I like parts of developing that are not very trendy nowadays. Whatever LLVM I use makes a lot of very basic mistakes, produces slow code, and generally makes code that makes me smile.
I had time for myself for the last two days, and I asked Cursor to count the commas in a string, in C. I know how to do it. That’s one of the code snippets in a “Learn how to program in C in ten lessons”.
And it… looped the string, created another with just commas, and ran strlen. Strange? Python style? And I tried again to ask, and it made a code that incremented a variable, like everybody would do.
Does it not have a billion tokens for talking with me? For giving me hints in the context of my not-trendy projects? Was it I who was not gentle enough to explain my needs well?
I took a Campari with the sound of the Arno river in the background, thinking about the servers on the other side of the ocean that worked for me, producing a bit of heat and noise to suggest that strlen.
You have to enjoy the little things in life. And that drink was just at the right temperature.
Until next time.