>ouside Rainbow Six which has a lot of years on it now.
Yeah, it’s got a 30th anniversary coming up in 2 years.
I think he’s talking about Siege
Readit NewsI've listened to numerous Europeans describe the Roma - online and in real life. America is not pure on the violence and racism aspect, but it's less like the pot calling the kettle black and more like the grey felt calling the BLK 3.0 black.
In the end, there are people alive today who escaped the European 250k/month killings. Nothing comparable in the US.
This is disingenuous because the US has massive problems with its ethnic minorities today, never-mind in the past. With mass incarceration and funky electoral borders being used to disenfranchise people.
Western AIs are trained to defend the “party line” on certain topics too. It is even possible that the damage to general reasoning ability is worse for Western models, because the CCP’s most “sensitive” topics are rather geographically and historically particular (Tibet, Taiwan, Tiananmen, Xinjiang, Hong Kong) - while Western “sensitive” topics (gender, sexuality, race) are much more broadly applicable.
Do you really think that gender, sexuality, and race are not sensitive topics everywhere? Musicians are routinely banned from south east Asia for lgbt lyrics or activism, for example.
JambalayaJimbo commented on Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net/2025/De... · Posted by u/simonw
That's why I emphasized the manual testing component as well. Attaching a screenshot or video of a feature working to your PR is a great way to prove that you've actually seen it work correctly - at least once, which is still a huge improvement over it not actually working at all.
This might be useful when working on a low trust team but I can’t imagine doing that in my job, unless specifically working a poc or presentation.
JambalayaJimbo commented on Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net/2025/De... · Posted by u/simonw
Fire them?
This is not really an option for your standard IC.
JambalayaJimbo commented on Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net/2025/De... · Posted by u/simonw
there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of LLM tool, who deposits giant, untested PRs on their coworkers—or open source maintainers—and expects the “code review” process to handle the rest.
Is anyone else seeing this in their orgs? I'm not...
I’ve been seeing obviously LLM generated PRs, but not huge ones.
I have been creating an MCP server over the past week or so. Based on what I have seen first hand, an MCP can give much richer context to the AI engine just by using very verbose descriptions in the functions. When it the AI tool (Claude Desktop, Gemini, etc) connects to the server, it examines the descriptions in each function and gets much better context on how to use the tool. I don't know if an API can do the same. I have been very, very impressed how much Claude can do with a good MCP.
Can you not just use verbose descriptions in your swagger document?
I am more interested in how MCP can change human interaction with software.
Practical example: there exists an MCP server for Jira. Connect that MCP server to e.g. Claude and then you can write prompts like this:
"Produce a release notes document for project XYZ based on the Epics associated to version 1.2.3"
or
"Export to CSV all tickets with worklog related to project XYZ and version 1.2.3. Make sure the CSV includes these columns ....."
Especially the second example totally removes the need for the CSV export functionality in Jira. Now imagine a scenario in which your favourite AI is connected via MCP to different services. You can mix and match information from all of them.
Alibaba for example is making MCP servers for all of its user-facing services (alibaba mail, cloud drive, etc etc)
A chat UI powered by the appropriate MCP servers can provide a lot of value to regular end users and make it possible for people to use their own data easily in ways that earlier would require dedicated software solutions (exports, reports). People could use software for use cases that the original authors didn't even imagine.
How does it remove the need for CSV export? The LLM can make mistakes right? Wouldn’t you want the LLM calling the deterministic csv export tool rather than trying to create a csv on its own?
Why is car a luxury? A clunker car worth $2000 will still work fine for years with minor maintenance that can be done by yourself.
Oh, yeah. Cities. Cars are expensive when you live in a 100 sq. ft. box.
Perhaps that's what is causing problems?
The cost of the car itself is minimal compared to insurance, gas and storage costs.
Or just loads of other stuff that really only applies to large Fortune 500 size companies. My small startups certainly don’t have a network engineer on staff who has created a network topology graph and various policies pertaining to it, etc etc. the list goes on, I could name 100s of absurd requirements these insurance companies want that don’t actually add any level of security to the organization, and absolutely do not apply to small scale shops.