Chris Sparshott

Some ideas on how you could turn boring businesses into your very own business. Obviously there's much more you could do on top of this!

@Shpigford @RumoredAI Over time it will be interesting to see how AI generated code generates such UI, and whether it uses syntactically correct markup to improve the ability for bot/AI usage, improving accessibility and AI SEO? There's still many sites built using old-skool tables!

@seemly @RumoredAI oh we're finding LLMs are actually *bad* at reading this stuff. that's what i'm saying. they frequently get these things wrong BECAUSE they can't read them based on pure text/code extraction.

something i'm noticing as we build reports with @RumoredAI is that AI finds it very problematic to have these types of pricing tables. your average human can obviously look at this and see the visual difference of what's included in your plans. however, what AI bots generally see is a plain-text version of this. so the interpretation becomes that all 3 of these plans have all of these features.

@Shpigford @RumoredAI Interesting! I wonder if that means LLM's use screenshot OCR (or similar) to extract context, rather than the HTML source, as you often get better context from what is visualised rather than what is found in the markup.

@seemly @RumoredAI they can read the data just fine. but "the data" in this case just looks like this... there's no representation in data that something is/isn't included as they're relying exclusively on text styling to differentiate.

21 days left to use your ISA allowance. £20,000 per year. Tax-free growth, tax-free withdrawals. If you don't use it by 5th April, it's gone. The allowance doesn't roll over. Worth 10 minutes of your time to check if you've maxed it out.

No no no. You don’t get it. You pay $25 to have the same tool you had write the code to find the issues.

In 2021, after 6 years of shopping at my local Sainsbury’s and tracking where I parked each time on a spreadsheet, I completed all 211 parking spots the store had to offer. In 2024 I moved to a new town - and guess what I’ve been busy doing since :) A thread 🧵

The McDonald's CEO throws ideas directly from Gemini to the menu team to see what they come up with. This guy is paid ~$20m p/a. Proof that AI can (and should) replace profit drain CEO's, and distribute that to lower paid staff.

🦔 Meta contractors in Kenya told Swedish newspapers they're being asked to review intimate footage from Ray-Ban AI glasses, including people undressing, using the bathroom, watching porn, and filming sex. One contractor said users often don't realize they're still recording when they set the glasses down. Meta sold 7 million pairs in 2025, up from 2 million in 2023-2024 combined. Users can't use the AI features without agreeing to share data with Meta's servers, and the terms of service bury the fact that humans may manually review your footage. One annotator said "if they knew about the extent of the data collection, no one would dare to use the glasses." My Take This is the Google Home story again but worse. At least with cameras in your house, you know where they are. These are glasses you wear on your face that keep recording when you take them off and set them on your nightstand. And the footage goes to contractors overseas who are paid to watch and label it for AI training. One worker described seeing a man leave the room, then his wife come in and change clothes. People forget the camera is still on. Meta buries all of this in terms of service nobody reads. The product is marketed as a cool way to capture your life and interact with AI. The reality is strangers in Kenya watching you undress so they can annotate the footage to make Zuckerberg's AI better. Seven million people bought these last year. I'd bet almost none of them understood what they were actually agreeing to. Hedgie🤗

@WholesomeMeme I believe that specific type of dog is what is referred to as a "big dog". I hope that helps.

@Shpigford @conductor_build break free?

sat down at my computer this morning and this was on the screen in @conductor_build from when i was working last night. what did i want?!?! WHAT DID I WANT?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!

@Shpigford @jackmcdade The audio isn't working, and neither are the subtitles. What is she saying?

This image really bothers me. You're welcome.

I hope John Davidson is doing OK. Must be tough going to an event, and the entire audience of hundreds of the world's most famous people are warned about your presence. Everybody claps in understanding of the warning about you, and you feel maybe it is all going to be ok. The film about you, aiming to help people understand your condition, wins an award. And then, as everyone has been warned, your behaviour causes huge offence. You feel it is so bad that you leave the event early. You wake the following morning to find you have become the main character of the day. The BBC apologise for not censoring you. BAFTA says they will attempt to learn from what happened. All of this, from an event in last celebrating a film that was supposed to foster understanding of your condition. Hopefully, overall, the news helps people to understand. Hopefully everyone becomes a bit more tolerant. Perhaps, in an odd way, this becomes a sort of peak event in John's campaigning. It must be very high pressure being in the middle of it all though.

@kenwheeler "I find it quite silly to me". High caliber mogging.

i bet mogging of this caliber isn’t even legal in the united kingdom

@paulund This guy keeps talking about hard work - how many times has he been seen in his constituency? I think he needs to work from his (home) constituency more...

Working in the office is not more"productive" whatever he means by productive. Businesses can save on office space, reducing business cost. Depending on location that can be a very large savings. It lowers absences with employees. If I'm sick but well enough to work, is it better to stay at home or come to the office and risk more people getting sick? Employees with more time flexibility will see lower turnover. Larger talent pool, why should business limit themselves to people who live close to the office. It's 2026 it doesn't matter where people live if they're the best person for the job every business should want to hire them. Working from home allows for more focus time. If I don't want to be disturbed I just turn off chat. In the office you have 100 people who can interrupt you every 5 minutes. As a knowledge worker focus time is very important. With AI becoming more and more involved in our work it the amount of time I spend on a task matters less and less. It's outcome based. Whether I work that day is not dependent on if there's an accident on the motorway or train delays. People are productive at different times of the day. I'm most productive in the morning. Why should I spend my most productive time stuck in traffic. Some people are more productive in the evening, let them work late. People aren't the same. In the office is best for planning meetings. That's it. After we've planned leave me alone and let me do my job.

@JackEllis Don't worry about it, Dave. He who dares wins!

"most strongest" - I've been watching too much Only Fools and Horses, my British crew will understand, what an insane bleed into my brain.

Claude Code vs Cursor: I ran the exact same prompt on both. Cursor responded in under 10 seconds, while Claude Code was still running after 4 minutes. I wish someone would do a proper comparison of these tools, because I’m confident that Cursor is so much better.

@MAGAPhil1776 I thought MAGA loved freedom of speech? You should love and support such freedom of expression—whether you like what's being said or not. Otherwise you should probably start questioning other aspects of your "beliefs".

Retarded 🇳🇴 Norwegian Influencer Christina Fraas wore this retarded outfit to Norways biggest retarded Influencer awards.

@rcoll1_brisbane @oliverc85 @kenwheeler "flexed considerable muscle over China and Russia" Nothing you say from this point can ever be taken seriously again. That's fucking hilarious! 😂🤣

@oliverc85 @kenwheeler In the past year, America de-escalated tensions between India and Pakistan, and by capturing Madura flexed considerable muscle over China and Russia. I'd say the world is safer than it was 12 months ago, even by a few seconds. The clock is theatrics mixed with nihilism.

@thatmarkperkins As for the defectors, do they think that people will "forget" that they were the people that lead the destruction of our country over 14 years? Why would Reform, Farage, or even the UK want to vote that in again? There's a reason the Conservatives were destroyed in the last GE

@thatmarkperkins Yeah, I'm struggling to see the logic of Reform as a party. I thought their whole point was to drive change? How do you do that when the majority of your party are the very same people that destroyed the country over 14 years?

Am I not missing something? Given the recent high-level defections of former Tory cabinet ministers weren't they the ones who fucked up in government and we should be avoiding?

@danbarker "Eat in or takeaway?" "Do you want any sauces with that?"

Just bought a pack of ibuprofen and a pack of paracetamol and the lady said 'bon appetit'