Posts by EdSaxby

Claude Code cache chaos creates quota complaints

Re: Reminder: Nobody knows what any of this costs.

In Anthropic's case, you can see and smell enshittification coming. It usually seems to take longer, but I guess everything is faster with AI.

Red Hat RHELocates its Chinese engineering team to India

Re: Good luck continuing to sell in China

I am a consequence of that style of offshoring myself.

The offshore company's employees run around in circles and have little affinity with our business culture and environment... But our CIO, bless him, gets lots of glowing adoration, they are much cheaper and a generous slap-up meal or two makes up for the loss of decades of technical experience from the local team.

The first thing vibe coding builds is confidence it will help you succeed

Re: Be careful what you wish for

"Instant code debt right out of the gate."

Using deprecated libraries will become the new normal.

AWS would prefer to forget March ever happened in its UAE region

Re: Nobody's fault-tree analysis includes "building hit by drone."

Same, I previously worked in telecommunications/broadcasting. Unrecoverable loss of a major site was a scenario we always considered and planned for.

AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

I found this YouTube video (sorry!) and the associated research study interesting.

In a real world comparison between a human and AI in performing typical business tasks (i.e. real work), AI could not match humans in 96% of cases.

The study really cuts through the hype.

I have used AI as a tool (akin to a spellcheck on steroids) for my coding, but I truly don't expect it could deal with the range of experience and nuance that creating a piece of development work requires.

Apple’s MacBook Neo turns out to be its most repairable lappy in 14 years

...And I'm still running a 2011 MacBook Pro - similar to you, the only component that "needed" replacing was the battery, however, I upgraded the HDD to an SSD, and maxed out the RAM. It's a wonderful machine, their best I think.

Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience

This sounds like another Micro$oft hot mess

They are shoe-horning co-pilot into every application and now shoe-horning the browser into co-pilot. I dread what this will do for usability on a daily basis.

Happily, I have just recently retired and returned my corporate PC back to my old employer.

No more Windows for me - onward with Linux (and my part-time Mac)!

NASA safety watchdog says it's time to rethink Moon landing

Re: Firsts

Maybe the best option from Trump is just to get AI to fake the moon landing this time.

It will be resoundingly successful and no one will get hurt.

Microsoft to auto-launch Copilot in Edge whenever you click a link from Outlook

That's it in a nutshell. The user is not the customer of Microsoft, the enterprises are and the senior managers are so captured by Microsoft they just go along with it.

Home users are just a blip in Microsoft's revenue share, so whether they like the changes or not doesn't matter in the slightest.

In my last few roles, every enterprise architect threw out solid technology solutions (where we were seeking upgrade funding) just to replace everything with a full Microsoft / Azure stack. No thinking whatsoever, just brainwashed...and on to their next gig to do the same.

Texas sues TP-Link over China links and security vulnerabilities

Re: More red scare bullshit

100% agree about Paxton.

The more the US restricts and/or bans Chinese products, their own competitiveness is just going to wither away ...while the rest of us just move on.

You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief

Re: You'd like to think

You never know, you might be able to just ask ChatGPT one day and it will give it to you.

Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files

Re: Who watches the watchers?

Unfortunately, the "type who lap this shit up" are the technology leadership in my organisation (i.e. managers), they then foist this overpriced stupidity on us and expect us to smile as we use it.

NASA delays Artemis II to March after hydrogen leaks bedevil countdown test

...And he will claim naming rights, henceforth named Trump Moon

Banker claims Oracle may slash up to 30,000 jobs, sell health unit to pay for AI build-out

I was at home yesterday doing some DIY interior painting and decorating... I was so heartened to think in a year or two AI will be doing all this messy work for me.

Google to foist Gemini pane on Chrome users in automated browsing push

Planning holidays is really such a ridiculously simplistic use case. Whenever we plan a holiday we are trying to work within limited time away, so the other half and I need to "negotiate" on the places we respectively want to visit. She is not going to be amused when I present her what Gemini has booked and paid for, ignoring all her input into the process.

I can agree that the AI agent may work for a business trip, but planning holidays is a much more serendipitous and human process.

Windows App forgets how to log in with first security update of the year

Re: "We are actively working on a resolution"

All our dev work is accomplished via Azure Virtual Desktop. We have had no end of problems with it over the last year.

Fortunately, I am still on leave from Christmas, but my colleagues at work will definitely be the ones spewing.

The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere

Not so much a language, but the last company I worked for was building new integrations (with Salesforce) based on csv file transfers when they could have used REST APIs.

Here we are in 2026, and csv file transfers just will not go away.

AI faces closing time at the cash buffet

Trojan Horse?

Does anyone other than me think that AI is just a trojan horse?

The tech oligarchs all can clearly see that AI's revenue stream is abysmally low, but yet they are continuing to build out a massive amount of data centre capacity.

It's also not coincidental that the Palantir, Oracle, Meta etc are all snuggling up to an authoritarian government who pays little regard to the niceties of personal privacy and the law, and would bail them out in the blink of an eye.

Welcome to your future... that capacity will get used for every piece of data on you... AI or no AI.

Nvidia wasting no time to flog H200s in China

Re: Ship before Trump changes his mind again.

That's right, China has 70% of the world's AI patents. So nothing is invented there?

Snowflake update caused a blizzard of failures worldwide

Re: WW III and beyond

Any astronaut planning to be on the first flight to the moon in the next iteration of space flights is a brave person indeed.

US freezes $42B trade pact with UK over digital tax row

Added to that, Trump just loves to announce stuff. He never has any intention to follow through once he gets the gratification of headlines.

I think the UK is right to stick to its guns on the DST, and maybe ratchet it up a bit more. This would help re-balance the mental health affects, the impacts on high street retail and so on.

China is building a thriving semi industry off US leftovers, export controls be damned

Honestly, who can fault China here when the US is playing such blatant brinkmanship.

I recently bought a Huawei Mate 60 Pro from China, and in terms of capability and performance it is as good to me (as an average consumer) as any recent Apple or Samsung device. It has taken a few years and a lot of grit, but China's semi-conductor industry is catching up and will blow away any limits the US tries to impose.

Big money is nervous about AI hype, but not ready to call it a bubble

Oracle "says it has a $455 billion spending pipeline from its AI datacenter customers."

I wonder if that demand is similar to the 2 million pre-orders for Musk's Cybertruck? (which evaporated)

Having spent the last 30 years working in the Oracle space, this is like so many other promises... just hot air.

Bring back your old Mac: 5 ways to refresh the OS on elderly Apples

Early-2011 MacBook Pro running sweetly

A couple of weeks ago I upgraded my ancient workhorse early-2011 MacBook Pro from HighSierra to Ventura using OCLP.

I had previously maxed out the memory and swapped out the HDD with a SDD,

Surprisingly, it runs like a charm. It is responsive, functional and I have not really noticed any real issues apart from not being able to use my Postbox mail app - so therefore switched to Thunderbird.

Fire up the gas turbines, says US Interior Secretary: We gotta win the AI arms race

Great Leap Forward?

This sounds vaguely reminiscent of Mao's Great Leap Forward... no matter how many people starve, we must advance at all costs.

How does China keep stealing our stuff, wonders DoD group responsible for keeping foreign agents out

Not sure why they are complaining about China, they gave the DOGE kids free reign across their classified government systems

Oracle cuts cloud jobs with Seattle hit hard as AI spending soars

Re: In for a penny, in for a pound

Absolutely agree with you, but if you try to raise those issues with your average enterprise architect they will simply brush them away.

Adapting the old-IBM cliche..."No one ever got fired or moving to cloud"

Kremlin goons caught abusing ISPs to spy on Moscow-based diplomats, Microsoft says

Re: Another bullshit hypocritical article in the Register

What on earth has your reply got to do with the point made by the commenter? We can all read the Reg and maintain an open mind, and be critical of it from time to time.

The USA is just as active at spying on both friends and enemies as anyone else. And Microsoft will facilitate if required.

Pentagon snaps up ownership stake in America's only rare earths mine

Re: Sounds a bit...

...nationalisation by another name. When will the government start buying up the tractor factories?

Chip designers latest casualties in US-China trade war

Adding to this, the US Government is coercing Chinese students and ultimately academics out of the country. That's the ultimate "software" export that will nobble the US.

Why is China deep in US networks? 'They're preparing for war,' HR McMaster tells lawmakers

The US has probably lost it's ability to respond to a first strike because Elon's DOGE got rid of the person who used to look after the essential but rarely used electricity or telecomm's bill.

There are 10,000 reasons to doubt Oracle Cloud's security breach denial

I'd describe it as "a glitch".

Nothing to see here.

AI running out of juice despite Microsoft's hard squeezing

I've come to a late stage in my career when I am looking for a job after 35+ years.

I have found that solid experience counts for little and all senior technical job roles these days are pushing "AI-this" and "AI-that".

As someone who has had a career built on employing logic and evidence in the technology domain, I struggle to buy into the unbridled hype that recruiters are pushing. Those of us with grey hair have seen bubbles before.

I'm not a luddite, I regulalry use AI for summarising and polishing content but I have not seen a use case much beyond this in the business realm. Certainly, AI generated answers to technical questions still need a lot of judgement applied...and yet I have seem junior engineers dashing around treating them like gospel.

It's a shame where too money sloshing around IT distracts us from real progress.

Apple Intelligence summary botches a headline, causing jitters in BBC newsroom

Re: iPhone improvements???

Used to implement those systems. The creativeness of the pre-sales responses on RFPs would make our eyes water.

Huawei's farewell to Android isn't a marketing move, it's chess

I'm running a Mate 60 Pro using Harmony 4.2 and it's a great phone for day to day use.

The ony visible downsides are I cannot use Google wallet and AndroidAuto - the latter is not a deal breaker for me, and the former just means I still pay with cards.

The rest of my apps are installed via MicroG services, which enables most playstore apps.

It would obviously be a whole different ballgames moving away from android entirely. I think at that point that phone would become a brick in non-China markets.