Week 406: Shelf

I think with AI you’ve got to be building the software equivalent of escalators if you’re going to do it for prod. That way if the AI goes away you still have stairs, unless you’ve gotten too out of shape to walk up them. On Saturday we went to see Shelf do “Kids Show 2” at a small parish hall in a hamlet outside Lewes. It was a weird place for them to be honestly - the last time we saw them was at the Brighton Dome so this not even sold out show in the middle of nowhere was a surprise. Per the last time though, they were amazing. So kinetic, so funny. Chaz was rapt, fully in the show with every fiber of his being. At the end we went to see them and he told them he still had the sketch he’d won from them last time he saw them. After the show we had lunch in a pub and then walked to Ditching Beacon. There was minimal complaining from the children, particularly once I’d convinced an overheating 5 year old to take his t-shirt off. Along the way we saw runners attempting the 100 mile run…