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The stuff which causes you to have diarrhea that gets on the news is caused by the contents of the digestive tract being spread over your meat. Whether it's technically fecal matte…

This is like saying that playing guitar while sitting in a chair is cheating, because a proper display of skill is playing while riding a unicycle. It might be more impressive , bu…

"bacteria can travel to the surface of the muscles during the butchering process" This way undersells what's actually happening: fecal matter from the intestines gets onto your mea…

I've gotten into a situation multiple times where an LLM (usually a low-end free model) will write a whole bunch of code and then be unable to make any more correct changes to it b…

I started developing webapps back in the late 90s when I was in high school using Perl, and I've worked with tons of technologies up till around 2014 or so when I shifted into almo…

For sure. On a personal coding project I said "I'm a professional software engineer, and while this is a hobby project I'm not just vibe-coding and want to build reliable software"…

Heat can't be converted losslessly to useful energy, but converting to heat to other forms of energy is extremely common. What do you think a steam turbine, boiler, internal combus…

The word you're looking for is "authoritarianism". The current regime loves fascism, which is a much better fit for what's happening. Russians and Germans were authoritarian before…

It's actually quoting South Park

Or even just compilers / assemblers. They'll find all kinds of errors humans routinely overlook!

Or they could just explain in the ticket why it's important instead of trying to trick an AI? AIs and humans will both read your explanation of why we should care and use that to p…

This was my experience with some of the stupider models, but I haven't had Claude do this type of thing since I started using it for work about 6mo ago. Claude will do some bonehea…

How does the cursor harness help here compared to something more basic like pi coder? I'm talking specifics.

Also skills can often include helper scripts or other binaries which the agent can use to do things it couldn't otherwise.

If you want to properly isolate things, use containers. That's not what worktrees are for.

That's the one!

We've already seen that it's possible to trick models into seeing user input as their own "thinking" if you make it sound like what the model writes. While it may appear that it's …

Exactly. I don't want a "smart" washer / dryer / fridge / toaster. I want a standard interface I can build my own system around, or use someone else's that they've already built.

Many keyboard players will play stacked keyboards today - I've got a big Nord plus a bunch of little Reface keyboards, and they often each have their own pedals attached to control…

I've seen pretty much every model including Claude bypass commit hooks constantly if there's even a tiny bit of friction, instead of pausing and asking me to help fix why it can't …

"I love building software, I just don't like the data entry parts", to paraphrase a guy I worked with once who explained how he loved writing design docs for junior engineers to im…

Did he also say you should cover everything the tackiest gaudiest faux-gold crap everywhere? Anyone who takes business advice from Trump is a moron.

Blackbox software testing has been a thing for a very long time. Running manual tests doesn't require reading the source code. For personal side projects I spend orders of magnitud…

The most insane thing is 9-12 months to design and construct a curb ramp. There MUST be a standard template they can just stamp out as often as needed. This sounds like some kind o…

I got caught in a big layoff last year that caught me off guard, in part because I was fully remote when I had been in person before. All the random hallway and kitchen conversatio…