AskBeevs, Melbourne (2025)

22/09/2025

sataya is right to worry

20/09/2025

Well, isn't this a change

Big tech companies and consulting companies for years cycled workers into corporate services Predominantly from India ..

That's not basically ended in the US.

You can still get the visa for high end talent but it'll cost the sponsor $100k 🤯

19/09/2025

Wow, sounds like Shortens been reading my Page.

Bill Shorten's recent call for higher education reform hits at something we all know but rarely discuss: Australia's three-year degree system is broken.

Speaking as Vice Chancellor of Canberra University, Shorten pointed out what I say.

Australia ranks 105th out of 145 nations on Harvard's Economic Complexity Index. We're sitting alongside Botswana and Namibia.

We've become a nation that's brilliant at digging things up but terrible at turning them into sophisticated products.

The solution isn't more of the same.

Shorten wants us to "break the tyranny of the three-year degree" and embrace modular learning instead. Think stackable credentials that build toward full qualifications while people stay in their jobs.

Consider a defence worker who needs quantum technology skills. Under the current system, they'd need to step away for three years.

Under Shorten's model, they complete a six-week microcredential, which stacks toward a graduate certificate, which builds toward a master's degree.

They're productive throughout and their employer retains critical talent.

This isn't just about convenience. Australia desperately needs specialist capabilities in defence, cybersecurity, and AI.

Loading young innovators with massive debts to gain these essential skills is, as Shorten puts it, "strategically foolish." We should see their education as public infrastructure, not private burden.

The current system assumes everyone starting university knows nothing, wasting existing skills and experience.

Recognition of prior learning could transform how we develop our workforce, creating personalised pathways that respect what people already bring.

Australia's economic future depends on moving beyond being a "world-class campus with no factories."

The question isn't whether this transformation will happen, but whether we'll lead it or watch others do it better.

I tend to agree with Shorten.

I can guarantee he won't achieve it though. 😆

17/09/2025

Students love their studies most in fields that AI can't easily replace. This isn't a coincidence IMO.

Agriculture students are happiest at 84.8%. Vets come second at 82.5%.

These are all jobs where you need human hands, human judgment, and human connection.

At the bottom?

Computing students at just 67.3%. They're literally studying the field that's creating AI. And they're the most miserable.

Why this probably makes sense:

Computing students are stressed. They know their skills might be worthless in five years. Every semester brings new tech that makes last semester's lessons obsolete.

Vet students aren't worried.** Animals will always need doctors. You can't diagnose a sick cow through a screen.

Law students feel secure. Courtrooms need humans who can argue, persuade, and make ethical calls.

Engineering students are nervous. AI already designs circuits and writes code. Their 72.7% satisfaction shows it.

if AI can do your job, students might already know it.

14/09/2025

On Friday I asked my audience on Tim Beevors 4x4 reviews -- for some old Flogged out windows 10 laptops

I ended up getting 9 fully operational Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbons thay are really nice machines.

Instead of numbering them like a Noob - I code named them with Stickers 😆

Mainly because I didn't have any stickers.

They're all already flashed to LINUX... 😆

All identical ready to go.

12/09/2025

CrewAI is a development framework for creating AI agents.

You may not know what I'm talking about.

But anyway. Anthropic Claude Natively knows how to write the code.

Claude Code can access your terminal and set up the environments necessary to run CrewAI.

So if you even Rudimentarily know what CrewAI can do -- you can ask Claude to build you agents and run them on your computer with any of the commercial APIs.

It's actually wild what's possible now 🤣

I'll do a tutorial soon.

Oh PS. Other good news. It looks like I've been granted 8-10 'students' to start my new course in a legit sense.

Really exciting. 🔥

09/09/2025

People say the world is going to de-dollarise

In the US what is electricity traded in - Dollars

What do Data Centres Run on - Electricity

How do we measure AI 'work' - Tokens

Therefore Tokens = Dollars.

The dollar is only going to grow in Power.

The US won't need to Tax Human Labor much longer.

They'll tax foreign production via Tariffs.

And they'll Tax Tokens.

And they'll probably even tax the Tokens that are exported.

07/09/2025

An Academic in Europe wrote a post

He said AI use should be totally banned in Academia then listed off 15 (non-current) reasons why he was right.

I said 'respectfully, your too young to have these views. You're career will be over in 3-5 years if you maintain them' 🤣

Was I rude? Yes, apologies.

But I wanted to help him with a reality check.

To me what he was saying was absurd.

Then another Academic popped up backing his sentiment claiming no person using AI will think...

Another claim I find absurd.

Their understanding of AI is purely as a text based search engine.

They're missing 90 percent of actual agency is gives you. And I'll give you a real example.

My father is 73 years old and in the CFA.

Fair to say he's NOT a technologist.

On the weekend he manually downloaded 300 map files from an online GIS covering large areas of Forrest.

He wanted to Label map with its file name on the map so when printed you knew which file it was.

He started doing it manually and estimated it would have taken him 30 hrs to complete.

He rang me for a short cut.

So I told him to jump on AI - and ask it how to do it.

He told me he couldn't do it. But I persisted.

I said carefully explain what you want, follow it's instructions and don't stop till it's done.

He rang back 2 hrs later all excited.

He'd learnt how to open the terminal.
Download a code editor program.
Install all the right environment components. Deploy a server.
Write the software to do the processing.
He even specified the input and output folders and debugged some issues with file name capitalisation.

He was successful. It took him 2 hrs.

He said it was amazing. It only took 2 hrs and it taught him all the steps to build and deploy software on his computer.

To him it felt like a super power.

Now an Academic would say, oh but he's not a computer scientist 🤣

Your missing the point (!)

My Dad built agency.

He learnt a new skill.

And if he keeps going he'll keep learning ,🤣

Banning that to protect you from risk of not thinking - is by it's definition NOT thinking.

07/09/2025

Last week I bought a new Windows Laptop in New Zealand

It took me about an hour from Pressing Start to get everything ready

Today I bought a Windows Laptop in Australia -- and instead of going through the Login Process - I F12'd to a Linux Boot USB Stick, deleted Windows and Installed Linux

Took about 5 minutes 🤣

In the time it takes to fill out the stupid questionnaire I was able to setup all my environments and build some agents 🤣

I've got Macs too and I like them, but I'm increasingly wondering why Windows is the Universal choice.

It's so hopelessly bloated now

06/09/2025

Academia won't grasp AI until it recognises that it's not one skill. Mastering it requires a mastery of multiple skills all at the same time -- which is impossible challenging when many kids don't have a solid grasp of the fundamentals now.

Building smart chatbots, curating datasets and implementing clever input prompts is only a fraction of the educational problem that needs solving.

Mastering AI (is in my opinion only) - a stack of skills - that have never really been taught as a single set before.

The skills are as follows:

1. A solid foundational grasp of what different AI models can do, how they respond (reliably or not) to various inputs. Without this base understanding you wont make much progress and very few academics (or people) are deeply across the capabilities we now have

2. The skill to write software—whether directly yourself, through a prompt, via an AI agent, or even "vibe coding." Prompting alone won't give you the precise control needed to control the AI effectively. AI is only powerful when you master how to control its actions agentically. The return prompt alone has limited utility that is most commonly scrutinised.

3. The ability to define problems from first principles, no matter the topic. If you can't break down a problem step by step, you won't know how to use AI to advance whatever you are trying to achieve.

4. A hypothesis driven mindset that's ready to iterate problems, critically analyse results, and validate them. This is rooted in the scientific method and to some extent the entrepreneurial mindset of validation. Both divergent skills.

5. Accurate and pursuasive communication skills and understanding two ways: (1) Describing exactly what you want to the machine to do to maximise the accuracy and precision of results, and (2) having an ability to communicate results to humans in clear, persuasive, and actionable ways. Both hopelessly divergent and complex skills.

And

6. You still need adequate DOMAIN knowledge in whatever topic you're working on. If you don't understand the underlying topic and concepts, AI won't help much.

That being said - with proper training, you can use AI to quickly fill knowledge gaps, and speed up your learning process. Mastering skills 1-5 will be a massive advantage to those trying to master the domains of 6.

But then there's the X factor.

The Mindset of the Student.

Do they have the agency and confidence to master the skill stack - and will traditional teaching processes get them there?

I'm not confident.

Why?

Zero Teachers and Academics were taught that stack of skills. It's like a Unicorn skillset.

I think Teachers will become (eventually) like coaches. But in a way, the teachers need to go back to school too.

Add into that the Bureaucracy burden of change -- I don't see it happening systemically for some time.

If anything you probably need a scenario where the teachers are collectively educated by a superset of new technologists in the new world.

Not sure how that'll go down though.

Nope, I think the best thing to do is teach young people. They'll figure it out from first principles.

The super students are coming.

05/09/2025

Windows has dominated for decades because it could run old software and businesses needed it

But artificial intelligence is changing the way we use computers

AI agents can now do things for us, and most software runs in web browsers instead of via desktop programs

This shift flips the dynamic.

Windows has to carry decades of old code to support ancient programs which makes the system heavy, slow and complicated.

Linux doesn't have this baggage and most AI development happens on Linux.

The tools and frameworks that power machine learning were built for Linux first.

Cloud servers run Linux.

When developers build AI systems on Linux and deploy them on Linux servers, Windows becomes a pain.

Linux is cheaper and more efficient to run than Windows, and the final barrier (technical know how, is WAY WAY more accessible) now that AI is available to help direct you.

When companies run thousands of AI processes in the cloud, Windows licensing costs add up quickly.

Apple Ditto.

Apple designs both hardware and software together, creating optimizations Windows machines can't match.

Their custom chips include special processors just for AI tasks.

This hardware advantage becomes more important as AI moves to personal devices.

When everything runs in Chrome, Firefox, or Safari, the operating system underneath becomes less important.

Users interact with web applications and AI agents through browsers, not Windows specific programs.

In the medium term a lot of companies simply won't need Windows to run legacy apps because most of them will migrate to the cloud.

If you haven't used Linux lately you'd be shocked how much support there is for it now.

04/09/2025

🤣 -- you have to learn more about this guy

He's invented a tool called Cluey that streams your screen and audio into AI and gives you suggested answers to everything in real time 🤣

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