danny.

I don't think AI has much to do with immigration TBH, but one relevance it will have is that the more people we have in the country the more we need to pay UBI and more to feed, so not sure why we want to grow the population, which we are always told we DO need to do.

It won't be like that though, we're not living in the Star Trek universe. I'd love to think it would be some utopia but it will be nothing like that based on my experience and observations of humans.

This is exactly the problem. And where does the tax for UBI come from?

Sounds about the time we'll have properly hit AGI

Yea you are super easy to replace, anything that's a process/methodical/uses a computer mainly (so most office based jobs) will be one of the first things to go.

Oh yea, it's suicide even for the AI companies. Some people will get rich in the short term and then everything will crash. It's changed massively in the last 2 months so it's not gonna take 10 years to really start to impact society. Later this year, early 2027 is a conservative guess.

I'm so confused by you sometimes Mr Greb

I you want to write code, sure, the $20 ChatGPT sub includes Codex, for Claude you need the $100 one min as it uses up limits much quicker than Codex. Yea an average Joe has no chance, you need to know what you're doing. But we can still fire 90% of people and keep the 10% best one for that. Huge problem there. And those 10% of people can make tools that make other people unemployed in other sectors. I wrote something in 20 mins the other day that did 4 days worth of work for my other half. Imagine when someone makes that a formal SaaS and her workplace subscribe for $100/mo, why not fire her and save 10,000s?

No, my background is development/software engineering/coding, don't have much experience in IT. The thing with AI is, it will change scope 300 times without caring or getting frustrating, and your 2 week sprint to implement that only takes it 10 minutes so it's not really an issue. I guess you haven't really used Codex or Claude Code if you don't think it can be used for software development? It already is. I believe it was Codex wrote a C compiler from scratch the other week with no help at all which successfully compiled the Linux kernel with no issues. It's already trivial to write a SaaS or web app that would have taken 2 years in a few weeks now. I* wrote an app last month in 2 weeks that was estimated to be around 18 months of labour last time we visited it a couple of years back. *Well, Codex/Claude did 99% of the coding. @filbertway you might find this interesting as a flow https://github.com/gsd-build/get-shit-done

Yea mate, it's genuinely depressing. We're already hit the point that coders are obsolete. I haven't written any code in months and opus 4.6 + codex 5.3 just compounded that. Societal collapse is inevitable sadly. I was hoping we had more like 10-15 years but looking more and more like < 5 years away. The only coding related roles left will be high level to orchestrate, manage and prompt, although we probably wont need that in another 12 months. And then once enough millions are employed the economy collapses anyway so its a moot point.

Congrats! We have the pay per mile to look forwards to soon! When I first had an EV it was emission based VED, so 0. Also BIK tax was 0%. IIRC that's up to 4% now and VED is ~£200 a year + 3ppm soon. Woo. Think I'll be back to petrol at this rate for my next car.

It's a form of tax, and we need tax, like, we really need tax ATM as a country.

"a right wing designed diagram" 😅

Great article here: The tl;dr:

Non spinning generators were a large factor according to the information I’ve read on it. I’ll try and check out that video but have watched hours on the subject already so not just plucking that statement out the air! We’re pretty screwed anyway because we should have been ordering new generators about 15-20 years ago with the huge lead times. God bless the Tories…

Who is this team!?

We want 9. We want 9

Who was it comparing Mukasa to Kaebi last week? 🤣

Did Luke have £2m on a goal within the first minute!?

We need to look at our grid *before* adding more non spinning based generators though, we rely on the inertia of those generators to guard against frequency changes on the grid and the more we shift the balance away from that the more problems we will have.

not good news for the grid though, seems we've learnt nothing from the Iberian peninsula blackouts last year

Defending Farage? not heard that one before. I don't like Farage or Trump, but I guess I'm a MAGA and Reform voter too. Amazing. TBH the last time I took a quiz to work out who to vote for (which was LibDems) was the 2024 GE so I'm probably just to the right of the KKK now (yes, a tired old meme, I couldn't be bothered to spend any more time looking for something better)

I'm not even right wing 😅 literally left leaning centrist, but, yea, clearly imagined/made up my lived experience.

I mean I don't really care that much what you think, but calling me a flat out liar is just poor

Imagined past, wow, that's low.