…and that’s a wrap. Nothing much happens this week, as everyone discusses recent events and finds closure. The closest it gets to action is Our Hungover But Still Hot And Clingy Detective threatening to puke on Our Halfbreed Hero. Nice touch ending with the first-season ED song that inspired the manga.

Verdict: a lot of budget-saving tricks on the animation, but the art and voice acting were good, and the story was interesting despite the cover-our-asses suicide-prevention-hotline PSAs.

(unrelated vampire has ways of making you fall in love with her…)

🎶 Baby, you can vibe my code 🎶

As expected, adding additional features to the small, self-contained Python script took several passes, which took it past 32KB of context, then 48KB, and by the time I had the functionality just the way I wanted it, it was up to 59KB. And it took hours to get to that point, running on a not-exactly-cheap (even refurbished) Mac Mini. As its final task, I ordered it to write a revised design document reflecting the final state, which came in just under the 64KB limit.

For a single file of Python code with just over 500 lines. The maximum context setting for this model is 128KB. This does not scale to real coding projects.

Note that I said the functionality was as I wanted it. The LLM couldn’t fix CSS issues for blood or money, and still took N minutes to try and fail. At the moment, I need to fix all the button sizing and layouts, restyle the text to make it less hideous, and see if I can coax the zoom feature to scroll horizontally as well as vertically. And fix the display of the help pop-up, which got busted in one of the passes (I just need to find it in source control and paste the correct version back into place; which is why I put even the most trivial of projects under source control…).

(AI-upscaled XKCD…)

More LLM Coding Fails

• magistral-small-2509: never got it to display an image, or make any progress figuring out the error messages I fed it.

• qwen3-coder-30b: just could not figure out how to display a new image after navigating, despite the code being more than twice as long.

• qwen3-32b: excellent at parsing error messages to fix syntax errors in Python and Javascript; also excellent at making syntax errors in Python and Javascript. Complete waste of time. The only nice thing I can say about it is that it didn’t make me watch while it retyped the whole program after each change, but even that was undercut by it losing the indentation when telling me to replace a buggy block of Python with a new one.

Haven’t tried it with the licensed cloud-y tool on my work Mac yet…

Fall Season Falling Down

With only a few weeks to go, presumably most of the fall shows have been announced and have their web sites and promotional videos up, right? Meh, kinda.

Setting aside the Nth seasons of shows I didn’t watch N-1 of:

• A Gatherer’s Adventures In Isekai: wow, they managed to make that sound completely generic. NO

• Alma-chan Wants To Be A Family: sort-of Nuku-Nuku as an emotionless loli, with a side order of Sekirei? NO

• A Mangaka’s Weirdly Wonderful Workspace: just NO

• A Star Brighter Than The Sun: tough girl in love with pretty boy. NO

• A Wild Last Boss Appeared: player wakes up in MMO world as her OP character. NOT AGAIN

• Chitose Is In The Ramune Bottle: popular kid tries to coax hikikomori into coming back to school. NO

• Dad Is A Hero, Mom Is A Spirit, I’m a Reincarnator: ohhellNO

• Don’t Touch Kotesashi: generic dorm-harem porn game. NO

• Dusk Beyond The End Of The World: Like World’s End Harem, only more derivative. NO

• Forget That Night, Your Majesty: teaser trailer promises barely-animated shojo-manga romance with chins that could cut glass. NO

• Future Kid Takara: trailer mixes lightly-filtered 3D CGI with real-world footage to mash-up Doraemon with Captain Planet. ohhellNO

• Gachiakuta: future world is divided between floating-city elites and ground-bound garbage-pickers, an idea that’s been done to death. NO

• Ganglion: villain/mook gag show; that’s gag as in “choke”, based on the trailer. NO

• Gintama - Mr. Ginpachi’s Zany Class: ‘wacky’ spinoff of a show I never watched. NO

• Gnosia: serial-numbers-filed-off clone of Among Us, and therefore sus. NO

• Hero Without A Class: Who Even Needs Skills?: pretty sure Starless Tamer did it better. NO

• Inexpressive Kashiwada and Expressive Oota: high-school romance in which (gasp) opposites attract. NO

• Isekai Quartet 3: this would be a lot more interesting if all the shows were, y’know, current. The first season of Tanya The Evil aired in 2017, and the still-missing second season was announced in 2021, but all we’ve gotten was the (admittedly hilarious) Desert Pasta one-shot, also in 2021. So putting the cast in a new season of this sketch comedy is just rubbing salt in the wound. NO

• Latair The Earth: the promo art is enough for me to say NO

• Let’s Play: official blurb includes the phrase “a comedic, romantic, and all-too-real story about gaming, memes, and social anxiety”, which is a giant ohhellNO

• L’il Miss Vampire Can’t Suck Right: surprisingly, not a porn game adaptation. Unsurprisingly, trailer is full of suck. NO

• May I Ask For One Final Thing?: more ‘villainess’ shit. NO

• Mechanical Marie: robot/maid/assassin/guardian, with the twist being that her master is robosexual but she’s only pretending to be a robot. NO

• Monster Strike: Deadverse Reloaded: game adaptation. NO

• My Awkward Senpai: bitchy sexpot office lady acquires bishie subordinate, and you’ll be stunned to learn she falls for him. NO

• My Friend’s Little Sister Puts It In For Me: oh, wait, that’s “has it in for me”. $10 says it ends up my way, though. NO

• My Gift Lvl 9999 Unlimited Gacha: Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon, I’m Out for Revenge!: ohhellNO

• My Status As An Assassin Obviously Exceeds The Hero’s: another whole-class-gets-isekai’d-and-I’m-way-OP show. NO

• Ninja Versus Gokudo: not even going to look at the trailer. NO

• Swallow My Monster Meat, Milady: er, “pass the monster meat”, which sounds like something you’d need laxatives for. NO

• Plus-Sized Misadventures In Love!: NO

• Potion, Wagami wo Tasukeru: love how the “saved by potions” title isn’t even being translated. TL/DR: another “potion loli” show, this one with bonus excitable elf bishie. NO

• Puzzle & Dragon: do not watch the trailer. NO

• Sanda: whoever decided to release an English-language trailer with a flat-affect AI voiceover chose… poorly. NO

• Shabake: Edo period shop owner with weak constitution who’s surrounded by helpful spirits spontaneously goes all Jessica Fletcher as people start being murdered every time he leaves the house. Somebody rolled percentile dice to generate this one. NO

• Si-Vis: The Sound Of Heroes: low-effort ripoff of Kpop Demon Hunters? ohhellNO

• Solo Camping For Two: like “hanging out for hermits”, I guess. NO

• Style of Hiroshi Nohara’s LUNCH: another AI-generated English voiceover? Kill me now, please. NO

• Sylvanian Families: Freya no Wonder Days: no synopsis or trailer is available, which automatically makes it better than the ones with AI voiceovers. Still NO

• The Banished Court Magician Aims to Become the Strongest: oh, good, I was hoping there would be a “gonna be the strongest” “kicked out of the hero’s party” show this season, said no one ever. NO

• The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess: NO

• This Monster Wants to Eat Me: not porn, just something-something yuri death-wish romance something. NO

• Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider: NO

• Peach Versus Ogre: (er, “Tougen Anki”) the descendents of the folk-tale hero Momotaro are still fighting oni, which sucks when you find out you’re an oni. I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that this will suck. NO

• Touring After the Apocalypse: didn’t they just do like five of these shows? NO

• Wandance: dance like no one’s watching, at high school. I also will not be watching. NO

• Watari-kun’s ****** Is About to Collapse: somebody please spoil the ****** for me so that I don’t have to type it again and get the backslashes right so the Markdown processor doesn’t turn it into bold and italic. Or don’t. NO

• With You, Our Love Will Make It Through: chick wants to fuck her furry classmate. NO

• Yano-kun’s Ordinary Days: chick wants to fuck her battered classmate. NO

To sum up, NO. Maybe rock-service and shadow-healer can kill some time while I wait for more Frieren in January.

Wallpaper fail

I added a few hundred non-lingerie clothing sets to my wildcards and made some gals in a 9:16 aspect ratio to potentially share the wallpaper rotation with RedWaifu on my new 27” 4K HDR vertical monitor, and this was one of the first to show up:

“No, no, I didn’t say she can’t dance, I said she’s got two left feet!” 😁

Related, I have to go through the clothing wildcards and remove any reference to “crossbody” purses. They end up with literal crosses attached to them. Sometimes, they have straps.

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