I'd love to go to Develop and see all the people, but being around lots of people I don't know, hoping to find people I do know, is terrifying. A thousand people watching me on stage, not a problem. Alone in a bar? Pure terror. Like finding a thousand spiders in your sock. Wish it weren't true.

PROMETHEUS: BEHOLD! I bring you the fire of the very Gods themselves! Raw power, the definition of an epoch! Raise yourselves up, become, evolve, challenge for what is rightfully yours! HUMANS: Or we could do some SaaS rationalisation and fire some people and ooh make some powerpoint decks maybe?

Turns out the videogame industry was just eight rich dudes covering for half a million devs. Who knew?

A piece in which 'Product is the output of the team' and 'Your AI is part of the team' is lost in a sea of strange metaphors. Proper banger. marksorrell.substack.com/p/they-made-...

They Made Me Take My Shoes Off

AI Culture Eats AI Strategy For Second Breakfast

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I wrote an essay just to feel something. And that something was hungry. marksorrell.substack.com/p/my-soup-is...

My Soup is Full of Assistants

Waiter! Waiter!

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Being polite to an LLM is like being polite to a waiter. No one knows if waiters are sentient or not, but it’s better to be safe than sorry

(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

I feel bad turning my nose up at people who have plastic surgery. But hey, they started it.

Anthropic's new brand 'YOUR LIMITS! LOOK AT YOUR LIMITS! THE LIMITS ARE COMING! STOP DOING THIS! GO AWAY!' is a move. Leave me alone please, I am trying to work.

blah blah blah blog post blah blah yes very well done blah blah thoughts on deliberately making AI that's a knobend etc etc etc open.substack.com/pub/marksorr...

Inside The Tent, Pissing In

Introducing: the_worst_guy_you_know.md

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I haven't played it, and probs won't, and yet I enjoyed this greatly.

Tont Coles@tontcoles.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Imagine thinking anyone wants to read another take on #crimsondesert . You all now it's ludicrously amazing, right? open.substack.com/pub/affectio...

I spoke to Tony Coles and it turns out he recorded it all and made it into a podcast. These days, you can't trust anyone, these days.

Affectionate Discourse@affectionatedisco.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Episode 4! An actual interview! With Mark Sorrell! About AI! shows.acast.com/affectionate...

Nah, I got nothing.