@Anibyl @carkner

What about calling it the history of Canadians?

This blogpost makes an astoundingly good case about LLMs I hadn't considered before. The collapse of public forums (like Stack Overflow) for programming answers coincides directly with the rise of programmers asking for answers from chatbots *directly*. Those debugging sessions become part of a training set that now *only private LLM corporations have access to*. This is something that "open models" seemingly can't easily fight. https://michiel.buddingh.eu/enclosure-feedback-loop

@lritter in this case it was a bad decision made under pressure that I had already refactored out a year prior, I just missed a spot. i like to think i've been able to code most programmers under the table for quite a long time now, but that's not really all that hard a bar to clear tbh.

@evan yeah, totally

@aeva the most salient moments of this are a few years in the past for me. you *do* get better. most things i find now are code that hasn't been "garbage collected"

@davew @jsavin

This is cool

Frontier REPL - Interactive UserTalk Environment
Type /help for commands, /exit to quit

[root]> clock.now ()
1/26/2026; 6:12:54 PM
[root]> date.dayString (clock.now ())
Tuesday

@tedchoward @jsavin

This is the best thread ever.! 😀

@jsavin @davew It works! I'm able to evaluate some basic scripts, and look up things in the database.