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New comment by ChurchillsLlama in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

ChurchillsLlama — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:37:13 +0000

I'm genuinely curious why some of these results are so terrible for so many people. I've built in my own harness, and while I've noticed a degradation of quality, the local harness - as well as validation agents - generally catch these issues. For me, I've had to institute tighter controls and guardrails via hooks but I don't see results that warrant changing to a different provider.

New comment by ChurchillsLlama in "Puerto Rico files $1B suit against fossil fuel companies"

ChurchillsLlama — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:36:43 +0000

As an excuse on the part of the oil companies, I completely agree. But that point was directed at the supply/demand situation from the perspective of the world's consumers and not from the oil companies. So any effects emissions have had on the environment can't be placed squarely on the shoulders of the oil companies but the market (world population) as a whole.

New comment by ChurchillsLlama in "Puerto Rico files $1B suit against fossil fuel companies"

ChurchillsLlama — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:30:48 +0000

I do agree with this. They stifled progress as much as they could but that only slows things down, and because we don't truly know what would have happened, it's not productive to play the blame game and say we'd have a spotless utopia if it weren't for the oil companies. Who knows, not enough people at that time may not have cared or maybe we would have the utopia we all want. It's all guesswork and at this point we need to spend our energy moving forward instead of focusing on the past.

New comment by ChurchillsLlama in "Puerto Rico files $1B suit against fossil fuel companies"

ChurchillsLlama — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:26:15 +0000

I completely agree if these negative externalities weren't several degrees of separation. Car companies could have produced cars with better emissions which isn't the fault of the oil companies, people could get their products later instead of next-day (I'm also guilty of this), you get the picture. I'm glad oil companies are having to be more transparent but the blame is on the entire population of the world.

New comment by ChurchillsLlama in "Puerto Rico files $1B suit against fossil fuel companies"

ChurchillsLlama — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:22:48 +0000

True and it does bring some awareness, but this is lazy approach. I love the passion people have in cleaning up the environment but we all know (especially the engineers among us) that building a solution, or contributing to one, is far more effective than complaining about a problem.

New comment by ChurchillsLlama in "Puerto Rico files $1B suit against fossil fuel companies"

ChurchillsLlama — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:19:36 +0000

This is true, but my point is there weren't cost-effective alternatives at that time anyway so blaming climate disasters squarely on the shoulders of oil companies and not acknowledging the fact that demand fueled the value of oil doesn't make logical sense, even from an empirical perspective. Now, lawsuits for local disasters and oil spills do make sense.

New comment by ChurchillsLlama in "Puerto Rico files $1B suit against fossil fuel companies"

ChurchillsLlama — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:09:41 +0000

Nevermind the billions of people who (still) drive cars and buy shipped products because there hasn't been a more cost-effective alternative. This entire oil-based economy situation is simple supply and demand and transitioning to clean energy takes a lot of time. I get that their motive comes from oil companies not disclosing the risks to the environment but this is a bit of a stretch and an obvious political stunt.

New comment by ChurchillsLlama in "California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got data to study education"

ChurchillsLlama — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 17:07:54 +0000

The main point of the article is that the CDE is preventing those who partner with them from testifying about anything, even what's unrelated to the data CDE provides - 'Viewpoint discrimination'.

> That begs the question: Did the research lead to the desire to be an expert witness? Or did the desire to be an expert witness define the nature of the research project?

I don't think these questions are productive. You can't truly know why someone does what they do. And making the suggestion that the researchers tainted their research because of the money is purely speculative and unfair.