at greggs? serious case of culture shock 😔

I feel this. One of the secondary frustrations I have with the imperative to GenAI-everything is that thousands of companies are scrambling to build the same half-baked operational tooling around LLM workflows that would just be commodity in 18 months under normal circumstances.

Awful website, gave me absolutely nothing besides most of my longterm friendships and career advancement.

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Striking for me as a physicist who also does social science work is the way these physicists were suddenly totally ok with autoethnography as data because they personally enjoyed using GPT-5. A case study in how values orient our empirical practices if there ever was one lol

Software engineering needs a reckoning and a professionalism. It needs actual teeth with which individual workers can use to push back and say "no, I won't put my name on this work". It needs the structure in place for software to be held to a standard of quality befitting its societal criticality

this sounded pithier in my head, but I genuinely believe it.

governments are coming out with action plans for The Next Thing when they've yet to realise and distribute even a fraction of the purported benefit of The Previous Thing

In other news, my current go-to on Netflix is "Nobody Wants This".