Rhys Arkins

Following AI capabilities by reading/watching tech influencers with their day one "I've been using a previous of this" hot takes is a bit like taking fashion/make-up routine advice from Instagram models. There is a selection bias/distortion at play. But unfortunately, the "I help people build with AI" professionals are _still_ often the best sources for info because they've sucked the oxygen out of the room for others who's day job isn't content producing.

At first they came for Adobe, and I did not speak out.

I discovered - using LLM digging - a network of 50+ fake online European retailers set up in the last month, all of which send checkouts to brand new fraudulent UK Stripe merchants. But my excitement was dulled when I discovered that complaints departments from Amex and Stripe seem geared towards "report non-delivery of an item" and not "report a massive fraud network". It's as if you phone up police to report a serial killer and they insist "we can only report it if he murdered you".

AI still doesn't build tasteful software with common sense. Example: I have 23% of my weekly Claude limit left with 5 hours in the week to go. It shouldn't warn me, but it does. I'm on the Pro Max plan so there's nothing else to upgrade to, but it still suggests it.