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Been adding ad-hoc OFX export to more than one bank's site using Greasemonkey for exactly this. Scroll the page, suck up the transactions, I no longer need to wait on the bank to d…

I've been using a simple uBlock Origin filter, and it works OK only. LinkedIn work very hard to stop people scraping, which means they regularly seem to shift the structure of thei…

These ublock rules work badly, but OK, if you don't want to install an extension: www.linkedin.com##[data-lazy-mount-id] www.linkedin.com##div[data-lazy-mount-id][data-component-ty…

I don't think you need to be keeping abreast of them really, you just need to be using the best model you can get enough tokens from, which for many people is Fable 5 @ $200ish, id…

(nevermind, I was reading DeepInfra as Deepseek. My bad)

It's nice to cynically call this a marketing stunt, and terrifying to consider that they might just in fact be moving fast and breaking things.

One of my guiltier pleasures is reading r/Conservative to see which knots they're tying themselves in today defending some of his more insance ideas. In the unlikely event this sur…

That lets Trump off the hook by suggesting it's just run-of-the-mill corruption. It's not. He has a personal vendetta against wind power ever since a bust-up with Scotland about th…

I think there are posts every day by people who think AI is great, that also imply AI is great, but I don't think there are daily posts whose entire content is "I really like AI, y…

I can't tell if I'm getting old, or if this is a reaction purely to people making blog-posts saying they don't like AI, but, I am filled with "who cares?". Unambiguously the point …

> however, Opus does seem plain fucking stupid Infuriatingly so, in a way I don't remember Opus 4.8 being, but maybe I've just been ruined by Fable 5.

Fable 5

> the empirical track record of "LLMs can't..." is in itself a reason to call it into doubt ... Every "can't" of this nature was followed by a discovery of "they can, just poorly",…

For falsification, I would take a year in which we don’t see an absolute sea change in capability. The last twelve months were not that, in my opinion, nor were the twelve before i…

> is framing LLM's as quasi-gods, which they absolutely are not Always such certainty in these dismissals. And whenever you dig in, it always seems to be "well my super-human codin…

> agents are neither going to be as reliable or as cheap to run as the software they produce that does it deterministically There are classes of software for which that is both una…

That sounds like a property that's true of good UIs, rather than most UIs, and in particular most SaaS UIs or intra-company UIs. ClickUp's UI is bad enough that I would much rather…

I’ve had the absolute opposite experience with a friend of mine. I started by setting her up with a terminal emulator on the web linked to Claude Code, and written a CLAUDE.md that…

Yes, use Matt Pocock's /grilling skill to make sure you're thinking about and understanding and signing off on the _technical design_.

tmux + https://github.com/pjlsergeant/byre for sandboxing and config

I think I know what this means, but I bet you share a better explanation with us all too of the point you're making

I think he's both honest and well-intentioned without being self-aware

> CTOs keep asking me if code review is really dead I don't think anyone should be asking someone so clearly AI-pilled this question. That said, my code-review now looks very diffe…

UK and Australia are also very rule-loving and have their own problems, but not the same disease you’re describing here.