If you just want areas, or to know if a point is inside or outside the shape there is a better way.

Given a simple closed curve, points (ax, ay) (bx, by) (cx, cy) (dx, dy) as a trivial example.

Line them up a,b,c,d,a vertically and take the "determinant" as we were taught.

Axby - aybx + bxcy - bycx etc etc.

Divide the result by -2 and you have the are, positive is clockwise, negative is anticlockwise.

Put an anticlockwise shape inside a clockwise shape and you have a donut.

There is more, have to go to dinner.

There is the house wirer, the panel builder, automotive electrician, HV, marine, drilling, industrial, maintenance etc etc.

Some kinds pay better, others yield work almost wherever you go, others lend themselves to starting your own business better.

It is nowhere near as homogenous as often described.

Additionally the ability to convert bookmarks<->named and to set bookmarks based on the font size and style can be incredibly useful.

Where I live, on the taller buildings it is common to have banks of elevators which only service certain floors, eg floors 2:25 and 26-50 are two different banks of elevators.

Some modern elevators have two cars per shaft, imagine scheduling that.

I pointed it at a JS and python codebase I have been working on and asked it to review and refactor, then I got it to add some features - and boy, I am not impressed.

TBH it looks the part with the running commentary it makes, but it seems to make some dumb mistakes.

Compared to claude-code it is slow, time consuming, hungry on the tokens and multiple times it told me it was done and the app could not even start.

I explicitly, and without any ambiguity, have standing orders that there is no type of silent failure that is acceptable in the current foreseen lifetime of our universe, and it still embedded a bunch of them in what was a relatively small amount of code I got it to generate.

I am just not seeing that it comes close to claude-code running Anthropic models, based on this one particular codebase I have tried it on so far.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111792

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

I then got it to do lunar lander, that was also perfect, and very hard to land.

However if you do this as an executeable specification then the job of core functionality is finished with the specification, with significantly beeter quality, potentially.

This sounds a lot harder than it is - most behaviour is state based and it is possible to define such behaviour with an executeable specification.

In the Functional Safety world this is often your best option.

I wrote my own software package to enable such practices and once used to a slightly different way of thinking it works very well.

must be taken with pepper extract to increase bio availability, I buy it ready to go from the supermarket where they keep it with the vitamins and supplements.

just because no one has worked out how, does not mean it is ineffective.

So the easiest way to eliminate a lot of issues is clearly agree and define expectations up front.

There is a reason a whole branch of project management is called Expectation Management.

What can you do with a whole team comprised only of Expert Beginners?

it is fast, there is no fucking gateway fuckaround or any other similar issues, up and going in seconds

straight away I added two skills, that it wrote for itself, read my gmails and attachments, and browse the web, text browser first up, render page and screenshot with OCR for javascript heavy pages\

then I asked it, find the best value ram in my area, second hand as well as new, try gumtree and facebook marketplace, plus anything else relevant, bam - 15 seconds maybe a concise summarised range of options

then on another project, I told it to /study and then used the gmail plugin to access all the relevant gmails and attachments (which included minutes of all the meetings) and it was fully up to date with the project I am working on and ready to go

best agent I have used so far by a country mile, if you don't try it then that is your loss

did I mention it was fast, like 3x to 5x better productivity fast compared to openclaw, at least

one thing it does not do is support the up arrow/down arrow to scroll thru past commands, but you can just tell it, "run that websearch for ram again" etc, i will totally live witht his for all the other positives

The thing is running local LLMs will give some kind of reliability and fixed expectations that saves a lot of time - yeah sure Claude might be fantastic one day, but what do I do when the same workload churns out shit the next and I am halfway thru updating and referencing a 500 document set?

Better the devil you know and all that.