Great for giving incantatons for ffmpeg, imagemagick, and other power tools.

“Use ffmpeg to get a thumbnail of the fifth second of a video.”

Anything where syntax is complicated, lots of half-baked tutorials exist for the AI to read, and you can immediately confirm if it worked or not. It does hallucinate flags, but fixes if you say “There is no --compress flag” etc.

HN crowd told me they’re porting to swift. When I asked “why not Rust”, they said the C++ code was very OOP, so it was easier to port to swift.

vim vs. emacs

It doesn’t matter if you personally like emacs more, far fewer people use it.

https://plenz.com/tmp/vi.html

Fastmail is really, really nice.