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The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death are a Failure Mode

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0100

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. It was a visible failure mode of a knowledge system that I have been thinking about for a while now.

The Man With No Brains

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0100

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 stimulation and instant gratification these tools provided. Instead of being a useful helper, AI became the process itself - I stopped starting with code and using AI to work through ideas, and instead started with AI and used it to generate the implementation.

Oh no, not again... a meditation on NPM supply chain attacks

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 12:00:00 +0100

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…

Slack wants you you know this privacy exploit is fine

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 19:50:00 +0100

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 HackerOne - where Slack accepts reports of potential security exploits. After giving a detailed list of instructions on how to achive it (Report #2171907).

I Think I Found a Privacy Exploit in ChatGPT

Fri, 14 Apr 2023 00:50:00 +0100

> 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 invite, I experimented with alpaca.cpp , designed to run models on CPU’s with limited memory constraints. I began by developing a simple web interface using NodeJS and sockets for parsing the command line. Once I started working with the GPT-4 API, I quickly realized that with the right prompts, it could be a powerful tool. It has already helped me rewrite complex code into simpler methods and reduce complexity by moving code to functions: