People keep assuring me that LLMs writing code is a revolution, that as long as we maintain sound engineering practices and tight code review they're actually extruding code fit for purpose in a fraction of the time it would take a human.

And every damned time, every damned time any of that code surfaces, like Anthropic's flagship offering just did, somehow it's exactly the pile of steaming technical debt and fifteen year old Stack Overflow snippets we were assured your careful oversight made sure it isn't.

Can someone please explain this to me? Is everyone but you simply prompting it wrong?

It's a good thing programmers aren't susceptible to hubris in any way, or this would have been so much worse.

Rather than the same old boring internet pranks, I thought I'd build something more fun this April Fools.

CSS or BS. Can you tell your CSS properties names from BS?

https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/css-or-bs

i just learned that there's a combination of about twenty Magic: the Gathering cards you can play where the amount of damage you deal is either a finite massive number or infinite depending on whether the twin prime conjecture is true

reading through the explanation over the course of like 45 minutes (yes, it's that complicated) had me cry-laughing in disbelief at multiple points

i have never been more proud of my community

for those interested, the deck is described here: https://www.reddit.com/r/BadMtgCombos/comments/1feps3y/deal_infinite_damage_for_4gru_as_long_as_the_twin/

Every time I've seen someone write CSS with LLM suggestions, they have to delete and change more code than they would have written in the first place. Which to me seems distracting. But is that a way people like working? With constant suggestions? Or do some people (who like CSS and use LLMs) have a different experience?

I'm not curious about the tech here - if it "works" or "doesn't work" - I'm curious about developers and process.

🐍 Python support in Code.Movie 0.0.41 🐍

Blog post: https://code.movie/blog/python-support-in-0.0.41.html

On NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@codemovie/code-movie

2016: every line of code is immediately tech debt, the most important design paradigm is simplicity, I maintain a curated personal blog about minimalism

2026: haha I just have my stochastic labubu generate tons of code all the time, I don't even look at it. More is more. I regularly have nervous breakdowns about what it all means on all social media platforms