I haven’t been able to bring myself to do it yet, I feel like it’s going to cause involuntary barf, but unsure. I may try it this weekend, but I’m still working up the nerve.

Definitely more helpful. But I would preface that with proper context building.

It isn’t enough (generally) to just tell it to do the thing. It is far better to to tell it to do a thing, and how, and provide rules, and provide examples, and provide the company’s best practices.

And I realize it takes a bit to get there, but I’m at a point that with enough context provisions, I can generate 10+ files of code for a net new feature that is 99%+ how I would do it in sub 5 minutes.

Do I tell Product that I still need another week? Absolutely.

Context is king.

It goes through two levels of review, we do not accept slop.

Fuck you now I’m actually curious

Anecdotal data point, my cat hates catnip. Spray it? He flips shit and runs. Drop some flakes? He approaches it slowly and then just walks away. Toys? Won’t touch them.

But he’ll eat the shit out of Churu

Same for greenies for me. Used to love them, now sees them and nopes out of the room.

Tell me more?

My cat refuses almost all wet food, but multiple vet demands say we need to provide more moisture. Churu is mostly the only thing we’ve found. The ingredients seem… relatively okay (versus most).

WHAT.

I will literally relocate my cat from carpet to hard floor and he will run back before resuming his barfing.

I feel like you must be prompting it poorly or using ChatGPT / Copilot?

I’d say in my day to day, AI tooling successfully tackles 90% of my software engineering jobs and with proper context and promoting the output is pretty stellar.

TIL Nova still exists…

OMG NEW ECCO GAME

Somehow I can enter a room where my cat has his back to me and make noise at him or pet him or pick him up and he never even looks back.

I don’t understand how he knows it’s me. But also I’m not a cat.

Too little too late, canceled and never going back. I hope Spotify eventually trends to zero.

Yes, the richest country in the world only takes care of the top 1%.

tell me more