Jade Leung worked for OpenAI from 2021 to 2023. You would expect her to have shares, worth a lot of money - which will get more valuable if OpenAI remains only lightly regulated.

Now she is the Prime Minister’s AI Adviser in No 10 - advising on AI regulation.

2/5

You greatly over-estimate my ability to identify industrial machinery, but commendable client confidentiality concern understood.

My side interest in lathes requires me to ask for a photo of the "big industrial machine".

Back in the 80s my parents used to transport sheep and goats around in the back of a Citroen 2cv.

It was a fetching yellow colour and we called it "Buttercup"

Don't think the roads have become remarkably steeper and more rugged since then.

Thank you. This was very handy well-timed pedantry. I'm currently editing a middle grade novel full of naval cannon. Clearly my research was a little lack-lustre.

Thinking about this though, the big difference between non developer + Claude and an overly-enthusiastic-intern is that the intern might have learnt from the feedback for next time.

(also most interns don't set the planet on fire)

n+1/n

This was for a dull "donkey work" task on a small project.

I'd say in this instance Claude has made things happen marginally faster, although we still need to see if I missed something that I will later regret merging.

n/n

It has a resource leak and the front end part of it "works" but is inconsistent with the rest of the app.

It has however probably taken me (slightly) less time to rework this into something that just meets the minimum mergable standard than if I'd started from scratch.

2/n

I have a scene featuring a hack not unlike this in my first novel, only the computer and the music are both much older.