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Andrew Shepherd @shepherdsworld.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I'm at the Norwegian Development Conference at Sydney. Counting how many times I want to yell "Bullshit!" at an AI-related claim. Ten minutes into the keynote, I'm at three.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Talking of the collapse of our technological civilisation...

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Andrew Shepherd @shepherdsworld.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

"safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be possible via coordination with Iran’s Armed Forces and with due consideration of technical limitations.” Weasle words if I've ever heard them.

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Andrew Shepherd @shepherdsworld.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Tried to watch Trump talk. I just couldn't keep watching it. One blatant obvious lie after another.

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

One surreal thing about the war is that Bibi, Trump, and Khamenei are all completely untrustworthy. I feel like there's a source material I don't get to read, and all I have access to is three competing fanfics - each written by writers who don't fucking understand that this is a tragedy.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

If you don't want GitHub Copilot trained on your code, you've been automatically opted in. You have until April 24th to opt out.

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Andrew Shepherd @shepherdsworld.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

When I get to the end of a non-fiction book I feel the need to post it on social media. Just finished reading 'The Selfish Gene' by @rdawkins.bsky.social I would describe it as a number of thought experiments regarding evolution. It was a fascinating journey.

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Andrew Shepherd @shepherdsworld.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Finished my online renewal of a Microsoft Certification. Here are the assessment results. "Implement containerized solutions" appears three times, "Implement Secure Azure Solutions" twice, and there's a section titled "Troubleshoot solutions by using" Did they vibecode this?

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Towns that question the value of an unsafe, costly, environmentally unsound, poorly governed monorail could be ‘left behind’, says Monorail Salesman

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Andrew Shepherd @shepherdsworld.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I am "Stephen King" years old, which tells you nothing since he published in 1974 and hasn't taken a break. (I am also "David Eddings", and "Douglas Adams" years old.)

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Andrew Shepherd @shepherdsworld.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

So I think: "I wonder what twitter is like now?" I go there, and the first thing I see is Elon Musk posting body-shaming tweets. Stupid me.

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Andrew Shepherd @shepherdsworld.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

My prediction: Ahmed al Ahmed will spend a few days being hailed as a hero. Then, someone will uncover something that demonstrates he has human flaws. And the media will turn on him. Just to keep the clicks going. I hope I'm wrong and this guy is boring enough to get left alone.

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Andrew Shepherd @shepherdsworld.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I spent 15 minutes writing a bug report to Microsoft. Pressed "Post your question", and instantly got a message saying it was deleted for violating the code of conduct. Their large language model decided it was bad. No recourse. Unbelievable.

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Andrew Shepherd @shepherdsworld.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Mark Latham making the point that even awful people who you do not want to be associated with will speak occasional common sense. Mark Latham is the perfect person to be delivering this point. www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...

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Andrew Shepherd @shepherdsworld.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I am going to try using DuckDuckGo as my goto search engine. I don't usually change my habits, but I dislike Google's AI Overview that much.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I've been thinking about how we collaborate with LLMs. In an ideal partnership, each plays to their strengths. So I made a handy visual guide.

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Medusa’s Wink @medusaswink.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Me: i’m Autistic Them: Oh you take things literally Me: No that’s kleptomania

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Andrew Shepherd @shepherdsworld.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

There's a wikipedia page dedicated to the long history of Elon Musk promising self driving cars six months into the future. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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List of predictions for autonomous Tesla vehicles by Elon Musk - Wikipedia

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

"Now that we can deliver working software that would have taken months in mere days or even hours..." is the 2025 equivalent of "Now that we've established that UFOs are alien spacecraft..." No. That really hasn't been established. Anything you say after that is building on smoke.

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𝔅𝔲𝔱𝔱𝔬𝔫𝔰 𝔒'𝔊𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔦𝔥𝔞𝔫 @johnxuandou.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

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Andrew Shepherd @shepherdsworld.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

When I was thirteen my father brought this book home. I spent hours and hours learning how to play each piece and memorizing the lyrics, even the ones I didn't understand because I didn't know the history behind them. I credit him for increasing my love for music and cold war politics.

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Andrew Shepherd @shepherdsworld.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Listening to some 70's instrumental tracks. It makes me ask - why don't they put music in porn anymore?

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Andrew Shepherd @shepherdsworld.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

"Does an intern cost $20/month? Because that’s what Cursor costs." That's what Cursor cost in early June. But now Cursor wants to charge customers what it costs them. cursor.com/en/blog/june...

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Clarifying Our Pricing | Cursor - The AI Code Editor

How the new Pro plan works and why we changed our pricing.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 20/06/2025

"I'm so impressed and scared by this" - a person that could be terrified by peekaboo

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Andrew Shepherd @shepherdsworld.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

James Randi running controlled experiments on water dowsers. This video demonstrates: - People will hold fast to their beliefs, even when presented with incontrovertible evidence to the contrary. - You can be skeptical and at the same time be respectful. youtu.be/PhzyXD5P9no?...

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James Randi in Australia - 45th Anniversary Edition

YouTube video by Australian Skeptics Inc

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Andrew Shepherd @shepherdsworld.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

An article by a coding LLM advocate who at least acknowledges all of the arguments against. His response to each argument... Pfft.

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Autistic life is being labeled “difficult” for asking why something makes zero sense.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that. What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.

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Andrew Shepherd @shepherdsworld.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

An example of how the exciting headline isn't justified by what's in the article.

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Andrew Shepherd @shepherdsworld.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I am bewildered to watch Satya Nadella talk about agentic AI. If you understand what LLMs do, and understand software development, you know it's NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Not in our life times. Is the Microsoft's CEO clueless? Or is he deliberately lying? What happens to him when this doesn't pan out?

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

It turns out the secret to getting it right is lowering the cost of getting it wrong.

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Andrew Shepherd @shepherdsworld.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

One part of Australian elections that makes me proud of this country: the gracious concession speech by the losing candidate. There is a respect for the system. I will not miss Peter Dutton, but he is holding himself well as he bows out.

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Andrew Shepherd @shepherdsworld.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

At a townhall meeting where the local federal candidates are speaking. More fun than I thought, thanks to the independents. (I would never vote for them, but they make elections more fun)

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product. On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Holy moly. I'm trying to write an academic paper, and nearly every application I'm using is not only offering Generative AI as an option for writing, but *pushing it* -- pervading the design to the point where a simple misclick would make my content AI-generated. Here's why that's a problem. 🧵

Screenshot of Google docs generative AI agent asking me to Rephrase, Shorten, Elaborate, More formal.

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · 26/01/2025

i can see how you would come to this conclusion if your job didn't require you to ever be correct

Nate Silver: "Thinking ChatGPT is useless is midwit. It's a magic box that answers any question you ask it from levels ranging from modestly coherent to extremely proficient. If you haven't bothered to figure it out to derive some utility out of it then you're just being lazy tbh."

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Cathrine Wilhelmsen @cathrinew.net · 24/01/2025

Can confirm that I was upgraded to a more expensive plan including AI features that I don't want and won't use, without my knowledge or consent. I'm usually a spokesperson for anything Microsoft, but this is (excuse my language) fucking bullshit. 🤬

Screenshot from Microsoft's Cancel Subscription page, showing that I am currently on the Microsoft 365 Personal plan including AI, with the option to switch to Microsoft 365 Personal Classic.

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Andrew Shepherd @shepherdsworld.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Because my one true addiction is solving coding puzzles... I've completed "Chronospatial Computer" - Day 17 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/17

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Day 17 - Advent of Code 2024

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Watching a video of Bob Martin talking about "The two values of software", in which he argues that the value of software lies not just in what it does, but in how it's structured (how easy it is to change).

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Andrew Shepherd @shepherdsworld.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Best description of Large Language Models so far.

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