miniblog.

There are *so many* ways that reading a text file can fail. Maybe it doesn't exist, it's a broken symlink, it's actually a directory, it's not the encoding you expected, or perhaps you just don't have the correct permissions. Reporting good errors is surprisingly labour intensive.

Whilst LLMs don't always give an accurate answer, the UI is really compelling. I keep finding users whose favourite way of doing research is an LLM.

I'm playing with DOT output for debugging syntax trees from difftastic. Here's an F# snippet, the Debug representation, and the DOT rendered as an image. I'm pleased with the information density on the graphic, but we'll see how often I end up using it.