Chris Swan's Weblog

This is very much a repeat of part 22 ‘remission again’ from earlier in the year.

TL;DR Large Language Model (LLM) based Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be great at cranking out plausible sentences.

TL;DR Open source projects that I contribute to have adopted AI bots to ease the pull request (PR) process.

Pupdate We were back in the Lake District (more on that later), so the boys were able to get out for some nice long walks.

It’s been a couple of months since Milo finished his fourth (modified) CHOP/CEOP protocol, and he’s been able to enjoy the summer without any vet visits[1].

TL;DR The attention economy dynamics for AI chatbots and agents are very different from social media, and so we’re seeing a whole new approach to capturing (and keeping) our attention.

TL;DR As Internet of Things (IoT) devices become more commonplace managing the risks they bring becomes more of a bother.

TL;DR If you’re migrating between hosting services that both use Cloudflare then don’t be surprised when you see the old site after cutting over DNS to the new provider.

Pupdate The whole of July has been hot and sunny (more on that later), so quite often the boys have been having an early morning walk in the shade of the woods before it gets too hot.

TL;DR The AI infrastructure bubble has reached a point where companies just can’t actually spent all the money they might (notionally) have allocated.

Pupdate The start of the month saw the raspberries coming out on the bushes in our garden, so Milo (in particular) got busy harvesting what he could reach (and barking at any birds that dared to come nearby).

TL;DR Conway’s Law tells us that organisations create systems that mirror their communication systems.

Pupdate It was Milo’s 5th birthday on the 12th, which meant a post about how he’s getting on.