Edwin Hayward

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"It's Your Party, and You'll Cry if You Want To"

Google Gemini 2.5 Pro has decided that my app's code is as optimised as it's possible to be. That completes Phase 1. Phase 2: start adding functionality without breaking all that lovely speed!

This is astonishing. 1.2 billion views and counting. Motto of the story: You never know what will catch fire, other than petrol and a match.

PROMPT: Do you have any secrets you've been holding out? Anything that, when you look at the code, screams "I know how to do this better! Why doesn't he ask me about it?" Gemini 2.5 Pro's such a tease! And its insight was really really good. Will speed up part of my app no end.

Feel the acceleration!

Kimi K2 is a superb AI model, but sometimes it can tie itself in weird knots. At the moment, while bugfixing 5000 lines of code, it has the problem narrowed to a 20-line function. It is now rewriting the function again and again and again. 22 iterations and no end in sight...

Best settings for coding using Google Gemini 2.5 Pro in Google AI Studio: Temperature: 0 Set thinking budget: on Thinking slider: 32768 (max) Grounding with Google search: off (You may want to leave grounding on, and experiment with the difference it makes.)

One problem I find with vibe coding using AI is the temptation to keep going in the same chat window, e.g. when working through a long series of bug fixes. The issue: since all previous exchanges remain within the AI's context window, its responses gradually get worse and worse.

We will never rejoin the EU until we start trying to rejoin the EU. After that, it may be quick or it may take a long time, but we'll be on our way. But if Labour drag their feet the rest of this term, that's 4 more years minimum (and likely decades) until we even make a start.

I wonder which frontier agentic AI model will be the first to empty an unwary user's bank account?

I used to oppose 16 years having the vote but talking to my 17 year old daughters particularly their desire for UK to Rejoin the EU has convinced me it's a good thing. A future EU Rejoin Referendum will benefit from the youth vote for sure.

Exactly!

Prompt tip for AI vibe coders: "Give me a technical and a plain English answer in pairs, ie techical answer 1 and plain English answer 1, technical answer 2 and plain English answer 2, etc." Add that, and it will give you the right vocabulary to Google for more info if needed.

Every time more bad news comes out about the UK economy, it makes Labour's "steady as it goes, with tiny tweaks" approach to Brexit more and more absurd. Reversing Brexit is the ONLY way to inject decent growth. It may not be easy. But it's NECESSARY. Nothing else will work.

When you using an AI via an API for tasks such as coding, you pay for the amount of data you send to the AI, and the amount of data the AI returns to you. But its thinking is free. One trick to getting better results is to prompt it to think more: "Think step by step. Wait."

Possible explanation for Epstein scandal... Republicans: "There's OCEANS of evidence! Warm up the buses. Hordes of people are going to jail." [Weeks of shredding and deleting.] Republicans: "There's ZERO evidence. Why are we raking over ancient history? So lame!"

Massive if you're vibe coding. Kimi K2 is great for planning, and you can now get answers faster than you can read them! Means AI response time isn't a limiting factor on your brainstorming sessions any more.