I'm pretty sure most people use it to make clear it's a relative path. It takes mental load off the one reading the code. That's why I pretty much always use it, not only when executing things.

That's discosed at the ending of the "article".

Wow. I thought the tone of TFA was infuriating. Now I know why (I quit in disgust before reaching the end where he clarifies this).

I guess AI-slop in writing will be the norm now.

(I wonder if Claude repeatedly quoting itself saying "you're absolutely right!" was edited in by the human author, or yet another case of unintentional humor).

Nope, pure Claude there, during editing itself.

Thanks for replying. Now I feel I must apologize for my rudeness.

I think the experiment itself was valuable, you did find something interesting.

I just cannot help it, I hate reading AI slop, and I'm depressed that this seems to be the future of internet writing.

No reason, all fine. Honestly, it is very hard to find time to write anything down and imagine 15k words deep analysis of the process like this. And LLMs are ideal log keepers. I also did bunch of similar experiments like doing a research paper from data to code and writing. We can only expect things to get better from here.

No, please don't use logs to deduct whether your application is running. Provide an endpoint which presents health information and use infrastructure-level metrics.

... or use soemthing like FreeIPA

For a long time Soulseek (p2p platform similar to early napster) by bulk-downloading artists releases which released on labels labels i know. Then look for other artists on the label, or another label an artist releases on and repeat the process.

This turns out this was very effective to not stay in a style or comfort zone bubble. Nowadays I collect vinyl and find new stuff via bargain bin deals and on flea markets. That said, this approaches are probably better suited for people who are not fixated on particular styles.

Discogs.com is a great resource to look around and find new stuff on label level. I'm not affilatednwith them, but use their service for over a decade for the database, and more recently to buy some vinyl I couldn't find locally.