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> Suppose you have taste. Suppose you paid the full price and you can feel the sag in the sentence and the wrongness in the function. > > Congratulations! You now ship at exactly t…

Reflecting on the matter with a colleague - Some people just want to _cook the steak_. They don't want to attend or understand to cuts, thermometers, and searing.

(1) personally very annoying. I have been using fable to try to collect cutting edge math in one area and work on a hopefully new result with lean verification. (2) I am really tir…

Shoot at high f numbers - as high as the lens will take without inducing diffraction.

I have found TTArtisans 50mm f0.95 to be quite nice.

This is good. I recently had to replace a generally working phone because the battery was dying and there was no cost effective & reliable means of replacing. A proper gasket and s…

Data is missing on this chart. It's my experience that opus 4, and then, particularly, 4.5, in Claude code, are head and shoulders above the competition. I wrote an agentic coder y…

I am experimenting at a very early stage with using Verus in Rust to generate proveably correct Rust. I let the AI bang on the proof and trust the proof assistant to confirm it. Th…

I'd have to see more to have a final thought. As presented, Gollum is badly off, I reckon - missing the books textual description. The flowers are out of line. The dragon scene is …

Great article. I do have a deep fondness for SF billboards being building-stuff oriented. I don't care for consumerism. The vapidity of the products created is remarkable, however.…

I'm looking forward to when I can run a tolerably useful model locally. Next time I buy a desktop one of its core purposes will be to run models for 24/7 work.

a lot of AI assisted development goes into project management and system design. I have been tolerably successful. However, I have almost 30 years of coding experience, and have th…

Claude code's code review is _sufficient_ imo. still need HITL, but the human is shifted right and can do other things rather than grinding through fiddly details.

I don't remember all the places I got software... :)

> 30 years ago, it was safe to go to vendor XY page and download his latest version and it was more or less waterproof. You _are_ joking, right? I distinctly remember all sorts of …

I am working on a little project in my offhours, and asked a non-hacker (but competent programmer) friend to take a run at exploiting it. Great success: my project was successfully…

I am _much_ more interested in i. building cool software for other things and ii. understanding underlying underlying models than building "better claude code".

Did the operators _want_ to poke the well connected & well funded bear with a historical anger problem?

This is it. Otherwise I'd know more about $that_technology than I would otherwise.

I - senior - can patch an application in an unknown language and framework with the AI. I know enough to tell it to stop the wildly stupid ideas. But I don't learn. That's not what…

Commercial law nuts and bolts is very algorithmic often. Criminal law is often fundamentally subjective, incorporating questions of intent and remorse.

As a layoff justification and a hurryup tool, it is pretty loathesome. People use their jobs for their housing, food, etc.

AI the hype beast product and the club for workers is a plague that I frankly hate. AI the manual algorithm to generate code and analyze images is quite an interesting underlying t…

The question of leadership is much larger, more general, and more timeless than the last 15 years. I invite those curious about it to look into the American Army. > Leadership is t…

Jules is nifty. Weirdly heavy on the browser CPU.