Joe Cieplinski

I just had a serious back and forth with Claude, having to work to convince it that the current year is actually 2025.

Tell me again how this technology is going to take over the world any day now?

I love that Claude can write me a complex script to scrape a web site for data and format it into JSON, and yet when it comes time to pay them, I still need to manually type in my city, state, and zip code.

Seriously, Silicon Valley. Learn to walk before you run.

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If Apple’s AI for summarizing app reviews were any good, it would convert 99% of them to “I’m a cheap bastard.”

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In case it’s not obvious to more than the morons involved, YOU DO NOT CONDUCT DETAILED MILITARY OPERATIONS PLANNING ON AN IPHONE APP.

Particularly not one where it’s trivial to accidentally invite a rando into the chat thread.

Mind-boggling levels of moron here. I was not aware being this stupid was even possible.

Every time I think I’m getting the hang of this whole programming thing, I find a bug where I’m dividing by zero somewhere.

(Math is hard.)

“Gulf of America” is the new “Freedom Fries.” Fake, flag waiving patriotism at its worst. No one will remember it ten years from now.

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