The richest person in the world, an avowed white supremacist, today again posted "the next step is getting rid of 'source code' entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI" because he has no idea how anything works, not even the basics of industries he is in.

On this road trip I am so relieved to see the Electrify America 350 kW chargers when we pull off the road, well situated in a corner of a spacious lot with trash cans and rest rooms conveniently nearby.

#OTD I was at the 8/3/83 charity concert at First Avenue where Prince debuted songs that a year later appeared in the “Purple Rain” album & movie. During the song “Purple Rain" I said to myself: "Prince has gone folk." Only in retelling this recently did I realize the echo of “Dylan goes electric.”

Chris Steller@chrissteller.bsky.social · last yr.

42 years ago today, on Aug. 3, 1983, Prince "and Friends" (soon to be known as The Revolution) performed songs for the first time that would appear a year later on the soundtrack album and in the movie "Purple Rain."

An extra foot on most every EV charging cable would be appreciated.

I think I could 100% troll everyone by putting a "This EV Burns Coal" bumper sticker on my car.

In the future every roadside hotel will have EV charging and advertise it on their sign like they used to advertise “Cable TV!”

Ok that was annoying. I had to verify my age because I’m in the same time zone as Texas. All the AI in the world and they couldn’t verify that Alexandria Minnesota isn’t in Texas.

As a middle of the road liberal I have some sins against dominant PC culture, like selling things on Amazon, and using Claude to program my software. Each if understood in more detail might be praiseworthy by some global arbiter of liberalism, like what I sell are compostable kitchen scrap bags...

Has jake tapper watched this movie?

These "we have made an AI so powerful" warnings are straight-up advertisements, btw. No different than "we have made an Oreo so delicious all other snack artists must relent."

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last wk.

OPENAI, ANTHROPIC STAFF CIRCULATE PETITION URGING US TO SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL EFFORT TO 'DELIBERATELY PACE' FRONTIER AI DEVELOPMENT, WARNING OF RISK IT ADVANCES FASTER THAN HUMANS CAN CONTROL; LETTER ALSO SHARED WITH GOOGLE DEEPMIND STAFF, EXPECTED PUBLIC THIS WEEK

Interesting gambit given, by his definition, Elon is an “invader”

When Trump fades away all the impossible things he’s gotten people to believe will fade away I believe as people stop arguing so hard to support his fantastical world view.

How about we all just go play coed sports even if teams are composed of mostly one gender. Then you find a league where you have fun with competition at that level. It is the obsessive focus on playing sport for money, not fun, that makes people all twitchy about unfair biological advantage.

On as large a C++ framework with embedded scripting language like ivtools, setting that all up with CI, Claude plods along as clumsy as I would, taking a day or two to get it working.

the interesting thing about using Claude for doing the kind of intense programming of an open source full stack MacDraw that I do is that I have to constantly retrain it because I constantly have to start new chats. You need to continually condense the number of tokens you are working from.

Training Claude on programming in my own language gives me incredible insight into what the average programmer would face learning it. Lists of data and blocks of code don't need to be buried inside parens, the "," and ";" operators bind them together...

Timed out with Claude. Because I don't want to pay more than $200 a year it costs for the "pro" version. Feels like a bartender saying you have to wait 2.5 hours for your next drink.

Wow 13,000 Cmake steps to build Qt.

I'm on a crazy quest to bring the benefits of a drawing editor integrated with a scripting language that is the network protocol to the world. Crazy because I've been on the quest since the late 1980's. Crazy because no one has quite duplicated the drawing editor framework at the core of it.

Now that I'm working with other entities who actively contribute patches to my source base, I'm beginning to finally appreciate the "git add" feature. Before I drop your modified version of my software or document in my directory, I want to be sure I can see the diff against the last version...

Claude, greptile, and I make for a heck of a programming team. Claude is a power tool for sifting thru frameworks and generating diffs to try. greptile is a power tool doing PR reviews and catches all sorts of stuff Claude doesn't (but wouldn't be as good as Claude in generating code).

Claude admitted to me that it sometimes stops when it hits a contradiction it can't resolve in its thought process.

I feel like an adjunct professor who has been pushing along a pet research project for near 4 decades, and all of a sudden I have a crack team of fully funded grad students, some of the best I've ever worked with. And because I've kept the research materials and product quite organized...

With Claude I feel like how a woodworker might feel who spent his life mastering hand tools and then walked into a modern shop. The same processes still apply, I just have power tools to do them now.

With Claude, if I was a woodworker instead of a programmer, I would feel like after a lifetime of gaining mastery crafting wood products with hand tools I just walked into a modern woodworking shop.

Claude is like a power tool for programmers.

Back before the first AI winter I was lucky enough to start working with an open source drawing editor framework which I extended with my own full-blown scripting language (we also added multi-frame and graph editors). I kept it going thru the decades struggling to keep it compiling with...

Just like personal computers and word processors changed everyone into their own secretaries, AI is collapsing the whole REST API development team (and maybe even the marketing team) into one overall product manager who does everything. It's like they were all employed harvesting wheat and then...

I just used Claude to create a scripting command coverage measurement strategy, and then set it off to compute the coverage after we just made it up. No I'm not completely verifying that its categorization of how to count up and ratio coverage is accurate, because I'm not worried.