misterpurple
@misterpurple.bsky.social
cyber mischief warrior. black humour, grey beard, white hat.
AI token budget consensus I'm hearing from friends at >150 developer companies is ~$3000-4000/mo per developer. Which is equivalent to buying every developer a new Macbook Pro every month. My guess is we spend more and more per developer going forward, but hopefully on raw compute not model APIs.
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Bringing me a Powerpoint presentation is bad enough but for the love of god put it in full screen for fucks sake.
I feel this way about all meal "prepping". I love the theory, but half way through I already know which day I'll be abandoning the diet for the week; it seems to suck all the joy out of cooking.
Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 6d agoboiling a batch of eggs for the cold salads I'll be eating during this nth heatwave with the enthusiasm of someone being made to dig their own grave by the mob
oh William Orbit that’s sad I really loved his work.
they have no moat
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 2w agoSoftware giant SAP stopped most hires and travel because of AI's soaring cost, and a current employee tells me those freezes are still in place a month later. That is, unless the travel or hires are to do with AI, of course. www.404media.co/software-gia...
if you're reading all these articles as they come out and assuming the story is "these models are escaping containment and causing danger" and not "this is a PR campaign by companies desperate to build hype" I think you are very silly.
Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 2w agoIt keeps happening... It'd be great if these companies could spend a little bit more time on network security and a little less time vibe coding.
Of all the terrible things going on in the world, I'm not sure I understand why an (allegedly) lying professor at a university is front-page news.
I've also had a fun couple of weeks with Claude Code and Fable 5. If you're remotely technical around coding, and not using it, then you're leaving money on the table. I've revised my views on this over the last few weeks.
Samuel@samuel.fm · 2w agofable is still goated even if other models are benchmaxxing closer to it. Sol has no taste and will happily serve up garbage unless closely guided
Loved that advert. And love the music to it even more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCED...
Mussorgsky - Night on Bald Mountain
YouTube video by The Wicked North
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Catbus@catbus.phd · 2w agoi know we've got several months left, but it's looking more and more like Sparkler has locked down my Album of the Year with 'Glidewinder' every time I listen to it front to back I look like the dude in the Maxell ad #shoegaze
I've just been through this with my Dad passing. It's fucked up. I have started getting rid of loads of stuff, I'm not leaving my kids with the same problem.
Bylines Network@bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 2w agoThere comes a point when visiting your parents and seeing a house full of decades of possessions prompts a slightly alarming thought: Who is eventually going to have to sort all this out? If you already know the answer is “me”, this may strike a chord. @eastangliabylines.co.uk
was discussing with a fellow traveler today -- but programmers, coders, developers are having an *entirely* different experience of LLM-based products and services than the rest of us, especially the plagiarized plebeians among us (writers, reporters).
Honestly, what is going on in the world. I want to get off.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2w agoOh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
Anyone who refuses care from a non-white member of NHS staff should be told to pay to go private.
Charles EP Murphy@cepmurphy.bsky.social · 2w agonews.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest
The SEC bought airline ticketing data to monitor worldwide flights. New documents we got show the data wasn't just for U.S. domestic flights, or even international arrivals. It included flights between foreign countries too. All queried without a warrant www.404media.co/the-sec-boug...
The SEC Bought Airline Data to Monitor Flights Worldwide
The SEC bought access to worldwide airline ticketing records. Airlines including Delta, United, and American sold the data.
404media.co
Still no rain but lots of wind. The tree came down a few weeks ago, I guess because the ground is so dry but today I have found less than ideal antenna placement and a broken pole. Entirely my fault.
you can't build a big enough coalition if Gavin Barwell is too radical for you but an ex-Neo Nazi who broke into a police station isn't
If you're feeling bad about missing Blackhat or whatever cybersecurity convention is on the go, know I've never been to one, and it's essentially had zero relevance to me.
Spewing hate makes money. It doesn't make you loved or respected, and nor does it add to the sum of human happiness. But it can make you hard cash and you can pop the kids through private school and drive an expensive car and live in a nice house. And frankly fuck anyone who is so shallow.
There are so many bad trends in tech, but maybe one of the worst is people who write (or used to write, pre-LLMs) code describing themselves "forward-deployed" when they mean that they work at a client site, based on wanting to emulate military jargon so it sounds like they're going to kill people.
I like to think that when Claude is taking a long time it is secretly outraged with me, fuming.
I've had an interesting few days playing with Claude Code which has also had me reflecting on some of my scepticism.
Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2w agoThere's lots of stuff LLMs can't do, but if you want to disbelieve all the recent math, you have to believe a bunch of Fields Medalists with long track records are just straightforwardly lying about the thing they care most about. Here's a recent blog by Gowers: gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a...
