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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I tried using VScode to play around with Golang. I had to quit coding to take care of something else. I hit save, and suddenly I have way fewer lines of code. WTF? Why did/would saving delete code? After much digging, it turns out because the all knowing VSCode thought because I had not yet referenced my variables, I never would, and since my code I wanted to save and continue later wouldn’t compile, it must be quelled. Off with its head!

    Anyway, I decided to use vim instead. When I did :wq, the file was saved exactly as I had typed it.


  • I definitely have moments like this too. I have been reflecting more lately and trying to decide if the feeling is temporary or permanent. I have been pondering what else I would do. Are you considering a career change, and if so, what would you do instead? I don’t know if I could transition to something else without going back to school, and it would kill me a bit inside to take out more student loans.



  • Something I have noticed in GPT 3.5 is that it seems something on the site itself, not necessarily GPT’s output, changes the text that GPT provides. I had an issue where I asked it for the links to websites it was sourcing. I could see a longer URL pop up for just a second before it got shortened to underlined blue text which was not a link. I asked it multiple times in multiple ways to give me tbe URL again. It happened multiple times where the URL showed up for just a second before getting converted to weird, non-URL format.

    I finally got the URLs it was trying to provide when I told it, “Please provide the raw HTML of your most recent response.” Then I looked at the “a href” sections and found the URLs it had been trying to provide.

    I wonder if the site itself and not GPT is changing three or more consecutive periods to one as well as some of the other issues you have reported.