@mathowie You'd think that the whole "go through all my X's that you have full access to" would be the killer app for LLMs.

Turns out that working with loosely-related collections of documents is a much harder problem than just knowing which words cluster together.

@Ashedryden I remember when I first got PageMaker…

The hard part was never the code: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/extremely-lazy-and-immensely-curious/

But Canadians don't cheat. Maybe an American with dual citizenship? "But Canadians don't cheat. Maybe an American with dual citizenship?"

Remember the war against Franco?
That's the kind where each of us belongs
Though he may have won all the battles
We had all the good songs

We have fascism. So where are the songs?

@dachary I used your skill-validator to clean up my skills. Standard directory names? Who knew!

Great job.

@dachary Ooh. Eager to try this. The skill/command/plugin stuff was design in real time in production, and I'm no longer sure whether my skills setup is right.

@bennomatic When I was 16/17 my best friend and I used to hang out at the airport late at night. It was empty, the gates were dark, and the tiny arcade near the USO center had Space Invaders.

Of course my writing sounds like an LLM. I've been writing technical doc for 40 years. Who the fuck do you think the LLM trained on?

@schwa Yeah, Norm Abram sure played me for sucker after we got a house.

Learned that my fam thinks my therapist of 30 years is a quack because I am obstinately still who I am.

"You still shut down in large groups! Didn't your shrink give you some coping techniques?"

"He did, actually. I cope by going somewhere quiet. You follow me to ask why I'm being antisocial."

@anildash As the prophet said: hate the code, not the coder