Microgpt is really good, if you want to understand exactly what happens. I still thought that this article was a good, higher-level complement to that article though.

Me too, although I dislike the fact that it over-focuses on mocks (which I accept is over-represented in the training data).

sometimes I also feel it tries to optimise for "per line coverage" over more "real, complex use cases" type tests

I think SpaceX is great, fwiw. However, the vast majority of Mr Musk's worth comes from Tesla (which again, made a great product back in the day), but his wealth appears to be driven by some kind of weird hypno-toad like power over the markets.

Like, Tesla should not be valued the way it is, and I still can't understand what's going on here.

I think that both Tesla and SpaceX have been net good for the world, but do we really think that wealth taxation would've stopped Musk from doing anything post Paypal?

Ultimately, it's consistency that's more important with stuff like this (IMO, obviously).

I've been having some success asking Claude to run sloccount after each change. Seems to help a little, though it's prone to forgetting over a long session.

> The proper role of government is to protect people from thieves and murderers and externalities and provide national defense.

This is a 19th century regalian viewpoint (which is fine). Taken to its logical conclusion, education and healthcare services should not be provided by the government. I think that this is a wildly unpopular viewpoint, and is really unlikely to lead to good outcomes in our kind of society.

> Political advertising has no effect on my vote. Does it affect yours?

Oddly, basically everyone says this about advertising in general, and yet it consumes approx 3% of world GDP.

The UK was a useful stalking horse for lots of smaller countries to push back against federalisation, it's not just them.

They also have the obvious place for any common EU market (which is desperately needed). Brexit has been bad for everyone involved.

Sure, but the smaller countries don't have the political capital to resist federalization long term like the Brits did.

In common law countries, yes. Most of the EU runs on civil law though.

No, all of that stuff is fine (I have read the AI act).

It's all the compliance stuff that will cause issues, particularly in non financial services businesses.

Each EU country will end up badly implementing a national regulator, and these will mostly be bad and stop good stuff from happening.