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Cody

@cody.chaos.net.nz
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Kiwi. Staff software engineer. Early 40s. He/him.

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Cody @cody.chaos.net.nz · 06/10/2026
I'm not criticizing the person in this post, but occasionally I'm reminded of the gap between software engineers working with frontier models ("Luna 6 is so cheap but I bet Opus 5.5 will handle this with less hand holding...") and normal people (correctly!) convinced Copilot and Gemini are terrible.
I checked DeepL and Copilot, and they seemed closer to what I was getting when I translated it manually. I'm not sure how they differ exactly, but I've found Gemini to be one of the worst Al systems in general regardless of task when I was forced to use the tech at all.
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Cody @cody.chaos.net.nz · 05/10/2026
I wonder if Google AI search results are still a horrifying nightmare? ...Oh. Oh no. 💀 (Result obtained personally within the last 10m and not edited in any way.)
Al Overview

Squints eyes innocently and tilts head sideways.

Whimpers softly.

Sniffs the edge of the living room rug because it feels like nice, soft grass.

Squats and lets out a tiny, warm puddle while maintaining intense, unblinking eye contact with you.

Sneezes, wags a stubby tail, and looks at you as if to say: "Why are you yelling?/ am a master decorator and this rug needed warm water."
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Cody @cody.chaos.net.nz · 05/10/2026
I wanted to check it was really returning results that horrible. Took a couple of tries but eventually it spat back this. Words fail me. What is going *on* over there?
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Cody @cody.chaos.net.nz · 08/09/2026
What an interesting pair of posts to see back to back in my feed.
Person 1: Tech people stop pretending you're tech skills give you some special insight into fields you know nothing about challange.

Difficulty level: impossible.

Person 2:  I see we're at the "non-devs are telling devs how building software works" stage of The Discourse
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Cody @cody.chaos.net.nz · 23/08/2026
People post the wildest, most easily disproven things. I'm sure that sentiment makes them feel better, and shouting out even more so but (importantly) it's not *true*. Ironic since apparently incorrect unsourced claims are something they care about.
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Cody @cody.chaos.net.nz · 01/02/2025
Or as one of my favourite memes has it...
A picture of Garfield over the text You Are Not Immune To Propaganda.
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