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Jon Ayre
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I've been an engineer, software developer, architect, director & CTO. Now I'm a hands-on consultant doing business and tech strategy. Creator of the business evolution map. Father & Husband. It WILL go wrong & it CAN be fixed. He/him.
Nowt, unless you consider overly decorated presentations, clichéd writing that contains little information, and code that no-one wants or needs to be valuable.
September 20, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Yup. Exactly.
September 20, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Calculate what? Final amount paid? Monthly payment? Remaining balance? Etc etc etc.... Also, mortgages don't calculate, calculators do, so the first rather than the second as a starting point.
September 20, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Essentially, they need to become the publishing platforms they've worked so hard to avoid being. Their business model will be their ultimate undoing.
September 20, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Fair point, but some of us use "it's just a tool", in a derogatory way, as part of the narrative you give here. It's not mysterious, it's not intelligent and it's certainly not going to produce anything useful on its own. It's just a tool - so how can it ever be worth all that wasted energy & money?
September 20, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Truth is "they" never knew software engineering at all.
September 20, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Where there is no intelligence at work entropy increases. Where there is consistent decrease in entropy, intelligence is present.

Left to their own devices, LLMs increase entropy.

When a human is involved, entropy can decrease.
September 17, 2026 at 10:03 AM
So half a second every second... like Spain? (Which is a good thing by the way, and not a slight in any way on Spain)
September 15, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Yup. We aren't memory holing it because it never happened.
September 9, 2026 at 6:00 PM
We haven't memory holed it because it never existed.
September 9, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Many such incidents with Russian subs in the seas around Britain during the cold war, and several "accidental" sinkings of British fishing vessels that definitely weren't tracking those subs and reporting their positions.
September 9, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Maybe it's because they can see economical trouble ahead when the market readjusts, and they don't want to get caught in the ensuing mass layoffs.

People leave jobs for many reasons, but growing a conscience is one of the rarer ones.
September 9, 2026 at 5:46 PM