little step, little step, little step, BIG STEP
Currently playing The Farmer Was Replaced to keep the brain springy. It’s a programming game that uses a cut down version of Python to program drones to plant and harvest various crops.
It starts out nice and simple: some crops need watering, some need the soil tilling first. Some can’t be planted next to each other. Simple, discrete, individual functions.
Then it asks you to plant a field of cacti and sort them from the smallest in the lower left to the biggest in the upper right. Erm, that’s…I can’t do that. I suspect the seasoned programmers among you would find that a breeze, but I was only ever a skin-of-my-teeth sort of coder.
So my current strategy is getting AI to write code for it that works. It’s harder than you might think, but much easier than writing my own code. I got them cacti sorted, anyway!
p.s. yes, thefritz takes the Dead Pool with Dick Cheney. He was only 84.
November 4, 2025 — 5:20 pm
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