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Nobody is earning a living writing hello world programs, and in real programs perfection doesn't exist. Perfection is at best a widely-held opinion.

Yeah to be honest I still find Claude too verbose with Fable 5.1, I much prefer the output style of OpenAI's models. With strict guidelines it can be improved but it tends to drift in longer conversations.

If you haven't tried any of the newer models from the last ~6 months, you're out of touch. A year ago, LLMs were essentially just a clever search engine for me, I found they fell apart pretty quickly on bigger codebases and more complex projects.

It doesn't always write perfect code on a first pass but nor do you, and it's amazing at understanding any issues it may encounter, even very low level ones. I don't think there's anything I can do that it can't now. There is a learning curve to working well with LLMs, but once you get there you'll be producing high quality code faster than you can imagine.

Part of me wishes they weren't so good. I enjoy(ed?) the process of working through problems and it does mean you might no longer have a perfect mental model of your code. But I do also enjoy being able to build things well and fast.

Do you write perfect code? I was in denial for a long time too, but the reality is this is how software engineering is now. It can handle pretty much any codebase and vastly faster than you ever will be able to. With enough context, it writes good code and it's only getting better.

This has all the hallmarks of AI slop. Upsetting :/

Restricting activism to exclusively “legal avenues” is what allows the slow erosion of our freedoms and rights. The rights you enjoy today would not exist if they weren’t fought outside of the legal frameworks of their time. This law is the perfect example of how rights are not guaranteed and need to be constantly fought for.

If they were to block the UK that would just be them no longer “doing business” in the UK, which you seem to agree is perfectly acceptable?

You seem to think that the Wikimedia Foundation exists outside of a political context but the reality is their sheer existence is political and always will be.

The Wikimedia Foundation isn't "doing business" in the UK, they're a nonprofit. Their mission statement is "to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally."

Part of fulfilling that mission is opposing laws that restrict free knowledge and open access, so why should they not use their huge presence as a bargaining tool? Doing so directly aligns with their purpose.

After many years of iterating on air-powered engines Tom has built his best version yet, and walks us through the design and assembly process in this entertaining video.

Whoops yeah, it was indeed GF*

My GR writes IF stories and I think even though there’s ressemblance with the text adventure games it seems that they manage to differentiate themselves by being closer to books and mainstream fiction. It seems like the average IF is read more like a book and less like a game.