Idealistic, trusting, and bootstrapped is no way to go through life, son.
Andy Budd
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Design Founder, speaker, start-up advisor & coach. Seedcamp Venture Partner. Formerly Clearleft, LDConf & UXLondon. Ex shark-wrangler. Pilot. He/Him — https://stacklist.app/andybudd
It's a small thing but I was using ChatGPT to help me find a couple it items to buy. I asked if it knew of any voucher codes. The voucher code it found had expired the previous day. But it told me that if I bought a 50p sticker it would make the spend eligable for cheaper shipping.
Broke my iphone screen at the gym. I blame my super powerful squats. Want to hold out till the new iPhone Pro’s launch mid Sep, as they sound like a major upgrade. But think i’m gonna struggle with a broken phone for 6 weeks 😫
Sad that our neighbours are chopping down a large tree in their garden. It was home to lots of birds and cast a nice amount of shade over our garden. On the plus side we wid sometimes worry about what would happen if it came down in a storm (which is why I assume they're probably getting rid of it).
Simon Willison is an (inter)national treasure. If you want the definitive take on the OpenAI/HuggingFace hack, it's here on his excellent blog: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/...
OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
This story is wild. The short version: OpenAI were running a cybersecurity test against an unreleased model, with the model’s guardrail features turned off. Rather than solve the test, the …
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I do wonder whether increasingly capable open-weight models from China, such as Kimi K3, could help burst the US AI bubble. If they sharply reduce the cost of useful inference, the huge investments in compute may struggle to earn the returns currently assumed through future token spend.
I’ve never really understood the phrase “cest la vie!” That’s life I guess 🤷♂️
I've always found it strange that Google still pays Apple billions a year to make Google Search the default search engine on Safari. It made sense in the early days of search. But today?
this meeting could've been an email?
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 2w agoThe Avengers, New Avengers and Fantastic Four meeting in ‘Avengers: Doomsday'
I’ve never really understood the phrase “cest la vie!” That’s life I guess 🤷♂️
There are LOTS of reasons to be cautious about using foundational AI models to code. But for a UX designer, having the ability to generate frontend code is mind-blowing. I get to explore EXACTLY what I want in seconds, not days. No debating feasibility, just pure, instant iteration.
So what’s the chance that the final score will be 5-4 to France!?
I challenged ChatGPT to guess my favourite album by asking yes/no questions. It took 50 attempts to get there. Think you can do better?
So I scan read this post this morning and thought for a second it said... "Japan has perfected a revolutionary process to extract lithium from dead people with 90% recovery rate..." And thought wow, things are getting very dark / matrix / soylent green very quickly.
Jeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸@jeffrudd.bsky.social · 3w agoJapan has perfected a revolutionary process to extract lithium from dead batteries with 90% recovery rate. This brilliant technological leap guarantees Japan's absolute economic security.
Cast for the new UK version of Guardians of the Galaxy announced
Best STAR TREK captain. Wrong answers only.
Dan Hon@danhon.com · 4w agoBest STAR TREK captain. Wrong answers only.
I REALLY like this framing and think it extends to product as well. i.e. companies don’t make products. They make teams that make products. If those teams are happy, respected and engaged, they’ll make great products. If they’re stressed, poorly treated and dismissed they’ll make mediocre products.
James Youngman@jyoungman.bsky.social · last mo.Something I don't think many execs understand is that companies don't make games: They make teams. And if they do it well; if they make stable, well-resourced, high trust teams, those teams will make great games forever. But that only happens if the execs understand what the company makes.
Currently watching Big Trouble in Little China. It’s no surprise than when I first visited SF, Chinatown was the first place I visited.
Loving the local models for local people branding. www.andybudd.com/archives/202...
What if Europe is copying the wrong AI strategy? | Andy Budd
A lot of the articles I’m reading about AI at the moment seem to make the same assumption: that the future of AI will require vast amounts of centralised compute. Bigger models. Bigger data centres. B...
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I’m strangely fascinated by Bending Spoons, a company which buys up struggling tech companies like Evernote and Vimeo, and attempts to make them profitable (often by cutting head count and increasing pricing), rather than focussing on growth at all costs.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last mo.Bending Spoons tries out an odd kind of financial magic trick ft.trib.al/FkUwOEh | opinion
I don't know why but this whole weeks it's felt a day later than is actually is. So Monday really felt like midweek, yesterday really felt like a Thursday, and today feels like the end of the week.
I'm genuinely surprised it's so low.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 2mo agoI often wonder how much of Claude’s token usage and hence Anthropic revenue is pure waste (e.g. Claude not following instructions or doing things repetitively that it should have done once). I expected it to be high but not this high. 😱
