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- It's bittersweet, isn't it. Software is solved, but at a terrible cost.by varjag
- The cost is not terrible, calm down.by boxed
- Software isn't solved. 'Coding' is, according to the people of Claude.
Coding (programming) is a tedious and expensive part of software engineering. There's other parts AI isn't doing, such as understanding and refining requirements, and delivery + accountability.
by jorisw - Why is it bittersweet? Carpenters probably didn't cry when their tools improved.
It will be bittersweet when there's no human needed at the wheel but IMHO we are far, far from that. These models/agents are just mimicking human text and need guidance because they often get lost or stuck.
by alecco - This reminds me of the Go champion who announced he was giving up the game after a computer beat him.
It’s as if a runner were to give up running when beaten by a horse or a car. It suggests they may have had unexamined and perhaps somewhat strange reasons for doing the activity in the first place.
People have difficulty accepting just how significant their limitations actually are. We design our world to hide those limitations. As an example, it would be easy to make computer games that are unwinnable by humans because of our slow reaction times, low speed in general, and our cognitive limitations. But no-one makes such games, because few people would want to play them for very long.
The “terrible cost” in this specific case seems to be related to discovering that we were fooling ourselves about how good we were at software development.
by antonvs - How is it solved? LLMs cannot think new things, they can only cobble something together if it's in their training set.by rschiavone
- you forgot to say 'please'by mandeepj
- A perfect example of a coding agent guided by a human with domain knowledge.by alecco
- Intuition + obsessive detail-oriented execution = resultsby ethbr1
- 403 forbidden
- "You forgot to say please"by franky47
- Works for me fineby nashashmi
- Feels like it might be pertinent to share more details than simply the error code. What country? How are you connecting? Anything out of the ordinary with your setup that might be the cause?
- by imp0cat
- "I does not boot and it makes me sad"
I actually write prompts like that when I'm not under pressure. Claude will sometimes completely ignore your feelings, and sometimes give a little comment, which I just find refreshing in the middle of otherwise often boring sessions. And it does not have an effect on the actual result.
by jansan - Codex overuses the word "quickly". I'm tempted to check what happens if I tell him to do it slowly.by Tade0
- The blog mentions a Graphing Calculator. Not sure if it shares code, but macOS still ships with an app to draw graphs, Grapher.appby bartvk
- The current Mac version of what started as the PowerPC Graphing Calculator app can be downloaded from the Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/graphing-calculator-4/id522175...
The iOS version is at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pacific-tech-graphing-calcul...
by relium - Grapher.app is different from Graphing Calculator. It came via an acquisition. All the details are here if you want to read the backstory (assuming the info is correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapher)by amenghra
- The app on your Mac today isn't a rewrite of the legendary Mac OS 7.2.1 Graphing Calculator, but an acquired app based on Curvus Pro introduced in OSX Tiger.
The first one has a legendary backstory. 2 devs snuck into Apple after their project was canceled: https://www.pacifict.com/Story/
Curvus Pro: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/curvus-pro
by zweifuss - I am doing a very similar thing right now, which is adding a JIT to both Basilisk and SheepShaver: https://github.com/rcarmo/macemu - on the PPC side, we're still poking at some hardware registers that the Quadra ROMs like to noodle in.by rcarmo
- I thought it was about Renaud' song _Laisse béton_by wiether
- My brain immediately switched to 'you could be mine' by guns n rosesby ingvay7
- For those unaware, this line is from the movie Terminator 2:by throw0101a
- That movie has aged incredibly well!by armcat
- When I saw the headline I immediately knew the reference. Then I skimmed that article and saw no connection to T2?by mrandish
- I clicked on the post expecting it to be something from T2 and wondered why I was reading something about emulation.by lizknope
- some vague hint about what the article is about before clicking on it would be.. nice.by wayeq
- Rapid development of a cycle accurate Intellivision emulator, much of it unsupervised. (four part series)
https://keanw.com/2026/03/a-diary-of-an-agentic-retro-gamer-...
https://keanw.com/2026/04/a-diary-of-an-agentic-retro-gamer-...
https://keanw.com/2026/04/a-diary-of-an-agentic-retro-gamer-...
https://keanw.com/2026/05/a-diary-of-an-agentic-retro-gamer-...
- 'PowerPC DRC' appears to be the code in mame that translates PowerPC machine code into native host machine code (Dynamic Recompilation Core).
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/devices/cpu/...
by Luc