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If I were to teach a writing class today, I'd give students a writing prompt per day, releasing one prompt per day, with a minimum word limit and no maximum. The writing prompts would be voluntarily graded, strictly for feedback, if desired. Grades would be determined by written exams.
what's got you thinking about this?
Thinking about how I improved my writing. It's mostly about quantity and having a small impetus to write in some quantity. Writing numerous small things translates well to writing longer things and you learn to desire it.
I imagine this can translate to other subjects too. I think the most important part is the daily release hint to stop students from precrastinating and cramming.
After switching from Cursor to my Codex/Claude subscriptions (for cost savings), they either neuter the subscriptions a little bit, Cursor's harness is just that much better, or I'm so used to Cursor that I can't evaluate clearly.
Nothing is cheaper than Cursor once you start composer-maxxing
The guys in the lab like it, but I've only used it as an implicit sub-agent.
2.5 dropped a few weeks ago, I don't think I've had to switch to a frontier model since, they really patched some of the longer task/context issues well
I've mostly been using Claude Code. Sounds like you guys like Cursor better?
It's all-in-one viewing, editing, prompting, browsing (it has a browser), and it has a terminal (which I don't use). I also like being able to model switch when one model appears dumb or so I can pit them against each other.
I don't get the appeal to the TUI
Thanks for the push. I'll run some side by sides and see how I might use it.
"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another." — Yogananda
o-boy, a real book! thanks, @satwize.
Thank you! We need to get our hands on some more copies of that beast.
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Bedtime Story #6
“I wonder how the ants are doing,” I said expectedly, taking big strides toward the Science room. My son followed closely behind. It was getting late as the bell that signified the start of the school day would ring any moment.
My son tugged at my shirt sleeve. Normally, I would have abhorred it because I needed my personal space, thank you very much. However, something about the way he appealed to me made me stop in my tracks.
I scrutinised the ants. One two three four. All worker ants accounted for.
My heart stood still.
To my shock, the queen ant was gone.
Pangs of dismay flooded through my body as I subconsciously controlled my breathing, wanting to get my bearings back.
The queen ant was gone. The bell rang. I hastily put honey inside the container, took a picture of the four surviving ants, and scurried out of the lab.
The bell rang, and with it, my ordeal.
I swallowed the lump in my throat and ignored the throbbing pain in my heart. I had to face the world.
There's something I've been curious about: What happened to Wavlake? Is it still functioning? They used to have a podcast. Is that still alive?
Man, I miss how lively the bitcoin space was in 2020. There were always new tools springing up and now most of them seem to be dead 😭
Since it costs solely a couple of LLM credits to vibe a poorly thought out idea into existence, the barrier of "getting it right" is gone. So it appears as if there is a lot happening and that now there are more "builders" than ever, but the reality is that there is a lot of noise and not much signal.
The real cognitive debt is accrued before the first line of code is generated.
THIS! I feel there were more creative tools in the past. I get that maintaining them is difficult, especially when you have to survive.
The creative projects were both more visible and more plentiful (also the ones that maybe were creative in a less constructive way). I think that we'll have to live with the noise one way or the other though; it's unlikely to go away. But, there are still gems out there though, just relative to the bulk it's a chore to find them: if you'd ask me what the most promising new tool from the last month of SN discussions was, I'd draw a blank.
I saw a wavlake embed here a couple of days ago!
edit: here #1491712
That's great!
I've not heard much from the team, though. They used to have great content posted on social
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