Sue Smith
@suesmith.lol
π€‘ Lefty Glaswegian smartarse
π Helps folk learn how to code
π π» Still petty after cancer
https://www.suesmith.dev
π Helps folk learn how to code
π π» Still petty after cancer
https://www.suesmith.dev
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Sue Smith
@suesmith.lol
Β· Nov 17
HTTP Golden Girls ( )
An app for learning about status codes!
www.goldengirls.codes
I bought the domain to match its predecessor so you can now access HTTP Golden Girls at
www.goldengirls.codes
www.goldengirls.codes
The tension between your reality and the one your parents grew up in just keeps increasing as you get older eh
February 10, 2026 at 11:37 PM
The tension between your reality and the one your parents grew up in just keeps increasing as you get older eh
As someone who was a drug addled mess as a youngster it's really undermining my ability to give patronising advice to young people now which is obviously annoying
February 10, 2026 at 10:20 AM
As someone who was a drug addled mess as a youngster it's really undermining my ability to give patronising advice to young people now which is obviously annoying
I've been having better conversations with folk about ai there than elsewhere tbh, as much as there is a lot of silly marketing propaganda, I find more productive dialogue about the subject happens there too
February 10, 2026 at 10:13 AM
I've been having better conversations with folk about ai there than elsewhere tbh, as much as there is a lot of silly marketing propaganda, I find more productive dialogue about the subject happens there too
tbh my bigger concern would be what that 10x amount of code is doing and how we came to the conclusion it was necessary so much faster than before (in many cases I suspect we're aren't, which just means we've added a load more code to our existing list of problems lol)
February 8, 2026 at 5:26 PM
tbh my bigger concern would be what that 10x amount of code is doing and how we came to the conclusion it was necessary so much faster than before (in many cases I suspect we're aren't, which just means we've added a load more code to our existing list of problems lol)
Secretly hoping this is the first category of saas to be rendered obsolete by ai
February 8, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Secretly hoping this is the first category of saas to be rendered obsolete by ai
A close second: "We shouldn't buy another LMS"
(Learning π© Management π© System)
(Learning π© Management π© System)
February 8, 2026 at 11:38 AM
A close second: "We shouldn't buy another LMS"
(Learning π© Management π© System)
(Learning π© Management π© System)
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"Why do you think that happened?"
"Why do you think that happened?"
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"And what did they say when you told them that?"
"And what did they say when you told them that?"
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"Itβs a lot more complicated than that."
"Itβs a lot more complicated than that."
February 8, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"Why do you think that happened?"
"Why do you think that happened?"
Saw this stay puft bibendum guinness nightmare on a billboard earlier
February 8, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Saw this stay puft bibendum guinness nightmare on a billboard earlier
This is why if I lost access to all social media and streaming services I could survive on the glasgow reddit alone www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/s/...
From the glasgow community on Reddit: The owner of Glasgow speaks
Explore this post and more from the glasgow community
www.reddit.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:17 PM
This is why if I lost access to all social media and streaming services I could survive on the glasgow reddit alone www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/s/...
This prompted* a linkedin shitpost
February 6, 2026 at 11:21 AM
This prompted* a linkedin shitpost
I cannae believe this shite is making me appreciate the programming languages I've spent years being annoyed at for being hard to teach.
February 6, 2026 at 11:13 AM
I cannae believe this shite is making me appreciate the programming languages I've spent years being annoyed at for being hard to teach.
For small scale, low complexity apps, AI coding absolutely enables people to build solutions without software engineering skills, but their adoption at scale is quite literally dependent on the presence of those skills.
February 6, 2026 at 11:11 AM
For small scale, low complexity apps, AI coding absolutely enables people to build solutions without software engineering skills, but their adoption at scale is quite literally dependent on the presence of those skills.
In any case, describing precisely what you want in software *is* programming, and the best way to acquire that skill is by learning to write code, it's actually harder to do that in English than in a high level programming language for systems beyond minimal complexity.
There's a joke going round software engineering circles that, soon, with AI, all that will be needed is for people to accurately describe precisely what they want in a piece of software. So: software engineering jobs are safe.
It's amusing, but the state of AI coding is both alarming AND overhyped.
It's amusing, but the state of AI coding is both alarming AND overhyped.
February 6, 2026 at 11:06 AM
In any case, describing precisely what you want in software *is* programming, and the best way to acquire that skill is by learning to write code, it's actually harder to do that in English than in a high level programming language for systems beyond minimal complexity.
If you're interacting with people from more privilege than you this is multiplied by a million
February 4, 2026 at 10:46 PM
If you're interacting with people from more privilege than you this is multiplied by a million
The absolute best thing about being middle aged is that you become more patronising than you could ever have imagined
February 4, 2026 at 10:45 PM
The absolute best thing about being middle aged is that you become more patronising than you could ever have imagined
Found myself wondering what JG Ballard would have made of LLMs and apparently I'm not alone theconversation.com/novelist-j-g...
Novelist J.G. Ballard was experimenting with computer-generated poetry 50 years before ChatGPT was invented
Looking through the archive of an arts magazine I discovered how Ballard was trying out an early form of computer-generated poetry.
theconversation.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Found myself wondering what JG Ballard would have made of LLMs and apparently I'm not alone theconversation.com/novelist-j-g...
Getting almost as good at buying domains I don't use as I am at buying books I don't read πͺπ»
February 4, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Getting almost as good at buying domains I don't use as I am at buying books I don't read πͺπ»
This thing in the ai coding ecosystem where there seems to be a new model or tool every three and a half minutes and it somehow changes everything, I'm afraid I simply could not be fucked paying that much attention to technology
February 3, 2026 at 10:39 PM
This thing in the ai coding ecosystem where there seems to be a new model or tool every three and a half minutes and it somehow changes everything, I'm afraid I simply could not be fucked paying that much attention to technology
lolll tv shows on amazon prime now have ads with a popup to add the thing to your basket π
February 3, 2026 at 9:32 PM
lolll tv shows on amazon prime now have ads with a popup to add the thing to your basket π
I don't believe in god but the absolute worst things I say come after "god forgive me"
February 1, 2026 at 10:08 PM
I don't believe in god but the absolute worst things I say come after "god forgive me"
Mostly that's coming from community, people sharing configurations that support learning etc, dev tools exist within workflows we can shape, this anthropic shift is a reflection of that I think.
January 31, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Mostly that's coming from community, people sharing configurations that support learning etc, dev tools exist within workflows we can shape, this anthropic shift is a reflection of that I think.
Regardless of this particular study, for me it's an important sign that anthropic is recognising a problem many of us in software engineering education and management already knew about, and gives us some leverage to push for a shift in the default modes of interaction that these tools present.
January 31, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Regardless of this particular study, for me it's an important sign that anthropic is recognising a problem many of us in software engineering education and management already knew about, and gives us some leverage to push for a shift in the default modes of interaction that these tools present.
My other concern is the loss of system understanding at an important level of fidelity (the source code at the training data / LLM output level), but that goes hand in hand with the skill acquisition problem.
January 31, 2026 at 12:08 PM
My other concern is the loss of system understanding at an important level of fidelity (the source code at the training data / LLM output level), but that goes hand in hand with the skill acquisition problem.