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Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

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Yesterday my 8yo prompted (using voice recognition) Claude to make a game where it would play her a song (say Twinkle) and she had to play it back and get scored. The UI was a nice piano with visual feedback. The laptop key served as the keys until I prompted for midi support so she could use the electric piano. The whole thing took about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, one peak at the code and you can already see the state s…

She's 8 years old man cut her a little slack on the code aesthetics ;)

Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

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And the models of the future will surely be better than they are today. This stuff is still a very long way from maturity. Sometimes it seems like they're moving very slowly. That makes sense: It's easy to get used to how they work today and it is also easy to forget how much worse they were last year. When we look back and realize that just 4 years ago these tools didn't really exist at all, it becomes clear that th…

> And the models of the future will surely be better than they are today. This stuff is still a very long way from maturity. Since this is Claude, the models of the future might be more expensive, or more locked down, or might decide your 8yo is actually trying to build a cleverly disguised bomb so her request gets silently downgraded to a dumber model, etc.

People tend to not realize how far these models have become.

I remember when they would always hallucinate APIs that wasn't there or make up fields that didn't exist.. those problems are virtually solved now.

So with that in mind, why wouldn't AI be able to write better code?

The code would have to be maintainable by AI itself (operating based on the assumption that the future will be Agentic Engineering)

Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

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Yesterday my 8yo prompted (using voice recognition) Claude to make a game where it would play her a song (say Twinkle) and she had to play it back and get scored. The UI was a nice piano with visual feedback. The laptop key served as the keys until I prompted for midi support so she could use the electric piano. The whole thing took about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, one peak at the code and you can already see the state s…

I wonder. I remember before emissions, what's underneath a car hood was relatively organized and simple. Then with emissions it became a maze of vacuum hoses and so much other nonsense. then ... in some places (maybe cars that people care about working on) it became cleaner again. In the other places, they added a second hood to hide the mess. There is some clean code out there, like maybe the seL4 kernel: https://gi…

I think the vacuum hoses are actually for the brake booster and why you don't have any regular brakes if your engine dies. But yes, smaller engine + turbo or twin turbo is definitely more complex than a simple big block. There's also an absolute shit ton more sensors on everything now.

Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

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So GIMP kept crashing on me when importing 48 bit TIFFs. I threw a trace at Codex (without so much as a local GIMP repo) from which it figured out that the culprit was thumb preview handling code. It suggested turning off two non-obvious to me options that would circumvent that codepath it indeed worked.

Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

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Yesterday my 8yo prompted (using voice recognition) Claude to make a game where it would play her a song (say Twinkle) and she had to play it back and get scored. The UI was a nice piano with visual feedback. The laptop key served as the keys until I prompted for midi support so she could use the electric piano. The whole thing took about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, one peak at the code and you can already see the state s…

She's 8 years old man cut her a little slack on the code aesthetics ;)

And Claude is even younger.

Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

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OP works at a robotics company, hence the inability to use Google search and "git clone" to find dozens of ready made apps, some of them years old.

For most people talking to Claude is a much better experience than doing a Google search.

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She's 8 years old man cut her a little slack on the code aesthetics ;)

And Claude is even younger.

Guess you depend on how you measure. As "released product to the public" then probably yes. Cumulative training hours spent actually creating and adjusting the weights during training? Probably no.

Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

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So GIMP kept crashing on me when importing 48 bit TIFFs. I threw a trace at Codex (without so much as a local GIMP repo) from which it figured out that the culprit was thumb preview handling code. It suggested turning off two non-obvious to me options that would circumvent that codepath it indeed worked.

It's not like this is an unknown gimp problem - conventional search turns up plenty of results describing this class of bugs and advising to disable the previews.
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