Matt Squire

[LLMs] How does agentic AI affect the next generation of coders? More on what Matt Squire had to say about AI at Manchester Tech Festival

How does agentic AI affect the next generation of coders? Are new software engineers going to learn less because they’re too reliant on LLMs? @matt-squire.bsky.social from Fuzzy Labs had a lot of really interesting stuff to say about this at Manchester Tech Festival,

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So you can actually order a giant wheel over the Internet: www.giantwheel.co.uk

There's one being built outside Manchester Town Hall right now!

Prompting ChatGPT with "do not compliment me on my questions and do not use emojis" as standard now

With Slack down this morning, there was a very real risk of getting some actual work done!

With Proxmox + Home Assistant and a few Zigbee things, I can now turn lamps on and off.

I mean, I could do that before too, but now it's *smart*.

Installing proxmox. It promises to be a window to a whole world of fun and / or pain.

I have a conspiracy theory that @soundcloud.dev classifies music into "normal" and "foreign", as it keeps drifing from Mandarin hip-hop to Latin American hip hop. They're both "not English", so it's the same, right?

Unnecessary blank lines in Notion documents upsets me to an irrational degree

Today is the day! It's your turn to play! Head over to Steam or Epic stores and show us how *you* make KOPI.

#indiegame #gamedev #KOPI #cozygame

There is also 'trilemma', which C.S.Lewis was quite fond of: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%2...

And perhaps more, with bonus mixing of Greek and Latin: www.daniellitt.com/blog/2016/10...

Seagulls actually sound like they're conspiring against us, and laughing about it

I have many questions about unicode, like why does is there a specific code point for a poodle emoji 🐩​?

(🐩​ is U+1F429 if you're curious; not to be confused with any of the following: 🐶​🐕​🦮​🐕‍🦺​)

My YouTube adverts are all for apps to learn English now

Trust the nose to sniff out a fun game: our play tester of honour Daisy gave a decisive 10/10.

#gamedev #playtest

The thing about Stable Diffusion is you run out of credits trying increasingly elaborate prompts to get what you actually want

Websites that make "sign up" the default action, and hide "log in" can get in the sea

I requested all of my historical medical records just for fun.

In one letter between two doctors, I'm described as a "pale, strange-looking child" 😂

Attempt to recreate some of the food we had in Tanzania. This is an ndengu (mung bean) curry.

Which birds return first in Spring? Migration is one of the wonders of the natural world. Here's your guide to what birds to expect when.

In further Spring unveiling, the RSPB have a bird arrivals board: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

Notice to flat-Earthers all around the globe: Please alert the authorities if tonight’s Total Lunar Eclipse looks like this:

Dear everybody, this symbol: "#" is not called "hashtag", it's just "hash"

There's algae in my glasses*. Photosynthesising creatures of the sea are seeing me see

(* actually an urban legend. The green stuff in my glasses is not algae, it's just oxidation).

It's frog time! I found a lot of frogspawn at Reddish Vale today. So ff any frogs are reading this, come to my place, I have a cool pond.

It's spring and the #newts are gathering. Here's a male and female smooth newt pair in the garden pond.

#spring #wildlife

A new toy for the lab...

As we're trying to make A that uses less energy, we need to actually measure how much power our hardware draws (right now, that's a Jetson Orin).

This tiny device measures voltage, current and energy over USB. It's even got an oscilloscope!

I miss the time when you'd search for a topic, and get to read blogs written by people who simply cared about that topic, without any commercial angle.

Now it feels like every blog is really just an advert for some company.

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Dreamt that I was in Germany, trying very hard to speak speak German, but all that came out was Mandarin.

Well, I don't speak any German, and apparently the Germans don't speak mandarin either.

My shift key holds for too long. I have to actively slow my typing down or it This looks like THis.

Good news for #python programmers, it's nearly the year of the snake!