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I'm pretty impressed with Cursor: I've successfully asked it to perform codebase transforms in English, and it's worked! E.g. "Replace all calls foo(..., true) with foo_immediate(...) define a foo_immediate function". I'm still reading the diff and checking tests -- it's still AI after all.

The Stack Overflow moderator strike has come to some agreements! https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/391847/moderation-strike-results-of-negotiations This seems like a good outcome, and it should help communication going forward. I can't think of any other cases where volunteers have successfully run strikes in tech before.

Here's another fun example where syntactic diffing really helps. Even though the syntax has changed (`attr` was a named argument, now it's a record), the nesting has changed, and the line has changed, difftastic has successfully matched the `attr` in the code afterwards!