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The reason to prefer reduce over for or while loops is because procedural loops mutate state defined in higher scopes in the program, making reasoning harder and introducing all kinds of opportunities for tricky bugs.

I like reduce, and I’ve never gotten pushback for using it. I’d be willing to use other functional method chains. But I would never listen to anyone who suggested using a procedural loop instead.

I’m 62. Same. The huge productivity jump is exciting. But the real gold is removing all the mechanical pain of typing, navigating files, grinding through library docs and many other grunt level tasks. Now I can stay in higher cerebral plane.

Some might say that optimization (how quickly and efficiently people are killed) is THE thing about war. I mean, aren't nukes the ultimate optimization?

Wait, you think these autonomous killer robots will only fight each other? Are you kidding?

Can anyone see how autonomous robot armies are different than nukes in their deterrent potential?

Imagine thinking this would go any different under any Harris or whoever. The war party gets its way.

Search: [ Altman 0/0 ]

TL;DR - Sam Altman gets to build the mass surveillance distillers and autonomous killer robots.

The petroyuan faces a big problem, which is lack of trust in the CCP to preserve its value.

As mentioned, there’s also mounting dissatisfaction and distrust in the petrodollar, but the devil you know…

If you’re paying more to get it cheaper, then prima facie, you were not being exploited. You were being offered convenience.

This reinforces my standard explanation of Claude Code: Claude is exactly like a junior engineer who is simultaneously brilliant and retarded.

It can do great things but needs close supervision. Claude doesn’t write code, Claude recommends code.

> how soon before we start designing codebases for LLM agents to navigate more cleanly?

In my (so far limited) experience, the best thing you can do is establish and consistently follow patterns in you handwritten code.

I find Claude does really well with “follow existing conventions and patterns” or pointing to some specific part of the app and saying “do it that way.”

I prompt Claude the same way I would a junior dev, and that seems to work really well so far.

Yes. No one knows where the top is in term of demand for software engineering. Software continues to eat the world with no end in sight.

Excellent breakdown. Software engineering will be automated end-to-end around the same time as doctors and lawyers.

This is the exact type of thinking, this type of casual totalitarian social engineering, that led to the invention on the guillotine.