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Linux > macOS > Windows > ChromeOS
I did enjoy the early days of ChromeOS, when crouton[1] was all you needed to turn it into a delicious Unix salad, before Google decided the real threat model was "advanced hackers" and/or bored school kids.> Oh, right. Aramaic. My mistake—I somehow read "Italian" and didn't question it. > I can try, although my Aramaic is very rusty. Do you mean Classical/Syriac Aramaic, or one of the modern varieties?
Maybe it's the lack of tacit function calling, the conventions, AI/modern-marketing push, or simply the daunting scope and scale (even more so with v4).
Still, despite my gripes, if you're willing to spend the time and effort, it's the safest and most elegant way to write TypeScript. Plus, it's now dependency-free, and the increasingly good LSP/editor support removes a lot of the friction that used to come with completions and diagnostics.
[1] https://github.com/gcanti/fp-ts [2] https://effect.website/blog/ts-plus-postmortem
> GPT-5.6 does not become meaningfully better when prompted to be broadly friendlier or more empathetic. Instead of generic instructions such as “Be friendly and warm,” use concrete guidance: > Be direct and tactful. Acknowledge friction specifically when relevant. Avoid canned reassurance and unnecessary sign-offs.
Soo basically, my new 5.6 custom instructions: Be Jeeves and eliminate all friction from my life through immense processing power. Acknowledge friction specifically when relevant. Avoid canned reassurance and unnecessary sign-offs.
[1] https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/latest-model#c...
Ah yes, the starry-eyed dream of early web pioneers is finally upon us: a soulless internet filled with soulless agents and microtransactions!
But in all seriousness, it's hard to deny that the attention-based model that has propelled the web forward for the last 30 years is somewhat falling apart. And I don't have, nor have I come across, any meaningful solutions that could realistically work better. So maybe it's just time we turn off this 'internet' thing and call it a day.
> The new classifier also comes at the cost of flagging benign requests more often during routine coding and debugging tasks. > Fable 5 will be available starting tomorrow, Wednesday, July 1, to users globally... Fable 5 will be included for up to 50% of weekly usage limits through July 7, after which it will be available via usage credits.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/redeploying-fable-5 > Is this just slop?
> Almost all of the webernetes code was authored by LLMs
> ...
> I did two things that I think make this a slop-free project:
> 1. I reviewed every line of code.
> 2. I created hundreds of tests that assert webernetes behaves the same as a real cluster.
edit: added the slop-free remarks> Present-day models tend to produce code that is too defensive, too complex, too local in its reasoning. They avoid strong invariants. They add fallbacks instead of making bad states impossible. They duplicate code, invent bad abstractions, and paper over unclear design with more machinery. Worse though: I so far see very little progress of this improving.
Context-smithing can help to a degree and cyclomatic-like complexity rules tend to make matters worse. So, you either roll up your sleeves or close your eyes and hope for the best. I've had limited success with the latter.
10 days ago: "I'm an indie filmmaker and I do community theater."
Today: "I've built one $2.5 million annualized run rate company"
For us, mere mortals, it may be impossible, but for @echelon anything is possible.