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Flawless, completely unnecessary abstraction is a better tell of LLM code than "comment clearly responding to a part of a prompt that I cannot see".

DayQuil: Because you're sick, and the rest of the office should be too.

well I laughed

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racist filth

Google+ says hello!

AI is great for programs but every product ever kinda sucks if you don't understand a lot of things computers are pretty bad at, generally.

Sure, none of this is rational. Some of its timing: Claude Code was good before other harnesses and so behaviors (and contracts) were timed to lock in on that ecosystem. Some of it…

You gotta have "A" to do "B". This is one way of having "A" that isn't "massive internal natural resources" like USA, China, Russia, Colonialism, or Oil States (I'm sure I missed o…

Node has both built-in sqlite and testing functionality. Lots of reasons to like bun! But these two are interesting ones...

No remedies, no right. What are the consequences of breach? Otherwise, Americans only use for this is to wipe their ass, and only if they can find a paper version.

I can't tell if this was written by AI or by an author that has absorbed all of its worse tendencies, but past the bullet list at the front this was terrible writing. It's like the…

Did I miss the breakdown by class/wealth? I saw a bunch of other cross tabs. Not that one.

It's getting to the point where I search "K-shaped" and "Cohort" in these kinds of articles before I even read them. I'm not even saying these are why , exactly, but failure to wre…

Does this apply to Loom?

Seconded. After disabling adaptive thinking and using a default higher thinking, I finally got the quality I'm looking for out of Opus 4.6, and I'm pleased with what I see so far i…

Did the USA just lose a war to fucking Iran?

Did you have specific complaints about the data in the OP?

To be fair, I feel like the language is widely criticized for this particular choice and it's not a pattern you tend to see with newer APIs. It's a really valid FFI concern though!…

ReasonML / Melange / Rescript are a wholistic approach to this: The issue with stapling an option or result type into Typescript is that your colleagues and LLMs won't used it (ask…

You "cannot fathom" the privilege your have or life experience you lack to believe this unconditionally.