Shriram Krishnamurthi

That's a good way to put it.

Maybe it's meant to be sarcastic commentary? All this money spent, on nothing achieved in the end?

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More to the point, if you force spaces around binary ops, you can have kebob-cased-names like the good lord intended. It is truly one of the very nicest things (of many nice things) about coding in Pyret.

If I understand you correctly, anyway!

You people are all a lot smarter than me, that's why I needed the Made Easy version!

Not sure I 100% agree. I want templates that are written in a way I can understand and fill in, and that's not at all what I get. Indeed, one of the interesting things about having a class of 20 students all generate code for the same problem is that you can see just how much diversity you get.

Rhodes is the go-to.

That’s how Pyret works!

He has at least one son who is an excellent programmer, if that helps. (-:

But the fact is that Claude Code produces far better code than most of my students do in most situations, including a bunch of things they can't do. The focus has shifted.

Me too!

The genius of Starbucks was to turn milkshake, a dessert, into a breakfast drink by the simple expedient of tossing in a shot of coffee and Chilean sea-bassing it (ie, giving it a fancy, unrecognizable name). "Coffee" drinks really are ridiculous now. Even if RFKJr says so.

One of the nice things about having a course of 20 students producing code to the same tasks means I can start to build up some "distribution" in my head of what it produces. Of course, those intuitions don't apply with "swarms" or whatever. C'est la vie.

The one thing I can say with conviction is that most of my old intuitions, carefully honed over 40 years of programming, don't really work any longer. I'm hard at work building new intuitions. But "what will Claude Code do in response to this request" is not something I can reliably say. ↵

Whereas a lot of the code we write is actually rather boring and patterned and repetitious and similar things we've written before. A machine that is good at doing that is rather well suited for what we need an awful lot of the time. ↵

Left to itself, 2+2 means you could get any number of answers. But given a checker, 2+2 won't give you anything other than 4. That makes a huge difference.

But also, I think arithmetic is a bad example: we already have great programs for doing that. ↵

Well, not like I'm any authority on this topic… The problem is it'll take far more than a few skeets. The real thing to me is not LLMs but agentic programming. LLMs have all kinds of weaknesses, but wrapping them in an agent that can react to feedback makes all the difference. ↵

Maybe this is how I'll get into using jj?

Were they also founded as a cricket club initially, the way some of the other Italian clubs were?

The AI influencer bros (mostly bros) are definitely a pox on the landscape — useful about 20% of the time and garbage about 80%, kinda' like GPT-1 or something.

You don't have to hate to tell me, I have no vested interest here. I'm not talking about what others said, I'm talking about my personal experience/view. To my mind things only changed in ~Nov 2025.

Wow — Ethan WAS the Valley Breeze, no?

For some reason, my university's Clery Act training module has the incorrect Scrabble tile values on their stock filler image. C and P are both worth *3* points, not 4!

To literally having a statue built to you in the heart of London — something that didn't happen to any of the nepos.

(The statue was total news to me — saw it last week in Leicester Square. It's a commemoration of the 30th anniversary of DDLJ, and was unveiled in Dec 2025.)

It really does!

Simply outstanding product. And when I had a question and wrote to their email, within a day the company's owner wrote me back. I wrote in English, and he replied in German. Totally excellent Germanic Mittelstand stuff (it's based in Süd Tyrol).

It does not "hallucinate the wrong answer 20% of the time", in my experience. What is happening is far more subtle than that. Of course, I don't know what you're using or how you're using it.

I don't find those kinds of threads particularly educational. They tell me more about the writer than about the topic, so unless I'm deeply invested in understanding the writer… 🤷

Until a few weeks ago, it wasn't "transformative for coding" in the slightest. What does one make of *that*?

Indeed, a question I ask myself with increasing frequency is "What would Grace Hopper say?" I think she'd actually be very positive!