Likes from 13 January 2024

kinda weird how people will just attach chatgpt to customer service things and let it fuck around practically unmonitored while they watch their human employees like a hawk and fire them at the first …

OpenAI removing its rules against using it for Warfare and Military Tech is so fucking funny.

People are still posting on Twitter. It’s nuts. We will never end smoking.

I wrote up a tech talk I recently did at work for our tech team meeting, about readability, inspired by a session at SoCraTes UK 2023. tl;dr think about your audience when you talk about readability, there might be some implicit assumptions https://blog.probablyfine.co.uk/2024/01/13/diving-into-readability.html #software #tdd #xp

Started the first work week of the year with a free for all bug fixing week where everyone on the team was free to fix whatever they wanted no matter priority. It is a great way to get rid of minor issues that have been bugging you for a long time, but never get scheduled to address. Highly recommended for every software project.

Is there any evidence that captchas actually work? I suspect they have little to no effect, but this is based on nothing but my personal dislike of them.