The initial version (dictionary based on a Hash Array Mapped Trie) was done in 2 hours. The second version (5 data structures, including red-black-tree-based sorted map) took 46 commits over the last two weeks, done in between other things. Mostly a little prompt, enter, on to other things.

Almost 10000 lines of code, 300 tests. CI, 3 platforms, publishing to pypi.

Needless to say this would have taken me weeks a year ago.

You can try it out here: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1LWHEmvKZ-IS2raeg0RJ...

One of the biggest relevations: Claude debugged like a human.

Implementing the red-black tree yielded a lot of segfaults. It first tried to reason about the logic, couldn't find the bug. Then tried to run debuggers and stuff. This also went nowhere. I had to tell it to add printf statement to trace state changes, and write them to a file. This made finding the bug quite easy.

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- Paul Manafort court filing (U.S., 2019) Manafort’s lawyers filed a PDF where the “redacted” parts were basically black highlighting/boxes over live text. Reporters could recover the hidden text (e.g., via copy/paste).

- TSA “Standard Operating Procedures” manual (U.S., 2009) A publicly posted TSA screening document used black rectangles that did not remove the underlying text; the concealed content could be extracted. This led to extensive discussion and an Inspector General review.

- UK Ministry of Defence submarine security document (UK, 2011) A MoD report had “redacted” sections that could be revealed by copying/pasting the “blacked out” text—because the text was still present, just visually obscured.

- Apple v. Samsung ruling (U.S., 2011) A federal judge’s opinion attempted to redact passages, but the content was still recoverable due to the way the PDF was formatted; copying text out revealed the “redacted” parts.

- Associated Press + Facebook valuation estimate in court transcript (U.S., 2009) The AP reported it could read “redacted” portions of a court transcript by cut-and-paste (classic overlay-style failure). Secondary coverage notes the mechanism explicitly.

A broader “history of failures” compilation (multiple orgs / years) The PDF Association collected multiple incidents (including several above) and describes the common failure mode: black shapes drawn over text without deleting/sanitizing the underlying content. https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/High-Security-PD...

It brings the “what to build“ question front and center while “how to build it“ has become much, much easier and more productive

If you don’t follow this stream, more often than not you will get bad grades or fail tests.

Some people said “architecture is not about education, it is about entering a cult”.

Some more details here: https://youtu.be/syQMTZyzqcg?si=NTz362TrktrIEBhr

No, architecture is not high art. It is the most public of arts and hence needs to serve the people. And people know very well which environments they like and which ones they don‘t. Where they find emotional well-being. That is not a political question at all. The studies are consistent.

We also don‘t need a theory. Architecture is a bunch of patterns and insights into human nature that has been known for thousands of years.

For one, you don‘t need academics to build houses.

It‘s an idea of the 20th century that you would.

Previously architecture schools were part of the art departments. A bit of engineering, maybe, but that‘s it.

Now that you have academics, they need to be innovative.

The old doesn‘t count. Architecture becomes like fashion. Students are scolded if they want to produce anything traditional.

This is true for 99% of architecture schools worldwide. Notre Dame is a noticeable exception, as are several summer schools in Europe (by INTbau for example).

There is zero reason for neglecting or denying traditional architecture. The Romans have already known how to live well. Without artificial air condition. Perfectly climate adapted. Natural materials.

Second, architecture schools are not about education, it‘s about becoming part of a cult. It‘s about telling a story, about winning competitions, and about convincing investors. Not so much pleasing the users of a building.

It‘s just completely dysfunctional. Architecture professors have focused on “innovation” for 100 years and have achieved little. We still flock to the old, 19th century (or older) city centers and love it. We spend thousands to spend a week or two there on holidays.

Very few modern places exist where this is the case.

In survey after survey, 80% of the people prefer traditional over modern(ist) designs.

So the whole profession has failed, since about the introduction of the Bauhaus.

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Plus, storage and cleanup costs in case of failures are not even priced in and left to taxpayers.

This leaves nuclear to government actors influenced by lobbyists.

In the EU you have to put an address on every website that makes you reachable by courts.

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