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> Yes, AI assistants can hallucinate and give you garbage. So I didn’t rely on it. I spot checked by looking up its big findings myself and found it was right.


The funniest bit about all this is that this is all just laziness all the way down. People complain about AI-written articles. When the article is written about a human, they fall over themselves to point out potential flaws, like "well it looks like AI hallucinated" and it gets voted to the top. Then it turns out that they themselves did not read the article. Just a damning indictment of the quality of online discourse in year 2025.


Hahrie was my neighbor for many years! She's amazing. Completely deserved.



Ah, Worldcat is back up. Stanford Libraries have a copy.


Hard disagree.

At least in my domains, the "battle-tested" UX is a direct replication of underlying data structures and database tables.

What chat gives you access to is a non-structured input that a clever coder can then sufficiently structure to create a vector database query.

Natural language turns out to be far more flexible and nuanced interface than walls of checkboxes.


This reminds me of the (excellent!) book by Jamie Buck: https://pragprog.com/titles/jbmaze/mazes-for-programmers/

They write a maze algo in any new language they learn just to learn bits of the language.


A modern variant would be to do a year id Advent of Code in the new language.


Is there a way to hint in the prompting what information should be retained in the attention sinks?


I wish there were an equivalent for ticks.


If you're able to keep a few free-range chickens they'll eat ticks, at least those on the ground.


That’d be Guinea fowl, but all you’ve done is created a new problem unless you have a large area for them to range and a high tolerance for bird guano.


I love this aside:

* “Doom was developed in a really unique way that lent a high degree of portability to its code base,” said John Romero, who programmed the game with John Carmack. (In our interview, he then reminisced about operating systems for the next 14 minutes.) *


$2.50 per school day?

Sounds like a deal.

I've looked over my town's numbers: the big payments are teacher salaries. I'm happy to pay them and have great teachers. YMMV.


The major alternative would be using a public mass transit system which just happens to hit the school as part of its routes. Which is culturally and ideologically unacceptable for most of the US.


There's some logistical problems to absorbing school busing into public transit. https://humantransit.org/2017/08/the-problem-of-school-trans...


In most suburban and rural parts of the US, there is no existing mass transit system.


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