My first thought was "we'll be seeing a lot more of this sort of thing, we're so fucked" but then found myself being quite amused by the AI-glitching mistakes in the GPT 5.6 $25 effort: lean into the strange glitching and I won't be too upset.
I'm looking forward to trying this out. I've been using SWE 1.6 quite a lot for grunt work alongside Opus for higher level planning and tricky stuff - a good combo.
As a (former) Windsurf user I'm pretty happy with the progress of the Cognition/Devin ecosystem after they took over Windsurf, now known as Devin Desktop.
Widget Workshop (1996) was my favorite: with a large selection of widgets (such as logic gates, switches, displays, number generators, sound and graphics modules) you build 'functional cause and effect pipelines' in a a cute drag and drop canvas. There is a puzzle mode too. Very Rube Goldberg. Great fun, and educational!
This ties in with something else on HN recently - the end of long wave radio in the UK.
Test Match Special was broadcast on the BBC's long wave frequency and for many people in Britain it was a quintessential summer listening experience: all day for up to 5 days per test match.
Such long time stretches of continuous broadcasting meant that the commentators were adept at talking, stories, banter and general chatter, occasional bollocks.
For me the Test Match Special broadcasts became like a pleasant ambient background noise to long summer days, with occasional excitement and humor - like the time Brian Johnston and Jonathan Agnew fell into uncontrollable laughter at a double entendre, a priceless piece of cricket history: https://youtu.be/KsVTpX7LdZQ
It would be nice if users could generate their own venues, maybe also use AI to convert text descriptions into venues, live events, (sponsored venues/events?), regular 'festivals' where the whole world changes: forest, desert, beach, etc
Yes, it's not a pretty sight to peer into the oracle and see how a society with gen-ai will pollute so much of the communications and interactions we take for granted.
The Photoshop 2.5 manual (1992) is a thing of beauty. It is like an introductory course in digital imaging, well structured, put together with care and expertise, it provided to me a fascinating introduction to (at the time for me) mind-blowing concepts in digital artwork. It explained the fundamental concepts in digital imaging that have remained with me ever since.
Yes, well put. You make a good case for not watching this movie. Your question 'why did the prompter create this film?' hints at a future of personalized AI movies that feels dangerously dystopian.
Do film critics ever 'dial it in' without properly (or actually) watching the film?
I love Mark Kermode as a critic, normally, but for his review of Triangle of Sadness (imo a great film!) I don't think he was paying attention, or was even there.
After sales slumped in the 70s they created a disastrous advertising campaign which is a case study in customer alienation: effectively 'drink Schlitz or I'll kill you' :-
Haha tricky one. Presumably AI will get better at mimicking humaness - including being weird when called for. Then we'll have to exhibit increasingly strange and divergent qualities in order to signpost our biological origin?