"Rules" that terminal programs follow

I Live My Life a Quarter Century at a Time Delightful Steve Jobs era Apple story from James Thomson, who built the first working prototype of the macOS Dock. Via lobste.rs Tags: apple, history, steve-jobs

Claude is not a real guy. Claude is a character in the stories that an LLM has been programmed to write. Just to give it a distinct name, let's call the LLM "the Shoggoth". When you have a conversation with Claude, what's really happening is you're coauthoring a fictional conversation transcript with the Shoggoth wherein you are writing the lines...

O2 unveils Daisy, the AI granny wasting scammers’ time Bit of a surprising press release here from 14th November 2024: Virgin Media O2 (the UK companies merged in 2021) announced their entrance into the scambaiting game: Daisy combines various AI models which work together to listen and respond to fraudulent calls instantaneously and is so...

Using LLMs and Cursor to become a finisher Zohaib Rauf describes a pattern I've seen quite a few examples of now: engineers who moved into management but now find themselves able to ship working code again (at least for their side projects) thanks to the productivity boost they get from leaning on LLMs. Zohaib also provides a very useful detailed...

What we learned copying all the best code assistants Steve Krouse describes Val Town's experience so far building features that use LLMs, starting with completions (powered by Codeium and Val Town's own codemirror-codeium extension) and then rolling through several versions of their Townie code assistant, initially powered by GPT 3.5 but later...