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So, more #genAI pain. -
Microsoft exec suggests AI agents will need to buy software licenses, just like employees https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-executive-suggests-ai-agents-buy-software-licenses-seats-2026-4 -
The seven-year-old did not enjoy my artwork of medieval videogame charactersI would make a game out of these but I mean
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The seven-year-old did not enjoy my artwork of medieval videogame charactersThe others:
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The seven-year-old did not enjoy my artwork of medieval videogame charactersThe seven-year-old did not enjoy my artwork of medieval videogame characters
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Have you ever...@neil I've received a call on a pay phone exactly once. It wasn't for me, the box was just ringing so I answered it. The caller asked for Sarah. I said "sorry, nobody carried Sarah lives here" and they rather surprised me by asking "are you sure?"
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so the take-away from this is that all of this agentic stuff backend is just begging the LLM to please, please not fuck up?@eniko yeah, this is how all AI "engineering" works under the hood. every time the model does something stupid, they write an extra bit of system prompt to burn a few tokens explaining not to do that thing. same exact energy as shadiversity writing "correct anatomy, perfect lighting, masterpiece x1000000" at the end of every prompt as if the model knows how to do those things but simply chose not to
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I always forgive Git a lot of its bullshit on account of how it's one of those programs originally created in the 70s that are just half a century of cruft layered on top of outdated UI conventions that they were still making up as they went.@lritter Yeah, sounds like we have kinda different use cases — I tend not to touch the terminal unless I need to. A CLI VC system is ok if I'm writing like a Node or Python app where I'm in and out of the terminal all day, but if I'm noodling about in Godot or something, I'm firmly in GUI-land
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I always forgive Git a lot of its bullshit on account of how it's one of those programs originally created in the 70s that are just half a century of cruft layered on top of outdated UI conventions that they were still making up as they went.@lritter I mean that sounds fine and all, but I last used Mercurial in 2012 and as you say, git documentation is markedly easier to come by these days (even if that is partly because you rely on it more)
Are there decent GUIs out there that support hg?
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I always forgive Git a lot of its bullshit on account of how it's one of those programs originally created in the 70s that are just half a century of cruft layered on top of outdated UI conventions that they were still making up as they went.@lritter I guess my worry with hg-git is that it'd be like using a Dvorak keyboard — sure, it's easier while I'm doing it, but I still need to know how to type on Qwerty but now I'm context switching
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I always forgive Git a lot of its bullshit on account of how it's one of those programs originally created in the 70s that are just half a century of cruft layered on top of outdated UI conventions that they were still making up as they went.@Kaution obviously i already use a gui for git
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I always forgive Git a lot of its bullshit on account of how it's one of those programs originally created in the 70s that are just half a century of cruft layered on top of outdated UI conventions that they were still making up as they went.I always forgive Git a lot of its bullshit on account of how it's one of those programs originally created in the 70s that are just half a century of cruft layered on top of outdated UI conventions that they were still making up as they went.
Which is a problem, because Git came out in 2005
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spectacular improvements coming to Windows 11!@climbertobby @davidgerard Windows could do all of that in 1995