You might as well publish the prompt you were going to give to the writer and have the ai reader consume that directly.

Assuming you think any of this is a good idea of course. Personally I wouldn’t trust ai to interpret release notes for anything that i cared about

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Weekly longbow practice was even a legal requirement for most English men to ensure there were enough skilled archers.

The crossbow was the weapon that allowed an untrained peasant to kill an armoured knight and was widely illegal for that reason

I’ve been fighting this for the last couple of weeks but it just doesn’t stick

British born, stripped of citizenship

I’m not commenting on the rightness or not of her case, just pointing out that being born British is not necessarily the guarantee you are describing

No one else seems to think this is bat shit insane

Was terrified by the theme music as a child and never allowed to watch it. Managed to find it a little while ago and loved it. Only one season unfortunately.

Biggest disappointment was reading up on it and finding that the Anderson’s had originally intended to do a second season of UFO then changed it up to make Space 1999 instead.

UFO was amazingly good

I used to have it on the left side of the screen with my actual documents folder (not “My Documents” which even then was full of other crap) embedded in it. Kind of like vertical tabs in the browser, but better

I was really annoyed when they took that functionality away for no apparent reason. Win 7 was the start of the slide for me, windows steadily got worse with them removing more and more functionality. Was it seven that removed all the customisation you used to be able to do as well and replaced it with much more limited themes?

All the AI companies are aware of this and are pressing ahead anyway - it is completely irresponsible.

If you haven’t come across it before, check out Simon Willisons “lethal trifecta” concept which neatly sums up the issue and explains why there is no way to use these things safely for many of the things that they would be most useful for

Likewise with SharePoint compared to file shares and NTFS permissions

Thanks Microsoft for making everything worse

I feel sorry for the younger generations, they’ll never know what it was like to use computers that weren’t actively trying to shaft you all the time

I was on a call with Microsoft the other day when (after being pushed) they said they had guardrails in place “to block prompt injection” and linked to an article which said “_help_ block prompt injection”. The careful wording is deliberate I’m sure.

These things are polite suggestions at best and it’s very misleading to people that do not understand the technology - I’ve got business people saying that using LLMs to process sensitive data is fine because there are “guardrails” in place - we need to make it clear that these kinds of vulnerabilities are inherent in the way gen AI works and you can’t get round that by asking them nicely

I’ve often thought about stealing some of these techniques for note taking as it would be really useful to have extra context without having to write it all out longhand.

Check out lojban attitudinals for one example along these lines if you are interested. There are natural languages that do this as well but I can’t remember any specifics off the top of my head

Rhymes with no-op