gargle

@gargle@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I asked Claude 3.5 Haiku to write me a quine in COBOL in the bs2000 dialect. Claude does now that creating a perfect quine in COBOL is challenging due to the need to represent the self-referential nature of the code. After a few suggestions Claude restated its first draft, without proper BS2000 incantations, without a perform statement, and without any self-referential redefines. It’s a lot of work. I stopped caring and moved on.

  For those who wonder: sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/…/495d8008/ has an example.

  Colour me unimpressed. I dread the day when they force the use of ‘AI’ on us at work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LibreCalc and python for the win! I just love from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, import json, import re, import urllib.request.