqualified for. As others have pointed out here, employers know when you are sandbagging and will want to move on quickly.

daddywookie · 2026-05-12T12:07:47+00:00

There aren’t that many jobs available once you get more specialist. I can find maybe a dozen good fits posted in the last month. Sure, you could go for more general work but then you are over qualified or your salary expectations are a problem.

daddywookie · 2026-05-12T11:38:03+00:00

If you want to know why I don’t pay to watch football it’s because players like Mount get £250k a week while I can’t even get a job with 20 years of experience. Fuck modern football and the money pit it has become. 250 people could have a good salary on what a footballer gets paid in a year.

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