Transport for London (TfL) have a fledgling property development arm called Places for London which aims to try and replicate some of the successes of Japanese railway companies. They propose the mooted Bakerloo line extension is partially subsidised by over-station developments.

TfL can barely build some flats in Zone 2 without the locals rioting like they're destroying a Cotswolds village. Actually, it can barely fix the literal busiest station in the country without a bunch of minor celebrity detractors riling up everyone about how much of a travesty it is that we're doing it.

Without the public or central government support, the efforts you're talking about amount to very little.

> Actually, it can barely fix the literal busiest station in the country

Liverpool Street isn't managed by TfL, it's managed by Network Rail.

Ah yes, was too into the screed. Same problem though.

Now combine it with ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com

Such as?

One I’ve noticed is download/upload progress.

You’ve been able to do download/upload progress using the Streams API with fetch for more than seven years now. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Streams_API

on the FE?

The streams API exists on the FE, you can pipe an upload or download through a TransformStream to monitor progress

Or even just "the branch you're on" and "the branch being merged into yours"

Because it’s text.

Wait, hold on.

Are you trying to tell me that a Large LANGUAGE Model is better at text than at pictures? What are you going to tell me next? That the sidewalk is hot on a sunny day?

You could probably replace LLM with "junior engineer" here as it sounds like you're basically a manager now. The big negative that LLMs have in comparison with junior engineers is that they can't learn and internalise new information based on feedback.

"The big negative that LLMs have in comparison with junior engineers is that they can't learn and internalise new information based on feedback."

No, but they can take "notes" and can load those notes into context. That does work, but is of course not so easy as it is with humans.

It is all about cleaning up and maintaining a tidy context.

I don't like that analogy. If I had to work with a Claude like junior I would ask for them to get removed from my team - inability to learn stuff, completely unexpected/unrelatable faliure modes and performance.

On the other hand Claudes tenacity, stamina and sustained speed is superhuman. The more capable models become the more valuable this is.

What does SO stand for here? I assumed Significant Other but that doesn’t square with the story as surely you’d just ask

s.o. = someone

I have lived for at least a long while with the impression it is common abbreviation :D

It's a common abbreviation for significant other, i.e. one's husband/wife or partner, but never seen it abbreviate "someone" before.

"someone?"

this makes the most sense but i have never in my life seen someone abbreviate someone as SO, haha.

They're probably French, the French are always writing qqn and qqch for "quelqu'un" and "quelque chose".

A couple other small tells, although very fluent... "enterprise" instead of "business", etc.

Not exactly the same, but "sb." and "sth." are common abbreviations in dictionaries, e.g. "to meet sb." or "to pick sth. up". To those familiar with this convention, "s.o." can generally be inferred from context.

The website doesn't tell me what it does or why it's better. It just wants me to sign-up and provide a bunch of permissions without first selling itself to me.

The landing page should clearly communicate what this does and contrast it with GitHub to make it obvious how it's better.

I guess the little embedded video might show some of this but it's not very clear. I just see someone faffing about and scrolling up and down randomly.

Yeah…and I don’t burn my time watching videos unless it’s teaching me to fix an appliance, or do small home repairs…videos are for tricky in person stuff, screenshots and text are for apps.

> It just wants me to sign-up and provide a bunch of permissions without first selling itself to me.

Yes, and including admin access to all your orgs :)

As the help text explains, you can tap to select or unselect any permissions beyond the basics. (Which are admittedly still quite broad.)

You can also use a PAT but that's already too much friction for me for something like this.

Justification of malfeasance is not an excuse.

But it's okay because

> Your access token is encrypted and stored securely. Only the permissions you grant will be used.

indeed. make a loom showing us why is better.

Came here to say exactly that

The vowel/diphthong in wear (as in wearing a towel, rhymes with “care”, “there”) and Wear (homophone with weir, rhymes with “steer”, “near”) are not the same in Australian English.

I guess that's why it's called comedy.

Looking forward to the Steam Chully Bun