Greg Dennis

@gregsdennis.bsky.social

Having a bit of an emotional crisis about AI coding continuing to improve. In 6 months it's gotten better than I was after as many years. Already I feel like most of my 15+ years in the industry is for nothing.

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

In Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, green trampolines make Mario jump so high he goes offscreen for 6 seconds. By extracting his position values from the code, we can "zoom out" the stage and visualize his actual arc, which reveals just how absurdly high the jump is.

Jump Height: 1186 pixels (5 vertical screens)
Jump Distance: 900 pixels (3.5 horizontal screens)
Jump Duration: 360 frames (6 seconds)
Source: info: Jdaster64, supermariofiles.wordpress.com

PR descriptions before LLMs: “here lol glhfdd”. PR descriptions after LLMs: 4 pages of academic writing going into the intricacies of every change. Author still doesn’t check the “AI was used in creating this PR” checkbox in the PR template.

Today was a really, really hard day. I am choosing to believe tomorrow will be better. If you had a really, really hard day, I hope tomorrow is better for you, too.

Anyone else eat peanuts one at a time, chopping them up with the front teeth until they're super small in an effort to make peanut butter orally? No? No one else? Neither do I. That's weird.

Watching a show, and there's a scene in a nice restaurant, and the background music is a Chopin nocturn, and I have no clue what the characters are saying because I'm paying attention to the music.