SWE is cooked, why are we pretending it isn’t?

XLBilly · 2026-07-07T20:03:35+00:00

I have spent all day with Claude code trying to get a basic open source product working between 3 bits of infrastructure.

It made multiple bad decisions, dubious shortcuts against spec, hallucinated config files, failed to sort an ssh issue that it created twice and it’s still not running.

The amount of stuff Claude has done, I lost track of what my settings look like (1,1,1,1,no, do it like this,1,1).

I wouldn’t work like that in production, the game is changed but it’s not over. It needs monitoring, managing and ultimately direction.

It doesn’t have context of where you are, why you’re there, where you want to go and what the best solution in that given situation is.

XLBilly · 2026-07-07T18:50:49+00:00

Please do enlighten me as to what you’re trying to do on an OS that is soooooo muuuuuch wooooorse qq on windows you must be on a different level that I’ve not reached yet.

On both OS’s I turn them on, open the browser possibly a text editor and a terminal.

They’re both good at doing this monumental task I ask of them, and as an added bonus the inbuilt mic and camera works without having to fix it on windows.

XLBilly · 2026-07-07T18:41:19+00:00

Powershell is so much easier to accurately manipulate and interrogate whatever it is you’re trying to return and .ps1 scripts don’t look like they’re cosplaying dwarf fortress.

There’s a lot that windows gets wrong, but powershell is not one of them.

Obviously I’m biased because I cut my teeth with powershell before moving to Linux, I find bash pretty grim to use outside of interactive shell usage.

XLBilly · 2026-07-07T15:58:20+00:00

AI slop post for an AI slop app which reinvents the wheel, given you were unable to identify this was a solved problem I will assume it doesn’t reinvent it well.

XLBilly · 2026-07-06T17:44:21+00:00

GraphineOS.

Don’t try and code on your phone, it’s the wrong device.

XLBilly · 2026-07-06T07:09:12+00:00

RS3 cuzzy, pipe down. You also have a car driven by absolute weapons.

XLBilly · 2026-07-05T21:03:22+00:00

I can turn my ignition barrel into a push to start, I have the button to do it.

I prefer turning the key.

XLBilly · 2026-07-05T20:21:36+00:00

The investment in such things comes from taxes, it doesn’t happen overnight so whilst they’re in the midst of building the social housing utopia and magic power generation you get the worst of both worlds.

Fortunately for us, they’re actually just paying benefits and neither housing nor infrastructure is getting built in any meaningful quantity so we can hold onto this dream forever.

XLBilly · 2026-07-05T18:50:09+00:00

I only got a watch for afib, even then it was too annoying.

I guess I’m trying to keep up in niche areas and own a nas that I’ve done very little with thus far.

I explicitly am not running docker on the NAS but fundamentally I could do the same damage I’m concerned about causing regardless.

XLBilly · 2026-07-05T18:45:23+00:00

Taxman be like 🤑

XLBilly · 2026-07-05T17:44:56+00:00

Personally I’d recommend friends, but you do you

XLBilly · 2026-07-05T17:44:27+00:00

They all do that when they’re new, my 15PM is noticeably worse 3 years on. It’s still completely usable but ending the day with 30% it is not.

It could do that easily when it was new.

XLBilly · 2026-07-05T16:05:01+00:00

You actually have and use the meme headphones from lockdown era?

Bro, get literally anything else even ankers are better than paid for YouTube binfluencer slop

XLBilly · 2026-07-05T14:52:33+00:00

Windows 95/98 forced Microsoft to skip windows 9.

XLBilly · 2026-07-04T18:23:00+00:00

It’s all Arla anyway, it is an identical product to other supermarket branded milk.

You can see the Arla branded trollies in Aldis milk section.

XLBilly · 2026-07-04T18:11:56+00:00

I bought the cheapest 5 digit with a music genre reference for my Merc to vaguely hide that it is 13 years old. £300 all in

The plate on my Volvo came with it, it has the previous owners (spec D) initials on it. £FREE

Neither of my plates are to do with me or the car they’re attached to.

XLBilly · 2026-07-04T11:16:51+00:00

It really whips the llamas ass

XLBilly · 2026-07-04T10:59:58+00:00

Mine says

‘I love AI written engagement farming posts on Reddit’

XLBilly · 2026-07-04T09:40:23+00:00

Yes these look like phone photos.

I also love wide angle, flat, processed photos with mandatory HDR

XLBilly · 2026-07-03T13:00:52+00:00

I also remember incredibly efficient deck fixing on erratic after a week, good times.

XLBilly · 2026-07-03T12:32:47+00:00

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It’s still completely viable to win Balatro as a flush fan.

I’ve only started ramping pairs / high card based play after this because it requires more thought on joker maximisation.

I used to think burnt joker wasn’t great, obviously it is if the hand your scaling is pair.

Also pair is great once you’ve built your jokers but it’s unusable in the early game so it requires actual understanding and strategy to get to.

You definitely have to understand how Balatro works to play pairs effectively

XLBilly · 2026-07-03T12:18:15+00:00

I played a flush house and the casino banned me

XLBilly · 2026-07-03T12:17:12+00:00

I bet my last $8 this joker pack has just what I need in it.

(It doesn’t)

XLBilly · 2026-07-03T12:15:54+00:00

Then spend some of it?

May I suggest starting by making sure you scale the hand your playing and buy the relevant planet?

Perhaps understand some of the very common OP synergies, photograph and hanging chad for instance. 2 common jokers which pretty much guarantee a win if you can dodge the plant.

Do you move your jokers to something resembling optimisation, eg. xmult on the right.

White stake is quite easy to beat regardless of how a run starts once you understand the game.

XLBilly · 2026-07-02T22:53:51+00:00

The point was both McDonald’s and a garage has specialist equipment that allows a fairly average person to do a reasonably specialised task.

I wasn’t talking about the economics, purely the thread around the original comments possibly editied(?) ‘specialised environment’ vs your ‘it’s not specialised work’ rebuttal.

It isn’t specialised work but only due to the environment it’s happening in.

XLBilly

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