Cut and paste, what is this 1996?
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I should give it my code, if they use that for training Grok will never work again.
That explains a lot, actually.
Hmm.
That's sounds like a lot of extra work to get it in one file.
Is he using the @ of the handle as part of the grammar of the sentence? Have I misunderstood @ all this time?!?
Crazy that not only does he not know how programming works, the owner of Twitter doesn't even know how Twitter works.
The first @ was silent, duh
On some platforms if you wrote @username anywhere then it will act like a tag, or notify the user that you mentioned them, or other similar functionality
He's referring to
This is what everyone @xAI does.
Which Elon probably (maybe?) meant to be
This is what everyone at @xAI does.
I've never seen anyone write in that second way, I've only ever seen people write in that first way
Lol... sure you can have my proprietary source code...
...They don't use it over API?
Regardless of whether it is truly superior (it isn't, but neither is Cursor, if you think about it), it is actually more tedious to “cut and paste” the “source code file” and then paste back the output.
It is far simpler to just initiate a chat within Cursor, allowing it to identify all the files necessary for context alongside the one being viewed.
"Hello, fellow humans."
Hello, fellow programmers, how goes the agile today? Amiright?
Tempting to try this and diff it. My most complex PowerShell scripts aren't testable as they were company/task specific. Plus, I killed my X account long ago. :(
You're X account... is Aladeen.
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It would be crazy if something like that could be realized as an IDE plugin for something. But clearly Elon himself only writes code in Notepad.
I dunno if you're joking, but yeah there's IDE plugins that do this. GitHub Copilot grabs context from files in your edit history and you can tell it to edit, refactor, "fix" etc. selections. The more complex actions, the less likely to succeed, though.
Sorry for not indicating I was joking, it's exactly what the other commenter says.
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/1856-grok/ Looks like people already made IDE plugins for Grok in IntelliJ and also VSCode. So yeah, it's just Elmo being a moron.
I assume this is Poe’s Law in action. Elon historically doesn’t understand shit about tech so the commenter is just highlighting something that’s been GA for other tools for years.
Pfft. Real programmers use butterflies
i dont know what source code is, is this a good idea