In the 19th Century British Foreign Office the Napoleon Technique was called "masterly inactivity". For instance "the Russians are threating Afghanistan, so we must move troops up to the NW Frontier". No! Not every action merits a reaction.

Also useful for cache locality, a more recent trend. But I guess that's just another slighlty diff case of tight mem; this time in the cache rather than RAM generally.

Neat summary of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Riding!

Also UK style outsourcing eg Capita, Serco and recently Tata Consultancy Services fubaring JLRs infra.

Sounds positively monastic, in the best way. Your magnum opus rendered as glorious coding codex is surely preordained. I'm reminded off Cyril Connolly's Pram in the Hallway. We are all prisoners of our brain chemistry.

Cf GBP exit from the ERM inc Soros

I saw that demoed at Notts Micro Computing Club in the early 80s. IIRC a Microwriter was used to drive input for an Acorn Electron.

Yup. There were drivers for both the Electron and the BBC Micro (required the Model B IIRC, Model A didn't have enough spare RAM for the software)

Yes, completely agree. LLMs instantiate Searle's Chinese Room argument; symbols alone have no meaning. And yes, I buy the Kripkenstein argument. The meaning is the use, and intersubjectivity is key. My fear is that the humans who should know the use are having their grasp on that use degraded by production and consumption of AI slop text. Understanding requires application, and AI slop is letting the lazy off that hook.

dbase II offered similar capabilities on 8 bit CPM workstation in the early 80s.

Feyerabend: the only rule is "anything goes"