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Code generators are usually one short command. It’s less typing than a prompt would take.

That statement tells me you have less experience with code generators than me and I'll just leave it at that.

For me the sweet spot has been next suggested edit. I’m still writing code but the autocomplete does make it faster. That’s made coding more fun for me. What’s not fun is prompting then waiting around to find out it’s not what you wanted.

I had to quickly scroll down to see if it was just one part but no it’s all of it. Way too much useless fluff only an LLM would produce.

Pretty easy to tell depending what the code is. GPT follows this pattern is using maybe_something and using uppercase constants by default. Claude is a little more natural but tends to include more fallbacks than gpt5.5

Insurance companies too. They were one of the first ones to map out in detail building plans for entire cities.

Productivity gains seem like it’s at best a wash when you factor in the massive tech debt cleanup and additional time needed to spec and review.

Misuse of AI tools because of continuing a fundamentally broken software development process.

Same with writing boilerplate code. It’s been a solved problem yet here we are.

And when they try to serve him they keep being told they need to do it the right way but the cops stop them every time. The system is totally broken.

And raise local temperatures too

I hope GOG makes this all an easy to install mod/patch.

Replace the executable, even on a Steam copy.

There's more than just the widescreen patch. It would be really nice if they automated configuring and installing the other tweaks to make it really playable.

claude --dangerously-skip-permissions -p "get this all installed https://www.thran.uk/writ/hdid/2025/12/simcity-3k-in-4k.html"

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