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New comment by stevex in "SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities"

stevex — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:22:15 +0000

It's not true that there was no improvement in the rate at which models produced quality code.

Jan 2025 was Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Gemini 1.5 Pro and OpenAI had GPT-4o.

As someone who used all those models, as well as today's frontier models - today's models are a significant step up from those.

New comment by stevex in "USB Cheat Sheet (2022)"

stevex — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:27:26 +0000

Doesn't it run over a USB-C shaped wire? If you're trying to understand things that plug into USB-shaped ports it seems at least worth mentioning.

New comment by stevex in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"

stevex — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:30:28 +0000

Where does that UBI money come from if there are 50% fewer people paying taxes? That's the problem.

New comment by stevex in "Django 6"

stevex — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:13:40 +0000

One thing Django has going for it is that the "batteries included" nature of it is perfect for AI code generation.

You can get a working site with the usual featuers (admin panel, logins, forgot reset/password flow, etc) with minimal code thanks to the richness of the ecosystem, and because of the minimal code it's relatively easy for the AI to keep iterating on it since it's small enough to be understandable in context.

New comment by stevex in "Django 6"

stevex — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:11:06 +0000

Django + AlpineJS + HTMX is pretty nice.

New comment by stevex in "AI coding"

stevex — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 13:33:13 +0000

"that obviously made no sense" is bizarre.

Waymo's driving people around with an injuries-per-mile rate that's lower than having humans do it. I don't see how that reconciles with "obviously made no sense".

New comment by stevex in "AI coding"

stevex — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 13:31:07 +0000

I feel the same way. After 30+ years coding, I know what I want to build, but finding the time to work on it and the focus is harder than it used to be.

New comment by stevex in "Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver"

stevex — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 12:15:48 +0000

I had an Amiga disk image (*.adf) that I wanted to extract the files from. There are probably tools to do this but I was just starting with Claude Code, so I asked it to write a tool to extract the files by implementing the filesystem.

It took a few prompts but I know enough about FFS (the Amiga filesystem) to guide it, and it created exactly the tool I wanted.

"force multiplier of your own skills" is a great description.

New comment by stevex in "Someone's stealing our identity on Apple's App Store"

stevex — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 17:40:52 +0000

I have an app in the store that's been doing reasonably well. Another developer released an app with the exact same name. (I'm not sure how, as the App Store normally prevents that). I filed a complaint with Apple, and they renamed their product, simply adding "Pro" to the name.

Search for any popular app name and you'll see the other apps trying to ride off the same search terms. Apple seems to be fine with that.

Where Apple will get involved is if you send them a properly worded legal request based on an actual trademark or intellectual property violation. They will act if they are compelled to, but only then.