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One I got "That settles it, and it flips the picture" well not very settled then is it

To IBM As specified, please find 99997 correct parts and the 3 defects (do not use)

I think some people who grew up with web apps didn't know local native apps preceded them.

Let me verify one thing. Let me read this rather than answer from memory. Let me check instead of handwaving the details. Let me confirm rather than blindly trusting. Let me ground…

Ah, t is a formal variable, a symbol, like the letter t. Not like a drink with jam and bread.

The things people do to not use web technologies.

Incredible. My two-year-old forgets to include Lambek when lecturing on Curry-Howard-Lambek correspondence. Kids.

I presume haskell applications similar to claude code are well represented in the training data.

The LLMs are better at enforcing their boundaries than developers. Run out of tokens? That's it. No more code. It doesn't care how much the company needs this for the customer call…

How did hate come in - did you assume it?

I imagine everyone has a point at which they feel a movement has pushed its rhetoric just that bit too far. When one takes a lofty and high-minded position, one can find oneself ex…

If it is that bad then I sincerely apologise.

I shall call it artist slop.

It's the natural vinyl warmth

Artists: No cold-hearted machine can ever replicate the ingenuity, the innate creativity and passionate soul of the artiste. Later: The villain cat has the catchphrases 'Purrrfect'…

I googled that word and Anthropic.com was the first hit. Head -> desk

> NO, YOU CANNOT JUST USE GLOBAL STATE. USE THIRD-PARTY LIBRARY WITH FANCY FUNCTIONAL DESIGN. window.i = 0; // initialize all my for loops in one go!

red blob games is a treasure

My screen reader says "eleven why" for a11y. I hope that's fine with everyone

It has taken LLMs to encourage companies to prioritise a clean codebase, tickets with unambiguous context and examples of what is right and wrong when onboarding new team members. …

This is interesting in light of the discussion on hacker news yesterday, where folk were talking about how they had to learn how to make games work on early PCs, given limitations …

Dr Manhattan

I think what you are describing is covered by either an E reader or the giant collection of how-to explantions on YouTube?