Mutating tree structures tends to be a fiddle (especially if you want parent pointers).

In fairness, it's not that easy to make a functioning Next.js page.

This is cool and I had a little play around with it. The basic concept is integrating an AI agent interface inside KiCad.

I had some success with this prompt:

> Please design a simple, low cost amplifier circuit for the TEMD6200FX01 photodiode.

It's not news that LLMs can generate simple circuits, but what's useful about the integration is that the AI will iterate until KiCad's circuit 'linting' checks pass (which is a workflow that you can't trivially enable using a generic AI tool). On the other hand, the resulting schematic was so ugly I'd have rather just have made it myself.

Even leaving aside the unsavory views of the party you mention, it’s quite misleading (to readers who don’t follow UK politics) to suggest that there’s any hope of it winning an election.

> it’s quite misleading (to readers who don’t follow UK politics) to suggest that there’s any hope of it winning an election.

I wish.

Brexit was pretty unthinkable even just a few years before the referendum. And now… well, toss-up between the top 5(!) parties, because somehow the Greens and Lib Dems are polling at similar levels to Conservative and Labour, all a bit behind Reform who didn't exist a few years back.

And when bad times come, insular nationalism (both in the sense of xenophobia and autarky) poll well.

The world-wide bad-times storm is getting super-charged right now, though I can't tell how much this is malice vs. incompetence from the White House.

You can’t seriously be suggesting that a political party that most Brits haven’t even heard of has any chance of winning the next election.

"an election" (what you wrote first time) != "the next election" (what you write now).

Next-but-one, perhaps. Although even for the next one, everyone's so weak I'd only put mild odds against them.

I don't want them to win ever*, but failing to plan is planning to fail, and there's big money getting involved here, and the UK political system still hasn't caught up with the impact of social networks and foreign influence through them at all.

And one of those social networks is run by someone who sees no problem calling for civil war in the UK, though he's currently supporting one of the other "I wish it was a joke party" parties.

* Although I can also say that about Reform, where, if I still lived in the UK, if my options were them or the actual literal Monster Raving Loony Party, I'd pick the latter. Then again, that doesn't say much as I'd pick the Monster Raving Loony Party over the Conservatives, too.

I think it goes without saying that things can change unexpectedly in the longer run, but this party simply isn’t a factor in national politics at present.

This defeatist attitude causes the situation we’re in.

Voting against someone rather than for someone is a sure-fire way to get some of the worst politicians in power as possible, they only need to be marginally less bad than the other candidate after all.

Restore Britain is a populist joke btw. Greens might be my side of the fence but they’re also populist. Hard to get air time as a small party without some form of sweeping emotional appeals and “common sense” thinking, even if it’s internally inconsistent and very broad.

Have you realised those in power right now are against you? And it seems to work very well for them.

No, I live in Sweden where coalition governments are pretty common and people tend to vote for the party they agree with.

Same is true in the EU elections, since their system is more democratic than the UK one.

I’m intimately familiar with the shortcomings of the election system in the UK as I am British, but I’ve experienced other formulations and I can see that this line of thinking enables the abuse you claim to be dispelling by allowing it to continue..?

Ah, but if there’s no higher truth, then you also can’t say that it’s wrong to sabotage your employer because of an ethical disagreement (or rather, you can say it, but it’s just your personal opinion). By condemning this course of action, the OP presupposes some sort of objective ethical standard.

If it's a personal project, I just get AI to do the boring bits and write the fun bits myself. I enjoy coding in general, but every project has its share of boring boilerplate code, or utility functions that you've already written 100 times. Also, LLMS are pretty good at code review, which is very beneficial when you are working on something solo.

It reminds me a bit of the endless discussions among analog photographers regarding the different chemicals and methods that can be used for developing black and white film. Everyone is, of course, convinced that their particular development method achieves optimal results. But no-one ever really does any proper controlled tests.

An old photography handbook from the 1950s drily remarks that the proliferation of developing agents "merely increases the number of different methods by which identical results may be obtained".

I think that due to the nature of language, often the prompting technique that you use is indeed the best, for you, since it allows you to express yourself “naturally” and thus have more consistent and effective session with a model adopting a similar style and using similar abstractions when building.

Haha thank you for that quote, this is exactly how it feels.

I’m not sure if you can talk about a duopoly of parties in the UK at present.

So no-one affected by illegal tariffs has any legal standing?

Jacob Rees Mogg isn’t in the Lords.