I like this change of angle :)

… this might be a direction to explore.

tbf not really I guess. I do love a pigeon hole though :)

On topic: www.bbc.com/news/article...

This I did not know. Research mode enabled. This will be better than bad DIY mode.

Agree, not the only factor. Failing economy predated brexit. Brexit is another side effect. Wedge issues seem much more powerful when people are already angry. Perhaps. So far abortion rights have stood up, perhaps due to uk lack of strong catholic and evangelical base. UK not a nice place right now

I always thought that over time liberal thinking wins. Now I realise that’s only the case when people feel they are doing better than others. As soon as the economy doesn’t deliver people revert to some shitty mean. (In both senses of that word).

I've got value out of it producing javascript for front ends. I spent about 8 days building a .NET C# app with Razor Pages and a C# backend. The front end work was ok. The back end was poor. Over complicated, often incorrect, and integration (e.g. to Shopify) was a disaster.

It does seem quite good as a "intelligent" grep.

Its bash seems ok.

I had some decent success getting it to write unit tests for existing code or to perform basic refactoring. That begin said, it made a mess of converting C# verbatim strings to raw strings.

I had some success using it for ansible, particularly when I've already established a working pattern, but even then it took 30 minutes to get it to provide a well structured role to add a new directory structure to an nginx config.