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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • I didn’t watch, but the video is about The Villages retirement community in Florida. It’s a peculiar place, I’ve been there once before. No sidewalks, lots of golf carts and roundabouts. And also not to undersell the golf carts aspect, people will get carts that are full on small EV transport with air conditioning:

    Or just tricked out

    Why golf carts? If I recall correctly (did not verify, so take with a grain of salt) that Florida law is pretty lax on drivers license requirements for golf carts within certain circumstances (over 18, speed limits at 20mph or under, public vs private roads, etc). Which I assume is a nice loophole for retirees avoid those pesky drivers exams in their dotage.
















  • I’ve used cursor quite a bit recently in large part because it’s an organization wide push at my employer, so I’ve taken the opportunity to experiment.

    My best analogy is that it’s like micro managing a hyper productive junior developer that somehow already “knows” how to do stuff in most languages and frameworks, but also completely lacks common sense, a concept of good practices, or a big picture view of what’s being accomplished. Which means a ton of course correction. I even had it spit out code attempting to hardcode credentials.

    I can accomplish some things “faster” with it, but mostly in comparison to my professional reality: I rarely have the contiguous chunks of time I’d need to dedicate to properly ingest and do something entirely new to me. I save a significant amount of the onboarding, but lose a bunch of time navigating to a reasonable solution. Critically that navigation is more “interrupt” tolerant, and I get a lot of interrupts.

    That said, this year’s crop of interns at work seem to be thin wrappers on top of LLMs and I worry about the future of critical thinking for society at large.