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I got Claude (of course) to knock this up. I had all the bits ready to go as I'd been experimenting with Manic Miner already.

It actually works pretty well!

If that’s the reason, why don’t stripe say so when they block the account?

These things would be much easier if stripe were willing to actually explain what the issue is.

We can come up with all sorts of reasons - anti money laundering, concerns around charge back etc…

Why can’t stripe just say the reason?

One of the biggest problems is actually making sure the information needed is on the poster.

Times, dates, location, pricing, parking etc…

As he points out “it added a bunch of text…” now it’s one all the future designs. That’s great - is the text correct?

To be honest this was a problem before AI. People are not very good at communicating.

This reminds me of Terry Pratchett’s Sourcery.

The wizards don’t become sourcerers themselves - they become enthusiastic users of someone else’s sourcery. Their years of learning don’t protect them from mistaking access to power for mastery of it.

I don’t mind these companies scraping my content.

But for love of god, my blog changes at most every couple months. You don’t need to scrape it every few minutes.

Maybe the mortgage system is different in the US.

But if you have a 25 year term on a loan for a $500,000

Approx numbers:

5%: $2922 monthly, total paid: $876,885

10%: $4543 monthly, total paid: $1,353,000.

This really doesn’t make sense.

Higher interest rates mean the monthly payment is higher. You need to pay back the principal + the interest.

Everyone in the audience will recognise when someone is being a dick and will be praying for them to stop grandstanding.

“Great questions/point - would be great to pick it up with you later. Any other questions?”

To me, this is why we have regulation.

The CE mark in Europe and the UL mark in the US is supposed to provide a floor on quality.

That floor can be increased if we as a society decides that this is required.

You might be unwilling to pay for this increased quality, but you don't have a choice.

As far as I can see the linked report does not mention software at all. It is all about physical products.

I also reported it - twice - and was fobbed off.

The frustrating thing is, this is very easy for AI to detect. Just feed the image into any AI and it will tell you it is deceptive.

I was getting an advert that was obviously some scam software on YouTube mobile. The image looked like a system alert that storage was low. It was an obvious attempt to trick users.

https://bsky.app/profile/atomic14.bsky.social/post/3mnc7ws2h...

Perfectly fine according to google.

Social networking apps have morphed into content consumption apps.

When they were still social networking they were useful.

There is an argument that they made it too easy to still feel connected. What should have been a phone call to talk to someone got replaced by liking some post from them.

The internet has broken me. Whenever I see a question like this i now automatically expect it to be some marketing attempt. There will be a product/service/blog post somewhere in the comments.

They must have picked that habit up from Claude...

I once consulted a lawyer when a large company contacted me.

His response was - they've got a team of lawyers on payroll whose job it is to make you run out of money...

It really depends - it’s trained on fairly limited data (things I could generate from Claude opus 5 and ChatGPT (pre-Astra).

It’s now quite hard to get non AI training data…

I did some experiments with very simple AI detection. You can get a very long way with simple ngram probabilities.

https://meatbag.atomic14.com/

https://www.atomic14.com/2026/08/18/detecting-claude-with-le...

It’s very hard to make reliable though. Different models have different characteristics and you can prompt your way out of being detected.

Seems likely (to me) that he was probably using his company laptop and it was connected to the corp VPN most of the time.

I did this recently - https://www.atomic14.com/2026/08/03/twelve-dev-boards-from-o...

Instead of trying to vibe it all - I got Claude to write deterministic scripts for creating the boards.

And did this before trying to completely vibe it: https://www.atomic14.com/2025/07/12/vibing-hardware

Let me add my elite clone - https://harmless.atomic14.com

What support do you have in your job - are you in a team of product managers/owners.

Is there a tech/team lead on the project - what’s their opinion of the progress the team is making?

It sounds like you are taking all the delivery responsibility on your own shoulders.

Is this project really top priority with your management? It sounds like it might not be.

My reading of the law was that watermarking is not required by it at all.

It’s a convenient excuse for the companies that want to add watermarking.

I really hope the improvement in natural style is real.

When I’ve tried to adjust the output style is that initially it feels better - but that’s just because the new output is so refreshing to read after the horrible Claude output.

Unfortunately, after a short while you quickly realise that it’s just as vacuous as before the style change.

This is a real problem, and it’s not just in markdown files and docs. Claude loves to write things we’ve “discovered” in comments and then later in treats the comments as gospel truth.

You have to constantly tend the garden and weed these things out.

Whenever Claude makes some error ask it where and why? And then dig out the weed.

And of course if it’s in the context, probably time for a handover doc (which will need weeding) and started fresh.

I’ve met a lot of juniors who have no idea what functional programming is.

In my experience, every company is great until things start going wrong. And when things start going wrong, no amount of culture is going to save you.

I listened to an interview with the Icelandic PM and this seems pretty much correct. She was pro EU but equally was very clear that there were other things the government could focus on instead.

Do you want us to burn a huge amount of time and effort on this. Or would you prefer us to focus on other problems?

Not much different from the UK to be honest. The constituency and first past the post system means counting is a nicely decoupled distributed system.

Each constituency declares the local winner and the only outside impact is the total count of MPs for each party.

I would prefer something more complex that does give some of the smaller parties some MPs but no one seems particularly keen to change things.