1890

Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line. In the discussion of its extent, its westward movement, etc., it can not, therefore, any longer have a place in the census reports. Disclaimer: I am a shareholder in Anthropic. That position has absolutely no bearing on what follows. For the past year, I've tried to timestamp my thoughts on using LLMs for software engineering every month or two — LLM as advance team, Scattered thoughts on LLM tools, Fable 5.1, and It's just a model, to name a few. I realized it was time to write another one, and I found myself with very little to say. I have little to say because, since Opus 5.5 was released and calcified, I have done essentially no tinkering with my day-to-day work. I still use Conductor. I still, for the most part, use local environments — unless I'm kicking off a…