David Burrows
@dburrows.bsky.social
multiple-model agnostic, writes code, mostly javascript/typescript, old school film, tv, sci-fi & comics nerd, ex-Yahoo!, currently at Starling Bank (opinions my own)
Ask not for whom the disruption bell tolls, it tolls for thee Uber, Door Dash, Amazon, etc. etc. www.theverge.com/podcast/8239...
The DoorDash problem and the great AI browser fight
Amazon sued Perplexity this month over its Comet browser, which uses AI agents to do online shopping on your behalf. This is the first major front in the war over who gets to browse the web.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Ask not for whom the disruption bell tolls, it tolls for thee Uber, Door Dash, Amazon, etc. etc. www.theverge.com/podcast/8239...
You cannot kill me in a way that matters, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 9:12 AM
You cannot kill me in a way that matters, Charlie Brown
Good thread, this is definitely one of the key problems, you can get round it but treating the AI as a colleague and getting it to open PRs, refactoring and writing some bits yourself, keeping docs up to date etc. but that’s not what’s being sold by “Big AI”
i switched back to writing code by hand in my hobby project for an interesting reason... it's really psychological but when the AI gets stuck (e.g. the problem is too tricky to debug without good tools and atm it requires a human, or something got too messy), i get a mental freeze digging into code
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Good thread, this is definitely one of the key problems, you can get round it but treating the AI as a colleague and getting it to open PRs, refactoring and writing some bits yourself, keeping docs up to date etc. but that’s not what’s being sold by “Big AI”
Alex Karp most be the patron saint of the Torment Nexus, and maybe big tech itself. Here’s a man that read Lord of the Rings and thought “Yes, I should quite literally make a Palantir” even when Tolkien is quite literally telling him it’s a bad idea.
November 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Alex Karp most be the patron saint of the Torment Nexus, and maybe big tech itself. Here’s a man that read Lord of the Rings and thought “Yes, I should quite literally make a Palantir” even when Tolkien is quite literally telling him it’s a bad idea.
Radiohead @ the O2, amazing as always
November 22, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Radiohead @ the O2, amazing as always
Don’t often post work stuff but it’s nice to be top of this: www.which.co.uk/money/bankin...
Best banks and bank accounts in UK 2025 - Which?
Discover the best banks and current accounts as rated both by UK customers and our experts. We help you avoid the worst banks for customer service
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November 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Don’t often post work stuff but it’s nice to be top of this: www.which.co.uk/money/bankin...
“It’s actually about non-biased AI”
Is the new “it’s actually about ethics in gaming journalism”
Is the new “it’s actually about ethics in gaming journalism”
November 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
“It’s actually about non-biased AI”
Is the new “it’s actually about ethics in gaming journalism”
Is the new “it’s actually about ethics in gaming journalism”
If an equalities watchdog gives guidance that discriminates against people for the way they look is it an equalities watchdog any more? Can I take it to trading standards? Surely there’s some kind of charter for it that says this is exactly the kind of thing it’s supposed to stop, not help?
November 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
If an equalities watchdog gives guidance that discriminates against people for the way they look is it an equalities watchdog any more? Can I take it to trading standards? Surely there’s some kind of charter for it that says this is exactly the kind of thing it’s supposed to stop, not help?
The Morning Show remains unchallengeable as good bad TV, but has a maybe terminal case of the “I don’t care about the two main characters” syndrome. Maybe Alex & Bradley can both end up in a gulag next time? Leave Mia to run things and Corey to get into the kind of trouble only Corey can get into.
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The Morning Show remains unchallengeable as good bad TV, but has a maybe terminal case of the “I don’t care about the two main characters” syndrome. Maybe Alex & Bradley can both end up in a gulag next time? Leave Mia to run things and Corey to get into the kind of trouble only Corey can get into.
Capitalism asks the question: Chat, should we just keep people ill so we can make money out of them? www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...
Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'
Goldman Sachs warns sales from the most successful disease treatments are difficult to maintain.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Capitalism asks the question: Chat, should we just keep people ill so we can make money out of them? www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...
Reposted by David Burrows
How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
You last saved meme is your moral philosophy
November 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
You last saved meme is your moral philosophy
“Cut loose in a post-modern present, with no centre, no truth and no direc-tion, we have not become independent-minded, responsible, democratic citizens in a human republic. We have become slaves to the power of money, and worshippers of the self.”
Paul Kingsnorth, Against The Machine
Paul Kingsnorth, Against The Machine
November 17, 2025 at 9:38 AM
“Cut loose in a post-modern present, with no centre, no truth and no direc-tion, we have not become independent-minded, responsible, democratic citizens in a human republic. We have become slaves to the power of money, and worshippers of the self.”
Paul Kingsnorth, Against The Machine
Paul Kingsnorth, Against The Machine
Reading Bryan Johnson’s mushroom trip report, he gets so close, walks right up to the Bardo and then forgets what he was doing and wanders off. It was right there in front of you dude! Thousands of years of “you can’t cheat death” literature and people are still going for it.
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Reading Bryan Johnson’s mushroom trip report, he gets so close, walks right up to the Bardo and then forgets what he was doing and wanders off. It was right there in front of you dude! Thousands of years of “you can’t cheat death” literature and people are still going for it.
How do you do fellow gamers
November 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
How do you do fellow gamers
Maximum Horse in the Hospital vibes currently
November 15, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Maximum Horse in the Hospital vibes currently
Reposted by David Burrows
I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
We do people on the train having annoyingly loud and endless conversations have such unbelievably solid mobile connections? Another tick in the “There is no God” column.
November 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
We do people on the train having annoyingly loud and endless conversations have such unbelievably solid mobile connections? Another tick in the “There is no God” column.
Need a T-shirt with “The web wasn’t supposed to suck” on it stat. Will make my own if I have to.
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Need a T-shirt with “The web wasn’t supposed to suck” on it stat. Will make my own if I have to.
Zed has built in collaboration tools now, pretty slick, if you could run the collab server on-prem this would be amazing zed.dev/blog/zed-is-...
Zed Is Our Office - Zed Blog
From the Zed Blog: A look at how we use Zed's native collaboration features to run our entire company.
zed.dev
November 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Zed has built in collaboration tools now, pretty slick, if you could run the collab server on-prem this would be amazing zed.dev/blog/zed-is-...
Another great Plur1bus episode, one theme definitely seems to be “all the work you cannot see” not just for the rich but the middle classes, a subversive idea for current TV that the working class exist but we’ve airbrushed them out of existence
November 14, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Another great Plur1bus episode, one theme definitely seems to be “all the work you cannot see” not just for the rich but the middle classes, a subversive idea for current TV that the working class exist but we’ve airbrushed them out of existence
Reposted by David Burrows
Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
This is excellent, put it on the curriculum
November 14, 2025 at 6:19 AM
This is excellent, put it on the curriculum
Behold, the Lisan al-Gabe brought into being the true Year of Linux on the Desktop, 2026! www.theverge.com/tech/818111/...
Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console
Valve’s Fremont was real.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Behold, the Lisan al-Gabe brought into being the true Year of Linux on the Desktop, 2026! www.theverge.com/tech/818111/...
Randomly remembered one of the foundational books of web development, Phil and Alex’s Guide to Web Publishing, it’s here of you want a trip to the past: philip.greenspun.com/panda/
November 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Randomly remembered one of the foundational books of web development, Phil and Alex’s Guide to Web Publishing, it’s here of you want a trip to the past: philip.greenspun.com/panda/