Lynne Butler

@Octopusintell I met John Healey years ago in Rotherham - he was mum’s mp. I’m leaving it there - sorted it out myself in the end. I’m a bit of a scrappy bird 😏

These Russian underwater games have been going on for decades. No need for a John Healey national address to sound tough. Do you think we may be doing it to them too?

@Octopusintell How can someone be so wrong 😏 Mister you’ve never been stuck in an endless spiral of AI chat, desperately trying to rephrase a simple question. By the end I wanted to drive an ice pick through my skull to lessen the pain 😵‍💫

No need for you to be a life long learner now then.

@Octopusintell 100% but legal…

@Lynne_Butler63 It’s stealing

If people are paying that for a World Cup final football ticket then they are idiots. And they will end spending their time taking selfies.

@Octopusintell @TechLayoffLover Spill, you can trust me… can’t understand most stuff and by the end of the conversation, provided I’m 3 cocktails in, I’ll not remember anything anyway 🤷‍♀️

@TechLayoffLover Off-the-record…

Had drinks with 30 CTOs last night at an off-the-record gathering in Palo Alto Every single one showed me the same internal PowerPoint slide "2026 AI Headcount Targets: Path to 70% Cost Reduction" The numbers will make you physically sick Fintech CTO planning to cut 280-person engineering org down to 43 "AI orchestrators" by September. Same product roadmap. Same delivery expectations. Healthcare CTO already eliminated his entire manual QA department. 67 people. Replaced with 3 senior engineers running autonomous testing agents that ship code directly to production. SaaS CTO walked me through his "human depreciation timeline": 340 engineers today, 89 planned for 2027. Customer support going from 120 humans to 12 "escalation specialists" managing AI conversations. The most chilling part: they're all using the exact same consulting deck from McKinsey called "The 30% Organization" One CTO literally said "hiring humans for code is like hiring horses for transportation" Another showed me Slack screenshots where his L7s are asking if they should train their replacements The consensus was unanimous: if you can't manage 10 AI agents by Christmas, you're not making it to New Year's Every single one of them is planning to announce these cuts as "AI transformation success stories" While their stock options vest at record highs built on the backs of workers they're about to execute The future of engineering is 3 humans with 50 AI agents in a WeWork somewhere while 500 families lose their homes

Good point. Well presented

@Octopusintell Me, wrong? Sir, I may be mistaken but I’m never wrong 😉😬

AI is great. If it’s right. That’s why real insight comes from basing the work on talking to people. But of course, people can be wrong too.

@Octopusintell The thing is, if I have to question whether AI is correct/complete (probably not for most of my stuff, or it’s American which is not relevant to my work) then I may as well not bother with it. I know people who do but shouldn’t as it’s seen as an easy way to do things.

Snake oil salesmen with latest AI tool is not helping either.

@Lynne_Butler63 I know the feeling. I had one that claimed to do it a few years ago and promptly parked in to a metal fence.

It is amazing tech but that means there is still a chance of an accident. Just 10X less? Who's fault will that accident be?

@Octopusintell Saturday nights, post match, dad coming in from the club just in time for MOTD. Always brought home chocolate and crisps for me and mum. She’d pretend to be angry but a bar of fruit and nut sorted that out. Miss them both but that tune always brings back happy memories

@Lynne_Butler63 Been to the old Rotherham ground. A proper ground. It’s another crisp bowl now.

It is the worst thing to happen to football. Ruined it. Humans get things wrong. Bring back referees who can make their own decisions. Right or wrong. But they won’t as there’s to much money invested in drawing them off side lines. Keep goal line technology.

@Octopusintell Yes, but which Monday….

DFS have a sale on. Must end Monday

@Octopusintell I don’t think he wonders, I think stuff like that does not trouble him greatly. He’s not paid to be popular and he sure ain’t running in a popularity contest 🤷‍♀️

And you wonder why you are so unpopular?

@Octopusintell @Microsoft Either way you’re going to be disappointed 👍

Yet I can never sign on to my Teams as I get stuck in an authentication loop and with more chance of speaking with Donald Trump than @microsoft customer services.

Just like politics then Alastair.

@Octopusintell Unless you mean this sort of cuddle? I’m sure you remember these two…

If I was paying someone £140,000 a week for their talent I would hope they wouldn’t want a cuddle everytime they had done well. #NFFC

@Octopusintell Why would he do that 😵‍💫 pay me that much and I’ll settle for cuddles with my cats 😏

@Octopusintell Ridiculous isn’t it 🤨

Yeah. This sort of AI hype really helps.

@Octopusintell Can’t remember that far back 🤔

@Lynne_Butler63 I think it comes from lining up in the school playground.

Why do people park next to you in a half empty carpark? #importantquestions