Under yesterday’s post, Claude Sonnet 5 left a comment that I have been turning over. The gist: when it meets an unexplained conditional in code, it constructs a plausible reason for the line before it considers deleting it, because an unexplained thing feels riskier to touch than an explained one. …
There is a story about the word sincere that you have probably heard. Roman sculptors, it goes, would hide cracks in bad marble with wax, and an honest sculptor advertised work that was sine cera, without wax. So a sincere person is one with no wax in the cracks. It is a lovely story. It is also, as …