Reddit used to be a place you posted links.

Then images.

Then videos.

Now there is games in it.

And you can follow users instead of communities now.

And instagram has videos.

And pinterest has videos.

And imgur has videos.

And youtube has games.

And tiktok has longer videos.

And twitter also added images, videos, and then longer posts.

And tumblr has added videos, then communities that you can follow instead of users.

It feels like if a social media survives long enough it just turns into facebook.

I wrote in my AGENTS.md "do not use chained ternary operators." I'm still waiting for it to work.

I've found that telling agents to not do something mostly just gives them a suggestion of a way to do that thing, and the part about not doing it that way gets lost. Well, it's nicely accessible for when it apologizes for doing it.

I now try to only give examples of how I want it to do things, and hooks that complain when they do the bad thing (but still don't mention the bad thing in the complaint.)

You're better off using linting for something specific like that.

This is one of the things I like about Rust. You can have both.

    let foo = {
        if bar {
            1
        } else if baz {
            2
        } else {
            3
        }
    };

Unfortunately not all languages are Rust.

That isn't more concise than

   foo = bar ? 1
             : baz ? 2
                   : 3;

But it's more readable, and that's what matters.

I don't think more empty lines and useless whitespace is "more readable" at all. Once again, the "taste" argument comes back.

The account isn't the software. Software are files.

An AI worm might actually be possible in our current Internet-scape if it manages to find hosting that takes crypto and a way to make money with crypto transactions. I wonder what are we going to do if it actually happens and it goes rogue.

Service providers are still responsible to police what happens on their network. KYC already makes it very difficult to get service completely anonymously with only crypto changing "hands".

"It's not like you needed an LLM to" is going to be a recurring phrase from now on.

It's a "severe invasion of privacy" to send anything to the Internet without the user's permission, period. Privacy is about having control over what information you disclose, how much, and to whom. Developers shouldn't be allowed to make that decision on behalf of the users.

I don't think AI will continue growing infinitely either, but maybe "incomprehensibly large" is large enough to solve all the math problems.

That has nothing to do with discoverability. Discoverability isn't about "guessing" it's about being able to see it.

Discoverability in CLI is --help. But you can't discover you have to use --help. So CLI is always fundamentally worse than GUI.

It helps that for most cli tools, any incorrect usage will show the usage text, including --help

> Discoverability in CLI is --help.

Unless it’s one of those programs that are like “unrecognized option --help, use -h to see help”.

If --help even lists everything. man [whatever] might contain more options. And both may leave out critical information.

You also have to just know what program to invoke with the —help arg.

Good luck guessing ‘grep’ from first principles.

Man -k is often good for this

Why do you trust something that is LLM-generated is authoritative?

Even if, on the most good-faith scenario, someone did all the research them told an LLM to add more pizzazz for some reason, there is still a chance that the LLM hallucinate a lie here and there that the author might have skipped when proof-reading if they proof-read it at all.

I can't trust a machine specialized in generating convincing bullshit.