For anyone following the MAGA vs. AI labs stuff : https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war "The Department of War has stated they will only contract with AI companies who acced… (View Post)

I worked in data input in the good old days before data protection was a thing. How we used to amuse ourselves looking up things like the credit ratings or catalogue spending (yes, that long ago) of … (View Post)

I get that it's just a tool - but I suppose I'm puzzled (by my nature) as to the lack of curiosity. If I spend 8hrs a day in one computer program - I couldn't help but find every effin… (View Post)

I spent a little time with claude code over xmas re-creating a cli Lotus-123 with just the functionality I needed and nothing else. Quite blissful. (View Post)

I quite liked reading Cobol - but hated writing it. Almost the direct opposite to my time as a Perl programmer. (View Post)