Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes

To my astonishment, 3-4 months later they fixed the errors and rolled out the feature I asked about.

WTH, people read those reports?

I know people do, I often get in touch with support for various services, knowing that in the sea of people not giving feedback, your comments mean a lot. But up until recently both the Oura App and their support was very mediocre.

Where's my enshittification?

The code review agent usually has feedback to be resolved before committing, which includes bugs and unhandled edge cases. Sometimes the primary context is understandably embarrassed.

Sometimes it truly be your own people.

I use Claude to build me a small web app I needed for ages, I'm using its superpowers to discuss/talk about architecture /brainstorm/build plans, and always a fresh context with the built plans.

A few times the plan implementer (subagent writing a code assigned to the task) found something lacking (more often it was test issue related to the code, not the actual flaw of the implementation plan), fixed it on the fly, or found something in the review (last step of each task). Also there's always a technical review for each "slice" (set of tasks), consisting of code review and e2e tests.

Only when it passes I do the fresh code review of the changes with the Opus or Fable again. Happens rarely rarely, but it did found a few issues.

Code works every time, I have yet to find the fault myself.

Of course there are issues and I need to read the output especially in the planning phase very carefully and yes, Opus disappointed me many times trying to weasel out from something it "agreed with me" (and entered into architecture + todos)...

Of course right after agreeing to use devcontainers it proceeded to attempt installing a handful of node modules in my os, so intended up running it in the bwrap (pain in the ass in itself).

But it works, it's fascinating, and I have the app I actually needed.

Not magical but useful.

I suppose you're a cake enjoyer, miss Marie Antoinette?

You have transferred all the skills and knowledge to the AI. When the skills are gone, who's going to teach you to do any non-trivial job? What will give you any sense of accomplishment when all you do is ask the AI but have no capability yourself?

Even if you have a guaranteed income, because "your AI" is getting paid for the work, where will you be with close to 0 contribution to anything? Maybe we're overreacting and this will never be an issue. I know we shouldn't take cues from fiction to predict reality but it's hard not to picture a world with a combination of Idiocracy and Wall-e (or the famous "Paradise" Matrix) where we decay because the change is so fundamental that we aren't ready to adapt.

That was a long time ago though, it’s pretty solid now and has some benefits over storing settings in a bunch of text files such as more granular permissions.

Running queries on the registry like SQLite? Nope. The Windows registry internally from what I've been able to read is a weird reimplementation of a file system (a trivial database I guess but a real database lets you index on things other than name). It's compact but as far as I know completely unofficially documented.

(Most data structures with unique names or ids for each data item could trivially be considered databases, but generally if you say something is a database, you typically expect to create queries more sophisticated than "select data where name is X" and also expect to be able to create or use separate indexes to support those queries.)

The reputation of brittleness and danger of the registry is because Windows stores a lot of configuration parameters there that the kernel uses as boot, but because it's not a plain text file, comments explaining what the settings do can't be right there in the same place you're editing.

> It would be nice if microsoft had windows update for .net, visual c++, office, windows, edge ... just all their software in one updater...