Yeah, I agree, but it also makes a weird kind of sense. Properly regulated stock markets exist to ground the crazy people. Without them, they’d be doing things like building slave cities on nuclear waste for profit.

Look at fancy pants Germany over here with more than one brand of banana in a store.

The better way rather than using a vague “make no mistakes” is to feed a template of stylistic preferences like “only var type this, only structures like this, we avoid certain structures or variable types” - as the context window is repeatedly compressed during work, “make no mistakes” probably gets contorted to, “mistakes! make!” then, “MISTAKES!!!”, like “NO, money down!”

Bonus points if the style is stored in the repo as a template, so when the change is done you can just simply go, “ok, now read that style doc again and fix what you re-f’d up”. Sometimes it’ll even go re-read the style doc itself of its own volition.

Using an LLM for dev is like directing an intern on 5 espressos to complete a coding task, but dumber.

And much like going from phone call to answering machine to voicemail to visual voicemail (and even for a while being able to text a verbal reply on I believe Sprint back in the day for a bit) we now have phones being able to OCR images, then you can select the text on the image. (Also so the creepsters can harvest metadata on all your images.)

Samsung’s emoji/GIF injector is neat, but Futo Keyboard may be a viable alternative. It seems to be progressing little by little. As long as the vendor doesn’t go “evil” in a future release.

Also Samsung’s autocorrect is an abomination. So often it doesn’t correct a wrong word, or over-corrects a real word. There’s no appeasing that drunk algorithm. Sure, you can un-teach wrong words by hitting “…” next to the suggestions and deleting the suggestion, or periodically resetting the learning dictionary, but how is that keyboard such a needy little shit? Love the alt keys and number pad overlay.

Futo seems very promising once you change the UI settings enough to fit your fingers well.

I’m really surprised “shareholders” with any intelligence don’t start calling out their investments as liars during earnings calls. Tech companies have done this shit for years. Force features into the “on” position by default, force it back on frequently, force not having an off switch to disable the feature. Then they can tell shareholders that user adoption of new shiny widget F is so popular, millions of users are “using” it. Even though the tech company just has NewThing turned on by force and users are completely unaware it is even on, if they even ever use it.

Same crap is done with streaming services partnering with cell carriers and cable providers. Falsify user numbers even if the person just gets it for free and never uses it.

These companies only do this to falsify metrics to make their quarters look good… What if they actually made features users wanted and the user numbers became real?

Or, here’s crazy talk: what if it was illegal to use such tactics to falsify numbers? Gasp.