It seems inconceivable in 2026, but in the late 1960s my parents dropped me off for an unaccompanied ~10-hour train trip from Melbourne to Sydney. That trip included multiple stops at different stations along the way,…
As an Australian, I completely agree with every point in your response
Exactly this setup
What are peoples' current suggestions for using Claude Code with a locally hosted LLM running on regular consumer hardware (for the sake of discussion, assume you're spending $US500-ish on a mini PC, which would get you…
As someone who's been coding for several decades now (i.e. I'm old), I find the current generation of AI tools very ... freeing. As an industry, we've been preaching the benefits of running lots of small experiments to…
Spot on in my experience. I work in a space where I get to build and optimise AI tools for my own and my team's use pretty much daily. As such I focus mainly on AI'ing the crap out of boring & time-consuming stuff that…
Old fart here... I started coding in the 70s, loved it then, still love it now and LOVING the emergence of Gen AI tools. For perspective, the IT industry went through a similar change with the emergence of search…
> Most authors do not support a way to pay them directly. I think this is the problem that should be addressed. Musicians went through a similar process in reverse order: first Napster ("piracy") then streaming services…
Ex Director at a Big 4 consultancy here... While I've done more than enough Powerpoint presentations telling clients what they already knew but didn't want to say out loud, there are some circumstances where bringing in…
> A Sony Walkman-style device that you can give to children so they can ask questions to an LLM. It should be voice-first, and focused on explaining things. There shouldn’t be a single screen on the device.…
Right now, DeepSeek feels like it comes from the most trustworthy source, which is not something I would've said a few months ago. In the short term I'll keep using OpenAI, Llama, Claude and Perplexity for what each…
I love this implementation approach. At first glance I questioned your choice of bash over something like Python, but you're right - bash is everywhere and every competent Linux admin knows how to use it. There's a…
I work for a consulting company in Melbourne Australia. The Melbourne city council has started petitioning the government to force govt employees to return to the CBD for work. Their reasoning is that CBD-based…
I bought a Moaan Plus to see if it would work for me - basically, is a phone-sized eInk ebook reader something I'd keep using? 3 months on: I love this little thing and carry it everywhere. Although it's just slightly…
Agree this approach seems to be worth investigating further, but as a citizen of a non-US country, I'd like to see a solution that wasn't based on a US-centric set of controls and governance bodies. These days, with…
I'd suggest seeking out industries where IT hasn't really "happened" yet. I work at Deloitte. Every time I chat with my counterparts in Tax, Audit, Wealth, ... I come up with ideas that may or may not be worth pursuing…
I agree that would work, but culturally that's not how most organisations seem to be using it. Instead Slack seems to be viewed as a synchronous messaging tool - "if I send you a Slack msg, and I don't get a response…
Exactly this. When I focus on building a really flaky version of a thing as quickly as possible, then I quickly land on all the edge cases and more-complex-than-I-thought areas I need to deal with. Sometimes I can…
It _usually_ makes sense to optimise for engagement, particularly in the US where there's no state-funded media outlet (cue discussion about socialism that will be ignored). The UK has the BBC, Australia has the ABC,…
If you haven't used it, Google Sheets is worth looking at closely. It's good for collaboration (within the boundaries of a "normal" spreadsheet interface), and has a lot of options for integrating with external systems
This. My 21 and 23yo sons have no idea how to manage their money, and it took my older daughters several years of "emergency loan from parents for food or rent" funding (always paid back) to get their finances under…
I use a combination of iThoughtsX and Evernote. I find myself in a lot of situations where information isn't coming to me in a particularly organised fashion - interviews, presentations with several presenters, being on…
I could see this being part of a lightweight browser UI testing framework. There's already ways to drive a headless UI (Selenium, puppeteer), but they require automation testers to interact with page elements via the…
Bear in mind that exchanges are owned by the companies that trade on them - they've got a VERY strong vested interest in not fixing the problem. HFT works because fast traders can see a buy and sell order that are a…
I'd appreciate it if I could install Pulumi via e.g. $ brew install pulumi That way I'd have a convenient way of keeping it updated to the latest version
It seems inconceivable in 2026, but in the late 1960s my parents dropped me off for an unaccompanied ~10-hour train trip from Melbourne to Sydney. That trip included multiple stops at different stations along the way,…
As an Australian, I completely agree with every point in your response
Exactly this setup
What are peoples' current suggestions for using Claude Code with a locally hosted LLM running on regular consumer hardware (for the sake of discussion, assume you're spending $US500-ish on a mini PC, which would get you…
As someone who's been coding for several decades now (i.e. I'm old), I find the current generation of AI tools very ... freeing. As an industry, we've been preaching the benefits of running lots of small experiments to…
Spot on in my experience. I work in a space where I get to build and optimise AI tools for my own and my team's use pretty much daily. As such I focus mainly on AI'ing the crap out of boring & time-consuming stuff that…
Old fart here... I started coding in the 70s, loved it then, still love it now and LOVING the emergence of Gen AI tools. For perspective, the IT industry went through a similar change with the emergence of search…
> Most authors do not support a way to pay them directly. I think this is the problem that should be addressed. Musicians went through a similar process in reverse order: first Napster ("piracy") then streaming services…
Ex Director at a Big 4 consultancy here... While I've done more than enough Powerpoint presentations telling clients what they already knew but didn't want to say out loud, there are some circumstances where bringing in…
> A Sony Walkman-style device that you can give to children so they can ask questions to an LLM. It should be voice-first, and focused on explaining things. There shouldn’t be a single screen on the device.…
Right now, DeepSeek feels like it comes from the most trustworthy source, which is not something I would've said a few months ago. In the short term I'll keep using OpenAI, Llama, Claude and Perplexity for what each…
I love this implementation approach. At first glance I questioned your choice of bash over something like Python, but you're right - bash is everywhere and every competent Linux admin knows how to use it. There's a…
I work for a consulting company in Melbourne Australia. The Melbourne city council has started petitioning the government to force govt employees to return to the CBD for work. Their reasoning is that CBD-based…
I bought a Moaan Plus to see if it would work for me - basically, is a phone-sized eInk ebook reader something I'd keep using? 3 months on: I love this little thing and carry it everywhere. Although it's just slightly…
Agree this approach seems to be worth investigating further, but as a citizen of a non-US country, I'd like to see a solution that wasn't based on a US-centric set of controls and governance bodies. These days, with…
I'd suggest seeking out industries where IT hasn't really "happened" yet. I work at Deloitte. Every time I chat with my counterparts in Tax, Audit, Wealth, ... I come up with ideas that may or may not be worth pursuing…
I agree that would work, but culturally that's not how most organisations seem to be using it. Instead Slack seems to be viewed as a synchronous messaging tool - "if I send you a Slack msg, and I don't get a response…
Exactly this. When I focus on building a really flaky version of a thing as quickly as possible, then I quickly land on all the edge cases and more-complex-than-I-thought areas I need to deal with. Sometimes I can…
It _usually_ makes sense to optimise for engagement, particularly in the US where there's no state-funded media outlet (cue discussion about socialism that will be ignored). The UK has the BBC, Australia has the ABC,…
If you haven't used it, Google Sheets is worth looking at closely. It's good for collaboration (within the boundaries of a "normal" spreadsheet interface), and has a lot of options for integrating with external systems
This. My 21 and 23yo sons have no idea how to manage their money, and it took my older daughters several years of "emergency loan from parents for food or rent" funding (always paid back) to get their finances under…
I use a combination of iThoughtsX and Evernote. I find myself in a lot of situations where information isn't coming to me in a particularly organised fashion - interviews, presentations with several presenters, being on…
I could see this being part of a lightweight browser UI testing framework. There's already ways to drive a headless UI (Selenium, puppeteer), but they require automation testers to interact with page elements via the…
Bear in mind that exchanges are owned by the companies that trade on them - they've got a VERY strong vested interest in not fixing the problem. HFT works because fast traders can see a buy and sell order that are a…
I'd appreciate it if I could install Pulumi via e.g. $ brew install pulumi That way I'd have a convenient way of keeping it updated to the latest version