So anyway, maybe the cheaper solution to your snow problem is to move here to Ireland :D

1. Very similar UX to postman (just minus the bullshit), so a very easy transition.

2. It's FOSS*

3. Most importantly of all, it has a cute dog logo.

* oof, just saw this on another comment: https://royathan.com/blog/the-api-client-hunt/

What sort of 'app'? A native program for given OS and arch? A webapp? What sort of calculator: scientific, graphic, or just a very simple children's calculator? Does it have large buttons optimised for touchscreens/mouse? Or do we optimise UX for user who types with a physical keyboard?

Sure, you can boil any software 'idea' down to a single short sentence, provided your idea was so simple that virtually any output satisfies it. And if virtually any output satisfies your 'idea', what was its value in the first place? Was there not already some FOSS that satisfied the same requirements long before AI came on the scene?

I've found from my vibecoding experiments I always end up needing to define the exact idea so tightly that my prompt length almost matches the final code length. I often find myself 'programming' in some sort of light pseudocode and letting the agent fill out the details. Any higher level and it doesn't really capture what I want - not due to LLM limitations but the ability for the AI to not read my mind.

Interesting, thanks for the insight. Very similar to the 'builders' vs 'coders' dichotomy that seems to crop up amongst programmers now.

Is this some cultural aspect I'm missing here? Eg lower social cohesion between income levels in the US?

Or maybe it's just a life stage thing. I'm still in my 20s, and none of my friends or myself have children. As time passes and savings mount and people start having families maybe the problems emerge...

Something I always intend to do and regularly find myself falling short of! Thank you, your interpretation makes sense (as most interpretations seeking nuance do)

Blue light gives people cancer?

Could you elebaorate on what that means? Had to Google 'goyim' and based on that, to my ignorant ears at least, your comment reads like it might be an attempt at a veiled antisemitic comment. But I'm going to assume the best and that that's not what this is.

Are you in use in IBM Bob yourself?

Using a system prompt to steer the model's response to "abusive" behaviours doesn't necessarily mean you believe the model is sentient and can be abused.

Giving the model an end-conversation tool is interesting though. Why cut a (potentially paying) customer's session off? I guess it might be intended to prevent a "you can bully Claude into giving you instructions on how to build a nuke if you're mean enough" situation. Removing this in more recent versions might support this: maybe they feel the models are now better aligned and less likely to be so easily "socially engineered" like this?

Just spitballing here, to be clear.

Here in Ireland RTÉ (heavily state funded) provides free, high quality, independent journalism that doesn't pull punches on reporting on failures of the state, including government. The brits have the BBC, which from what I gather works similarly.

Sample of two, but I'd wager this isn't exactly a rare model.

I use mm, cm, m, km every day, so why not Mm! Definitely an appropriate unit for international-scale measurement, so it's weird we default to just using thousands of kilometres now that I'm thinking about it.

> megameter

Completely valid SI way to represent distance, but I have never seen anyone use this in my entire life! Out of curiosity, do you live in some location or work in some industry where this is used? If so, where?

Where is your source on this? From reading the wiki article for both her and her book:

> Vincent stated that, after the experiment, she gained more sympathy for the male condition: "Men are suffering. They have different problems than women have, but they don't have it better. They need our sympathy, they need our love, and they need each other more than anything else. They need to be together."[2][3]

> Due to her experience as a man during the making of Self-Made Man she ultimately had a depressive breakdown, leading Vincent to admit herself to a locked psychiatric facility, stating it was the high price she paid for "the burden of deception" of a separate identity and for trying to hold two gender identities in her mind.[13][14]

> Vincent died via assisted suicide at a clinic in Switzerland on July 6, 2022, aged 53. Her death was reported in August 2022.[3]

That sounds very different from "being a man was so difficult that it caused a breakdown."