Oliver Shreeve

@glenncoco01.bsky.social

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Design, UX or Product Researcher based on whichever gets the most traction with stakeholders BTN/LDN | 🏳️‍🌈 | he/they | ex-French-person

Gramp Simpson meme claining "I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognise Blade of Grass on Mayhem"
Grampa Simpson meme claim that "I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognise L.E.S Girl on Confessions"
A screenshot from Slack on iOS. Part of the contextual menu is shown with “paste” and other options. A red square is drawn around an icon that looks like a pencil (?) pointing to the middle of a Spirograph output (?). The icon is really confusing to understand and so hard to describe
Screenshot from the Devil Wears Prada. It’s the scene where someone holds up two belts up that are the same colour shade but completely different shapes and says “Here. It’s a tough call. They’re so different.” to Miranda
A photo of the app version of Claude. “I’m done for the day” has been added to the image with an arrow pointing at a notification in Claude saying “usage limit reached. Resets 4:00PM”
Portlandia scene in the feminist shop. One character is saying “Toni, it’s so hot” the other replies “it’s the heat”
A version of the Jennifer Coolidge 4th of July meme where she states that the sunny weather makes her want to automate her workflows with AI real bad instead
Screenshot of an article from The Making of Making Sense by Dorian Taylor: First we should reiterate why LLMs work for writing software at all: Code can be verified cheaply, and at several levels, by other code (linter, compiler, unit tests). Mathematically proving it is another matter, but formal proofs aren’t actually necessary to be fit for purpose. There is an enormous body of source code to train on, with attendant documentation, going back decades. Most software just repeats similar patterns—​they only vary slightly in the details—​a phenomenon well-represented in the training data. Code does not have to reference empirical reality, it only has to have the right “shape”.
Screenshot from a blog on The Sense of Sense Making by Dorian Taylor: A question worth asking is why do large language models perform relatively well with code, anyway? I agree with other commentators that it’s because there’s a right answer that is verifiable—​quickly and deterministically—​by external means. I’ll also add that code only has to be internally consistent: it (mostly) doesn’t have to reference facts about the world.
Screenshot of text from a New York Times article by Ezra Klein published in March 2026: Researchers have drawn a distinction between “cognitive offloading” and “cognitive surrender.” Cognitive offloading comes when you shift a discrete task over to a tool like a calculator; cognitive surrender comes when, as Steven Shaw and Gideon Nave of the University of Pennsylvania put it, “the user relinquishes cognitive control and adopts the A.I.’s judgment as their own.” In practice, I wonder whether this distinction is so clean: My use of calculators has surely atrophied my math skills, as my use of mapping services has allowed my (already poor) sense of direction to diminish further.
A picture of boxes with giant Easter egg biscuits from M&S. The one on the top is a giant M&S custard cream, the bottom one is a giant M&S chocolate ground. There’s a Rude Health granola peaking out from the back
A cropped screenshot with the title "Minimising the risk of breaches caused by auto-complete" from digital compliance training. It's then followed up by the recommendation that auto-complete be turned off with a separate paragraph saying that it can't be turned off in the latest version of Outlook
A screenshot from Reddit that pulls out an image from the Stranger Things documentary. The Reddit title mentions that we can see a Duffer brothers’ laptop screen with three ChatGPT tabs open while writing the last season
A picture of the Thanksgiving play from Addams Family Values before everything goes to shit. The actress that will play Harmony from Buffy is going off on one in what is obviously a condescending tone even in a photo. Pugsley is dressed a turkey in the background. There's not much to add about him because the films didn't really know what to do with his character apart from acting as a foil to Wednesday
4 pics in quadrants of a middle aged gay with a moustache and glasses drinking a tonka bean iced coffee in front of the Medici fountain in Paris. Stunning!
A weathered man in his forties looks tiredly at the camera in front of a church