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You know over the years I've enjoyed laying Lego bricks on top of each other as much as the next person, but that era is over.

Most of the time I'm pretty critical of the way technology is headed, and that depresses me a bit as somebody who is part of that industry.

Of all the multitudes of feelings I have about LLMs and how they are affecting my life, the thing that really got me anxious was this: https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/i-can-never-talk-to-an-ai-anonymously The whole point of this blog is anonymity.

A couple of things happened to me recently in close enough proximity to each other that put two and two together and realised something naughty that my brain has been doing.

I use Google Maps to drive to most places, even those that are pretty close by.

Disclaimer: I am not a healthcare professional.

When I first started my job as a software engineer, I was working on difficult C++ optimisation problems and trying to wrangle SQL databases to get a few extra milliseconds out of queries.

You know that time when you and your partner have a slightly different idea about which way to walk and you start to veer one way, questing while they hold true to their path and a psychic tug like a fundamental force between two fundamental particles gui…

Until now I've been blogging under my real name.