My overall strategy is very different. I don't think Claude's code is remotely good enough yet, so I don't trust it to go off and do "development" semi-unsupervised. I direct and review everything it writes, and I control the scope and content of every commit. To be a little more precise, Claude's code is generally fine (if a bit over-commented), but Claude rarely produces code structure that is clear, clean and correctly-mapped to the problem domain, to my (very picky) eyes. So I never just turn it loose on a large, multi-commit development task.

I think people upvoting you misread your post, and I think that's perfectly fine lol.

Entropy is the default state; order and good outcomes are unnatural and require significant energy and focus to impose.

> "mnemonic"

Johny who?

I wrote a lot of assembly (back in the day) for both the Z80 and the 6502. The Z80 was like a Mac truck. It had some really powerful instructions (LDIR etc) and a great register-set but the 6502 could be a lot faster on one condition -- that you had space available in page zero to exploit the indirect addressing mode that relied heavily on the first 256 bytes of RAM. The Z80 had the advantage that it had on-chip support for refreshing dynamic RAM so systems with more than 4K or so of memory were much easier and cheaper to build using a Z80 than a 6502.

If you were building and programming a system from scratch then the 6502 was the obvious choice but if you were programming a "store bought" 6502 system such as the Apple, Atari or Commodore, many of those valuable first 256bytes (page zero) were already in use by the ROM-based system software so things became a bit trickier.

Ah... happy days.

This... I AM the migrant who came over here to take your jobs (Australian, senior IT jobs not Deliveroo).

You've got half a dozen ways to prove your rights to live and work in the UK from e-visas (formerly the BRP) and to the aforementioned share codes to a simple driving license (which you have to swap your foreign license for after 1 year of residency or you're driving unlicensed).

I'm now a dual national so the passport does most of the heavy lifting these days.

I'm not one of those anti-ID-"they're coming for you"-nutters, but it really is a solution desperately seeking a problem. Sadly it was sold to the hard of thinking under the bogeyman that is migrants (BOO!!!! but in foreign) and the hard of thinking lapped it up. The scaremongering around migrants is another huge problem that gets blown out of proportion by certain politicians because it means the hard of thinking will be too scared to notice the damage they've done to the economy or the £5 million bribes they're openly taken.

For the record, I think the UK is still a great place to live, nice people, decent weather (not right now, but usually) loads of things to do and see... and I'm fortunate enough to be able to choose between two of the worlds best places to live. However there seems to be some people dedicated to ruining it and they usually vote Conservative or Reform and are scared of... well... little ol' me (actually because I'm white and don't have a strong accent I get a free pass).

This is largely an American issue. Most other countries don't have the same level of puritanism. We usually have seen boobs, watched horror movies and tasted alcohol by the age of 14, good parents will teach kids how to handle these things long before they're a legal adult (starting at 16 and you're a full legal adult at 18, drinking, joining the army, everything). American also has the problem of glorifying violence and demonising sex. Sex is one of the most wholesome and natural things money can buy... Jokes aside it's something that is natural and instinctual... and the US has sought to replace it with ultraviolence.

However that's really besides the point... do our silicone servants really have natural human rights? At what point does it end, is my neighbours cat entitled to freedom of expression as it's smarter than some AIs (simply because it's been taught to shit in a box and not on the carpet)? What about a toaster? AI's are simply doing what they've been programmed to.

Not strange if you've ever played a fighting game against someone not into computer games. They learn quickly that by just mashing buttons randomly they can often get a win without actually learning anything about the game. Same principle.

Of course they didn't. The name of the game is "disrupting an industry". Because on paper and in investor pitches, everything is straightforward, simple, and was practically waiting for them.

That reality is more messy, has more edge cases, doesn't always follow your process, is something you don't tell the investors and don't consider in your service until you've had the chance to cash out.

It's almost as if having humans around can sometimes have advantages.

But I'm sure this'll just be seen to add one more robot to the robot taxi. A humanoid co-pilot bot?

the vehicles start looking more like a wingless airplane than a car.

And what does the company's name mean? ;) (Hint: it's Greek)

It adds up to 40 miles per day, not 5. 5 would be a cloudy day.

I used to be anti-solar-panels-on-cars back when solar panels were expensive, and ones of reasonable efficiency were even more expensive - the argument was, "put it on your roof where it belongs". But that's just not the case any more. Adding solar is just not that much of a cost to the car. It adds some complexities, but mainly in the design / early manufacturing phase.

Also:

The average American drives 37 miles per day.

1) So if you're in a sunny climate, it covers all of said average-driver's driving. Otherwise, said average-driver has to plug in occasionally, but not nearly as often.

2) Most people drive less than the average (the average is skewed by a long-tail - small numbers of people who drive very far every year). What you actually should be meaning is the median US driver; the median drives 23 miles per day. Most Europeans, even less.

3) Even for said "average american", their daily average is skewed by long drives (e.g. road trips and similar). Wheren of course you're plugging in, you'd be plugging in even if the car was adding 80 miles a day. But when not on road trips, their daily average is lower.

4) Surely you can see the appeal of the tangential benefits, such as being unstrandable - where even if you run out in the middle of the desert 20 miles from the nearest town, you're still going to get there, just delayed (remember that EV ranges, if you drive very slowly, increase like 2x, so 40 miles a day becomes 80, so a 20 mile shortfall is only a ~4h delay on a sunny day).

5) Nobody is saying, "One car for everybody". Of course appeal varies by person and by location. Here in Iceland for example we have three problems. One, very little sun at all for a good chunk of the year. Two, even in the summer, when the days are long, the sun is mainly low and circles around you. Solar power just kinda sucks here in general. And three, the three-wheel config would mean that the centre wheel wouldn't align with tracks in the snow from other cars (although there is a slight advantage, in that it also wouldn't align with road ruts from studded tyres, which often fill with water in the rain and become hazardous).

But somewhere in the southern US, it's a great option.

Yeah... but interesting (and even potentially useful) spam. They are really cool vehicles; I'd want one even if they weren't solar.

Of course, the company has been promising them for years...

Are you sure you're not an LLM?

I think this is the result of their trainers trying to reduce hallucination. And hallucination *has* been reduced, so it's probably been largely successful, but it has produced this era of versions that are concerned about honesty, that claims of honesty or apologies for lack or honesty, are pervasive in their output.

My iron rule is that Claude is not allowed to modify git state, not even to stage or unstage, and definitely not to commit. As long as that rule is followed, any mistakes can be cleaned up easily.