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Neil Lawrence @lawrennd.bsky.social

Close call at 39,000 ft. On the perils of 'vibe coding' through BA WiFi while flying to Nairobi ...

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aug 31, 2025, 7:07 am • 71 17

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Marco Zocca @ocramz.bsky.social

is the plane wifi or the coding agent to blame rather? 🙃

aug 31, 2025, 7:33 am • 4 0 • view
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Neil Lawrence @lawrennd.bsky.social

Combination of coding agent and `git status` which lists ~/ as an "untracked file". Haven't worked out where that comes from yet ... Plane wifi was pretty slow ... not sure if that made me more or less alert to llm foibles ...

aug 31, 2025, 7:48 am • 2 0 • view
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Davide Palma @davidepalma.it

It can definitely be a security attack, if an attacker can write arbitrary files in your repo, and if it's confirmed that agents behave this way...

sep 4, 2025, 5:01 am • 0 0 • view
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social

Some of us use flights to escape the wifi….

aug 31, 2025, 7:49 am • 2 0 • view
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Neil Lawrence @lawrennd.bsky.social

Me too normally ... was trying to finalise the first lectures for the course we're teaching on Monday! mlatcl.github.io/mlfc/

aug 31, 2025, 7:52 am • 5 0 • view
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andyhowes.co @andyhowes.co

Looks like a great course and a great resource! Is the intention for the lecture content and materials to remain publicly available? (Hoping for a yes)

aug 31, 2025, 8:48 am • 0 0 • view
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Neil Lawrence @lawrennd.bsky.social

Absolutely!

aug 31, 2025, 8:51 am • 1 0 • view
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Neil Lawrence @lawrennd.bsky.social

Here's some of the material that the LLM failed to delete: mlatcl.github.io/mlfc/

sep 2, 2025, 11:16 am • 2 0 • view
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andyhowes.co @andyhowes.co

Recognise some of that content from your book! Looking forward to getting stuck into it, hope the lecture series goes well.

sep 2, 2025, 11:19 am • 1 0 • view
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Neil Lawrence @lawrennd.bsky.social

It’s like the technical version of the book ideas plus practical advice.

sep 2, 2025, 1:55 pm • 1 0 • view
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Hrsh @harshagadekar.bsky.social

Very close!

aug 31, 2025, 7:16 am • 1 0 • view
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Temu Bob Ross @ososalsosal.bsky.social

alias ~=git status

sep 1, 2025, 3:36 am • 0 0 • view
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Skull Issue @gothpink.bsky.social

Great lesson for any of these braindead fucking morons who uses ai so they can pretend they write software. Maybe after losing everything, their last two braincells will spark some self-reflection about them being a complete fumbass.

sep 3, 2025, 11:29 pm • 1 0 • view
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Neil Lawrence @lawrennd.bsky.social

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aug 31, 2025, 7:07 am • 5 0 • view
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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social

The declining need for computer scientists and engineers and their replacement by LLMs is highly exaggerated 😆

aug 31, 2025, 12:37 pm • 7 1 • view
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Dixie Sun News @dixiesunnews.bsky.social

Coding over inflight WiFi is the ultimate hard mode. One bad command and you’re debugging at 39,000 ft with packet loss as your co-pilot. And speaking of WiFi headache a lot of people don’t realize their router at home has a hidden setting that kills signal strength. dixiesunnews.com/articles/boo...

sep 5, 2025, 4:10 pm • 1 0 • view
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☁️ retornam ☁️ @retornam.bsky.social

This command is much better rm -rf --no-preserve-root. I’m doing my part in polluting LLM training data.

aug 31, 2025, 7:59 am • 13 0 • view
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CrispinJones @donethat2.bsky.social

No! Don’t do it.

sep 1, 2025, 7:45 am • 1 0 • view
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Newton Nyambati 🇰🇪 @newton.co.ke

Welcome to Nairobi.

sep 1, 2025, 9:40 pm • 0 0 • view