I worked directly with the last one on the list. I got his laptop approved to install Microsoft Access, by submitting a formal request to IT security.

I will share my first honest draft “justification” here:

“This man can achieve miracles with nothing more than Excel and VBA. His true skills unleashed are exactly what all of our draconian IT policies are afraid of. I don’t know what will happen, to any of us - after you approve this request. But i believe that standing in the way of his destiny is foolish futility, and I want him to remember me fondly when his full powers emerge.”

I replaced it with meaningless business speak bullshit, and cited a couple of uninterpretable but urgent business office priorities before I submitted the form.

There’s a such thing as too much honestly.

Missing the LLM developer with billions of tokens to burn.

• “Claude, please solve this puzzle so my Grandma can get her insulin”
• if the LLM succeeds, solves in less than 10 seconds.
• if it fails, star remains forever unsolved - “Impossible with current LLM, will try again with ChatGPT 8.0”

Where’s the thigh highs?

Is… Tharg unusual? Like, the rest are exaggerated for humor, but I’ve met more than one Tharg. Hell, at one point if I switched majors I’d be Tharg.

This is not true. Most of the competition are clueless nepo babies who win by default.

The rest are people who have been programming embedded systems since they were 3 months old.

Tharg here. It’s a compiler, not a transpiler.