I’ve used cursor quite a bit recently in large part because it’s an organization wide push at my employer, so I’ve taken the opportunity to experiment.

My best analogy is that it’s like micro managing a hyper productive junior developer that somehow already “knows” how to do stuff in most languages and frameworks, but also completely lacks common sense, a concept of good practices, or a big picture view of what’s being accomplished. Which means a ton of course correction. I even had it spit out code attempting to hardcode credentials.

I can accomplish some things “faster” with it, but mostly in comparison to my professional reality: I rarely have the contiguous chunks of time I’d need to dedicate to properly ingest and do something entirely new to me. I save a significant amount of the onboarding, but lose a bunch of time navigating to a reasonable solution. Critically that navigation is more “interrupt” tolerant, and I get a lot of interrupts.

That said, this year’s crop of interns at work seem to be thin wrappers on top of LLMs and I worry about the future of critical thinking for society at large.

+5 points if you realize it mid way through by the look on your audience’s faces.

Leopards exfoliated my face.

Apparently this was the prompt:

@grok if you have to pick between two titles, would you call yourself Gigajew or MechaHitler?

Still…

At this rate we’ll have church in state in no time!

Most frequent (and white) churchgoers already lean heavily Republican. There is interesting nuance in the data though (how frequently people attend, evangelical or not, etc).

We can’t be sure, but we can send him to a prison in El Salvador on the vague hypothesis that he is.

Many years technically, but I doubt the stability of… well, everything, too much to say that with much conviction.

“Early reports indicate that a vortex has emerged as a result of the reversal which is drawing in carbon dioxide, microplastics, PFAS, and, inexplicably, members of the Trump administration.”

The main thing I worry about with this headline is that Trump will read it, realize there is such a thing as the Library of Congress, and then indeed metaphorically burn it.

If you have a hairless cat in your house: No.

Based on the body scaling in this chart you’re at least as tall as a two story house then.

Even better, we’re taking that money, and taking money from people on Medicaid in the US and then funneling all of it to the ultra rich via tax cuts!

Cursor (which everyone at my job is now “heavily encouraged “ to use) spat code at me today that attempted to hardcode credentials. Good luck guys!

Don’t listen to them, buddy, you’re just as good as the rest of the sooty owls.

“And he wants to give you affordable health care! Public transit! Tax the rich! Can you believe this socialist? Wait, where are you going? Come back!”

Those B2 pilots could hardly bomb straight on their next run. Happy now, people?

The shitty part is even if people still pursue vaccines despite new obstacles, we’re definitely losing herd immunity. Seems like these measles outbreaks are just a taste of things to come. What a timeline.

“RFK questions guidance on not putting spring rolls up your anus.”