Things that happened

I received a happy birthday message from our HR system. It gave me the same vibes as the AI-written compliments I mentioned in Month in review: May 2026.
Microsoft ran an "AI skills fest". There wasn't much of interest to me. The "main stage" event was very cringey. I don't know if it would appeal to an American or global audience, but I can't imagine many Brits enjoyed it. I wasn't very impressed by the content either, it seemed a bit superficial to me, but I guess it's trying to appeal to people who haven't been using AI day-to-day for the past few years so I might not be the target audience for it. I looked through a featured playlist about using GitHub Copilot, because that seemed most relevant to my role, but found it contained very little that I didn't already know. If I had more time available to sink into learning completely new things perhaps I'd have found other things which I could engage with, but from a position of looking for relatively immediate relevance I unfortunately found none.

Things I learnt

I needed to make changes to how we handled some data we received from an API and I helped define requirements in terms of what seemed most appropriate, but I failed to check the historic data we'd received to test how we would treat that data with the new requirements. Unfortunately there was a gap which no-one foresaw, but with hindsight I could have found it by doing a bit more analysis up-front.

I used Claude to ponder what goals I could set for my career at the moment. It brought up some interesting things to think about, but was generally less helpful than I'd hoped or expected. I've not really done much with the output.

A major piece of work I've been doing (on and off) for the past 6 months went into production, with zero issues reported.

These are my own reflections from the content, not necessarily the main point of the content.

AI and Liability - Schneier on Security
- "AI agents are agents of the person or organization that deploys them—and should be treated by the law as such. If a company hired human writers to write its summaries, that company would be liable for inaccuracies in those summaries. If a company’s human agent signed contracts in the company’s name, that company would be bound by those contracts. And if a doctor gave dangerously wrong medical advice, they would be liable for malpractice."
- I haven't thought through any complicated ramifications of this, but at face value it sounds sensible to me.
Satirical incident reports. Who knew that was a category of writing?!
- Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES | Andrew Nesbitt
- Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM | Andrew Nesbitt

Most ideas I have for blog posts never see the light of day because I don't find the time to write them. Here's what I didn't get round to.

TIL about C# double interpolation
Configuring Azure function apps in-process vs isolated worker model
Passkey concerns — although this has ended up less as concerns, and more as general thoughts about what passkeys are good for and what problems they have/don't solve.