Jack Webb

You may be suffering from too much seriousness in your life. Have you noticed that your clothes are all muted colours? Are your hats all sensible? Do your socks tell people about your soul? Does your house have a place for everything and a thing for every place? Do your friends golf? Do your friends ask you things like how’s the stock market Jeff? Does your briefcase sing a song? Do you remember a time when you used to frolic? Did you ever splash a friend in the pool?

Call of Duty, Skyrim, Fortnite these games are world famous for reasons ranging from interesting competitive games, to beautiful world-building, to a level of adrenaline and intensity that makes the real world seem dull. What comes next I hear you cry?! Thanks for reading Jack Webb! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Rock Simulator. The worst game in the world. You are a rock. You have seen billions of years of history pass and you have not given a shit.

The power, the majesty, the pure thrill of creation, vibe coding is all these things and absolutely none of them at the same time. I am learning vibe coding (VC) from . Until Louie’s course I hadn’t tried VC and had heard mixed things, from people claiming to have automated their whole business to people saying the buggy vibe code has ruined their codebase. I was unsure what to expect Thanks for reading Jack Webb! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

My first hurdle was finding the right door, turns out the AI Governance Research Sprint was not being held in a yoga studio, which in retrospect makes a lot of sense. My second challenge was walking 5 flights of stairs on a hot summer day only to discover there was an elevator. From here, the day got more successful. The day started with a warm welcome from Belle, who organised this wonderful event.

I was thinking the other day about how there was a theme in my career and interests of things that all have emergent properties, this the timeline of that theme. I first encountered emergent properties in my Master’s project for my degree in Physics.

In January 2024 I took a course by BlueDot Impact called AI Safety Fundamentals, that taught the basics of AI safety in a cohort-based online course. It was an amazing experience and I highly recommend it. Someone from a more recent cohort posted that they were considering putting on an event about AI Safety in London. I reached out to see if he needed any help.

My heart started racing as I saw my phone open my banking apps and start guessing passwords. I couldn’t figure out what was going on. The phone was acting entirely on it’s own just opening apps and some kind of command prompt looking thing generating text. I tried to disconnect from the internet, but my phone kept fighting against me. I didn’t give up. Eventually, I was able to turn my phone off. As far as I could tell this stopped the issue.

A while ago I applied for a Product Manager (PM) role at a small company, I had used one of their products and really enjoyed it and got some really good value out of the experience. So I thought applying for the PM job could be an interesting new challenge. One of the potential products they suggested their new PM may be creating was a website.

First I started by googling “Interview Coaching”. Turns out there are people who do this as their business. That’s a good sign, I am not trying to create a product/service that no one wants. I took a look at their websites to see what kinds of services and prices they offer, see what people pay for in this space. There are one-off packages, e-books, courses and long-term packages.

You have just started working in data and now you have a bunch of new friends with strange names like “Data Engineer” and “Data Scientist”, what do these people do exactly? Let’s find out! These kind folks create experiments that answer questions the business has using data that they can analyse 1,000 different ways. They love to A/B test and creating algorithms or using machine learning to better understand their data. They commonly work in languages like Python, R and SQL.