Coding Horror offers an interesting explanation for why apps are cheap: it's very hard to assess value!
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I find it odd that people recommend Docker for sandboxing agentic coding tools. Isn't it easier to just create a separate user account on the machine?
It's an established security boundary, and viewing output is easy (just make the user's home directory world readable).
I'm playing with Zeal/Dash so I can view stdlib docs offline.
(I've been coding on public transport recently, without a reliable data connection.)
Anyone have tips for making the most of this setup? AFAICT docsets are basically HTML underneath.
Is there a programming equivalent of the strawberry problem, i.e. a specific coding task that LLMs are consistently bad at?

