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I actually don't mean that skills are useless, I have them in my projects too. Just that any time I've seen one shared publicly, basically the introductory blurb of "what does this…

I have yet to see an "agent skill" that does not match this description.

You take advantage of the property that verifying / sanity-checking an answer is usually much easier and faster than figuring out the answer in the first place. It's similar to how…

Even if you have a moral opposition to a single line of LLM-generated code marring your codebase (not even unit tests!) it can be incredibly useful to assist with reading code. Tak…

You can also walk freely FPS style with WASD and mouse-dragging to look around.

Despite having long valued statically typed languages, and IDEs with excellent refactoring tools (VS + ReSharper was a godsend back in the day before MS implemented most of the mus…

"Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civiliz…

Yep. "Developer" was already an inflation over "programmer". Sometime in the late 2000s/early 2010s people started saying, oh, a programmer means you just type in the code to imple…

> "What have you got against machines?" said Buck. > "They're slaves." > "Well, what the heck," said Buck. "I mean, they aren't people. They don't suffer. They don't mind working."…

It's afraid!

> Every 1 prompt of building tends to require 1-5 prompts of clean up. Simple, fast, clean good code. I have found this to be very effective as well. However, it's so easy to do, I…

> I'd say SQL is a very high level language. Yes indeed. When I learned SQL in college, the professor made a HUGE deal about how it was a "4th generation language" so it was so abs…

One thing something like AutoCodeBenchmark cannot demonstrate is what happens when you have human-written type definitions defining the domain before the LLM writes a line of code.…

It has been about 10 years since Python was a daily driver for me and at that time I wrote it the old fashioned way with no type hints and no static checking, just like grandma use…

> the errors I get at runtime are almost never type-based That surprises me, but everyone's experiences are different. I've been in the statically typed language space for so long …

Fascinating quote and good point. It should also be remembered that while the industrial revolution netted humanity enormous wealth and eventually a higher average standard of livi…

> whats wrong with struggling alcoholics having jobs via a program? Finally, a job AI will never beat me at.

The camera analogy is a good one but I have never had a camera that had every great picture somebody else had taken, plus every work of art, baked into it. They only captured what …

> A derivative work is a work that itself includes copyrighted content from the original work. If you put a GPL C program through Emscripten to run in a browser the output doesn't …

> Perhaps this illustrates a fissure that was always lurking under the surface, then(...) Yes, I do think there has always been such a fissure. People publish OSS code for many rea…

The contract behind open source was something like (GPL): "If you copy my work, you should share your work too." or at minimum (MIT): "If you copy my work, you should credit me." I…

> Static types are, in a real sense, a compensation for the gap I just described - the gap between the description and the running thing. When you can't easily inspect or reshape t…

> But I'm already responsible for the bugs in my software. Also, who cares if someone else is responsible? And how does that align with OSS's "no warranty provided"? The original e…

Two points. 1. You can treat software like a black box when other people developed it for you because they can stand behind it. They have their own reputations to uphold. You can't…

I'm prepared to excise the word "genuinely" from my vocabulary after working with Claude. One of my biggest fears with using AI at work is that I will subconsciously start talking …