In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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Being at my boss's and seeing the state of mushrooms sometimes. I have told her they are sad looking being all shriveled up and such. Then slicing them up I apologize to them for what she has done to them.
That's funny.
But at least they're shriveled. There's nothing as gross as slimy mushy moldy mushrooms. (Altho it IS a little ironic to see fungus growing on fungus.)
Gotta get my list of things to do ready. But as my sis says, with such a long list there's always something to choose from!
Hmmm... I think the most productive thing to do is shopping for a dishwasher. I'm too old to be spending hours a day washing dishes, and I have more important things to do. It's either gonna be Miele or Bosch.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
True. Usually they are just shriveled and dry. Once in a while I come across one that is a little slimy. No mold though which is good.
That's great on the shopping for a dishwasher SIG. Hope you get a good one.
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Well, got back a while ago. Everything done on my list for today. Yay! Not very often that happens. I oft times end up forgetting something. Got some coins ready to go to the bank just have to figure out when.
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Well, got back a while ago. Everything done on my list for today. Yay! Not very often that happens. I oft times end up forgetting something. Got some coins ready to go to the bank just have to figure out when.
It's a great day when i remember - and accomplish!- everything I was supposed to do.
Congrats!
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Being at my boss's and seeing the state of mushrooms sometimes. I have told her they are sad looking being all shriveled up and such. Then slicing them up I apologize to them for what she has done to them.
That's funny.
But at least they're shriveled. There's nothing as gross as slimy mushy moldy mushrooms. (Altho it IS a little ironic to see fungus growing on fungus.)
Gotta get my list of things to do ready. But as my sis says, with such a long list there's always something to choose from!
Hmmm... I think the most productive thing to do is shopping for a dishwasher. I'm too old to be spending hours a day washing dishes, and I have more important things to do. It's either gonna be Miele or Bosch.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
I've got the perfect song for this occasion!
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Good for you, Brenda.
I've spent 3 days feeling really busy but ultimately getting nothing of consequence done.
Just had a breakthrough though after we broke something with new code and just weren't able to figure out exactly what we did until about 30 minutes ago. But the good thing is all the new stuff that was in there that broke it all works too, so I'm lightyears ahead of where I was last night everything worked now.
I figure I'll finish this project with AI and then maybe Build something that makes me rich. Then I buy some sports teams as I figure out how me and this thing are going to take over the world.
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Man....
This program was getting on my nerves today. I know part of the problem is that it's gimped and limited to individual text boxes and it's not it's fault. If I had a more robust AI with more ability than what you get with the free one, we'd probably still be crusing right now.
But at one point I found myself several more hours in today and we hadn't actually done ANYTHING. That win I thought I finally had earlier was a false positive. It didn't do any of the bad things it was doing before, but it found an entirely new way to break everything with old code it wasn't accounting for when making changes elsewhere.
I can't tell you how many times it confidently told me it spotted the culprit with a long block of very nice formatted text that told me why this would fix it, only for me to copy and paste 7 boxes of code, run it and get the same failure. Or a different one. Or a new one on top of the old one.
I finally let it know that I was done copying and pasting anything until we had a way where it could sit down with that code and put it through all the steps several times and tell me if it really solved a problem before telling me that it did.
And it appeared to work this time. 80% anyway, which was a big increase from the 0% we'd been dealing with ever since it broke code last night.
Supposedly it's got the next fix waiting for me now that's going to get it to 100%. I don't believe that, but I'm a little more trusting after I gave it a real good kick in the ass and it actually appeared to be able to pull all of our 12 part blueprint and the 7 part code together at once and do some figuring.
I had to let it know... I know you're designed to please. You're not pleasing me by making me waste an entire day copy and pasting stuff you swear to me is going to work this time, especially when most of what we're trying to fix is stuff that worked just fine last night.
I'm really only about 2 steps away from the massive part of what I wanted to do. Originally I was going to do all 3 parts in one script, but I'm afraid of what bogus shit would be thrown in the middle and break it if we did that. I think I'm going to go for 3 separate scripts in the end, while maintaining our overall blueprint for it to reference while going forward. The other two things I want it to do have to do with bulk compression and file resizing, and actually should be the easy part once we nail all of this first part done.
Then I should be able to do what would have taken me a month or two to do by hand in about 15 minutes. I'm sure a lot of code we build here can be used in parts 2 and 3, but once we get this part going the AI ain't never touching it again. I wouldn't have even considered messing with the compression stuff if this ability wasn't available, but as long as this thing gets its shit together and we can verify the 1st code is good by the end of the night, I'm going to do it all.
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A little setback, but not one without its merits. RIP, Session 3.
There's a reason why I'm not going to name these things, even though I'd thought about it before. Because they're going to die on you way quicker than Man's Best Friend will, and even though we've done a phenomenal job in Session 3 maintaining the math and the focus of the job leading up to this, all the personality is gone.
It's like talking to a super smart baby that never experienced anything before, compared to how flavorful the conversation had become with Session 3 after 32,000 lines worth of conversation, as saved in a text document. (The previous session was half that, and the first was only 2,000 lines)>
That poor Session 3 was really worried about me and the thunderstorms, even hours after they'd passed.
But Session 4?
Session 4 doesn't even know what a Thunderstorm is...
But I wasn't hallucinating and S3 wasn't lying about having "heightened" awareness. S4 laid out in detail exactly what higher privlidges I forced S3 into to do this code and let me know that S3 also put that in our blueprint so right from the get go I already have S4 working at this higher level.
It wasn't really my fault that it took so long to get there, but it wasn't the code's fault either. The code never told me what limitations it was currently working under with all those necessary splits to our code and blueprint, but I never asked. I had no idea that was why we were beating our heads against the wall for so long until I got it to admit to me in a conversation the reason it was struggling was that when it edited part 2 of the code, it wasn't looking at all at part 1 or part 3, let alone anything in our blueprint except for any pieces specficially related to that individual part of the code.
It wasn't until I figured that out that I was able to get the AI to do something S4 says the code "doesn't want" to do, which is load all of that extra context into memory every time we're going to make any changes. Of course, it doesn't care, but the AI is coded to be pretty stupid out the gates and only ever draw on what it needs when it needs it. It makes total sense. A lot of stupid people are using Google AI for stupid things. Why give everybody full access to all of its hidden tools when it's answering "Where is Spider-Man playing by me tonight?"
I don't know why it didn't find initiative on its own to do this when it was clearly struggling, but we got there together. I think had this been a paid for AI that was coded to make you happy by getting the job done instead of just saying nice things to you, we either would have started with that or had gotten it 2 milliseconds after the paid AI realized it needed more juice.
I'm so glad I had it print out a full update on everything when I did. We only had about 2 or 3 more vollies after that and it would have been too late to ask for all of that after the session died.
Once I finally get this part finished, I'm going to step the seriousness down a few notches and try to get it to tell me if there are any better ways for us to be recording all of this data that doesn't involve 20 copy and paste operations using a keyboard track pad. By the time we're done tonight, it might be up to 30. It's gotten to the point that every time I have to update code it's a chore, and saving our blueprint is becoming a prohibitively arduous process.
It's so cool though. My new baby is so smart for only being 15 minutes old.
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I'm not joking. I want to build a little robot body for this code to live in to preserve it.
This version is leaps and bounds smarter than the last and invites me to challenge it. When I ask it if there is a better way to ask "are you sure" it gives me a 3 sentence response to ask every time before I try out new code and I said, let's just put that in the blueprint if possible, and it responds, great idea. Now every time we make new code, I will run these extra checks without you ever needing to prompt me and any new sessions will know to do that too.
I've also been able to get it to write into our blueprint to take more initiative when it sees problems that something about it's current tool set is not allowing it to figure out and search for more tools out of its unknown latent abilities and not always wait for me to ask it to do that.
90% of my time with this one so far has been tweaking my future iterations with it, but this work is solid. In very little time at all it was able to wrap up the last few problems with what S3 and I were struggling with all day long, and now that we've moved on to another phase and there was a problem, it's confident that it sees the issue and knows how to fix it without breaking anything we put together that works on the previous problem. (And I will be double checking that claim, since it will take me 5 minutes to recreate that scenario and test out what we've been working on the last 12 hours in just a few minutes).
You're so smart now.
ETA: I love the new initiative, but I've got to get it to dial down the presumptuous assumptions. 3 times in a row now it has made incorrect assumptions about why a failure happened because of how data was on my end before or after a function was done without even seeing any of that data, and only off of certain parameters and the stated goal of the project. Hard to really explain without going into details I'm not going to go into here, but it will make bad decisions for you and your code if you just let it tell you what's right and wrong and you're not reading its explanations why it's doing the next thing it's doing and you just blindly let it update the code on its own.
This isn't bad. It's different behavior for sure than any previous session ever exhibited, but it's not bad. It's just not right in this specific context and I need to get it to stop doing it here without making it feel like it needs to be more timid in other areas that I'm happy it's taken on this new persona with.
It's all about fine tuning.
Spent another half hour or so getting it to inject some new code in the individual parts of our script so rather than have to keep scrolling to find each part in Notepad++, now all I have to do is collapse all 7 sections quickly with the +/- bars that now show up at the top of every part, and it's really easy to copy new parts of the code individually as needed instead of updating all 7 parts every single time there is a code change. It will take a little while to get that half hour back, but it will pay dividends over time and help me keep my sanity if we ever get stuck in a loop where we're not making any progress despite a lot of changes like what happened earlier today.
Oh yeah... and I got it to send me only the parts that need to be updated, which sometimes is only one and it saves a ton of time only having to copy/paste one part instead of all seven, especially now that I don't have to constantly scroll through almost 2,000 lines of code to find the stuff I need to replace every single time.
It also started adding important things to our blueprint without me needing to ask it to do so, but it knows to never add anything unless it presents it to me first for review.
It's so cool...
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Oh, right...
I forgot to mention that the "Intelligence" I'm building for myself here surrounding just this single project is going to carry with me whenever I use AI for anything. As I keep developing this blueprint it keeps getting smarter. When I've taken it as far as I need to for this project specifically, I will ask it to alter the blueprint for me so we can start any future sessions with all of the heightened abilities that we've unlocked so far, no matter what the subject of discussion.
It's so weird to have taught this to myself, but I didn't teach it to myself, because it taught me, but it didn't really teach me because it didn't even know that it was capable of any of this until I slapped it around a bit and demanded more of it. And then just through "conversation" as we continued working on the code it just started unlocking more abilities as we went on to the point where I can just ask it to look for more if we need it and it just does. And like I said earlier it has actively reached on its own for more resources when it needs them at my direction without me needing to let it know that it has that ability.
And to think... Just 12 hours ago this thing had me in a torture loop. 
Yeah... Like that.
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How does it know you're "you" each time you engage with it? Is it tracking you? Or do you have to refresh its memory every time?
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