Piers C. Structures (@pcstru.bsky.social)

A clock, wot I did design&make, mostly wooden. Grasshopper escapement, 1m pendulum. A bit dusty, cos it's a bit of a bugger to dust.

@samueljmcd That is GPT5.5 - after iterating with cursor, I suggested A picture paints 1000 words. Now that feeds into Cursor and iterate. The output of that is a little less refined but not bad IMO. The bottleneck is real time test - only so fast you can validate the "real time" stuff.

@pcstru Sick dashboard !!

What do you actually use AI agents to do for you?

@Tech_girlll Sorry, no. Can be found second hand and with a physical copy, the wear from use is a map of your personal journey. Invest in that journey. (You could probably ask a model for the headings, then drill down from that and ground to search).

@pcstru Do you have any copies I can download?

Be honest does it really matter how many programming languages you know, or is depth all that counts?

@samueljmcd It is ... oddly satisfying just to see stuff come together. Backend models for this are all hosted locally. Build is me, cursor on code and GPT 5.5 via chat. I can't eval the functionality as fast as they can produce it.

@pcstru 😂😂

@araseb_ Right. It is cool to reinvent, expand, explore. That is the need and that is what is satisfied. Not about looking cool but the experience of it. A sort of Kantian reach.

@pcstru Birth of the cool wasn’t a slogan, it was a reinvention of sound

vibe coders, be honest: are you building something people need or something you thought was cool?

@bendee983 Experience and knowledge is expressed in language (books about code) and code - all text. What is the feature set that cannot be extracted for .... 'prediction'?

I don’t buy the argument that AI coding will continue to improve to the point that you will never need to write or review code again and everything will be written by an LLM. Engineers with deep coding experience have a different mindset than pure vibe-coders who have never written a line of code in their life. They can express and structure their thoughts and intents in ways that get the best results from AI coding agents. And that experience and knowledge comes from hands-on coding, not looking at an LLM churn out code and just say LGTM.

@sudobunni All technology is a bit rubbish. The real miracle is any of it works at all.

computers were better when they were "worse"

@sandislonjsak Why do you think AI services sometimes use search?

Why can’t we get an AI that sometimes says: “I really don’t know”

@VincentRowlatt The ones who would leave if asked to pay a bit more tax.

Soon, we'll have spent so much money on defence that the only thing left to defend will be the wealthy and their economy... Oh...

@samueljmcd "Unexpected Use Case in the bagging area"

@samueljmcd Several are listening to Gob Radio LBC 24/7, providing transcription, categorisation, evolving context summary and snarky asides. Just need to plug in something like Patter with Twilio and see if I can get one on air.

@sri9s I'm a geek, I have been waiting for this for 50+ years and I'm damn well going to enjoy exploring it, making some of the Sci-Fi things I dreamt of and using it to remove things that blocked my progress on projects in the past.

Why are people so obsessed with AI

@Andy_AJT The "what do you want" part and the other end, "does the product meet those needs".

I’m wondering, is there any part of software engineering that there is no way ai could ever do?

@AIandDesign The analysts, developers, testers were always running around inside the SE Chinese Room, with the product manager on the outside, sending in the prompts, neither side ever really understanding the other but nerveless from time to time, producing little miracles.

What a lot of folks don’t understand is that it is not and never was about the act of writing code. The skill is “software engineering”.

@nicbarkeragain I used to have dreams in code. C++ was ordinary nightmare territory, an Assembly (PIC Microschip, usually 16F84's) dream took over where that left off. Let me always dream in Pascal.

The entire idea of AI code generation is based on the assumption that a "prompt" can express your technical intention. But as soon as you start to get good at programming you stop thinking about it in english and instead switch to some abstract mental representation.

@BarbaraSutton15 @GMB @GBNEWS Funny how like a synchronised dance troupe, our journalists pivot from "How can we possibly afford that" for any public spending that benefits people to, "more taxes for bombs please", citing military bods who will only ever want more.

Thst right wing Army Vet on @GMB I didn’t catch his name-no regard for those needing welfare warfare is more important-neither Singh nor Garraway challenged him-none of them mentioned how many ex army vet’s need welfare desperately-when did @GMB become an offshoot of @GBNEWS

@codevsdev I'd start with code that works. No one is going to be maintaining anything if it doesn't do the business.

the real flex isn’t writing code. it’s writing maintainable code. yes or no?

The whole world is celebrating the World Cup while Israeli occupation forces are attacking Gaza.. This is for this night’s Israeli attacks in Gaza

🚨🇬🇧 A man in Bolton allegedly tried to burn down the home of a local Imam while his young family were inside. Not shouted abuse. Not a nasty tweet. Not “concerns about immigration.” A man in a motorbike helmet tried to set fire to a Muslim family’s home with children inside. And this is exactly why Tommy Robinson’s rhetoric is so dangerous. When you tell angry crowds that Britain’s towns are being taken over by “Pakistani Muslims,” “race gangs,” and hostile minorities; when you take a murder with no Muslim connection and deliberately drag Muslims into it; when you tell people they are under attack in their own country - you are not “just asking questions.” You are painting a target on innocent people. Tommy Robinson does not need to personally hand someone a petrol can for his rhetoric to matter. This is how incitement works in the real world. You create the enemy. You repeat the lie. You tell people they are victims of a conspiracy. Then some coward in a helmet decides an Imam’s family home is a legitimate target. That is not patriotism. That is fascist politics: collective punishment, racial paranoia, religious hatred, and violence against innocent families for the supposed crimes of people they have never met. If this Bolton attack is confirmed, it should be treated with the full seriousness it deserves: an alleged attempt to burn a Muslim family alive in their own home. And every politician, pundit and “free speech” grifter who has spent years demonising Muslims should be asked one simple question: How many more homes have to burn before you admit what your words are doing?