Lol mine was too insignificant to make the cut.

I’ve beat both the campaign and campaign+ in Road Redemption, and I’ve unlocked the entire upgrade tree. It’s one of my most addictive games. I’m now playing through it on campaign++ lmao.

Yeah, you get immediate feedback, vs a scenario where you have to manually check the “facts” it provides in order to ensure it’s not hallucinating. I’ve had Copilot straight up hallucinate functions on me and I knew that they were bullshit instantly.

I iterate with it a ton and feed it back errors it makes, or things like type mismatches. It fixes them instantly and understands the issue almost every single time.

That’s the trick. Iterate often and always give it new instructions if it does something stupid. Basically be as verbose as needed and give it tons of context, desired standards, pitfalls to avoid, whatever. It helps a ton.

I’ve had the greatest success with Claude. The company I work for basically let us all go wild with a few to trial, and Claude has been the best for all of us—even better than GitHub Copilot.

I pay for my own pro plan outside of work and use the VSCode plugin. I’d say read the quickstart guide and experiment with it. Start off with having it do smaller changes and don’t be afraid to be verbose. The more context, the better. Point it to existing files you want to follow the patterns of and model after; give it links to resources for best practices, etc. You can also use it in “plan mode” if you want to see its proposed approach before it starts editing.

I also recommend leaving it so that each change it makes requires your approval (it will do this by default and you can step through everything). That way you always have some control and if it does something dumb, you can stop it at that step and pivot with a different instruction. Alternatively, if you want to see it go ham and carry everything out without approval at each step, you can enable auto-accept.

Once you get into it, start looking into how to craft instruction files. You can have those at your disposal for things like writing tests, language-specific guidelines and practices, etc. That way you can make sure it uses those as a reference so you don’t have to give it the same instructions over and over with every prompt.

If you hate writing tests, I’ve had really good luck letting it handle that. I tend to use it more for the bulk tasks that suck. For things where I want more control, I work with it on a piecemeal basis in my project.

Speaking as someone who hates generative AI but has been forced to adapt to using AI in the programming field to stay relevant, this doesn’t suggest they’re vibe coding. The programming world is the only place AI has actually added value (I should note it’s done some neat stuff helping with diagnoses in the medical world too), but like everything, you get what you put into it.

Feed it enough instruction and context, and it can handle the drudgery of things like tech debt updates and other things a programmer knows how to do, but would rather offload to a tool. I’ve had Claude do refactors like that while stepping through and reviewing every single change. It has saved me hours, spared me from hell, and made me look good at work.

That’s my grounded take as a person that has worked with Claude a ton.

But AI everywhere else? Fucking worthless. The whole point is to do the bullshit mundane tasks so that us humans can do art and passionate work, not the opposite.

In Mad Max vehicles.

Watching every organization and person capitulate to this bullshit is exhausting. There’s a real cool word you can use when someone tells you to do something fucking stupid and authoritarian:

“NO.”

Your life is a dream. Daily real connection to the world and the creatures that make it great.

Our yard is wild and I let it run loose, with only some control. The southeast is getting old though. I’m a northerner that yearns for the snow and mountains again.

Works for me! I’d love to say I built a house. That’s real accomplishment.

That’s a valuable thing to hold onto. Everyone needs and deserves companionship.

My wife is my best friend. We both work from home, so we spend like 90% of our time together.

Who is this “everyone”? Because this ain’t even remotely my dream.

1. House needs to be in the mountains
2. Fuck lawns
3. I don’t have this many friends (by choice)
4. If I did, I wouldn’t want to be in this close of proximity to them
5. This place probably has an HOA which is a big fat NOPE

Raise his jersey number to the rafters!

Can confirm. I live here and I don’t go outside during the summer because it fucking sucks, and everyone is an idiot. Humidity makes people do stupid shit.

I’m a hardcore introvert. I don’t have the energy to maintain friendships like this.

Placentzza.

I’m convinced it’s why everyone in the southeast drives like shit.

Summer is my depression season and winter is my happy season.

It’s a dream scenario. Getting to fuck around with people you like hanging out with.

Qobuz (pronounced Co-buzz). Based out of France.

I get it. I’ll always hop on the “fuck the rich” train because fuck the rich, but I also need a laugh and a win somewhere before I fucking smash everything in a 12-foot radius with a baseball bat.

I also watched it on Stremio because fuck streaming companies.