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A red robin sits surrounded by red and white flowers in a tree

Right outside my house this afternoon.

#photography #birds

Overheard in London park:

Child: "Who were our ancestors."
Mum: "Probably peasants."
Child: "What does that mean?"
Mum: "Poor people."

Claude has a funny quirk where if you have it write things that include numbers, in the right context the odds are *heavily* skewed in favour of numbers that include 7, and if two digits or more, that contain "47". Once seen, you can't unsee it.

#llm

Watching Haiku just absolutely go crazy with web searches to verify every smallest, unimportant detail you couldn't care less about is funny, though.

Fun problem: Getting Claude to track knowledge claims in a large document, and cross-check the consistency of said claims across ~200k+ words of context.

It does *remarkably well* at fact-checking the 90% easy cases, but the corner cases are *hairy* when you have to deal with all kinds of inane […]

Unless it's currently routing me to one of the crappier models... I told it to run an agent, and it returned telling me it had "invoked" the agent, and the agent returned its prompt, and asked if I wanted to run it...

WTH.

Using opencode with Codex after hitting my Claude MAX weekly limit until tomorrow evening feels a bit as being the victim of a cruel practical joke...

On one hand the Opencode UI is *so much better*, apart from the ridiculous Knight Rider spinner. On the other hand, using Codex feels like […]

New hobby: "Harassing" the parakeets outside my office by whistling at them until they get confused.

Bright green ring-necked parakeet sitting on wire, with a chimney in the background.

This guy likes hanging out on one of my fibre connections...

#photography #london #birds

Sunrise over urban winter landscape with a smoke stack partially obscuring the sun

Sunrise ca 9.15am, in Lillestrøm, Southern Norway, obscured in part by a smokestack.

#Photos #photography

Codex is fine, btw.. It's just that I'm used to Claude Code's quirks.

Being made to talk to Codex is like having a fun coworker you know how to work with tell you they're going away for a few days, and introducing you to someone you haven't worked closely with for a while and who is overly […]

I've written zero lines of code. I've *read* some of them, and in response, I've written about 3 paragraphs telling it to stop and refactor, with some pointers, a couple of times.

It's executed *good* refactors, and the state of the code is frankly shocking - in a good way - for a 10-day-old […]

Forced to get used to Codex because I've hit the weekly top-tier Claude Max limit until tomorrow evening...

A conversation with my son got me to tell it to outline all features needed to build a Crusader Kings 3 level RTS game, and then I told it to create a todo list... Then I told it to […]

Moebius - 1977

Moebius - 1977

https://imgur.com/gallery/moebius-1977-xqTp4E9

#illustration #drawing #space #scifi #sciencefiction #fantasy #worlds #imagination #creativity #vintage #art #culture #BD #comics #comicbook #moebius #france

(While I wrote the above, it augmented its spec by showing how AOT compilation of static/literal regexps could be done via the NFA -> DFA path and then generating code by generating my compiler's AST nodes directly from the DFA)

... written a detailed treatise on Thompson's construction (of course, it'd know that), followed up with an outline of NFA -> DFA conversion, and then followed up with a *code generator* for DFA -> x86 assembly.

*And started implementing it*.

None of this is "hard", inasmuch as these algos are […]

A fun part of working with Claude, is whenever you hit a theory-heavy subject, it'll just casually zero-shot hundreds of lines of implementation of algos I know *of* but would have to look up to implement.

I told Claude to start writing up a plan for Regexp support for my #ruby #compiler and […]

"Testing 1,2,3.... Hello from the command line"

<- that was Claude Code just speaking to me by ssh'ing into the Pi and running espeak after it got frustrated with the HomeAssistant API...

#llm

And now it's *editing the dashboard* using the graphical editor....

Claude couldn't find out how to access all functionality via the HA API, so now it's browsing the Home Assistant admin interface via Playwright and installing stuff for me.

Uh, oh, Claude has realised it can play sounds over my Pi speaker.

My Claude Code has its "own" Raspberry Pi now.

It has root.

It's currently investigating a flaky wifi connection... Once it is happy with that, I'll give it free reign to figure out how to make it an Alexa replacement (with the help of Home Assistant).

I intend to be 100% hands-off other than […]

Claude Code just killed all my terminals...

I better watch what I'm telling it, I guess.

(all my terminals are Ruby, and it did a "killall ruby" while working on my Ruby compiler in the background... I wasn't looking, so was initially a bit surprised that all my windows closed... I guess […]

Three parakeets on a wall. One of them with its head inside a vent.

Two parakeets on a wall. One just landing, with its wings outstretched, the other with its head in a vent.

Forgot I also had these.

Red robin in profile up close, sitting on top of a garden glove.

Meanwhile, this guy took advantage when I took a break from clearing the front garden and took possession of my garden glove.

It proceeded to try to eat the red piece of plastic.

Could hardly be bothered to move when I got closer, and finally hid in the […]

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Three ring-necked parakeet, two sitting next to each other on a wire attached to the roof, and one peering out from over the roof.

If my fibre connection breaks, I know who to blame... (I have a backup; it's not as attractive to sit on)

#london #photography #birds

Two ring-necked parakeet hanging off the side of a wall. One of them appears to be trying to open a vent.

"Oi, have you found a way inside yet? I'm freezin' over 'ere"

#london #photography #birds

A billboard on top of a derelict shop front, with two posters attached: "JESUS=*HEAVEN*, NO JESUS = *HELL*, Jesus *coming* soon. All Vaccine *666*" on the left. "KARL MARX WALKING TOUR, Sundays 11am Piccadilly Circum from of Criterion Theatre - More listings Online, www.MarxWalks.com" on the right.

Contrasting viewpoints.

#London #photography

59% passing now...

Up to about 52% of rubyspec integer test cases actually *passing* now. This might sound really low, but most of those are bignum related (Claude *has* written a bignum implementation, but it's incomplete and buggy still, though getting there), and a big chunk of the rest are error cases, Float […]