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Excellent ! If you enjoy work, then it's not really 'work' is it? Why would you retire from something you enjoy? Achieving 'enjoyment' at work, especially IT development, was something of a holy grail which eluded me for the most part. The advantage of that is, that when I did retire, I...

How do I reply to that? First, I'm sorry to have opened the sluice gates. Alternatively, if you take the view that it's good to talk, then my invoice is in the post. Nobody could know less about your academic life than me, so I won't presume to advise on that front. Except one observation. It...

Even in my day (1990s - mainframe development - Cobol/CICS/DL1/DB2), working for a software house, the bulk of our work was maintaining our clients' systems. On the odd occasion when we had to write a brand new program, we still never wrote a new program, but found a suitable one to copy and use...

Thanks for the reply. It's not an altogether encouraging snapshot of academia. Some of the revelations are extraordinary, and are indicative of the erosion in standards over the years. I'm left wondering how I would react if I had students who have never written an essay, so they go and find...

Maybe I want it fail, like Mrs Doyle in Father Ted, when she was presented with a new fandangled tea-making machine.

I tried to open it, but it said that 'ChatGPT is at capacity right now'. There is a link 'Get notified when we're back'. In a previous attempt, it told me 'ChatGPT can predict the future with 100% accuracy'. So why can't it tell me when it will be back then? Huh? I'm not convinced this...

I assume that - at present - to your trained eye, it will be relatively easy to spot the difference between a 'genuine' essay and a ChatGPT-generated one, but that it will get progressively more difficult as time goes by. If it hasn't already been mooted (what am I saying, of course it has)...

Ask ChatGPT for a cost-benefit analysis, and compare the pros and cons of it with the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn in Germany. By the oddest coincidence, this was installed in.....1901.

LOL. Some years ago, I was enthralled by a young chimp at Barcelona zoo, who grabbed a rag off another chimp and ran off. He then climbed up on some 'rocks' and proceeded to dangle it in front of the other chimp, just out of reach. When the other chimp tried to climb up, the young chimp got hold...