Ellis Pratt

@ellispratt.bsky.social

By day: Director at Cherryleaf. We make your documentation reliable for developers, customers, and AI systems: reducing support load, improving onboarding, and enabling accurate automation. By night: Flashdance.

One big result in our study at Procter & Gamble was that AI blurred the lines between jobs. Now OpenAI has a similar finding Organizational boundaries are becoming porous, the walls thinning. Companies are going to need to think about division of labor in a new way, things are getting chaotic now.

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I was at a wine tasting in Franconia 10 years ago and the winemaker said they are already planning replanting different grape varieties, as traditional grapes such as Bacchus can’t cope with higher temperatures. ‘You won’t find a winemaker that doesn’t believe in climate change’.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6d ago

I always wondered what it would take for the Telegraph to decide there might be a downside to climate breakdown. Well, now we know. Even so, this article manages not to mention it.

Victoria Moore: It may already be too late for Bordeaux's wine.

A video came up on my feed called roughly "How a 60 year old documentation standard can humanise your AI content". People are recommending you prompt AI systems to apply ASD-STE100 rules to their content. It's interesting to learn it's now one of the cool kids on the AI block.

Going to open up a chippy called The Chip of Theseus. Every week I replace one item on the menu with something slightly different – halloumi bites for mozzarella bites, etc. – until you're not sure whether we really still serve the same food we did last year

This happens when you don't have human writers who can set up deterministic and AI-based guardrails. To set up those you need editorial taste and experience; as far as I know, they don't have a docs organization (unlike their competitors).

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Society of Authors: Did you join the legal fight against AI? Rowling: Sure did. Sponsoring legal actions against Amnesty International, just like you said. Society of Authors: Wait, what?

It seems like every middle aged British male I know has "the system" for keeping the house cool. Step 1: Wake at 4:30am-5am to open all the windows, skylights, and doors. The cold air must be captured at dawn before it escapes.