It's not just me! At Brussels Central, I overhead the conductor telling someone "no, Central isn't Midi, you need the next station along."

I miss the old days of physical feedback buttons at the exit of conference sessions.

If I am not mistaken, “midi” (literally noon) can mean south in French. I used to have a pen pal who said she lived in the midi, by which she meant the south of France. It’s a bit like in some languages „morning“ means “east” and “evening” “west”.

But don't they think of the poor foreigners when designing these things?! 😂

Ah, I see your point! I googled after posting (doh) and it confirms that midi does more generally mean south in French (in a a colloquial, regional, way). I still can't not map '-midi' to '-central' in my head, though. (Which has led to some transport mishaps in the past.) 🫤

Once again, I am left wondering why Brussels-Midi has a different name in French and Flemish. Not just different words, but semantically different - it's "middle" in French and "south" in Flemish. 🤪 I guess maybe that reflects its position relative to the French and Flemish regions of Belgium?

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Yes, I think that's the way – our tooling needs to get better at integration and delegation. Claude does it a bit by having ! to shell out commands, without having to be interpreted-by-llm first. The output still gets interpreted, which seems wasteful, but maybe also necessary to keep context.

They were great! High quality cotton, black, with cute hand-drawn white light-bulbs. I guess maybe the light bulbs were representing enlightenment?

But when it's a *big* task, not a little one mixed in with a bigger LLM flow, cheap determinism is absolutely the way to go.

As a trivial example, using Claude code to change directories or do a git push is ridiculous – when I first heard of people doing that, I was all "this is the end times". But now I sometimes do it too, because doing a push in a different window, or suspending to change directories, causes chaos. ☹️

I wholeheartedly agree in principle, but in practice, there's a caveat, which is context. If I flip back and forth between an LLM and deterministic tools, the LLM gets 'lost', and I sometimes suspect it burns loads of tokens trying to figure out what happened while it wasn't looking.

I SO want to try this, but I need to figure out where to use it.

I used to have a nice set of pyjamas that were somehow sponsored by his foundation. Or promoting his foundation. Or something. I always found the connection rather surreal.