The Big Bang: A.I. Has Created a Code Overload

...install your skill, set up your claw, run your Claude manager, etc. etc. etc.

I feel like I need a T-shirt that reads, "No, I am not interested in adopting your f**king Claude skill."

AI is definitely helping a thousand flowers bloom, but I am starting to feel buried under petals. I'll just figure it out myself. I am not going to clone your repo, attach your marketplace...

Trump is already two years older than Reagan was when Reagan left office.

Genesis - Land of Confusion (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Genesis

Someone remarked it’s hard to remember how bad people thought Reagan was (and he was!). But this was parody. Now it seems like reality.

I mean, you don't really need a translator

Everything else aside, my grandfather was a Methodist minister and I always thought the Methodists did church design well.

As a Gen Xer, when I called my 7 year old over to watch Artemis II take off, I did briefly consider the possibility that I was going to have to have THAT conversation with her and really hoped I didn't have to... Thankfully didn't.

This really feels like January 2020, with everything going on like normal as the storm clouds gather quickly and everybody acting like they aren’t going to get caught in the deluge.

As a writer, the worst thing about Rowling was her inability to constrain herself, something that got worse and worse as the books become more and more popular and she could clearly just ignore editors.

The fact this is a miniseries not a movie just plays up that weakness so….

I haven’t but I’m hoping that something that lives separately on its own will be better!

The problem is that building a UI framework, especially for something as old and large as Windows, is a generational project but most people ship v1.0, get their promotion, and then move on.

If ever completed, Graham Street would be the station closest to me but I’m not surprised and kinda doubt it will ever happen.

Honestly, consumer is so deeply not in Microsoft's DNA it's not even funny. And assistants in particular are Microsoft's Kryptonite, going all the way back to the misbegotten Microsoft Bob and Clippy (and his ilk).

something that's very hard for today's kids to understand:
* there were only a few major brands of chewing gum
* everyone knew all of them
* each had its own banging anthem, whose words we still know
* every one of these brands of gum fucks, to this day

* Actually, my Apple ][+ had only 32k of RAM when I got it for Christmas. I had to buy a special card from this random company called Microsoft that I'd never heard of that would expand the memory to 64k. (The 80 column and lower case card would come later.)

...voila! you did something amazing.

I'm not trying to soft-sell the costs of AI here, just explain why it catches for some. 5/

...be ready to actually *do* something. So in a funny way, just being able to sit down and type a couple of lines of text and have something *happen* transports us back to those early days where you could type in some program published on a single page of a magazine (!) and... 4/

...had to fit. In some ways, modern programming is so much worse than those days in that you have to write just *so much friggin code* to get *anything* done. Frameworks and libraries and programming paradigms and JFC it can take you hours of programming just to clear your throat and.... 3/

...on programming, they actually wrote very little code, just like today with Claude! But in those days, it was because computers were so limited that you just physically couldn't fit much code into them. My first computer, an Apple ][+ had just 64k* of memory in which everything data and code... 2/

It occured to me this morning that perhaps one reason why senior coders are taking to Claude more than junior coders is because it paradoxically takes them back to the simpler days when they were first learning to code.

To wit: when the most senior coders were first cutting their teeth... 1/

"Is it Tuesday? It must be time for another Windows GUI framework." Every generation at MSFT thinks that *it* is the one that will finally create the one framework to rule them all.

(Props to the ChatGPT diagram... I never did get to use "Avelon/WFF" or "Blacor Hybrid"...)

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

As I work with Claude, I increasingly realize how many things there are out there that I have thought about doing but which were just too frickin' tedious to bother with. Now that I can throw an instance at it, it's soon going to be the equivalent of the unread pile of books on the bedside table.

Man, I have been in SO MANY corporate meetings where someone got caught up short on a question they clearly did not have a good answer for and they tried to vamp their way through it. It's always completely obvious and it never works. Nobody is ever fooled.

My wife complains about the Temuization of nice clothing brands that she used to buy, how formerly luxe brands now all feel cheap and flimsy.

As I start to get more and more documents at work obviously generated by ChatGPT and ilk, I can sympathize.

I feel like all the people who are like "...but the agents will handle the QA and bug fixing too!" have never called a large corporation's help line and gotten an LLM on the other end and experienced just how helpful they can be...

This will make filling out taxes easier! “Grok, I forgot what my SSN is, can you remind me? How about my wife and children’s’?”

Lock Scroll With a Vengeance – Unsung A blog about software craft and quality

I'll admit that, until now, I never understood what the Scroll Lock key was intended to do (nor do I believe I ever used it for any purpose whatsoever).

I, too, find the Slack AI bot to be shockingly helpful. My general mental model is that "ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude = helpful, vendor specific AI (looking at you MSFT) = completely useless" and it was a pleasant surprise.

I don't know how representative he really was (I used another lawyer), but I do believe there is a very real segment of fathers who are not particularly invested in the role. Which is something I just don't understand but there it is.

This reminds me of my meeting with a prospective lawyer as my first marriage fell apart and me asking him how 50/50 custody works and him being kind of shocked I'd even be interested in that sort of thing and him explaining how most men wanted to be able to, like, move out of state.