Coining this phrase now: "It's the tokens stupid"

Hooking up to and generating calls across filesystem APIs cost multiple orders of magnitude more than calling `ls`. These tooling ideas are interesting, though. Maybe Kenneth_E._Iverson was right all along?

Talking to another senior dev over drinks tonight, we both worried not about our work but about who might come up never having written a single line of code. Never even opened a terminal. Is looking at the code something you learn in semester 5?

I think computer science education is going to stomp onward, poorly. And we will get that generation. And things like "terminal tooling is going out of style" won't even be said any more. Hacker groups will turn from discussions about new ideas to talking about doing leetcode without AI.

Our art died because we used our art to kill it. We are the last human masters.

That's a funny thing to think about.

Yeah, in the future we will mourn the loss of the art of creating a new JS framework every week.

When they are the people in charge of the nuclear arsenal, the silliness stops.

That's _mostly_ just Consider Phlebas and Surface Detail.

Some of Player of Games, too. Use of Weapons has a creative piece of furniture. You gotta excuse Banks, he was also a horror writer.

It's definitely _alluded_ to in Player of Games, mostly as a method of emphasising how unpleasant the Azad society is, but I don't think we ever really _see_ any of it?

(I may just be forgetting; it's probably at least a decade since I last read it.)

If I remember correctly, Gurgeh's internal narrative reveals what he observes in one of the secret channels that are restricted to the upper class. Unpleasant is quite the understatement. lol But yeah, I don't think we actually see it firsthand, it's more disturbing than gory.

As someone who has implemented full match in several industrial languages: this isn’t really match; it doesn’t not handle unpacking. And that is by far the only interesting bit. This feature is more accurately called `cond` à la Scheme, and you can fully expand it away ahead of type checking. Looking at unpacking in the arms, even with Scheme’s truth-y values and `=>`, could be neat.

Optimizing well-known jumps is useful, as is branch reordering, but the tombstone flag is unnecessary; you can simply write down a list of all targeted / called blocks and perform dead block elimination more generally that way.

Golang is a blub language, so not really surprising.

I watched an older sibling go off the rails. That is what kept me from doing it.

Shouldn't compaction be exactly that letter to its future self?

Look at the compaction prompt yourself. It's in my opinion way too short. (I'm running on Opus 4.5 most of the time at work)

From what my colleague explained to me and I haven't 100% verified it myself is that the beginning and end of the window is the most important to the compaction summary so a lot of the finer details and debugging that will slow down the next session get dropped.

How's the war effort?

It is referred to as "simple sabotage": https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/the-art-of-simple-sabotage...

It also doesn't matter because Claude 4.6 is so much better at writing code that nobody cares what OpenAI is doing.

So, to be clear, you pulled your children out of public school because students were being educated to accept other people who do not adhere to their own set of religious and cultural beliefs, in a country founded on freedom of religion?

And now instead of learning science in a lab and socializing, they are forced to maintain your farm?

What an good job you are doing!

You're forgetting an important distinction: Freedom of religion amongst various Christian denominations. Failure to recognize this as a historical fact leads to back to the original point of public education being a morality platform and not an objective educative platform.