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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Burnham made Farage seem “angry, thin-skinned… absurd. What we witnessed today was a masterclass in political communication which makes Farage look like an amateur” Finally. The confidence that comes with emotional intelligence. It could make all the difference. iandunt.substack.com/p/burnham-sp...

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Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment

It’s easy to be cynical, but it would be false. Something extraordinary is happening here.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 29/09/2026

Dear Americans. To be taken seriously in the UK you have to say maths and Lego, not math and Legos. Yes, we're that petty - it makes us happy 😉

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from?

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 29/09/2026

The agentic loop motto: If at first you don't succeed, try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try again

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 28/09/2026

Funny how the markings on the cat changed over the two years and the house grew an extra bit of wall to the right of the fire place - and that's just for starters. Blocked.

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Dragan Stepanović @dstepanovic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you think the effects of dissolving the team's mental model of the system, by removing humans (authors and reviewers) from the path to production, will show up soon enough to reverse course safely, I have news for you.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 27/09/2026

There's a question I keep asking and so far no-one's answered it. If AI wrote the test and you didn't review it, how do you know it's testing the right thing? Without an answer to that question, all your software factory hype is exactly that. Hype.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 25/09/2026

Amidst all the noise around AI, it appears the previous thing everyone got excited about is having another go. Meta have announced their new VR goggles. However, there are still those pesky seven hurdles to overcome before VR has a chance of going mainstream

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Meta VR Glasses hands-on: Hand and eye tracking is so much better than a controller - Engadget | Jon Ayre

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 23/09/2026

For 8 years we've been told that the UK is lagging behind other countries in productivity. Turns out we never were. The ONS was just doing the maths wrong. 8 years of people investing real effort into fixing a problem that never existed

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 17/09/2026

I'm going to write a blog post about an idea I've had, but right now I'm on holiday so it'll have to wait. The concept is this: intelligence is difficult to define but easy to detect. Intelligence reverses entropy.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 13/09/2026

I love the Asimov robot stories. TBH I pretty much grew up on them, but anyone who thinks the three laws are in any way implementable needs to try coming up with an unambiguous definition for "harm". Even Asimov made this point in his later stories.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The theory's almost complete. Set your bar for shippable code to even just one-9's reliability, and the human has to stay very much in the loop. Set it to two 9's, and the human *is* the loop. codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/09/12/o...

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Out-Of-Distribution Checks – How Human Intelligence Stabilises Agentic Workflows

Back to my “Special Theory of Autonomous Agent Reliability” (STAAR). The reliability of a step (a model interaction) in an agentic workflow: R = 1 – (1 – C)(1 – P) Whe…

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 13/09/2026

"AI went rogue". Nope. Hiding behind the machine was ways going to be the strategy:

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 13/09/2026

"AI will kill us all!"

Sarah Connor from the Terminator films looks into the distance. Underneath are the words "there's a storm coming" but storm has been crossed out and replaced with IPO.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 13/09/2026

You know what would be really funny? If they still lost, even with the £72m and all they did was alert the taxman to the much larger crypto gains they converted to fiat currency.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 13/09/2026

A post in which developers compare their own code with that of AI & find AI writes better code than them. "Look how bad my old code is" they declare. It's fine to compare, but don't assume what you find applies to others. Maybe the AI is great at coding? Maybe you're bad at it? Either could be true.

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A thread in which developers compare their own code with that of AI and conclude AI writes better code than them. "Look how bad my old code was" they declare. It's fine to compare, but d...

A thread in which developers compare their own code with that of AI and conclude AI writes better code than them. "Look how bad my old code was" they declare. It's fine to compare, but don't assume th...

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 12/09/2026

I see they're still trying to make atproto a thing...

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 09/09/2026

Maybe people aren't resigning from OpenAI and Anthropic because they foresee some mythical AGI doom scenario. Maybe they're resigning because they're finding the working environment miserable, chaotic and souless.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Presumably any system that does something other than showing you just the people you have chosen to follow in chronological order. Anything that does something different should be classed as publishing and the publisher should be fully legally liable for all content.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 06/09/2026

As the internet tradition demands: "Banana for scale" (Love a good house spider - what should I name her?)

A photo of a house spider with a banana half next to it for scale. The house spider is about a third the length of the banana.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just moving billions of dollars in gold out of north America to London due to generalised ‘geopolitical unrest’. Carry on - nothing to see here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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DNB: Netherlands bank moves billions in gold to London in 'crisis preparedness' move

The Dutch central bank removes some of its gold reserves from the US and Canada, saying it is because of "increasing geopolitical unrest".

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Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la · 31/08/2026

i’m giving bsky a chance again. maybe it’s my own fault that i followed a bunch of folks that mainly only post about Serious Thinking Thoughts so im gonna unfollow everyone and start over, equally prioritizing serious things and unserious things.

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Ann Kempster @annkempster.com · 29/08/2026

Absolute masterclass in how NOT to write about AI. ITS NOT HUMAN YOU CAN’T ATTRIBUTE HUMAN MOTIVATIONS AND EMOTIONS TO CODE.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 27/08/2026

The irony of those who rightfully criticise the untrustworthy nature of AI writing, but then trust the same AI to "detect" AI writing. AI detectors are little more than magic eight balls, and if you judge a person or make important decisions based on their outputs, you're an irresponsible fool.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 26/08/2026

The reason workplaces aren't neuro-inclusive is because the people in them don't want to share their spaces with people who are different. The job of creating inclusive spaces is that of changing people, & people are notoriously difficult to change. Most of the apparent change is surface level only.

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The reason workplaces aren't neuro-inclusive is because the people in those workplaces don't want to share their spaces with people who are different to them. The job of creating inclusive spa...

The reason workplaces aren't neuro-inclusive is because the people in those workplaces don't want to share their spaces with people who are different to them. The job of creating inclusive spaces of a...

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 23/08/2026

Saw an AI bro on LinkedIn claiming compilers weren't deterministic in the early days because "they made mistakes too". Do these guys even know what words mean?

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 22/08/2026

I blocked someone today who I happen to agree with because he was an offensive arse to someone I disagree with. Blocking is not for opinions IMO. It's for attitude.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 21/08/2026

And so it came to pass that the infamous infinite number of monkeys was created, but instead of producing the complete works of Shakespeare, they just shredded them.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 18/08/2026

I am on the "non-stop" train from Warrington to London. Reader, I can assure you it is very much "stop".

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My London client is looking for a snr software engineer with XP experience on the JVM - Kotlin preferred, not essential. £90K-£120K. Hybrid 2 days/week on site. Not a bank. Not a blockchain something. Established start-up with actual customers like in the old days. OSS tools that developers use.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 14/08/2026

Let's watch the collective media wash their hands of this one. Just like all the previous times.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 07/08/2026

Absolutely agree with this thread. We gave a machine the entire corpus of human writing and it still couldn't write for shit. Should've seen that one coming tbh. Hopefully it'll be like dancing baloney on websites during the dot com era. A naff trend that quickly becomes cringe and dies out.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 04/08/2026

I've never caught an Uber and I never will. They've been obviously suss since they day they started. The millennial enthusiasm for all things digital misled a lot of otherwise ethically minded people.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 03/08/2026

"One specific group of people" He means normal people, doesn't he? Are we going to need a new Bluesky?

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 03/08/2026

I'm watching the Panorama on Britain's Strictest School and there's a name for what they're doing. Psychological abuse. It has nothing to do with good education and everything to do with coercive control. They're training children to accept abuse.

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