Ian Fogg

Watching the Cisco AI Summit. Lots of major speakers. Sam Altman first up. Stream and the full agenda is here: https://www.ciscoaisummit.com/ai-virtual-summit.html

"AI vibes" = people feel more productive with AI but are actually slower. Money quotes: "When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues" but, "developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%." https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

RE: @WiteWulf@cyberplace.social

I still miss Aftter Dark > 30 years on

Clawdbot, the ultimate homelab AI agent. Now, I just need to find something to run it on where I can *closely* manage what services it can access (i.e. not a main computer, but something with powerful enough hardware): https://www.macstories.net/stories/clawdbot-showed-me-what-the-future-of-personal-ai-assistants-looks-like/

In other news, I've installed Graphene OS -- but why, given there are no Google services included, did it trigger Google to send me a "welcome to your new Pixel" email?? Information on it here: https://grapheneos.org @GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social

This is an extremely well articulated speech, it's a must read. Full text: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/21/mark-carney-davos-canadian-prime-minister-donald-trump-new-world-order

There are 17 Bluetooth devices paired with my main phone. Wow. Fortunately for my sanity only a few are connected at the same time.