Alternative twist on this that I find works very well (and that I posted about a month ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45959846) - instead of concat&sending touched files, checkout the feature branch and the prompt becomes "help me review this pr, diff attached, we are on the feature branch" with an AI that has access to the codebase (I like Cursor).
I have tried a few of the LLM solutions. So far for me https://fathom.video is head and shoulders above the rest, excellent speaker annotation and LLM summarization, full video recording and matching video position to transcript (i.e. click on section of transcript to go to that part of the video), reasonable pricing, decent free tier. I have no affiliation at all with Fathom, just enjoy their product!
First time hearing about this game but enjoyed it a lot. If you squint hard enough it reminds me of my favourite text game A Dark Room https://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/
Most/many government services use the standard design architecture and, although it is not perfect, it is several orders of magnitude better than I've seen elsewhere.
As mentioned in the piece - the designers at 18F were explicitly following the UKs lead here and were attempting to do just that before being DOGE’d in favor of some political hacks with no understanding or appreciation of the task at hand.
Aside from all the actual success stories with products they rolled out, they'd built comprehensive guides for software procurement that were making every part of the government more efficient -- and then the ~arsonists~ experts at DOGE came through and deleted all of that work because some 'move fast and break things' toadies decided they didn't want to spend so much time on planning and they'd rather just build baby build.
Former CTO of a country here. Anything GDS did filled me with deep envy: it was beautiful and made so much sense and I had none of it at my disposal. Then Brexit. I was there in GDS offices a few weeks after the vote and the organization was being dismantled under my very eyes. See, the trick with such endeavors is not what you can drive centrally, it’s what you can make others implement. Reporting to the Man is a good way of creating pressure, but as the current examples in both UK and US show, you can’t sustain that pressure for, say 30 years. Also, centralization neither scales very well nor is democratic as it centralizes control and removes responsibility from the service owners. So how do you have something placed fairly low in the government working horizontally effect meaningful change in other organizations? Have tried it in a few countries, have a few answers and many questions, AMA.
I've done the same for a multinational with 1000 franchises-like subcompanies - trying to get them to conform to horizontal guidance.
It is an impossible task, noone takes it that serious and are focused on imminent kpi and okr's.
My only success has been internal reviews of wcag compliance and the threat of fines if found lacking.
But for non digital design its embarrassingly hard
Actually, and quite interestingly, it looks like their second edit (to separate the tracks) failed: https://musicbrainz.org/edit/122458694 Status: Failed dependency This edit failed either because an entity it was modifying no longer exists, or the entity can not be modified in this manner anymore.
>I just upload the documents to OpenAI and make it available to the Assistant, and it seems to work fine
That is also my experience, OpenAI assistant attached docs do seem to have a good amount of magic. Migrated over from an admittedly basic/naive custom RAG solution and results are similar/better but just have to work with a doc instead of dealing with RAG. One thing I found is I have to add a strong text to the prompt to force it to always check the doc, apart from that works great.
".. but it also means that innovation is risky, and new products tend to be evolutionary ones that don’t change the overall construction process... In some cases, those efforts are successful, as with PEX piping replacing copper piping."
Out of curiosity I searched 'pex piping microplastics' and several articles/studies came up about plastic shedding in pipes, including in pex piping, so innovation is risky indeed!
This caused me to bite the bullet and buy the v2 universal licence, currently 30% off. If you've ever bought anything v1 including a single app you probably qualify for the upgrade offer which is an extra 25% off on top of the sale https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/store/upgrade-offer/
I'm not necessarily against their inevitable subscription model, but may as well get the standalone while the getting is good. There are also often some good grandfather plan rates, if I decide later to go that path.
The problem with V2 license is that it cannot be activated offline so Canva can take a courageous decision to stop activations any time in future. V1 is great because it can be activated offline.
Interesting! I didn't realise this, however on balance I think I'm still happy with my purchase. Also looking into it, business licences (minimum of 2 pack purchase) can still be activated offline, just in case that is useful to anyone https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/188396-off...
Great to know, I pondered buying V2 as a V1 owner, but now they can kiss my butt.
The only downside is that Affinity V2 has no option to save files in a V1-compatible manner. Which stinks for exchanging stuff with other Affinity users.
> I pondered buying V2 as a V1 owner, but now they can kiss my butt.
you're...declining to support a company you like that makes software you like, that is offering a massive discount to you, because at some point in the future they may not allow more activations of version 2, which would not affect your ability to use version 1 in any way?
this is a rather idiosyncratic position to take.
> The only downside is that Affinity V2 has no option to save files in a V1-compatible manner. Which stinks for exchanging stuff with other Affinity users.
as an affinity user, I am glad they didn't do that and instead did almost literally anything else with that engineering time.
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