Antigravity seems significantly better in comparison, but with lower usage limits. If I run out, I usually don't bother switching to Gemini CLI.

It's concentrated in Detroit but also distributed throughout the state, as you can observe in the census.gov slides.

The devastation is regional. It's been a wild experience, watching it all fall apart over the last 40+ years. The decay is immense and impossible to convey to someone from a rich state. Someone from the Eastern Bloc might get it, but I've never been able to communicate it to a Californian. Hop in a car and drive from town to town. Once-prosperous communities are boarded up and gradually reclaimed by nature. Department stores are converted into soup kitchens or marijuana dispensaries.

"Things will work themselves out" is not a law of nature, unless we broaden our definition of "things working out" to include outcomes like "everyone young enough flees, everyone else clutches their savings until they eventually die impoverished."

But with AI, even outcomes like that might be overly optimistic. Where will young people flee to? Where can they go, what trade can they learn, to be safe enough to eventually die in comfort?

When I look at Michigan I see both the past and the future, and I am planning accordingly.

I last looked into the matter when considering RFP's for government contracts for VR software. Didn't feel like haggling with Unity's sales reps, especially since the government hasn't been the greatest client of late.

All of this is before you get to the Asset Store, which largely seems to assume that gamedevs are the customers. I'd rather not re-read the license agreement for every asset I've bought, but I know for certain that a number of them are explicitly games-only.

What's wrong with Netcode for GameObjects, and what are the odds I'll regret going with it?

I told Nano Banana to generate an image of the character with his feet shoulder width apart. It ended up generating him with his feet pressed together, so I told Nano Banana to widen his stance slightly.

It gave me an image of the man with his feet spread far apart enough to straddle a horse. I asked for a slightly narrowed stance and his feet were once again brought together.

This went back and forth unsuccessfully for a while until I asked, "I'm asking you to make his feet shoulder-width apart. Why are you ignoring me?" And Nano Banana confidently asserted that they are shoulder width apart, and I must be wrong.

Ultimately I ended up telling the model to render the same character, pinching a cantaloupe between his ankles, and then to remove the cantaloupe. It worked, but why do I have to trick Google's SOTA image generator to give me very basic stuff like this?

If you're getting into OpenSCAD I'd highly recommend getting Belfry ASAP.

https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2/wiki

I wouldn't really consider using OpenSCAD without it

This, however, would be a significant obstacle to non-programmers. You might consider offering an in-game editor similar to Scratch or BYOB for people who want to dip into programming. It'd be a fun way for them to learn

I do credit their sense of humor about it though.

I keep hearing this and find it utterly perplexing.

As a junior, desperate to prove that I could hang in this world, I'd comb over my PRs obsessively. I viewed each one as a showcase of my abilities. If a senior had ever pointed at a line of code and asked "what does this do?" If I'd ever answered "I don't know," I would've been mortified.

I don't want to shake my fist at a cloud, but I have to ask genuinely (not rhetorically): do these kids not have any shame at all? Are they not the slightest bit embarrassed to check in a pile of slop? I just want to understand.

I get that you might not like it, but it sure beats the option you didn't list:

4. Has auto-generated subtitles for the dub that fail in dramatic and distracting ways, especially for proper nouns or any kind of show-specific invented terminology

From the article:

> The default mode requires you to pay constant attention to it, tracking everything it does and actively approving changes and actions every few steps.

I've never seen a YOLO run that doesn't require me to pay constant attention to it. Within a few minutes, Claude will have written bizarre abstractions, dangerous delegations of responsibility, and overall the smelliest code you'll see outside of a coding bootcamp. And god help you if you have both client and server code within the same repo. In general Claude seems to think that it's fine to wreak havoc in existing code, for the purpose of solving whatever problem is immediately at hand.

Claude has been very helpful to me, but only with constant guidance. Believe me, I would very much like to YOLO my problems away without any form of supervision. But so far, the only useful info I've received is to 1) only use it for side projects/one-off tools, and 2) make sure to run it in a sandbox. It would be far more useful to get an explanation for how to craft a CLAUDE.md (or, more generally, get the right prompt) that results in successful YOLO runs.

> If you use projects, Claude creates a separate memory for each project. This ensures that your product launch planning stays separate from client work, and confidential discussions remain separate from general operations.

If for some reason you want Claude's help making bath bombs, you can make a separate project in which memory is containerized. Alternatively, the bath bomb and bedsheet questions seem like good candidates for the Incognito Chat feature that the post also describes.

> All these LLM manufacturers lack ways to edit these memories either.

I'm not sure if you read through the linked post or not, but also there:

> Memory is fully optional, with granular user controls that help you manage what Claude remembers. (...) Claude uses a memory summary to capture all its memories in one place for you to view and edit. In your settings, you can see exactly what Claude remembers from your conversations, and update the summary at any time by chatting with Claude. Based on what you tell Claude to focus on or to ignore, Claude will adjust the memories it references.

So there you have it, I guess. You have a way to edit memories. Personally, I don't see myself bothering, since it's pretty easy and straightforward to switch to a different LLM service (use ChatGPT for creative stuff, Gemini for general information queries, Claude for programming etc.) but I could see use cases in certain professional contexts.

> I'm not the one claiming that a calculator thinks. The burden of proof lies on those that do. Claims require evidence and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

You're right, I may have misconstrued the original claim. I took the parent to be saying something like "calculators understand math, but also, understanding isn't particularly important with respect to AI" but I may have gotten some wires crossed. This isn't the old argument about submarines that swim, I don't think.

> Understanding is a superpower.

Thanks, this is all well-put.