What’s a Zettelkasten Good for in the Age of Affordable LLM’s?

Last Saturday was Global Day of Code Retreat (GDCR) and one challenge session was to only use AI with prompts to implement the Game of Life rules. Folks who don’t use LLM’s a lot tried to describe the rules to the LLM in their prompts – while others knew that the rules are well-known and that the LLM could regurgitate them based on training data easily.

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Be Honest When Claude Code Writes Your Software

Claude Code can commit for you. By default, your name will be associated with each commit, and Claude Code includes a “Co-authored-by:” line, and also an Emoji line that says the commit was written by Claude. (You can turn the Emoji off.) However, if you hand off git commit to Claude Code, it’s possible, maybe even likely, because you want Claude to summarize changes that you did not come up with.

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