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"Reason for the maxed out subscription is that I am working on a new optimizing compiler infrastructure and it has been very very useful - like 3x to 5x productivity easily."...

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Been on Claude Code Max 20X plan at £150/month for the last few months. I do plan to scale back to the 5X plan at £75/month in the near future, or even take a break altogether and see what alternatives there are. Reason for the maxed out subscription is that I am working on a new optimizing compiler...

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A) Its mostly in the US

B) Are they really going to become contractors ?

Hopefully some of them will be quite wealthy and start new businesses. Its all good....

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I voted for less secure than permanent, but I have no real idea as I have never had a permanent job. Went straight into contracting in 2000 in the days when they were pulling people of the street if they so much as uttered the word "Java". I imagine being a permie is more secure, but perhaps...

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Kitchen sink language, and the compiler is sooo slloooow.

Mondern Java has gotten a lot better. Virtual thread (coroutines) and record value types particularly make it a lot nicer to work with....

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Country went broke. Run by clowns. Used to rule the world and now the laughing stock....

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Once you have enough bitcoin you can just buy a yacht with a heated pool on it and sail around the med....

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Stranded energy ? Most bitcoin is mined with stranded energy - contrary to what most people think. You could switch over to mining BTC in the winter when its too cold to get your kit off and take a swim....

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Good move!...

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If you are dumping 34.5 KWh into the pool every day, it might be more efficient to skip the part where you turn sunlight into electricity and then electricity into heat. Just solar direct heating panels....

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Czechia and France, assuming the flights don't get cancelled, or they start asking for £400 fuel suppliments or something. I have at least one Ryan Air booking in my summer plans, and I hate those sons of bitches, but was the only reasonable route to a pre-planned holiday house.

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Don't worry - its not like they are going to run out !...

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Interesting. The write up is pretty long so I made a little summary. Most of it does not translate into the typical IT contractor situation very well though ?

Independent professional judgment
Referees controlled how they performed the core task on match day and exercised their own...

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To some extent. I document invariants expicitly and derived test logic from those. The invariants themselves are very carefully hand curated but it is entirely possible that AI can write a bad test for them - I know in fact that it has sometimes done so. But you tend to find out when you see a bug and...

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Reckon we are heading back to a similar financial situation as the 70s. With the Iran oil shocks, I mean. This has barely gotten started, unless Trump manages to pull off a deal or a wildly succesful military option to take back control of Hormuz, and I don't assign a high probability to either outcome....

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We have no idea what is going to happen next - so just stick with the same number as before.

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Lol. The pace it is advancing at, give it a decade and it will be rewriting itself, at the double exponential improvement rate described by Ray Kurzweil in The Singularity is Near.

I don't know if you know about the new analog AI chip made by a start up called Extropic ? It is thought that...

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Yes, basically you have the dynamics outlined correctly. And its not just the UK, all western countries are facing the same dilema to varying degrees. Its worse in Germany than the UK for example. Its not nearly so bad in the USA because they have a large millenial generation - only country where millenials...

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You're still not getting the point - Sunak let in nearly 1 million immigrants. I am not against immigration entirely, but that was too many. One of the largest groups was IT workers, which is partly why the contract market is so dead. Offshore agencies are rotating people in for 2, now 3, years and...

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I think I have given a few Gen Zs a shock by tracking them down and phoning them up to check they got my CV. The ones that actually answer their phones that is....