Mark Henwood | Tech + Product + Delivery Leader

Every time I hear “AI will do this” or “AI will do that” I just get massive Elizabethan leech farm energy

In an ironic twist, it looks like dinosaurs will drive humanity to extinction.

My AWS login process was just (unsuccessfully) intercepted by a server with a cert from asharq.net. That can’t be good 🤔

Hot take: all the respected books on DDD are a pile of waffly nonsense. Fight me.

The first independent review of Mythos cyber capabilities I've seen. The UK's AI Security Institute - an independent government body - appears to have got their hands on Mythos and published their findings. 1/7 🧵

THIS

I'm in this picture and I like it

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com

Yet another study showing only a small proportion of high performing teams are benefiting from GenAI coding. The rest getting negative impact

Runtime JavaScript injections served from Russian CDNs - inside the awesome new Official Whitehouse App www.atomic.computer/blog/white-h...

Just ONE TIME it’d be nice to start a new project and NOT have to re-read the fine print on OAuth grants

Some of us in the private sector are also eyeing similar zero-US solutions. The honeymoon is over, folks.

If this is at all accurate about Anthropic’s engineering hiring process, it hardly looks like a company that thinks coding is "solved".

As a proud regular donor to @wikipedia.org , I think this is pretty cool 😎

If anything they should have been called “Bleets”

This is like McDonalds pivoting into being the UK’s biggest street food vendor. Totally misses the point of the sector.

100% this. Even as a man, I find the prevailing competi-bro mentality of many male tech groups to be deeply unpleasant and it’s all so “smarter than thou” as well. Toxic.

Every single word of this 🧵. Yes.

My biggest gripe about tech conferences remains this: there is never anywhere near enough common area seating. It’s just crazy.

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

I watched this SO MANY TIMES back in 2001

Literally nothing works anymore

I'm pretty sure I know. They aren't. We're not going to really be able to make a lot of progress in dealing with the implications of this tech unless and until we get rid of all this "woo-woo" talk about LLMs. Anthropic pushing this line is PR, unserious.

The thing that gets me about the “vibe coding is now so good” crowd is that you cannot possibly know how good new code is right away. It’s 6, 18, 24 months down the line you’re gonna find out, after several changes, service merges / splits, pivots etc. THEN we find out. Not now just cos “it works”

WHEN will everybody realise the guy is FULL of 💩 💩? “Elon Musk Pivots to the Moon, Calls It the Fastest Path to Saving Civilization” www.techrepublic.com/article/news...

And the last thing is that the fact that some coders wrote something that is good at writing code is sort of the least surprising part of this. They should be good at that stuff. The weird bit is when they make things that also try to be friends and therapists and lovers and artists.

Of VC-backed products, 78% fail: 42% fail because nobody wants them. 17% because they don't really solve the problem they claim to solve. 19% because they were no different from competing products or couldn't evolve with the market. And that's just VC-backed companies. 1/2

Remember all those years nobody danced to the Macarena because they couldn’t understand the lyrics?

Increasingly I find myself drawn back to my old old friend Django @djangoproject.com

Free idea: somebody should make a periodic publication that reports on current events without bias or influence. A newspaper, if you will.

Prompt Fidelity: Measuring How Much of Your Intent an AI Agent Actually Executes How much of your AI agent's output is real data versus confident guesswork? Telegram AI Digest #ai #news

What could possibly go wrong?

THIS THIS THIS 🧵

Important education message: "independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it." A few profit and the most vulnerable pay www.economist.com/united-state...

Vibe-coding your app then bringing in dev expertise to “productionise” it before deployment is akin to running a bakery using cake mixes then bringing in chefs at the end to “just fix” the big bowls of shit before they go in the oven

Expect an unprecedented deluge of sock puppet pre-made rage in the UK press this week 👇👇

Anything that inconveniences a right wing populist is censorship, part 1000. This depraved prick uses that term bc it puts his enemies on the defensive. They cower. Fact-checking is censorship. Labeling is censorship. TRANSPARENCY is censorship. Now, “no nonconsensual nudes” is censorship.

Me: ALL illegal access is wrong Also Me: LOL

Much of the dysfunction you find in organizations, and most of the problems you find in software development, come from the fact that people—engineers in particular—believe that complex systems (in the Cynefin sense) can be understood and controlled. They can not. 1/7

Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features. We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this. …

THIS 👇👇👇👇

Shout out to everyone who honestly thought a deep BTC position would be a great way to shore up their balance sheet

If he’s this clueless and Bambi-eyed naive about his place in the history of our species, WHY WE WE TAKE SERIOUSLY ANYTHING HE EVER SAYS ABOUT ANYTHING?

Ah, how safe and innocent the bow and arrow must have looked, neatly piercing that rosy apple atop that chap’s head

Ok. I’ve spent five months without a paid gig now. And I have LOADS of relevant skills. This is nuts.