That's not how pressure works if it's opened. The forces balance out

Hard to tell... It's not double or more net gain, that I can tell.

I'm not even entirely sure it's a net positive at this point but it feels like it.

I would say probably between 20% to 50% more productive.

I am giving my 6 year old girl an old acer netbook that boots directly to pico-8. This will be her first computing experience. She never had access to phones or tablets.

You’re awesome.

I must be holding wrong then because I do use Claude Code all the time and I do think its quite impressive… still I cant see where the productivity gains go nor am I even sure they exist (they might, I just cant tell for sure!)

if you back and forth with the model, and discuss/approve every change it does, that's the problem.

you need to give it a bigish thing so it can work 15 min on it. and in those 15 min you prepare the next one(s)

Sure. But am I supposed to still understand that code at some point? Am I supposed to ask other team members to review and approve that code as if I had written it?

I'm still trying to ship quality work by the same standards I had 3 or 5 years ago.

Your solution is, "just ship worse code, it's probably fine"?

I think it's your standards that have fallen 90%…

No not, worse code. Wrong code. Code filled with bugs. Code filled with lawsuits too. Code that make you look productive this month while you prepare to leave the company, and turn out to be absolute pooopoo the day after you leave.

I think there might be something here! a core of truth about what the future might hold. I cant take this approach right now though. Its not a good approach today.

But did the generated code do what you told it to do and was it deterministic? LLMs aren’t the same at all. That metaphor doesn’t work.

Very good (albeit extremely cynic) take!

reality is probably somewhere in the middle but it does make a good case

I’ve always had this weird intuition that Zeno’s Arrow Paradox is some indication that there must be some discreteness. Somehow, somewhere, there must be a ‘tick.

What happened with their plans to start writing in Swift? Does anyone know?

Hope someone somewhere still has the source for MicroProse’s Shandalar.

Not the source code, but I am working on a re-implementation of it for Shandalar's 30th anniversary.

You can play a minimal web version at: - https://throwingbones.com/ben/s30/

Source: - https://github.com/benprew/s30 (patches welcome!) Written in Go using ebitengine

Forge is a good modern equivalent

I've implemented otp codes / magic links many times now. They absolutely always have a timeout. Say 30 minutes.

Some of them are wealthy because they are the best at playing the wealth game (and got lucky along the way).

Why does everyone care about Cristiano Ronaldo? Being the best at kicking a ball is the stupidest skill there is (IMHO).

at least becoming wealthy is a game that correlates with skills I care about.

I hate to break it to you, but Cristiano Ronaldo is a billionaire.