IMO the default style of Opus 5.5 is still terrible but it is way better than 5.0. If you tell its styling is horrendous it usually rewrites in an actually quite good form.
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I don't expect IDA to disallow me unlawful reverse engineering either. There would even be ethical argument to not attempt to put limits in some tools, because that could lock in too much power for law makers and law enforcement, without any possibility of revolution when it is needed.
Yet IMO the admin controls Claude provides just started to be adequate for a small company a few weeks ago (and even so are still ridiculously fragmented and seem fragily designed and not exhaustively documented), so I can't even imagine for a big company.
Do you need that rate of change to make basic controls? I'm not sure. Do we see such dramatic fast evolution in the products? Not really. Are bugs we report actually fixed? I tried once and it just auto closed.
Anthropic should optimise for something more interesting than number of merges per second.
Load-bearing feels like an unnecessary analogy.
Of course if you introduce new methods of dispatch and do not take them into account into a metric, you end up with something less... precise? useful? But given the primary intent and why and how the metric was created this seems a pretty trivial observation.
Now I agree it is also retarded to attempt to get only very short functions or extremely low cyclomatic complexity everywhere (even if you try to adapt it to count new kind of dispatch), because the only effect that produce is that it moves the complexity in another more abstract place we are less well equipped to manage.
"Short functions used to be hot. Uncle Bob [...]": well yes, Internet and sometimes group of people inspired ultimately by Internet and group effects can be pretty idiotic, but honestly Uncle Bob ideology was never considered serious in actual studies, and it is now even widely recognized mostly bullshit. It is just a kind of tech influencer if you want. Computer science and/or software engineering has more serious branches, where cyclomatic complexity can have its use.
From my experience not iterating enough and leaving high level decision to generative IA yield shit. Maybe this is not the case in all projects. But in my work, it would be absurd to complain about not having to know random API details anymore, unless when they actually matter.
The thing is that I’ve been programming for more than 30 years. Maybe I would have another opinion if I was still learning the things I was learning 20 years ago.
The NT security descriptors are also so complex they are probably a little useless in practice too, because it's too hard to use correctly. On top of that the associated Win32 API is also too hard to use correctly to the point that I found an important bug in the usage model described in MSDN, meaning that the doc writer did not know how the function actually work (in tons of cases you probably don't hit this case, but if you start digging in all internal and external users, who knows what you could find...)
NT was full of good ideas but the execution is often quite poor.
Why inadequate (in the absolute)? This can be automated and let's encrypt allows verification through DNS, moreover this allows verification for wildcard certificates.
Now in this particular case maybe they should have gone through HTTP, and even automated with ACME. But there is nothing inadequate in the absolute in DNS verification. Besides allowing wildcard it also allows verification when you don't control the web server(s), when you don't even have a webserver at all, when the standard ports are occupied for something else, etc.
It was my understanding that MS now sign 3rd party kernel mode code, with quality requirements. In which case why did they fail to prevent this?
Disclaimer: I'm not found of web techs...