No. English has used else to mean "otherwise" since before computers came along. Wiktionary offers this quote from Call of the Wild (1903): "He had never seen dogs fight as these wolfish creatures fought, and his first…
You, however, are not on my list.
The 2026 version is: Why are you writing Lisp instead of your code being autogenerated. Sounds like a recipe for failure.
I once stumbled across a video on the Two Minute Papers YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TwoMinutePapers I remarked to myself how much the speaker sounded like Ren Hoëk, from The Ren and Stimpy Show. Then I…
Today you'd have to be an LLM.
Winevdm has been out a while.
Regular human processes, it turns out, have been a bottleneck that AI is now removing. AI is now routinely popping problems that have routinely stumped humans for decades or centuries.
But Sneakers didn't quote the Hacker Manifesto.
That's not cool, it's commie bullshit!
Hook the whole mess into Claude, so that it can punish you for attempting to write the code yourself!
From a neuroscience perspective, LLMs are effectively brains. We have built brains. That's quite a leap from first-order logic engines like Prolog.
Per Linus, you're not a serious developer unless you can afford access to these models anyway, so it's not really a big deal in the end.
The CTE scandal that rocked high-contact sports like boxing and American football suggests that sports can cause mental disorders. That said, physical activity, when carefully engaged in, is a great clearing agent for…
Man, if it weren't for college and pushing outside my major, I wouldn't be nearly as competent in Japanese, and I might not have learned what an arrant douchebag Norman Mailer was, which I did from a professor who loved…
> Cheaters denying they cheat is a matter of course. What happens in an environment of cheaters is that cheating becomes so commonplace, the competition becomes one that assumes cheats are enabled, and then everyone…
Years ago I went to a strip club and got a private dance with a girl. I noticed a quite visible scar on her abdomen. Against better judgement I asked her, "Is that an appendectomy scar?" Women that age are very…
In time you might, as reminders of a hard-earned lesson. Age does funny things to people. You might say it scars your brain.
Insert diagram of a bullet-riddled plane.
We've passed the front wall of the singularity. Even 10 years out is incredibly difficult to anticipate, now.
This would have been a neat story... in 2024. Today, it's a matter of: $ claude ⟩ I need to know how the Hitster app maps QR codes to Spotify or Apple Music tracks. ⋆ Obliterating... Now I have the whole picture. The QR…
Dijkstra's epigrams have not aged well. He once mocked software engineering as "how to program if you cannot"—but this too is a solved problem thanks to AI.
They are. They're getting into finance and drug discovery now, probably because the profit numbers for selling tokens look pretty dismal over the long term, and investors are looking for a way to service all that debt.…
Try it with Opus 5.5.
The guy with local models in 2026 is like the kid with obviously K-mart clothing in 1988
It was a thing in the early days of LLM coding that actually got better (not great) results. It's far less necessary today but you still see it used as a joke much like the canonical AI response, "You're absolutely…
No. English has used else to mean "otherwise" since before computers came along. Wiktionary offers this quote from Call of the Wild (1903): "He had never seen dogs fight as these wolfish creatures fought, and his first…
You, however, are not on my list.
The 2026 version is: Why are you writing Lisp instead of your code being autogenerated. Sounds like a recipe for failure.
I once stumbled across a video on the Two Minute Papers YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TwoMinutePapers I remarked to myself how much the speaker sounded like Ren Hoëk, from The Ren and Stimpy Show. Then I…
Today you'd have to be an LLM.
Winevdm has been out a while.
Regular human processes, it turns out, have been a bottleneck that AI is now removing. AI is now routinely popping problems that have routinely stumped humans for decades or centuries.
But Sneakers didn't quote the Hacker Manifesto.
That's not cool, it's commie bullshit!
Hook the whole mess into Claude, so that it can punish you for attempting to write the code yourself!
From a neuroscience perspective, LLMs are effectively brains. We have built brains. That's quite a leap from first-order logic engines like Prolog.
Per Linus, you're not a serious developer unless you can afford access to these models anyway, so it's not really a big deal in the end.
The CTE scandal that rocked high-contact sports like boxing and American football suggests that sports can cause mental disorders. That said, physical activity, when carefully engaged in, is a great clearing agent for…
Man, if it weren't for college and pushing outside my major, I wouldn't be nearly as competent in Japanese, and I might not have learned what an arrant douchebag Norman Mailer was, which I did from a professor who loved…
> Cheaters denying they cheat is a matter of course. What happens in an environment of cheaters is that cheating becomes so commonplace, the competition becomes one that assumes cheats are enabled, and then everyone…
Years ago I went to a strip club and got a private dance with a girl. I noticed a quite visible scar on her abdomen. Against better judgement I asked her, "Is that an appendectomy scar?" Women that age are very…
In time you might, as reminders of a hard-earned lesson. Age does funny things to people. You might say it scars your brain.
Insert diagram of a bullet-riddled plane.
We've passed the front wall of the singularity. Even 10 years out is incredibly difficult to anticipate, now.
This would have been a neat story... in 2024. Today, it's a matter of: $ claude ⟩ I need to know how the Hitster app maps QR codes to Spotify or Apple Music tracks. ⋆ Obliterating... Now I have the whole picture. The QR…
Dijkstra's epigrams have not aged well. He once mocked software engineering as "how to program if you cannot"—but this too is a solved problem thanks to AI.
They are. They're getting into finance and drug discovery now, probably because the profit numbers for selling tokens look pretty dismal over the long term, and investors are looking for a way to service all that debt.…
Try it with Opus 5.5.
The guy with local models in 2026 is like the kid with obviously K-mart clothing in 1988
It was a thing in the early days of LLM coding that actually got better (not great) results. It's far less necessary today but you still see it used as a joke much like the canonical AI response, "You're absolutely…