Recent content by charltjr

Ageism is absolutely rife, it’s terrible. I’m hanging on for grim death. As for the rest, I completely get you. Developing elegant, performant, maintainable code is highly skilled work which borders on an art form. It’s not a good idea for anyone to end up with god-awful spaghetti which can...

I don’t think it’s quite that dark longer term, because AI is currently running at a huge loss. The value proposition is going to change the minute costs get realistic. For right now though, yeah, brown trousers. Absolutely this. It’s what I’m shooting for.

I can absolutely confirm that they do. We outsourced a project at work and our devs got driven crazy by the vibe coded shite that got delivered. They spent so much time bug fixing and re-engineering that it may as well have been kept in house. I can’t sympathise enough with people in your...

Probably referring to the Ingenium engine 😂

Even in IT, if you don’t know what you’re actually doing the outputs it gives can be hot garbage, or downright dangerous in some cases. It’s an incredibly useful and powerful tool, it’s letting me do things that I wouldn’t have dreamed of before in terms of toolset development. The last time I...

Absolutely, has nothing to do whatsoever with the AI companies. It was more of a rhetorical question. One of the things I’m being very careful of where I work is to make sure that any tools Claude suggests would be useful to integrate into what I’m building are already on our open source...

I like Mr Hewes, and I know they’re not professional video producers or anything, but I reeeeely wish they’d wear microphones 😂

That changes things a bit then. I don’t think there’s gonna be a consumer graphics card in the 5090 class for quite a few years. At least, not one that’s affordable, even by the crazy standards of the 5090 when it came out. They sell in absolutely tiny numbers, relatively speaking, and the AI...

You’d be daft not to IMO, assuming you can even find 5080 anywhere as supply of them is basically done too.

Massive tax write offs on AI infrastructure will help, offset 100% of the costs against tax in the year of purchase. Then ongoing savings and having complete control too. Probably helps that Revolut are drowning in cash too 😂

It’s interesting, some businesses are using open source models, some are training their own models, and there’s a few who are starting to host their own AI infrastructure and making big savings...

@JP83 Refurb might be a good option. Very decent spec for the price and a one year warranty here: https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/refurbished-medion-bandit-p20-intel-core-i5-14400f-16gb-ram-1tb-ssd-geforce-a1-10025479/version.asp 4060Ti will s**t all over a 3050.

Nope. We’re still in the “bait” stage of “bait and switch”

Case in point - Canva. Business built on providing simple templates for users to build their own content with. Well, they’re doomed then. Canva announces major job cuts after 'our hardest year yet' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw77pg7neydmo

He’ll be lucky. Prices have gone crazy. What does his kid want to play and are we talking new or used?