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@robindch.bsky.social
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In alpha order, C++ developer in payment systems' certification, frequent flyer (former), guardian of apostrophes, hiker, Kerryman, LLM-hater, organist, sailor.

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ʀᴏʙɪɴ ᴅᴄʜ @robindch.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
All that needs to be said about LLM-based content generation is said here:
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ʀᴏʙɪɴ ᴅᴄʜ @robindch.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Best summarised as:
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ʀᴏʙɪɴ ᴅᴄʜ @robindch.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
All you need to know about “AI”:
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ʀᴏʙɪɴ ᴅᴄʜ @robindch.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Best put as follows:
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ʀᴏʙɪɴ ᴅᴄʜ @robindch.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Your regular reminder that what’s referred to as “AI“ is actually just software carefully tuned to generate endless reams of plausible prose.
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ʀᴏʙɪɴ ᴅᴄʜ @robindch.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Software engineer checking in here. LLM’s are designed to produce grammatical text and tuned to produce plausibility. Never trusted them, never will - just like cryptocurrencies. Best commentary on their user base is this:
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ʀᴏʙɪɴ ᴅᴄʜ @robindch.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Gemini, like all LLM’s, is a statistically-backed text generator and, despite its plausible output, is entirely incapable of analyzing itself. Best comment on LLM’s I’ve seen is the following:
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ʀᴏʙɪɴ ᴅᴄʜ @robindch.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-poli...
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ʀᴏʙɪɴ ᴅᴄʜ @robindch.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
ISO 8601 is your friend.
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ʀᴏʙɪɴ ᴅᴄʜ @robindch.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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ʀᴏʙɪɴ ᴅᴄʜ @robindch.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Ewww, you’re still there? I‘m gone two years and still wish I’d gone earlier. x.com/robindch/sta...
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ʀᴏʙɪɴ ᴅᴄʜ @robindch.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
She attended Mr Carmody, we believe, eight times over eight months and his injections left her either in near-paralysed lows and concomitant pain and denial or in weird, blue-bottle-like highs. People, don’t go to quacks. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
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ʀᴏʙɪɴ ᴅᴄʜ @robindch.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
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ʀᴏʙɪɴ ᴅᴄʜ @robindch.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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ʀᴏʙɪɴ ᴅᴄʜ @robindch.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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ʀᴏʙɪɴ ᴅᴄʜ @robindch.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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ʀᴏʙɪɴ ᴅᴄʜ @robindch.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
“It was a meeting between a man without a suit and a suit without a man.”
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ʀᴏʙɪɴ ᴅᴄʜ @robindch.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Happy birthday and please say hello to Dixie who is a very good doggie indeed and looks here like she is backing an AC/DC song while parked in a supermarket carpark but was actually yawning.
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ʀᴏʙɪɴ ᴅᴄʜ @robindch.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Far more likely he’s worried about crowd size: www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
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ʀᴏʙɪɴ ᴅᴄʜ @robindch.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I’ll have you know that, years back, I did a crispy taste test - Irish vs UK - and in the incomplete set I had, Irish crisps won hands down! Tayto abú!
Packet of Irish Tayto crisps.
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ʀᴏʙɪɴ ᴅᴄʜ @robindch.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Some of his music criticism is really funny, like, “laugh-out-loud” funny. Here’s his best stuff - the middle three books:
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ʀᴏʙɪɴ ᴅᴄʜ @robindch.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Not the only one.
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ʀᴏʙɪɴ ᴅᴄʜ @robindch.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Similarly here.
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ʀᴏʙɪɴ ᴅᴄʜ @robindch.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Nothing wrong with a lady doggie being called Dixie - let me present to the world, Mme Dixie the Dachshund!
Image of Dixie, a 10yo long-haired, miniature Dachshund.
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ʀᴏʙɪɴ ᴅᴄʜ @robindch.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
From a cafe just off Jemaa el-fnaa in central Marrakesh, just a few minutes ago, I present you with this supportive avocado on toasted sourdough with grilled vegetables - which has gone the way of all good food.
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ʀᴏʙɪɴ ᴅᴄʜ @robindch.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
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