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  • 5-Your Flailing AI Is Stuck on the “Novelty Cliff” and You’ll Never Fix It

    5-Your Flailing AI Is Stuck on the “Novelty Cliff” and You’ll Never Fix It

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    I’ve been tuning a prompt for weeks. The rules are clearly stated. The AI model, or LLM, keeps misapplying them—cheerfully, confidently, never quite right. The tell: output is logically incoherent where it’s usually smoothly joined. More explanation doesn’t help. The LLM never says “this is new to me”—it just flails, always misunderstanding, always poorly executed…

  • A Gentle Introduction to using RSS

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    RSS contains the following information: Links to the most recent articles on the site Titles, descriptions, and other details of the articles and the website The good news is that you never have to edit or save an RSS file, that is the job of the website, they keep their RSS file updated with the…

  • Self critique and the surgeon

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    Even the most fundamental truths about software development are easy to forget, like that software development is rarely easy, and shouldn’t be. Management uses phrases like “keeping you hand dirty”, but I still think in terms of being a “real software developer” so I can help make better software.