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New comment by gulbanana in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

gulbanana — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 06:57:32 +0000

It doesn't. It feels better to work with, because it has a higher rate of successfully understanding my code and then producing code that extends it in the way I instructed. I don't care whether the output is colloquial English.

I'm sure opinions vary if you're using it outside of a coding agent. I don't know why programmers are complaining, though.

New comment by gulbanana in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

gulbanana — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 01:49:19 +0000

When Mullvad's revenue is used to harm people, why should its customers feel safe?

New comment by gulbanana in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

gulbanana — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 06:15:27 +0000

Fable had very confident decision-making and would push past obstacles that Opus finds daunting :(

New comment by gulbanana in "Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery"

gulbanana — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:30:26 +0000

`anthropics` is Anthropic's GitHub username.

New comment by gulbanana in "Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome"

gulbanana — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 04:06:19 +0000

The embittered tone and obvious bad faith of your comments here make it clear how seriously we should take your opinions about AI.

New comment by gulbanana in "Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us""

gulbanana — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 04:15:44 +0000

The legacy systems are not very important. The new ones will be supported.

New comment by gulbanana in "The Future of Htmx"

gulbanana — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 06:24:56 +0000

Relative links are common in the Microsoft ecosystem; the IIS webserver, in its default configuration, serves websites at a subpath named something like /Our.App/ instead of at /. Frontends often use the tag so that they can refer to assets by relative path, allowing different environments to have different base paths.

New comment by gulbanana in "Swift – A great language strangled by governance?"

gulbanana — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 06:14:10 +0000

There is a good reason why Rust can't do it the Go way - Go's always-async concurrency requires a fairly heavy runtime. Rust is designed to be able to support systems that have no runtime at all, or a specialised one. (https://embassy.dev/ is an example of a specialised async runtime for running async Rust on microcontrollers).

New comment by gulbanana in "Is population density the reason Americans can't discuss politics?"

gulbanana — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 03:55:32 +0000

It’s not “the West”. The USA is quite different to many OECD nations in this regard (and others).

New comment by gulbanana in "WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org"

gulbanana — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 09:06:24 +0000

are all of you called Matt over there?

New comment by gulbanana in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

gulbanana — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 12:45:13 +0000

It cannot and will not be fixed in an automated fashion.

New comment by gulbanana in "Firefox is rolling-out Cookie Banner Blocker by default in private windows"

gulbanana — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 11:39:01 +0000

There was a recent court decision in Germany, ruling that websites must respect the Do Not Track header.

New comment by gulbanana in "Severity HIGH security problem to be announced with curl 8.4.0 on Oct 11"

gulbanana — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 11:18:20 +0000

Both of those things are true. Many CVEs are unimportant, but serious security vulnerabilities do exist, and are very hard to avoid entirely when writing C.

New comment by gulbanana in "Crypto Faces Legal Reckoning as SEC Prepares Action Against Coinbase"

gulbanana — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 18:13:06 +0000

Can’t they? It seems to be within their legal powers, and the elected officials directing them clearly approve.

New comment by gulbanana in "Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++"

gulbanana — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 12:46:30 +0000

Like the standard library - they don't plan to support exceptions.

New comment by gulbanana in "WebAssembly 2.0 First Working Draft"

gulbanana — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:49:35 +0000

Seek employment at Mozilla, Google or Apple.

New comment by gulbanana in "The untold tale of how Facebook’s cryptocurrency dream fell apart"

gulbanana — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 11:47:17 +0000

It seems the tale will remain untold, as this article is paywalled.

New comment by gulbanana in "Uninitialized memory: Unsafe Rust is too hard"

gulbanana — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 05:14:52 +0000

(*role) is not a reference at all, it is a value. its type is Role.

New comment by gulbanana in "CPython's main branch running in the browser with WebAssembly"

gulbanana — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 08:31:07 +0000

Because if they didn’t ban ads like yours, nobody would use the site.

New comment by gulbanana in "Python: Please stop screwing over Linux distros"

gulbanana — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 01:00:35 +0000

They have acknowledged it, noted the use case, and decided that they are unable to support it. Python has this in common with most other programming languages.

Providing long-term backwards compatibility with the ability to share libraries and update them system-wise is difficult and imposes very high costs on an ecosystem. Only a small number of tech stacks have ever done this (for example, C and Perl) - and not only are they so old that it wasn’t a conscious choice, they have stagnated as a result.