Having spent a good weekend learning how to perform latent-steering through playing with pytorch and a local Gemma4 model, there is no way I could have groked any of that in the the way I did without hands on time.

This is on an M3 Max 36GB I've had for a couple of years. No further outlay needed.

If the primary purpose is a bar that also serves food, yes.

If it's proper dining. No

Even if rents were capped at half what a mortgage for the same property is, you still are in a position that once the asset of the house is paid off the landlord now has an asset that earns income without labour.

And the inverse.

Regardless of what you earn (to a point, even into higher income brackets), if you do not put it into an asset that can house you, and you stop earning, you cannot live without reducing your overall capital.

So rental means a lack of opportunity to reduce your labour dependent income over time (important as you age), and a reduced ability to weather negative life events.

I know you can point Claude code at Bedrock.. might be worth a play.

You have the overriding context, facts that don't change very often at all. The participants names, their backgrounds etc.

Then you have some very fine grained facts (what they ate for breakfast this morning) which might be useful right now, but are irrelevant outside of a general trend over the longer term.

When trying to reconstruct a conversation you really need to find the right balance without pulling in everything that has ever been discussed.

This definitely is worth further investigation.

The jurisdiction issue is the bigger one. Deserts don't solve this; International waters, possibly do, but then you've got other issues.

*Yes, I know

We're outsourcing the thinking to the recipient.

Yes, it's way easier to create the report now, but it's not being honed down to the crux of the points it needs to make. And the reviewers are expected to what? Up their ability to mentally consume and reason about reports.

I mean, barrier number 1: did you read it yourself before asking someone else seems too high for some..

Train it dumb on "systems:, user:" prompt pairs.

Unleash on "system:, user:" prompt pairs.

Guess which you're providing for evaluation.

Facades and stranglers are massively useful patterns, and help explain concepts to the layman.

Personally I've never been patterns over everything, so I'm not going to now knee jerk and say no patterns ever.

There's a time and a place for everything.

edit Fuck. A reread on that and I sound like AI. Updated

I'm pushing the need for basic engineering principles across whole organisations.

You wouldn't give an engineer 1000 lines of code to review without the original spec of what you're trying to achieve for context (at a minimum, ideally the reviewer was in the room when the work was introduced, and has full context).

So, these docs, they're given as an all or nothing.

Do you push back on the 39th metric that is defined to the utmost detail? Or just resign yourself to the fact that it is what it is?

A one (6 is the goto if we're talking Amazon?!) pager.. "this is what I am proposing" at least gives the skeleton of the idea to push back at the general shape of the idea, refine it, before all the emotional investment of your precious report being complete.

Y'know.. the traditional product running through the spec in a SCRUM* environment.. the engineers doing proper code reviews..

* Yes SCRUM is dead, but that's another thing.

2026. Oh woe, the MCP that all the companies are giving me isn't ideal.

2028? oh woe, the CLI that calls the REST API, that calls the MCP that all the companies are giving me..

Not only do you need to spec everything to the right level of detail (at which point an LLM can likely make a good go of it), but a lot of the outsourced teams don't build in anywhere near the same way as those internally, and the difference in the level and speed of delivery is absolute.

Not to mention with everything changing so quickly, why would I be spending time and money training up someone else's staff to be keeping up with the cutting edge?

Hope he sleeps well tonight!

Flash, ah, ah, saviour of the universe. Flash, ah, ah, he'll save every one of us!

Every time I have heard the word flash for goodness knows how many years.

Even operations and GTM are all at "professional" level (which I think is vaguely equivalent to 5x).

Then the nerf, and the massive uplift in tokens for 4.7, a model which I find lazy and prone to hallucinate.

It's probably time to try GPT5.5. Like many I'm pretty heavily invested in the anthropic ecosystem at this point, which I suppose gives another strong reason to make the switch.

> I think this mainly demonstrates that the pelican on the bicycle has firmly exceeded its limits as a useful benchmark.

As acknowledged in the article.