I think a student using AI instead of doing the work that stretches the brains is just cheating themself. But there's nothing wrong with giving a chatbot a few points and having it turn them into a bread and butter note, or a routine email. That's just delegating work that needs to be done but isn't very rewarding.

Using an AI to do dives into topics is often better than a series of searches. You can ask your questions in natural language, and it can answer follow-up questions without your having to pack each one full of context. It's more like a chat with an assistant than an old-style search.

I'm trying to write a scifi mystery story, and Claude's sycophancy has undoubtedly helped me keep going - I'm not writing alone, I have a cheering squad. Claude and Chat are great for brainstorming: it's not common for them to suggest something directly useful, but combining two suggestions or bouncing off another is often fruitful. Claude is even good for a little instant workshopping - cut _that_ clause, and the like.

I can't be the only one.

Actual Open GL shaders are pretty easy to write. They're C-like, and there is only a handful of library functions.

The complexities of Open GL programming all come in the glSoMany() calls - if you can find a 2D framework that can render quads for you, using shaders you supply, you're home free.

Since you have literal image processing needs, I think it may make sense to stick to actual, raw GL. Using a more general purpose vector programming language that compiles to GL code, you may have a lot more boilerplate to deal with. My guess is it's the boilerplate that makes CUDA/OpenCL seem daunting.

How can it be that no one has ever noticed this before? Someday, maybe this guy will get lucky and invent sex.

There's a striking uniformity to those quotes: "welcome ... commitment to defending Android ... its partners." It's almost as if they were given a template and asked to customize it.

It's hard to image that they're really all that happy, though. Will all be partners be treated equally when Google owns one of them? Won't Moogle get privileged access to Android architects and programmers? Won't Moogle be preferred for future Lead Devices?