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Generative AI as we know it is a bubble.

It’s unsustainable.

Relying on it now will result in very expensive work to undo that damage in years to come. And we’re going to live with the accuracy debt for decades.

We are going to have an enormous skills and critical thinking shortage in the very near future, once the layoffs have slowed, and organisations start to cave in under the weight of their own shortsightedness.

Consultancy demand will go through the roof for people who actually know what they’re doing, attracting large salaries, and many won’t be able to afford this, dooming them further. There will be some bittersweet justice in those being laid off picking up the big money.

Vendors will transition to alternative technologies while trying to convince us that the technology is improving and AGI is just around the corner. They’re selling you something they haven’t figured out yet, and you won’t be able to afford when it does actually arrive.

Alternative technologies will continue to be researched, and progress will be made. But they’re not the same thing, don’t let them fool you.

It seems after 10 years of previously serious and respected people saying the cloud is the future and that I’m a dinosaur for telling them it’ll be back on prem before the end of the next decade, I was right.

It WAS more expensive.

It WAS less performant.

It WAS less secure.

It WAS a gateway to increasingly more exploitative pricing models.

A lesson in getting carried away with the hype and not looking at the actual trends. This was always going to happen. Threats increasing, and compute, storage, and bandwidth costs reducing faster than your upgrade cycle.

The constant fear of your shit appearing on Shodan Safari because of misconfig.

Just want to come back to this now.

I’ve spent a few evenings with it and it’s starting to open up now.

It’s been super long burn, which I don’t normally mind - but progression has essentially been blind, and you don’t know what’s coming next, so it’s hard to get excited for upgrades… one of the things we love about incrementals.

I’ve surrendered to it now, and I’m enjoying going with the flow. I hope it doesn’t disappoint by ending too soon.

There’s a couple of annoyances that I hope will disappear with future unlocks, but overall. Very much recommended.

A lot of people have a lot going on right now, and the stakes are high.

Be kind, hydrate, sleep, meditate. Whatever it is you need to do for yourself… please take time to do it.

I *promise* you the world will not stop turning in those minutes or hours.

Look, all I’m saying is that when you choose to eat a banana, you’re signing up for a lot of fruit admin.

Good grief.

Unless your app has extensive online features, if you’re asking a subscription fee for it, I’m probably not going to buy it.

One-time purchase on the other hand, I’m actually willing to pay more for.

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Important part of how Selenium works for Unit, System, and Regression testing.

I don’t know the ‘intended’ reason, but in all of my exposure to it, they’ve been useful in that they don’t trigger filters or certain extensions. I’m pretty sure it’s to emulate unpredictable CSS selector behaviour, and it’s done at runtime for automated testing.

You can work it around with with Regex, and I’ve had to on occasion, but in general it’s usually worth playing by the Selenium rules for the sake of your own sanity.