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> As for documentation, I've found this simple instruction to vastly improve LLMs' output: > Never write READMEs, docstrings, or comments. I will write those myself later. And yes,…

Cookie consent popups are only a scourge because publishers would rather further irritate their users than stop selling your data to their 936 “trusted partners”.

Even in perfectly normal, common situations it fails horribly. The bottom stretch of the road I live on is about 2.5 cars wide, but one side is reserved for parking (it’s terraced …

> AI is such a core part of the experience For who? Regular people are quite famously not clamouring for more AI features in software. A Siri that is not so stupendously dumb would…

I would call the designing of the building art, yes. But I wouldn’t call it construction. I would also call designing a system to be fed into an LLM designing. But I wouldn’t call …

I will never as long as I live understand the argument that AI development is more fun. If you want to argue that you’re more capable or whatever, fine. I disagree but I don’t have…

On what planet is concentrating an increasingly high amount of the output of this whole industry on a small handful of megacorps “democratising” anything? Software development was …

By feel. Not everyone uses all the buttons all the time, but stuff you use a lot is easily operated without taking eyes off the road. It pairs well with the other upside of physica…

https://gist.github.com/nicolas17/966a03ce49f949dd17b0123415...

Formatted? I guess not really, because it’s trivially easy to reformat it. But how it’s structured, the data structures and algorithms it uses, the way it models the problem space,…

It’s funny, I never connected my G5 to the network or accepted any of the optional T&Cs, so there’s now numerous places in the UI that say “accept terms to see personalised content…

> you won't get stuck because of a word you don't understand or a concept you've never heard of I very much disagree here. To make any sort of progress in AoC, in my experience, yo…

> You don't need a computer science background to participate - just a little programming knowledge and some problem solving skills will get you pretty far. Every time I see this I…

The difference is you still need to express creativity in your use of GarageBand and iMovie. There is nothing creative about typing "give me a picture of x doing y" into a form fie…

> Do we pour billions into educating users not to click "yes" to every prompt they see? Yes, obviously yes . In the same way we teach people to operate cars safely and expect them …

Apple software, especially lately, can be really bad for it too. Single core perf is slightly better on my iPad than my MacBook Pro and yet everything feels an order of magnitude s…

One of these days I’m going to get around to writing a little bash script or something that will let me take a plain-ish text file and upload it into Jira via the API. I should be …

Is that “general” though? I’ve always taken AGI to mean general to any problem.

For all his faults, Jobs always sold the idea that he really thought the stuff he was showing was the coolest thing ever. There was at the very least an illusion of pride and excit…

> focus on content This has been Alan Dye's modus operandi since he took the helm on software design and the problem is it does not scale to larger devices. On a phone and mostly o…

Seriously why does seemingly every presenter from Tim Cook right down to the engineers in the tech-specific sessions speak with the exact same uncanny delivery in these videos? It'…

I am incredibly annoyed that they’ve hidden all the camera controls behind an overflow button. Hiding functions is not the same as simplicity any more than shoving all the dirty la…

Then why not just write it? You mention not having to write Markdown in the post, but c’mon dude, you’re a software developer. Presumably the fact you have a personal blog means yo…

> Automate Content: Like this very post. I use Wispr Flow to talk with Claude, explain the topic and tell it to read my past blog posts to write in my style. If you had any respect…

Absurd take. Speed is not the issue! Optimising for speed of production is what got us into the utter quagmire that is modern software. Lack of correctness, lack of understanding a…