Helps me keep sane tbh. And keeps the edge sharp.

Hell, maybe create a unified portal when companies buy energy - show the cost difference side by side.

Takes some time and its a pain in the ass initially, but once I've matured them - work becomes so much more easy. Reduces dependability on other people / teams / access as well.

Edit: Thinking about this, they wont work in other use cases. Im a data engineer so my jobs are mostly sequential.

If you wouldn't mind answering a question for me, it's one of the main things that has made me not add claude in vscode.

I have a custom 'code style' system prompt that I want claude to use, and I have been able to add it when using claude in browser -

``` Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Readability counts. Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. Although practicality beats purity. If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea. If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.

Trust the context you're given. Don't defend against problems the human didn't ask you to solve. ```

How can I add it as a system prompt (or if its called something else) in vscode so LLMs adhere to it?

I only access claude and others using my browser - I give it a snippet of my code, tell it what exactly I want to do and what my general goal is, then ask it to give me approaches, and their pros and cons.

Even if someone wants to use AI to code for them, its still better to do the above as a first step imo. A sort of human in the loop system.

> It adds velocity but velocity early on always steals speed from the future. That's been the case for languages, for frameworks, for libraries, it's no different for AI.

Completely agree. I'm seeing this in my circle and workplace. My velocity might be a tad bit slower than the rest of my peers when you compare it per ticket. But my long tern output hasn't changed and interestingly, neither has anyone else's.

As an aside, I like your system of completely removing autocomplete unless you need it - may be something like that would finally get me to enable AI in my IDE.

Ordered in what I use the most - Fanfics, novels - profile 1. Netflix, others - profile 2. General browsing - profile 3.

Its give a view into one of the most common thing used for entertainment in households worldwide now (specially if you consider phones and tablets a part of this). As a guy born in 1990s, I have never even made the connection - television itself is so ingrained into nearly all households.

I kind of like how good storytelling also relates to the article. A black person showing all the stereotyped black mannerisms in media is fine, but great storytelling builds a character whole. Adding a small thing like liking spicy indian food adds so much to the character.

Bot armies previously needed an army of humans to give responses on social media, which is incredibly tough to scale unless you have money and power. Now, that part is automated and scalable.

So instead of only billionaires, someone with a 100K dollars could launch a small scale "campaign".

It gets even easier now that you have cheap s3 - just upload the dump to s3 every day and set the s3 deletion policy to whatever is feasible for you.

There is a hindu ceremony in India where we build a funeral pyre and light it. Before that, there are prayer ceremonies that happen over a few days (I think). I've always felt that it was designed this way (way back when) to give time and space to the family to grieve. The lighting of the funeral pyre seems like letting go somewhat.

Makes life much more easier when I can play video games or read books without having to check status every 20 mins.

Though I haven't created as many as you have. Would you mind sharing some of them??

AI war machines apocalypse - War machines that consume earth's sources to build drones and other war machines. There are autonomous supply chain of these to the war front, all managed by the AI.

They're unhackable, with the newest encryption that would take years to decrypt. Unfortunately, there is a bug in the production code that causes the AI to start targeting everything. AI starts killing all humans instead of the filters it was given.

How do you defeat an autonomous self-replenishing robot army that consumes the earth for energy and grows in size each day? You can't.

There is a top down culture of not embracing mediocrity that genuinely makes me thrive at work. My current company has a good work life balance and if I make a point that some part of the system needs improvement, my voice actually gets heard. Only place I've seen where sprint retros actually made impact. Most of my friends have no work life balance and also don't have a voice when they see half-assed work.

The numbers showcase the effect of this as well. The startup has thrived even when VC's have tightened their purses.

And it also was a good way to get comfortable with using terminal.

Using notebooks removes all these learnings. I dislike it because it makes for less confident programmers in the long run.