No, forward slash. No, the — It’s the one that goes up and to the right. No you do have one, trust me, just keep look — No, you can’t just use the “other slash”, and it’s called “backslash”. … Well because different things mean different things, Phil. sigh Just, it’s the one you think of when you write a fraction. No that’s a hyphen. It’s angled, remember? Why did you type 5? Oh, the percent sign. No I see why that — Well, because you didn’t use the shift key. Yeah it’s the one — You just hit enter, didn’t you?

“Did you just have Claude ship all this code?”

“Yep”

“You shouldn’t ship code you don’t understand…”

“Good point. Claude, go understand this code for me!”

The command opened the alternate buffer.

Some people genuinely have a problem with it.

But I’m convinced that the majority of it is just: It’s embarrassing (and therefore costs social capital) to defend it.

So therefore: If you attach it to something else you want to attack, you just gave yourself a strategic advantage.

Being a Luddite isn’t going to help anyone.

Not taking a side in this thread, but you might wanna learn more about the Luddites. Their story is very relevant to today.

“If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking.”

A lot of it probably isn’t legal, but who’s gonna prosecute them?

Whatever specific class I am, my play style is definitely “glass cannon”.

Everything is a third kind of thing that unifies the physical and mental

Tyring

Also there is such a thing as Chihuahua cuisine.

I avoid the potential presence of ads.

I recall seeing some research that suggested “ignoring” ads makes you more susceptible to their content. I couldn’t find it after a couple searches though.

No, it was giant radioactive ants.

But now I am actually not sure if what I saw was Them! or Matinee (which features a film that very well may be based on Them!)

Saw “Them!” when I was like 6. That was pretty bad.

And then Starship Troopers when I was like 10. That one really got me.

Huh. Never thought about how they’re both bug movies.

One box

I feel ya. But the pendulum will probably swing back the other way soon and we’ll have a ton of companies hiring to undo/replace slop code. That’s how it has been for previous coding fads, anyway.

1Password handles this gracefully

Dijkstra on the foolishness of natural language programming

But like, what does he know? He wasn’t an AI-native vibe orchestrator.

Well, maybe soon…?

A Russian is on an airliner heading to the US, and the American in the seat next to him asks, “So what brings you to the US?” The Russian replies, “I’m studying the American approach to propaganda.” The American says, “What propaganda?” The Russian says, “That’s what I mean.”