@thomasforth It’s somewhat ironic that all the issues in the uk and depressed wages is making us competitive with developing nations for cheap tech hubs.
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Aaron Bonner
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Aaron Bonner
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England, United Kingdom Beigetreten Şubat 2009
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Counterpoint: you're talking bollocks.
Prosper UK@Prosper_UK_
Five years ago, the UK was the go-to destination for global tech talent outside the US. Today, we’re not. The reason is simple: other countries are making it easier to hire, easier to move, and more attractive to build a career. We’re falling behind. That has to change.
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@rcolvile Unfortunately it’s going to take the bond markets to enforce change as no party - not even reform - have the will (never mind the ability) to do it.
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Iran is a global shock. But it's shocked Britain the most:
- Biggest growth downgrade in G7
- Lowest per capita growth
- Joint highest inflation
- Highest borrowing costs
- Higher increase in borrowing costs after crisis hits
Why? Because we're not a grown-up country. (1/?)
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@haider1 Gpt 5.5 if they can nail tooling is going to change the landscape.
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opus 4.7 is a rushed release
gpt-5.4 is still outperforming opus 4.7 and now we are waiting for gpt-5.5 any day now
4.7 is good, but not as good as i expected after anthropic nerfed opus 4.6 -- and it is using about 1.3x more tokens while they quietly reduce the user usage limit
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@stevemagness There is less culture around athletics here - swimming suffers the same. Elite childhood talent gets ran into the ground literally and you attrit there. Anyone who survives though is world class but 100% you are missing a chunk should reach that threshold too. Aus does better.
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You know why America does well in track and field?
It keeps more talent in the pipeline for longer than other countries thanks to the high school and NCAA system.
Europe loses lots of talent in club based systems, especially post HS. They miss the late bloomers which US keeps.
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So mythos didn't come out because they couldn't afford it to. Not because it's mad clever opus 4.7 makes that clear. The free lunch is most certainly over.
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@hetmehtaa Peak 4.6 seems (maybe rose tinted glasses) better than… whatever this is.
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@gochaberulava Check out ccb github.com/bfly123/claude… I use codex as a reviewer Gemini is supported too but it’s … lol. For simpler changes I literally copy paste between windows but for context heavy sessions ccb is gold.
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yeah the inconsistency is the worst part. like you give it the same prompt twice and get completely diffrent quality output. the claude for planning + codex for execution combo is interesting tho, never thought about splitting it like that. do you use any specific structure for the handoff between them?
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Anthropic are burning their lead. Opus 4.7 so far doesn’t feel very good. Have been using codex for gpt 4.5 xhigh for the lion share of my workflows in the last two weeks since they lobotomised Claude and not sure what’s going to change with 4.7
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@GamewithDave First playing a pirate copy of StarCraft on kali. Loved it so much burned a year’s pocket money on the legit version (Australia 90s pc games were expensive!)
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@gochaberulava Claude has gotten far too random. One minute savant next minute dumb as rocks. I was feeding its plans to codex so much and catching so much I ended up just doing the execute phase in codex. Claude still overall better but isn’t deterministic enough.
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@ajbonner interesting take. we use claude code heavily for building and its still the best for us when you give it good context files and project structure. but i agree the competition is heating up fast, codex is getting scary good. the model wars benefit all of us builders tho
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It's truly space age technology that we can make something worse and then increment a number and re-release it the public.
Claude@claudeai
Introducing Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable Opus model yet. It handles long-running tasks with more rigor, follows instructions more precisely, and verifies its own outputs before reporting back. You can hand off your hardest work with less supervision.
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@wallaceme I think in F1 his legacy of safety is a very strong one and it was deeply unpopular and tough to get through. But for the long term good. A *lot* of collateral damage along the way.
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@ajbonner Confess I was very much not a fan of MM, on the things he campaigned for - I never met him personally.
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Traditional Corbynite hobby of finding out that stuff that goes down well with audiences who agree with you doesn’t go so well with someone who knows about the topic.
BBC Politics@BBCPolitics
Louis Mosley, head of UK and Europe at Palantir Technologies, is challenged on #PoliticsLive by Faiza Shaheen of Tax Justice UK over the company’s contract with the NHS and its use of patient data bbc.in/48sNXUY
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@wallaceme Damn there you go. Max had a towering intellect. So not a surprise to see Louis similarly gifted as it seems.
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@RosenvoldGeo This is a good take. Though worst case scenario was a nuclear Iran.
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Regardless of how this ends, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz will never again be the feared worst-case scenario it has been for decades.
It will now be better understood, codified, and largely mitigated. By forcing the worst case into reality, the actors involved have been compelled to solve it.
Long-term, that reduces the geopolitical risk premium for the region and energy markets.
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@TeeDevh 1x20 codex 1x100 Claude. Use codex to stop Claude being dumb when they quantize under load.
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@AvonandsomerRob Two large pizzas from a pizza chain. 50£. Balked. We’re doing m&s or the local Italian. At least that’s a small biz.
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Is the price of takeaways making you change the items you order, or how often you enjoy a take out?
I paid £21 for sausage and chips for 2 last week, and I'm still in a state of shock.
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@DanielKorski Russian response would be asymmetric and I’m not sure we in Europe have the stomach for it. They wouldn’t need to do much - a few bits of infrastructure just the threat of more would make life very expensive and low cost to Russia but high reward if it deters Europe in UKR.
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If the US withdraws from NATO I think the best move by the Europeans would be a pro-active one: immediately ship long-range strike capability to Ukraine, create, operate a no fly zone etc.
Don’t let Russia take the initiative. Europe should take it. The US will follow if necessary.
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@tsv3y3 I don’t get it. I ran 800/1500 you can’t change your lane from behind clip the leader and get to win. Even if accidental. Hull though needs to learn from it she didn’t need to cover the inside lane in that race she was basically home.
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🤡 show
Australian Athletics@AustralianAths
Australian champion 🏆 Claudia Hollingsworth has been reinstated as the winner of the 1500m at the Australian Athletics Championships after an appeals process by Australian Athletics. The panel found after viewing all the available footage and interviewing concerned parties Hollingsworth’s appeal was upheld. A request for a rerun of the 1500m is not feasible at these championships, but the Australian Athletics High Performance Department and Selection Committee will review its status as a selection race. #AthleticsNation
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@housecor Same thing that happened to people who wrote assembly language. Prompting is programming at a higher level of abstraction.
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Sure, but what happens to developers when you don’t need to be able to read or write code to solve software problems?
Fernando@Franc0Fernand0
Software engineers don't get paid to write code; they get paid to solve problems. The faster you realize this, the sooner you'll stop being afraid that AI will replace you and the better your career will be.
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