This is very different from my experience, but I’ve purposely lagged behind in adoption and I often do things the slow way because I like programming and I don’t want to get too lazy and dependent.

I just recently started using Claude Code CLI. With how I use it: asking it specific questions and often telling it exactly what files and lines to analyze, it feels more like taking to an extremely knowledgeable programmer who has very narrow context and often makes short-sighted decisions.

I find it super helpful in troubleshooting. But it also feels like a trap, because I can feel it gaining my trust and I know better than to trust it.

This movie was such a perfect parody that it killed the music biopic genre for a while.

I hate how these kinds of things are always framed. The implied message is always that “AI” can autonomously decide to go of the rails. Similar to the Moltbot craze. The agents have to be told to go do the things they do. They don’t have free will.

Using a combination of network science and large language models, the same underlying technology that powers systems like ChatGPT, the researchers created and monitored synthetic bot agent personas, their posts, and their interactions with one another, simulating what a coordinated AI-powered social media network might look like.

So yeah, LLMs can used nefariously to great effect. They’re essentially more sophisticated bots.

Please sir, may I have a scrap of context?

Well, and there’s this ideology in this country that if you’re wealthy, it’s because to deserve to be because you’re a good person.

The flip side of that is the cops see the poor as generally up to no good.

I avoided that show for years because it looked like a typical raunchy adult cartoon.

I was very wrong.

Death’s Door was fun, but not nearly as creative and fresh as TUNIC. The puzzles in that game can never be repeated without being obvious. And I’m not talking about the language. You don’t need to decipher the language at all to complete the game.

I was a Windows fanboy for close to 30 years, until I switched to a Linux fanboy and never looked back.

I can hear it.

They mentioned MoCa. If you have cable (like for the tv) you can probably use MoCa. It’s fantastic.

I used infinite stamina for the last boss. I think I could have beaten it without that, but I probably would’ve gotten too frustrated and it would’ve taken forever.

To me, the soulsy-ness of it is mostly skin deep. Yes, the combat can be challenging (mainly the bosses), but there are accessibility options to make it a lot easier.

I liked Death’s Door. TUNIC is far better, IMO.

TUNIC

It looks like a cutesy Zelda clone, but it’s so much more than that. It’s dark with extremely atmospheric music. It is a “knowledge-based” game, with metroidvania/Zelda aspects.

The puzzles are phenomenal, and I don’t think it can ever be replicated.

Knowing Tim Heidecker, that’s probably exactly what they were going for.

I watched Big Fan around the time it came out and I remember liking it a lot.

I recently played a roguelike minesweeper that was really interesting https://store.steampowered.com/app/3719980/BroomSweeper_Demo/

What’s wrong with birch trees?

My wife and I yelled at the same time when that ad played. Insanely dystopian.

You’re just driving my point home.

There’s really no reason for you to act like this. This kind of snark doesn’t endear you to anyone and it doesn’t help good faith conversion.