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On the 29th June 2026 - if you searched for Jim Carrey on Google, you would have been presented with a Knowledge Panel stating that he had died the previous day. The panel included a date of death and a biography written in the past tense. For most people who would have seen this, it may have come as a shock - some may have even believed it - but for me, what I saw was a canary in the coal mine.…
I actually enjoy setting up a new coding project from scratch - those first couple of hours where you go from nothing to something , even if it's just poorly laid out HTML and CSS, or a bunch of console.log statements. Recently though, I've found myself unable to approach any new task without AI's help. Like an addiction, it became a trap. I couldn't break free from the cycle of constant…
I've been sitting on this article for a while now – well over a year I've put off publishing it – but as we've seen this week, the time has come to lift the veil and say the quiet part out loud: It's 2025; Microsoft should be considered a "bad actor" and a threat to all companies who develop software. Of course, if you're old enough to remember – this is not the first time either…
Last week, after a call with the engineers on my team I wanted to send a message to two of the engineers at the same time - little did I know I'd find what I believe to be a nasty privacy exploit in Slack - one that made me ask "Why is this even a feature?" Like any good responsible software engineer, instead of taking to social media or forums to post about the exploit - I opted to report it to…
> tl;dr: I discovered that passing empty prompts to ChatGPT still generates responses Initially, I thought these might be hallucinations, but now I suspect they could also include other users' responses from the API Last month, OpenAI unveiled their advanced large language model, ChatGPT-4 , attracting attention from developers, enterprises, media, and governments alike. Before receiving my GPT-4…