I think it depends on the use case. My understanding is the more popular panels for color ereaders releasing now are the E Ink Kaleido (3) due to their faster refresh rates. Other technologies like spectra 6 may be better for digital signage where the slower refresh rate is less of a concern.
I suspect you'll have much better luck directly implementing the style you want rather than trying to get a (current gen) AI to reliably generate ANSI art. This video is a nice overview of implementing a variation of the style in a post-processing shader:
FYI, the layout for the navigation component is broken on many smaller screen sizes. It's a small issue that I wouldn't mention normally, but it does undercut your messaging about the "future of software development" and "serious developers" when the first element on the page doesn't render properly.
You could check out FAKE. It’s pretty popular in the F# community. While not C#, the terser syntax may be beneficial for a build DSL and you still have access to .NET APIs.
I came away much less impressed than you did. The "step by step analysis" consists mostly of it considering, ruling out, and reconsidering an obviously invalid move. The code that it "tries to write" first zooms and pans around the image for no reason as it's already identified the layout of the pieces in the initial analysis. It then tries to import a library it has not yet installed in the sandbox (in addition to importing `chess.polyglot` for no discernable reason) before giving up on that thread entirely. It then manages to write a one-liner that contains an IndentationError before spending more time/tokens reestablishing the board layout. It does all of this before finally delegating the question to a search engine.
If you just paste the image into a search engine (without needing to include the text prompt) the first result contains the solution. We live in a world where Sam Altman claims that usage of words like "please" and "thank you" in prompts have cost OpenAI "tens of millions of dollars"[0]. In this case, OpenAI's "most powerful reasoning model"[1] spends 7m 51s churning through expensive output tokens spinning its wheels before ultimately giving up and searching the internet. This strikes me as incredibly wasteful. It feels like the LLM equivalent of "punch[ing] through the table". The most impressive thing to me here is that OpenAI is getting people to pay for all this nonsense.
Somewhat interestingly, "Mario Bros." now refers to the last name of the pair of plumber brothers, making their full names "Mario Mario" and "Luigi Mario" respectively. This wasn't originally the intent of the creators, but it's been slowly retconned over the history of the franchise.
This is a good summary. SolidWorks does have a lower cost license for makers/hobbyists for personal use but it’s a little difficult to find from their main marketing pages.
Because anyone with experience rowing a canoe is going to wonder how you take one across the ocean without drowning. And the answer is, you use a boat that can handle the ocean.
I initially noted that the Polynesians who settled Hawaii didn't have outriggers, and that was wrong - they did have single outriggers. They maintained heavy use of catamarans.
The technological progression goes:
raft -> catamaran ("This raft would be more stable with a canoe at either end") -> single outrigger ("I don't need the passenger space of the raft or the second canoe, but I still need the stability, so the second canoe will just be a log") -> double outrigger ("I like being lightweight with no passenger space, but I wish I could turn in both directions")
