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I hate writing code, but love debugging. LLMs have been a godsend for banging out boilerplate and getting things 95% of the way there. Now I spend most of my time on the hard stuff (debugging, refactoring), while building things that would have taken weeks in days. It’s honestly made the act of building software more enjoyable and rewarding.

“Warning: Smartmatch is experimental at foobar.pl line 42.”

If only I had a dollar for every time I’ve seen this message.

Fair critique, we should never lose the spirit of play, but Franklin’s guidance seems very much in line with a quote from Gustave Flaubert I often see echoed:

> Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work

Therefore mutations ensure you don't get stuck there.

> Be careful what you outsource. Better a creator than a proofreader, IMO.

Or as authors put it: "write drunk, edit sober".

I haven’t watched the video yet, but I was instantly reminded of the Alan J. Perlis quote he and Abelson used for SICP’s dedication:

> I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don’t become missionaries. Don’t feel as if you’re Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don’t feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What’s in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.

Thanks, strange. This reproduced for a good 30 mins, but no longer does now.

I'm unable to load the ChatGPT login page.

Not much in the DOM, just a <form> element and 2 sibling <script> elements.

Console logs show 2 identical errors:

> Refused to execute a script because its hash, its nonce, or 'unsafe-inline' does not appear in the script-src directive of the Content Security Policy.

> Also, smokers who get unemployed, will smoke more, out of boredom.

Unemployed smokers will have less disposable income, and may not be able to afford to smoke more.