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Cake day: September 18th, 2023

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  • AI is good at doing a thing once.
    Trying to get it to do the same thing the second time is janky and frustrating.

    I understand the use of AI as a consulting tool (look at references, make code examples) or for generating template/boilerplate code. You know, things you do once and then develop further upon on your own.

    But using it for continuous development of an entire application? Yeah, it’s not good enough for that.









  • I’m like, oh honey, we used to be able to do all this stuff. We had software for this. We had services in the web. Actually, I think we still do - hold on…

    *looking at the national public transport route planning site*

    *vague gesturing* this is peak technology and none of the AI bros have apparently heard of this shit, because they don’t use public transport.

    The Web used to cater to the niche services, until Big Tech rolled in, and now they try to replace it with patently inferior solutions.





  • I was there when gmail was invented
    Was there during the invitation period
    Someone picked my preferred name
    I ended up with a kinda dumb name
    Didn’t matter much, because my primary email is a redirect, anyway, and gmail still lets me use those (kudos to them)
    Google came up with Google Code (and other services) where your public gmail address is your identity
    Nope, fuck off
    Glad they died. Shame Github got eaten by Microsoft, but, eh…
    Google hasn’t really been good at letting people specify their identity, ever since
    Yes, this is also a transgender user story, why do you ask?