memorylane's comments

memorylane | 6 months ago | on: The current state of LLM-driven development

Dunno about you, but I find thinking hard… when I offload boilerplate code to Claude, I have more cycles left over to hold the problem in my head and effectively direct the agent in detail.

memorylane | 8 months ago | on: Claude Code feels like magic because it is iterative

I use CC in existing code bases to build out new GUI - VueJS/Quasar and it blows me away! For back end Rust code it excels at boilerplate crud handlers back to the db - it copies the style of existing code… I’ll happily pay for it if my boss does not, just work less hours…

memorylane | 1 year ago | on: Effects of Gen AI on High Skilled Work: Experiments with Software Developers

> (where it was easy for me to identify if the generated code was up to snuff or not).

I think you have nailed it with this comment. I find copilot very useful for boilerplate - stuff that I can quickly validate.

For stuff that is even slightly complicated, like simple if-then-else, I have wasted hours tracking down a subtle bug introduced by copilot (and me not checking it properly)

For hard stuff it is faster and more reliable for me to write the code than to validate copilots code.

memorylane | 1 year ago | on: We need to liberate the Postcode Address File

I think g-naf is freely available…

memorylane | 1 year ago | on: New theory suggests time is an illusion created by quantum entanglement

This might be in reference to an idea called the block universe: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalism_(philosophy_of_ti....

memorylane | 2 years ago | on: The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket

I think it is a play on words - five cats -> Cat 5

memorylane | 4 years ago | on: Facts don’t change our minds (2018)

You can’t use arguments to convince someone to change their mind when they didn’t get there rationally…

memorylane | 4 years ago | on: Mysterious Stone Orbs Stashed All over Neolithic Britain

I listened to a Sean Carrol Mindscape podcast recently concerning Memory Palaces that have been used ubiquitously by ancient peoples. The theory goes that when people started settling down, the did not travel extensively and could no longer effectively use country for the palace in their mind. They therefore made physical objects with distinctive surfaces to serve as the physical part of a memory palace. This is well documented for Australian aborigines and native Anerican peoples who you can just ask. There are no equivalent populations in Europe to ask directly.

Once writing/printing became commonplace these practices were abandoned.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fYhVkbzr60E

Edit: add YouTube link.