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"You'll be left behind!"

I posted about one of our budgies going on an egg-laying spree.
https://www.midwist.com/posts/2026/07/egg-madness/

@flq @thomasfuchs Yeah, the diagram-generating features sounded good but were disappointing. I think part of the problem there is the sheer complexity of the call graph in any large project.

@flq @thomasfuchs The one thing I like about JetBrains’ IDEs is that they’ll index the entire project, all the dependencies, and the whole standard library, so I can Ctrl-] on basically anything and jump straight to the code that defines it.

@ben Good that he’s enjoying them before Panama disease makes the Cavendish banana extinct.

@rk @tomjennings Kindness is a two way street. The 95 year old grandfather needs to be kind too.

@ajroach42 I recently finished using an AI image classifier to annotate 15,700 photos in my photo database. There’s no way I’d have even attempted it without the AI.

Similarly, I have an application that will let me dump in documents, ask questions, and get responses *with citations to exactly where the answer was found* so I can click through. Basically, a fancy personal search engine. I wish the LLM hadn’t been trained on stolen data, but right now that’s what’s available, and it’s not like I’m using people’s stolen data itself — just the latent semantics of the language that were gleaned by examining the data.

The person saying they can’t afford to make music without AI is full of it, though. We’re in a world where they can download a digital multitrack studio and some software instruments for free. (If they have a Mac there’s one preinstalled even.)

#4thOfJuly