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I agree it could work as-is, I just don't think that market will find it very frequently.

Okay, well this is: I've installed ubuntu for my elderly father, who is the opposite of a techie.

He didn't know the difference. He can still browse the web and play solitaire, just like on windows.

He ran it for a few years. Then he bought a new device and hasn't asked for my help.

I've been a techie my whole life, and for me, the mysterious OS is macOS. I haven't used it since high school (late 90s), which is when I picked up linux at home.

I was never able to afford mac products as a young person, and now that I can, I wouldn't part with linux.

I hope you're still checking comments: I had an idea for a way your app can really have some impact, maybe.

In short, your app, but for an elderly grandmother. She gets lonely, but the burden of answering gets spread across the family.

I think there's a real need for this. I'm pretty sure I read a write-up here by a guy who implemented something similar for his mother with dementia. She would call up incessantly.

It's clearly not random, it will mostly take pieces if they're available. It puts you in check on purpose, etc.

I beat it, so I don't think it's any good (I'm terrible).

But it also wasn't just random or anything, it played like a beginner.

Yes. Which makes damn good bread, as it turns out. It doesn't look quite as good as handmade, but it tastes great, has good texture etc.

Typing prompts isn't the equivalent of baking bread.

Typing prompts would be like measuring ingredients.

Maybe he thinks the model will be smaller.

Sure, I agree. And I get that result--slow and steady--out of the LLM when I use it.

That one does sound like hyperbole, or maybe he just works slowly as a human? People are different.

Likewise, I think they're having wildly different results. Look at how differently humans drive vehicles, and realize they're doing the same with compute. Some people probably are working at light speed, and some people are actually slower like in the study.

People are so desperate for [GP post] to not be true. Maybe it comes from a subconscious recognition that their own hard-earned skillset will inevitably become obsolete.

[More seriously, the comment you replied to doesn't put out any desperation. It's stated like a fact. It could easily be based on logic & reason, not emotional desperation.]

Do you think it matters that it's a different model?

Or is it more about the review process and a context reset?

I moved after I wrote the comment. It's hard to keep everything up to date.

Challenge Complete 29,493 Completed in 22.3s Nailed it! You've got great timing.

Force the (planning) agent to plan a specification for anything you're doing. Ask the agent to break it down into small steps that can be isolated commits. Review these steps as you feed them to the (coding) agent. Work through them one at a time.

Actually look at the diff that's produced.

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Basically, that's a clone of how I would work if I was the coder. I don't plan as well as agents, but I know what needs to happen better. But I work in small commits on isolated areas. The coding agent will screw things up if you have him winging it and making sweeping changes across a repo. So make it smaller, be specific, and maintain a traditional "small, non-breaking commit" workflow.

I actually heard it as Walgreen's -> CVS

drive it like you stole it

What's the difference in crush and opencode? What do you mean by finicky?

Same, except I had DSL--the local provider 'guarantees' speeds of 10Mbps to my house.

So, needless to say, starlink has been amazing.

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I reassess and begin living in reality.

I more-or-less agree. And it's inexplicable why it's popular?

Describe a chicken nugget next, I bet people hate those too.

(For the record, a proper Twinkie would be fluffy, not a solid chunk.)

[Twinkies] seemed like an unappealing foodstuff which, nevertheless, were inexplicably popular.

Well, there's the counterpoint to the whole post. You don't know what Twinkies are.

Well, it's different from OpenCode

Yes, they are. The systems aren't even expensive, and they have some features like they track people who have been trespassed, etc.

However, you can buy fake IDs online, and the IDs are reportedly beating those machines. So if you trust the machine for age-verification, you might let in underage people.

I do the same, except mostly I delete the responses. The writing was important to me, but the reading is rarely important to someone else. It would be wasting their time.

I would guess I post about 40% of the comments I write.

I don't think that was really the author's approach--to let them learn from their own mistakes.

It was to quit wasting his time trying to correct their mistakes when they weren't ready to accept criticism.

Do you think you've changed many votes with your corrections? Even in arguments you won?

lay its egg on the caterpillar

it will close its nest without any caterpillar inside, where the larva will die out from lack of food

...wouldn't the larva be with the caterpillar? You said that's where it lays the eggs.

Try it 25 more times and let us know how it averages out. It's non-deterministic, remember?