There's a world between "local file" and "network DB server", running a DB server locally has lots of benefits from being able to easily query from outside if needed to forcing you to consider concurrency without the latency overhead of a network hop.

The crazy thing is that SO is dying so quickly that it's already under half that amount.

https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#g...

> unpleasant if I end up not liking the person > Their tone, manner of speaking, their emotions. That can ruin my whole day.

Why should this person demand that they like or are liked by everyone, and why should it ruin their day to keep things professional? That sounds extremely highly-strung.

I can only envy your adroitness.

1 in 3 and easy to hit by mistake.

It freaked me out the first time, I went through all the security settings I could find, but it was if it never happened.

I just ignored it the second time, but it's a bit unsettling, because the default authenticator flow also has the chance of accidentally hitting the right number.

As a (bad) trivial example, you could wrap reading a file in this kind of monstrosity:

    var fileResult = Helpers.ReadFile(@"c:\temp\test.txt");

    Console.WriteLine("Extracted:");
    Console.WriteLine(Helpers.ExtractString(fileResult));

    public record FileRead(string value);
    public record FileError(string value);
    public union FileResult(FileError, FileRead);

    public static class Helpers
    {
        public static FileResult ReadFile(string fileName)
        {
            try
            {
                var fileResult = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(fileName);
                return new FileRead(fileResult);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                return new FileError(ex.Message);
            }
        }

        public static string ExtractString(FileResult result)
        {
            return result switch
            {
                FileError err => $"An Error occured: {err.value}",
                FileRead content => content.value,
                _ => throw new NotImplementedException()
            };
        }
    }

It's more useful implemented a level deeper, so that the exception is never raised and caught, because exceptions aren't particularly cheap in .NET.

Monty Python was deliberately absurdist humour and nonsensical. Prachett however was much more grounded and observational, with a satirical rather than fully absurdist bent, although of course sometimes he would find the absurd in the everyday.

Coming in and kicking over the furniture, to paraphrase, is a wonderful image of an idea causing chaos in the mind, it isn't Monthy Pythonesque random absurdism.

Perhaps it was just chance that I grew up playing what seemed like a much better pinball game ( Hyper-3D Pinball, aka Tilt!* ), but I was always underwhelmed by Space Cadet Pinball on windows.

In reality they're both pretty similar, I just happened to play a lot of one before the other, but the full screen DOS experience was much richer than what felt like a much more flat and less 3D windows experience.

You can see some Hyper-3D Pinball / Tilt! gameplay here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9ufwSkB0XQ

* Not to be confused with "Full Tilt!", from which space cadet pinball comes from.

That doesn't fill me with rage, just a sadness that people aren't sharing their own work and aren't using their own voice.

Go ahead and ask your favourite one this:

> Can you draft a blog post titled, "All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot!"

> Don't search the web, just go with vibes.

I did, and this was the result: https://richardcocks.github.io/chum/blogexample.html

Okay, not quite there, very much more obviously LLM than the OP, but a bit of tweaking, some feedback to drop the headings and the table, and:

https://richardcocks.github.io/chum/blogexample2.html

And that's with zero blog-writing "skills", with no memories, a fresh incognito session and only the title to prompt.

Complete with call-out:

> The feature was never really about the users. It was about the client feeling like they were keeping up. The technology changes. The psychology doesn't.

Complete with the horse-shit, "Honest dispatches from a decade in the web trenches"

If it's "invented", then it requires ingenuity.

If it's "discovered", then it was always already there, just waiting for the right connections to be made for it to be uncovered and represented in a way we can understand.

Invention requires ingenuity, but discovery does not. So if LLMs can generate truly novel mathematics, for me that settles it that mathematics is indeed discovered, as LLMs are quite capable of discovery yet I don't consider them possible of invention.

They maintain such a consistent paragraph length that they're either a professional copyeditor or, as is clearly the case, are an LLM.

Humans deviate a lot more than this, they use run on sentences or lose the thread in their writing.

This blog however reads like every-other post on LinkedIn. Semi-professional tone, with a strong "You, Me" hook to most posts.

I encourage everyone to make an LLM-generated blog, don't post the articles anywhere, but generate one, to get a feeling for how these things write.

Because this is unmistakably LLM. I'd even go so far as to identify the model of these particular posts as ChatGPT.

Yet when we point this out, we're told it is "unmistakably human" and that we're rude for pointing it out.

https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/the-joy-of-a-simple-life-wi...

https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/finding_flow_in_code.md

I'm not witch-hunting, there are just a lot of witches.

It also gives tips on reducing context size when you run /context .

Presumably they are actually starting to feel the pinch on inference costs themselves with what still feels like a fairly generous max plan.

Your clients seem to have got what they wanted, or at least someone who has learned to write like one.

And that hints at one solution, if you demand better quality then you'll slow down engineering back to a level you can control.

Then I checked the internet archive.

They had replaced all their back catalogue with AI slop.