Scott D @scottdav

Designing, building and deploying technology solutions in the real world. Technologist working in London. These are my personal views. Somewhere Joined April 2011

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Scott D @scottdav

7 months ago

Intrigued to see what the new @perplexity_ai Comet browser delivers in terms of agentic search. What interesting times we live in 😃

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Scott D @scottdav

9 months ago

AI is great at answering 'how do I write this code?' but terrible at answering 'should we write this code?' And that second question is the one that actually matters." #SoftwareDevelopment

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Engineering managers spend 80% of their time in meetings so their team doesn't have to explain the same thing six times to six different stakeholders (who each think they're the only stakeholder). #SoftwareDevelopment

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Scott D @scottdav

9 months ago

Chinese lab DeepSeek has slashed AI costs by 10x while matching GPT-4o level performance. This is another level of exponential decline in AI costs. They have launched an open weights release of a frontier model trained on peanuts of a budget for an AI lab, just $5.5M. #genai

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Scott D @scottdav

9 months ago

The hype surrounding Generative AI hasn't just changed the way we think about scaling compute. In many respects, the mobilisation of capital we've seen around AI is reminiscent of the space race. #GenAI #AI

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Scott D @scottdav

9 months ago

Prompting an LLM takes thoughtful work of the kind many people do not have the patience for. Reviewing the results takes skill. The kind of 'thinking work' great engineers do. I do not see LLM's displacing good engineers any time soon. #AI #LLMs

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Scott D @scottdav

9 months ago

The 'coding Engineering Manager' is tech's favourite myth. Your IDE time is actively harming the team. Your job is to unblock, grow and accelerate 5+ engineers - not ship that one PR you're hoarding. #Engineering #tech

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Scott D @scottdav

a year ago

So, Microsoft Research launches VASA-1. Meanwhile FSI customers in the UK can’t even get adequate support for critical “SEV A” Azure production problems. Customer, SI’s, Partners are all complaining that the support model is broken. Don’t forget your roots! #microsoft #AI

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Google @Google

2 years ago

Today we’re opening sign-ups to Search Labs for U.S. English users, and we’ll expand availability over time. Tap the Labs icon in the latest version of the Google app or Chrome desktop to join the waitlist or go to g.co/Labs. #GoogleIO

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Scott D @scottdav

3 years ago

TIL that you can copy text from a photo on iOS! #iphone

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Scott D @scottdav

3 years ago

Top evening watching Red Hot Chilli Peppers #dreamforce #sanfran

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Robin Marx @programmingart

3 years ago

Today, after over 5 years of work, HTTP/3 was finally standardized as RFC 9114! rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9114.ht… Together with RFC 9204 (QPACK header compression) and RFC 9218 (Extensible Priorities) it ushers in an important new chapter for the Web! Proud to have been part of this!

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Scott D @scottdav

3 years ago

Todays success ☺️

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Scott D @scottdav

4 years ago

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Scott D @scottdav

4 years ago

Wow! #F1Finale

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Scott D @scottdav

4 years ago

Anyone else think #Web3 has similar characteristics to the Dotcom boom (huge hype, lack of real world use cases, unbelievable investment/valuations etc)?

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Scott D @scottdav

4 years ago

The Code That Controls Your Money—COBOL is a coding language older than Weird Al Yankovic. The people who know how to use it are often just as old. It underpins the entire financial system. And it can’t be removed. (Nov 2020) - wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazine…

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Scott D @scottdav

4 years ago

Nice to be back!

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Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom

4 years ago

The Weekend Test "What the smartest people do on the weekend is is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years." - @cdixon Observe the weekend projects of the smartest people in your circles. Odds are those will become a key part of our future. Invest accordingly.

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Scott D @scottdav

4 years ago

Sold car to @CazooUK y’day. The best customer experience I’ve had in years. They gave me a price to buy the car, didn’t haggle when I handed over car, and money was in the bank before I even left the car park. Customer service was outstanding (Sarah Hibbit in Tonbridge branch 👍🏼)