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Trailer music sounds like Suno AI trash.

yea, vim doesn't have that, and you don't have to check if vim/emacs is installed on the remote box. just use tramp and if you have ssh access to the files, so does emacs.

I used claude to handle a git commit for me (I wrote the code myself, but used Claude just for git -- I prefer fossil so never bothered to learn git command line) and it took credit for doing nothing but the commit.

I've not had that problem, but I have 35 years of programming experience, so I can describe exactly what I want. Maybe that's the difference. It doesn't have to be a single sentence, I write a whole paragraph or even pseudocode most of it and tell it to use the pseudocode as comments for the code it will produce. It'll give me a plan and I'll refine the plan until it seems to be what I want. Then we'll get it to start writing and I'll give it feedback and keep it on track. If it tends to overthink a problem, I'll interrupt it and have it talk over the issue, until it gets a clear understanding of what I want. You have to treat it like a coworker more than just a code monkey.

That may change over time, but it's not going to change anytime soon. All the fabs are sold out and companies like Nvidia and AMD are buying up all their capacity until at least 2028, and new fabs aren't going to be coming online in a short time. So, no, there won't be a lot more competition until at earliest 2032.

Imagine someone telling you that their cousin who convinced someone to off themselves and may hallucinate occasionally that they should be the person dealing with your customers. You'd flat out tell them to go f themselves. But if their 'cousin' was an AI you wouldn't bat an eye.

I tried it out, it built a system, calling itself AGOS, created a test project and coded it up successfully, added validation checks, verified everything worked properly, made a bunch of scripts to track goals and tasks and other stuff.

I did switch it to use ZODB for database instead of postgres, and fossil-scm instead of git, which it was able to successfully navigate. I'm a python head so this makes sense for me, ymmv - I have 30 years of development experience and that's what I choose to implement.

The hot/warm/cold didn't seem to materialize though, but the task focus kind of makes that a moot point.

I tried with claude, qwen, and gemini, all seemed to pick up and continue working. Work seems kind of slow, but it was all reviewable, clear goals and tasks, and overall kind of usable? I'll experiment a bit, but it seems promising. I still don't know why you wouldn't just have it build you a system then release that.

No love for fossil (fossil-scm.org)? It has a wiki, bug tracking, forums, email alerts, chat, dvcs, etc. It's written by and used by the same developers of sqlite. A single small file gives you the whole chili and pickles.

No, they gave the cannibal ants a link to a new food source. Imagine you're living in your house, your neighborhood, and there's this large pit in the center, where the cannibals live. They're 30ft down so they can't get out, so you don't have to worry. Then someone puts a ladder down to them. Start of a horror movie if you ask me.

From what I've seen (at a fortune 100 company) they made the supposedly "best" employees fully remote, and they neglected to tell the others that there were "limited slots" for fully remote and thus they had to come in to work. After a few months of coming in for work, they then laid off those employees, as not enough people quit for that to happen. To be fair, I was given a severance, but it still sucks. And the office was in bad shape, bathrooms poorly maintained, cafeteria in disarray, with substandard food (compared to before). The reason they're trying to get rid of employees is to make their stocks look good. We did better during covid by all measures, when everyone was working remotely.

Aerospace already has software standards for certification like DO-178C which is critical for certification from the FAA. You don't have to be licensed to write the software, but if it doesn't meet standards required for certification, well you have to fix it.

That's not even the point. Also IQ tests are normalized for individuals in their same age group. If they're comparing them to people, then what age group people are they comparing with? Also the tests are timed, so IQ is more a measure of how quickly something can be figured out, which really doesn't apply to computers. The whole idea that you can apply an IQ score to an LLM is ridiculous.

There's so many photos of just her staring off into the distance, and only one photo with her presenting the actual thing that she's supposedly famous for. I don't get the point of just all these random photos of this girl.

fossil is great, and I wish more companies used it. It's so simple, has everything you need, documentation, bugs, email alerts, chat, a forum, a wiki. It's all there. Having to go to jira to manage something, confluence for something else, git for source code and bug tracking, it's all a mess, when you can use something like fossil. Yet all I hear when I mention fossil is "never heard of it, not using some toy project, sticking to what I know".

>From what I was told, Python was originally seen as a Swiss Army knife for sysadmins.

Yea, I was a sysadmin around 2000 (before that too) and I knew it as such.

>between 2005 and 2006, two important things happened:

Somewhat - I used it in 2001 for Plone which is based on Zope, which was somewhat popular around that time. Writing all the web stuff with Python made sense, since Plone provided a CMS and could include a wiki. Adding on some sql calls to it in python just made sense. The competition was between PHP and Python, though there were some other less popular choices. Ruby on Rails definitely was getting a lot more popular around those times. PHP didn't start getting popular around 2005, if anything, people started using Python more, and started criticizing the crappy code that was circulating in the PHP community.

In any case, it was a fun time, but what's the point of looking back like that?