ecopoesis
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Comment · 2 months ago
A few weeks ago I had Fable build https://curry-combat-2.com: Super Curry Combat II Turbo: Legend Edition, a Street Fighter clone where every fighter is a Time Curry character.
It, was to me, surprisingly good for an AI slop project. Though Fable not suggesting the Doctor from Red October or Homolka from Congo in its initial roster is the biggest indication to me that we're far from general AI.
Comment · 2 months ago
Actually, I made this a few weeks ago. Here's the repo: https://github.com/ecopoesis/tim-curry
Just thought it was appropriate given the news.
Comment · 6 months ago
What’s next? Are they going to forbid the use of Intellisrnse? Maybe IDEs in general?
Why not just specify all contributions must be written with a steady hand and a strong magnet.
Comment · 7 months ago
I'm a manager at a large consumer website. My team and I have built a harness that uses headless Claude's (running Opus) to do ticket work, respond to and fix PR comments, and fix CI test failures. Our only interaction with code is writing specs in Jira tickets (which we primarily do via local Claudes) and adding PR comments to GitHub PRs.
The speed we can move at is astounding. We're going to finish our backlog next quarter. We're conservatively planning on launching 3x as many features next quarter.
Claude is far from perfect: it's made us reassess our coding standards since code is primarily for Claude now, not for humans. So much of what we did was to make code easier for the next dev, and that just doesn't matter anymore.
Comment · 10 months ago
Today is a good day to learn about Nazi Germany's Normal Type Decree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwabacher#History
Comment · 2 years ago
This was always going to fail because the requirements were insane: solving SQL, XML and JSON generation should have never been part of the spec. There are hundreds, if not thousands of libraries for the those cases.
The developers should have never tried to boil the ocean: simple Kotlin or Scala style interpolation with overloading `+` for concatenation is the 80% use case here. Yes it doesn’t do everything. But it makes life a lot more ergonomic. And they rejected this solution out of hand! So instead of something useful but not perfect we get nothing.
Comment · 2 years ago
An early version of the tech in Robert Heinlein's Life-Line[1]. We should be careful, these things lead to future histories.
[1] https://www.baen.com/Chapters/0743471598/0743471598___2.htm
Comment · 2 years ago
> “caliber”
What are you talking about? Laptops aren't even round.</literal>
Comment · 2 years ago
"No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."
Apple first-gen products are often half-assed. But they iterate and improve on a regular cadence. The current Apple Vision Pro is a dev kit, it will get better.
Comment · 3 years ago
$68 billion is a lot, but it also only three Big Digs ($22 billion). If Chernobyl killed the Soviet economy it was because it was in already terrible shape.
Comment · 3 years ago
Because we outlawed railroad strikes but didn't outlaw airline strikes.
Doesn't really prevent a strike though: it just makes it cost more. Here in Massachusetts it's illegal for public school teachers to strike, yet it has happened a couple times in the last year. In one case the teacher's union was fined: https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/02/08/woburn-teachers-turn...