This is such a self own. It’s not “wow we got massive improvements” it’s actually “we stopped doing something obviously stupid”.

https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/improving-site-performance-by-shipping-more-css/

RE: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/117387400968417143

My favourite bit is where “extra lines of code” are touted as productivity gains in software development. No real developer thinks that just producing more code is meaningful.

It has to translate to what the customer gets eg more features, less bugs. Thankfully the article points out that the actual returns are marginal.

What's Australia gonna do with a two-year seat on the UN Security Council? Just keep agreeing with the US like always?

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Why are we taking all these gen-AI dickheads seriously? Anthropic is chasing 5 gigawatts of power for their speculative data centres in NSW.

That's many times more than existing data centre capacity.

There is _literally_ not enough power generation in NSW to support it, and no chance that much capacity will be added anytime soon.

It's not credible. These companies are full of shit. I'm tired of people, and especially governments taking them seriously.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-26/claude-maker-anthropics-massive-data-centre-plans-nsw/107075532

So A24 has taken a bunch of money from Google to make AI film-making bullshit. You just know it’s not some useful models for simulation etc. Guarantee it’s gen-AI nonsense.

Well it was a good run, but no more of their movies for me.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@owa/116215275864858256

Firstly, congrats to all the people who worked so hard on this!

Secondly, it’s ridiculous that this was even an issue.

It is emblematic of the bad-faith Google has when “complying” with regulation.

What happens to the software industry as companies stop hiring and training juniors because of “AI”?

Especially with the regular attrition due to burn out, career change, or retirement.

You get lots of people who can vibe code, but have little expertise.

I fully expect to see many disastrous incidents over the next few years as companies ship software they don’t understand.