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- It’s Black Friday/week. I had previously noted down potential presents for L and the boys which I hoped would be discounted. I was semi-successful so I’ve officially made a start on my Christmas shopping.
- L bought a nice artificial Christmas tree. It went up and came back down again. Too small, so we’re awaiting its bigger brother.
- In AI dystopia news, this week I watched a company training video which had a glitchy AI presenter warning about AI deepfakes impersonating executives 🤦 It even incorrectly pronounced our company’s name.
- I also taught H a valuable lesson about trusting AI responses. He had Googled for a football statistic - how many goals has Isak scored for Liverpool this season. The Gemini answer above the search results said zero, but I clearly remembered Isa…
- It’s Black Friday/week. I had previously noted down potential presents for L and the boys which I hoped would be discounted. I was semi-successful so I’ve officially made a start on my Christmas shopping.
- L bought a nice artificial Christmas tree. It went up and came back down again. Too small, so we’re awaiting its bigger brother.
- In AI dystopia news, this week I watched a company training video which had a glitchy AI presenter warning about AI deepfakes impersonating executives 🤦 It even incorrectly pronounced our company’s name.
- I also taught H a valuable lesson about trusting AI responses. He had Googled for a football statistic - how many goals has Isak scored for Liverpool this season. The Gemini answer above the search results said zero, but I clearly remembered Isak’s League Cup goal. He didn’t believe me until I showed him the result on the BBC Sport website.
- Ignoring what I’ve just written about bad AI, I thought it would be fun to build my own MCP server and feed it data about me. Coding with the new Claude Opus 4.5 model I wrote a spec and set it to work ingesting my public Swarm checkins, parsing my weeknotes and building a local server. With Claude Desktop on my laptop I could then ask basic questions about gigs I’d been to with Andy or football matches I’d seen. A fun bit of hacking.
- The weekend has been cold, windy and rainy. I took the boys to Lego club at the library and then camped out at home watching football and TV series. All Her Fault finished superbly, but could have been a tight four-parter instead of boring us in the middle of eight episodes.