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As we're sharing pipelines:

- I write in Markdown files using VS Code and a custom syntax highlighter

- A custom C# tool stitches it together (with YAML metadata)

- It generates reports on chapters, dialogue, character presence etc

- It uses custom code to generate an EPUB (v2)

- It uses custom code to generate a DOCX (validated)

- It uses custom code to generate a PDF (print or with interactive links)

Works great and gives perfect results in seconds (beats Vellum, which I quite like). The only drawback is the yak shaving involved in my totally stand-alone solution leads to more time tinkering than writing.


One of my trifecta of 'perfect' DOS software: DataEase 4.53, WordPerfect 4.2, and TopSpeed Modula-2. Given the restrictions of the day, all three were incredible.

I'm a fair bit lower than some others as I only use it outside of work hours on my own small projects, but my Cursor account shows (for a random recent date) 12,184,233 tokens in a day. That day feels pretty representative.

That's with 86 interactions spread intermittently over a couple of hours so if I did a full working day like that I'd be looking at maybe 40 to 50 million.


My employer is paying for it, so I'm cost insensitive, and this is mostly with Claude / Opus 4.7 (which consumes a lot of tokens?).


If asked, I often name WordPerfect 4.2 as the best software I ever used. And that it was written in assembly is incredible.

The book Almost Perfect [1] details those early times at WordPerfect.

Incidentally, amongst the other best software I'd be tempted by Lotus 123, DataEase 4.53, Turbo Pascal 3, and Elite (BBC).

[1] http://www.wordplace.com/ap/index.shtml


Some interesting stuff I wasn't familiar with, thanks.

I really like the book Mazes for Programmers by Jamis Buck [1].

Also, my open source Dungeon generator is a (slightly-misnamed) maze generator [2]. It produces 2D maps, and also 3D files (OBJ and MTL) for use in Blender etc. I like to think it does a more 'reasonable' job than many, but I am biased.

- [1] http://www.mazesforprogrammers.com

- [2] https://github.com/kcartlidge/Dungeon


I like how their number one benefit is Order to Seat. In one fell swoop it shows that:

* Their priority is revenue above all else (fair enough; honest too)

* They are either deceptive or stupid

Re the deception/stupidity - if everyone is moving to using the same app, how does everyone "get served first" as per their bullet point?


> So, a UK-only advice, and it strangely assumes that any other service in UK wouldn’t be bound by the same laws.

I suspect it's because whilst other services would be affected we only know about Apple currently and, thanks to iOS and Mac, a large percentage of the population will be using Apple by default for the services impacted. Only Google (Android) and Microsoft (Windows) really overlap in that regard.


Neither has the UK government.

* It wasn't the general election.

* They offered local councils the chance to request it if they were going through a reorganisation or devolution process.

* 18 councils requested and 9 were accepted as justified.

* And even those are only delayed until May next year (one year after the rest of the UK).

So to be clear the UK government not only didn't postpone the general elections but half the councils who requested the local elections were postponed were denied, with the other half having reasons and still doing it a year later anyway.

And all that is actually covered in the page you link to.


Why are we hearing that "studies" have "uncovered the concept of context rot as the number of tokens in the context window increases"? It's obvious, and we've always known this.

Agents are stateless, hence the need for context. This means that all they know about the ongoing session is what's in that context (generally speaking). As the context grows any particular element within it becomes a smaller and smaller percentage of the whole. The LLM is not 'losing focus'; it's being diluted with more tokens. But then I suppose anthropomorphism comes naturally to a company named Anthropic, and 'losing focus' does make it sound more human.

They didn't need a study and article, but it likely contributes towards the mystique. Hence the use of phrases like "this results in n² pairwise relationships for n tokens" to make it sound more erudite and revelatory.


Not quite what you wanted, but the Lone Wolf ones are (legally) available online [1]. You may be able to read the downloads, or even the online play versions, with Dutch translations.

[1] https://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books


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