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I told it to write everything from scratch.

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This was a game I developed over several weeks and hundreds of prompts in early 2025 using the best AI models available then. But they couldn't cope with the complexity of making it fast on antique hardware. Along comes Opus 5.5, and fixes everything up in 5 prompts and a couple of hours! Progress.

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Opus 5.5 AI is astonishing. Look at the 3D racing game it helped me build. Then consider that it's running on a 2014-vintage Nvidia GT 720 graphics card with just 1GB of VRAM... [Sorry for intermittent sound glitches in video. Something weird is going on with my capture app.]

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Why? He doesn't have another soapbox this tall for another 12 months. It smacks very clearly of wasted opportunity.

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A consensus position pleases nobody yet provides infinite ammo to the RW press and to Reform/Restore.

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Burnham's weak sauce stance on Brexit today was enough to send the right wing media into a rabid frenzy, but far too non-committal to move the needle for Rejoin enthusiasts. Takes a special kind of genius to triangulate that badly. Obviously a trait he inherited from Starmer.

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He is more likely to win by putting Rejoin on the table.

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Foolish. The next GE could come earlier if he starts turning the electorate around quicker. And an early GE would push off the Farage threat into the 2030s.

Why? Why not have everyone on the same playing field?

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Burnham punted on Brexit. He had the opportunity to say something substantive while the Labour conference spotlight was on him, but instead he shoved the issue off into a nebulous future the other side of the UK/EU summit. Poor. Very poor.

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How do you pay for it? Fiddle with higher tax bands a bit.

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The personal allowance limit should rise at least in line with the basic state pension, but for everyone rather than just for pensioners. That way, young people won't get the sense that they're being asked to shoulder the burden of an ever more expensive older generation with nothing for them.

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Jev AI was launched on 15 September. There are already several books about it on Amazon. Any good? No idea. That's not the point, though it would be nice if they were. But it shows that self publishing opportunities abound for the swift and the proactive.

That was my sense too. There's a horrible "good old days" vibe to it that takes no account of global realities.

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Well, as someone who uses multiple paid AI tools every day, all I can say is that they are improving VERY fast. That's not to say they will ever achieve what we consider intelligence, or go on to exterminate us, but the trend is A) undeniable and B) currently accelerating rather than slowing

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They're not necessarily wrong. But it's survivor bias. We can talk about it because it hasn't happened... yet. If it does, then by definition we'd be dead too.

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The Chancellor is set to promise a "new age of industrialisation" in a speech later today. I'm not sure that "industrialisation" is something that many people favour in this day and age. Certainly doesn't feel like a net vote winner.

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Possibly. But it's more likely that we will see a dominant half dozen or so firms. Most leading AI companies seem to be able to leapfrog each other in terms of capabilities, at least right now. And that drives average top AI model quality sky high.

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Only because of artificial barriers preventing US consumers from buying superb Chinese EV cheaply.

Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 27/09/2026

Air gaps and sandboxes are not the same thing. A sandbox is a restrictive environment set up around an AI with the specific intent of boxing it in. An air gap is disconnecting the machine containing the AI from every single network. AI breakouts involve flawed sandboxes, not air gaps.

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"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." AI is the lever and the fulcrum. Wield them. Move the world. Dream a dream. Another. And another. Then make them real. The only thing standing in your way is you.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 24/09/2026

Hung parliament. Labour as largest party, but forced to rely on the LibDems and Greens to govern. If today's mega poll played out in a GE election, that would be a fantastic outcome. There would be immense pressure to reverse Brexit and bring in PR.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 23/09/2026

If you're not following the latest AI developments, both OpenAI and Anthropic released new models in the last 24H that are much cheaper and better than their existing ones. Anthropic's Opus 5.5 in particular is a dream when it comes to programming graphical scenes from scratch. Absolutely amazing.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 21/09/2026

I don't understand why the LibDems aren't calling their conference the "Rejoin the EU" conference, and plastering the slogan on everything. It seems an incredible open goal to keep strolling past.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 19/09/2026

Perhaps all the services supplied by a modern state should be removed from Piddlington to give a real sense of what independence from the UK would mean in practice. Wouldn't have to be for long. A couple of weeks should be sufficient for the penny to drop, even for the most stubborn.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 16/09/2026

Canada ending up with a better relationship with the EU than the UK enjoys is so 2026.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 15/09/2026

It would be healthy for UK politics to put strict limits on political donations. It would also be good to break the ties between Labour and the unions. If union members want to support Labour, make it very easy... but not automatic like it is now. Level playing field all round.

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So much for the US government stepping in to regulate AI. Trump has turned AI supremacy into a penis-measuring contest. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

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It was pretty good. And the 5-star hotel down the road was very comfortable.

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Politics is becoming more and more tribal all the time. For some, harming opponents is at least as desirable as furthering the interests of their own team. That applies even to clearly net-negative policies. Naked glee at the thought of their opponents screaming sustains them.

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Which would be a greater psychological shock? A) Unthinking AI outperform humans in all intellectual disciplines B) AI are proven to be able to think

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Nothing succeeds like success. And in a world that seems to thrive on conspiracy theories, anything that worked out better than predicted is seen as fair game for the tinfoil hat brigade.

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Indeed. I was in the server room on NYE at midnight.

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Yes, I lead the Y2K remediation work at the organisation I was working for at the time, and there was plenty to do. Took several years to get it done, and done right.

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It would be fantastic if we could channel that same rare spirit of shared endeavour into keeping AI progress safe.

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Y2K was real. And fixed for $600 billion. The remedial work of millions of people around the world was so good that Y2K is falsely held up as an example of extreme scaremongering. Instead, it should be celebrated as one of the best ever examples of successful project execution.

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I was in the office at midnight watching the servers. At 1am, having got the final green light from head office, I was allowed to go to the hotel they'd booked for me down the road. Weirdest NY ever.

We spent over 2 years on Y2K remediation when I was IT manager. It was very real.

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You're out by a factor of 10. It's £72 million between them.

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Labour flubbed the chance to cap political donations and now Reform are sitting on a fresh £72 million war chest from two mega donors. Idiots.

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