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Matt Sayar

NOW is personalized software a thing?

Not that long ago, I tried to use Claude to customize Publii, the app I use to make this website. It didn't do so well. Literally the next day, Anthropic announced the Claude 4 family, and now Claude Sonnet 4.5 is out. Anthropic's unbiased opinion…

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Matt Sayar

LLMs aren't just for "sissies"

“... even if [FORTRAN] did work, no respectable programmer would use it -- it was only for sissies!” Richard Hamming, on programming before the invention of one of the first mid-level programming languages History is repeating itself. So many words have been spilled about LLMs…

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