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> MirrorCode only covers programs with plain-text output. MirrorCode does not test AI abilities in software that is inherently visual It’s an interesting eval but this is a distinc…

Counterpoint: stretching fonts is commonly regarded as a typographic sin, and a condensed form of Georgia exists: https://carterandcone.com/font/georgia/

Fable was not convinced: https://claude.ai/share/1597e697-0638-488a-971d-e17872943137

Get help.

A lot of people who know mathematics say Nielsen’s paper is riddled with errors. I regret sharing it here. > Undergrad who hasn’t passed his first semester yet Not sure what you’re…

Thanks — sorry for spreading nonsense.

> We have seen many projects that adopted AI under corporate pressure circle the drain. Which? > Often the corporations themselves backpedaled after some months. Which

Yes. But you’ll spend more in tokens than you’ll get back from prize money.

Yeah you’ll never catch me drinking a Guinness while standing on my head at a company event. Mostly due to a total lack of coordination.

A major rewrite in another language is also unusual for this project. It took TypeScript a year to go from announcing tsgo to releasing TypeScript 7.0. That work was done in parall…

Maybe they will! Are you expecting them to live-tweet their work or something?

This post doesn’t make sense. It was rewritten in Rust. The rewrite itself is complete (no more Zig). Various people have claimed that Bun in Zig had a lot of tech debt. If they’re…

Lovely to hear the choir rehearsing a psalm sung in the longstanding Anglican choral tradition (Psalm 91 to a tune by H. Walford Davies). Having spent a lot of time in those sorts …

Totally get that for code! But there are orgs where non-code things are compartmentalised — maybe for leak reasons — that still want to employees to make use of agents.

[I work for Slack, opinions very much my own] Having agents see everything you and your colleagues see is cool. The challenge comes when you want to make certain things private to …

FWIW, LLMs make this 95% less of a problem. It’s possible to create read-only viewers for Word, Excel & PowerPoint files that are more-or-less pixel accurate on 99% of files, so lo…

The language an application is authored in does not matter to me, as a user. I care that it is widely-used (safety in numbers), that it works, and that it is fast. It's cool that t…

Alex Karp says a lot of things

15+YOE. Fable 5 is well above the level of Opus. I have used it alongside Opus for a range of hard problems, including porting a large static analysis tool to Rust, building variou…

> That PAC doesn't look like they are ideologically oriented, they just care about whether a candidate is pro crypto or not Surely the more disturbing thing is that they're spendin…