Kaine Bent | Senior DevOps Engineer

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2026-07-081 min read

Review: Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction by Judith Grisel

Book review for Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction by Judith Grisel

2026-07-072 min read

LLMs force you to treat them like a pet

You can't treat something stochastic like cattle. These genAI tools need babysitting.

2026-06-122 min read

Access to Work

Everyone needs access to work. In the UK, we do not have this.

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14 read in 202618 reading now★ 4.1 avgall books →

The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)J.R.R. Tolkien★★★★★

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)J.R.R. Tolkien★★★★★

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of EmpireAkala★★★★★

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Life on EarthDavid Attenborough★★★★★

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of MossesRobin Wall Kimmerer★★★★★

MatildaRoald Dahl★★★★★

The Hobbit, or There and Back AgainJ.R.R. Tolkien★★★★★

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Sword Art Online: Progressive, Vol. 1 (Sword Art Online: Progressive Light Novel, #1)Reki Kawahara★★★★★

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)Douglas Adams★★★★★

The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business WinGene Kim★★★★★

A Brief History of TimeStephen W. Hawking★★★★★

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Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of AddictionJudith Grisel★★★★★

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