> For the American market and the October 2001 release, the cover art of Is This It was changed to a psychedelic photograph of subatomic particle tracks in a bubble chamber.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_This_It

Please test your websites in Safari. Almost all of your iOS users use it by default, and the desktop experience is pretty close to the mobile experience, so testing is easy.

That scroll effect is jank city for me (yeah yeah works fine in Chrome/Edge).

some kind of scroll hijack going on for sure, feels terrible on firefox+macos

I instantly close websites which use this weird scroll hijacking and slow animation nonsense.

Let me slide as fast and unrestricted as I want. I do not want to "transition" to the next paragraph.

This trend needs to stop.

The… hands of fate?

"Evals and vibes" can I put that on a t shirt?

I literally don't know how compilers work. I've written code for apps that are still in production 10 years later.

Are you working on compilers? If not it seems you did not understand what is being talked about here.

Do you lack fundamental understand of those apps you built that are still in use? Did you lack understanding of their workings when you built them?

You don’t need to understand compilers because the code it compiles, when valid according to the language specification, is supposed to work as written, and virtually always does. There is no language specification and no “as written” with LLMs.

No problem with that.

However, at one point in my career, I was frustrated with limitations in a language (Fortran II) and my curiosity got the better of me and I studied compilers thoroughly.

This led to a new job and the understanding of many new useful programming concepts. Very rewarding.

But if you are curious, studying compilers, maybe even writing a new one, will give you tools to do other things.

While working with LLMs, much of my experience gives me new ideas to push the LLM to explore.

Have you written a compiler, though?

This looks like standalone Doppler (not a bad thing).

Wow: the Sinclair ZX81 launched in the UK in 1981 for around £49.95 as a kit (£50) and £69.95 assembled, making it incredibly cheap, and later in the US as the Timex Sinclair 1000 for $99.95 (kit) or $149.95 (assembled)

Cheap for a 1980s computer, now pennies. Wild.

SolidQueue is great. Rails 8 is great. Monoliths are great. Most of the time.

Humans making the most of the situation they're in is inevitable.

"Show me the incentive, and I'll show you the outcome"

I maintain a few rails apps and Claude Code has written 95% of the code for the last 4 months. I deploy regularly.

I make my own PRs then have Copilot review them. Sometimes it finds criticisms, and I copy and paste that chunk of critique into Claude Code, and it fixes it.

Treat the LLMs like junior devs that can lookup answers supernaturally fast. You still need to be mindful of their work. Doubtful even. Test, test, test.

Can we see any of this software created by this amazing LLMs?