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"then consider improving all your training data and reinforcement feedback" Fixed that for you. The input is sooo much more than your prompt, that's kind of the point.

"a short description of the current functionality, and a well-trimmed list of 'lessons-learned'" Where does that come from? "And no, I wouldn't ever give it a year of changelog.md.…

If Theseus recreated the ship from the original plans but all new parts, created new plans, and then burned the original plans and original parts, it is the same ship? If yes, what…

I think the reimplementation in question rubs people the wrong way because of the intentions of parties on both ends and the ignoring of one of them by the other (erasure of, from …

That's not a mistake. You'd be getting spam marketing anyway, why not make sure it's something obvious? I always pick the oldest possible age when asked, just to mess with their da…

If the content is mixed, it makes even more sense to have the content supply the age data. This is how it has worked with broadcast media pretty much forever. TV shows and movies g…

They _have to_ continue renting, because they didn't learn anything while "making" those tools.

Because programmers made the LLMs, and they first applied it to the problems they know, so the examples of "replacing a programmer" are abundant. Then the hype train rolled in and …

CS programs have high attrition rates because programming or "coding" has been touted as easy money for a couple few decades now. When people find out it's not so easy, they bail. …

Anyone could make their own tools before this as well. Just needed to learn something first. Real democratizing or programming is free access to compilers, SDKs, etc. AI coding doe…

Then those "upgrades" will come down to just using an LLM as a lexer/parser for natural language and then calling a compiler on the generated AST. Except natural language is often …

I hope people can see that "winning big" using that process is very unlikely NOT to be "winning long term". (From GP) "AI coding sometimes sacrifices correctness or cleanness for s…

But at least the coder has potential to have learned something. The future agent needs to be given all the context the past agent had, or else it's basically starting from scratch …

"You want to avoid dumping in a bunch of data (like a year's worth of git logs) and telling it to sort out what's relevant itself" So instead you give it a years worth of changelog…

Why doesn't this apply to human collaborators as well? If you need all this extra metadata to comprehend the changes, isn't that kind of going backwards? You spend time (setting up…

Actually I'd say Win2K was the merge point: its internal version is NT 5.0, while XP is NT 5.1 & 5.2. The Win2K UI is the first NT truly usable in a home situation, and last and be…

How is it more logical? Upper right places them close to the other window controls. Also continues the down-then-right order of most of the other controls. In fact, putting buttons…

Pointers are still very useful for many paradigms. Think about something like Blender or a game level editor: there can be _a lot_ of controls visible at once, trying to navigate t…

"From the first lab studies it became clear that we needed a baseline with Windows 3.1, to better understand what problems existed prior to Windows 95 and what problems were unique…

Every major first party product has been using their own siloed UI framework since like 2003-ish. Visual Studio has always been one of the worst offenders. Sometimes the new UI com…

Do they have network performance problems such that messages need to be preloaded? Can't just fetch the new ones at wake up? That is a solution in search of a problem. I go from ph…

"when it worked, it worked" is one of the weakest excuses possible, and one Apple themselves railed against many times. Not working at all (ie: broken) is quite worse than not work…

Nobody leaves the cables attached. Except wanna be pro gamers who think a couple milliseconds will help them more than practice to "git gud". Every mouse I have is wireless, and I …

Not sure I need to give any example solutions, because you've already explained that your solution isn't great, "mine doesn't work 1:1 for you, which is basically a given for any n…

What section of the ToS prohibits this? In other words, what is the thing that is being done that is against the ToS? Looking up the creator of a repo, or the contributors of the r…