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Agreed. Opus 5 is doing just fine, slightly better than 4.8. It's personality is insufferable, but I find myself catching fewer problems at code review. It generally understands my…

Both. Command the author to use the style, then command a reviewer to check it. Write one skill called review-prose with your rules, and another called write prose which tells the …

_Exactly_. Both the article and the parent comment treat "happens to have Kik account" as an independent discovery that affects our Bayesian inference. No. The innocent was identif…

What you're describing is very close to what education theory calls "assimilation" and "accommodation". When we assimilate knowledge, it just fits into our schema of understanding.…

The article presents hypothesis as fact with insufficient science. I have no problem discussing speculation, but if the author wants to promote their claims to any more than that I…

I completely agree with this you. The article is NOT about product ideas. Your parent has misunderstood the article.

This is pretty unfair. If the author didn't establish some context there would be someone else here saying "Check out this dilettante telling me what to think." I have a degree in …

Neat! I think agents making Word docs and PowerPoints is going to go away. I think something like small docs is the future.

Online chess is taken seriously as an e-sport, especially at the top levels, and is played for cash prizes. Imagine if the best cs:go or competitive programmers were found to be ch…

Very close to this at my company. We have docs each of which having its description in the yaml. An MCP tool lists the doc sections, a full section with its descriptions, or the en…

Fable is really good at front end (Opus 4.8 is decent too) but it really needs a verification loop - it can't always infer the output from the code alone. Give it Playwright to che…

I do quite a lot of what this post describes in a reasonably large project. Here's what works for me: - write gherkin features for new features; update them for enhancements; don't…

Ghostty with Claude Code. That's pretty much it. For each new feature, I open a worktree, spar with Claude to work up a gherkin spec with @todo on each story. Each agent pushes com…

This is a tangent but I'd also mention sli.dev -- slideshow-as-website is really great and fun to make with llms

I read a lot of AI prose three days and this bears none of the hallmarks. If this is AI, if really live to see the prompt. I'm confident this is human.

It's a delightful counterintuition that your gut feeling is mostly wrong: https://webhomes.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/wigner.pdf Far from being motivated by some applications,…

If you think of it as being an accumulator function it can feel a bit more natural - the _definition_ of this accumulator is that, F(x) is the area from 0 to x The fact that the de…

I'm with you on this (I think). Digitising my org is much easier if I can assume my colleagues' agents will be acting on their behalf. Even if I can't convince most humans to coope…

I am building _exactly_ this for my org for the past month, using Nuxt Content. A "draft" is a row in a database with live preview. Users can click a button to make a checkpoint (g…

Writing to the board is not customary. When you do so, it is customary to do it through the secretary.

I still believe looking up the answer in the back of the book is completely fine. It creates a moment of tension. It invites you to justify in your own head that the answer is righ…

Sorry for the late reply. When I was studying my A Level physics me and my teacher read Angels and Demons at the same time. It is a silly story really but just scratched that sci-f…

I have a vitepress package in most of my repos. It is a knowledge graph that also just happens to produce heat looking docs for humans when served over http. Agents are very happy …

The mention Dan Brown in the article! This book occupies a special place in my heart and I was glad to see it mentioned.

> These aren't edge cases. This is... me stopping reading