I loosely understand what's happening here. But I'll follow along to look at the pretty colourful orb.

Replaying this back through the process of writing it out and the only firm conclusion I have on what to do different next time is to pray harder to the machine gods.

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- Get Gemini to write me the code for the manifold pipe.
- Point out to gemini that Opus 4.5 exists and is available for use
- SUCCESS

Is AI hype just the copium we take to tell ourselves that once we figure it out, the Yaks will shave themselves?

- Reinstall Vscode, install is now successful
- Discover Openwebui does not natively support Anthropic
- Discover Anthropic Manifold pipe! Download is giving a 502 error

Logically here I probably could have stepped away and returned but, I was too deep into shaving the Yak at this point.

In this particular case my cascade was
- I'd like to use Openweb UI to test certain prompts on Claude
- Requires Python 3.11 (have 3.13)
- I need to get the "new" python installer from the Windows store
- Error on install, apparently I don't have VS redistributables
- This breaks my VS code install

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@bmann.ca you should chat with Zander!
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I love this question! In my experience - no. Once it is managed it generally becomes an ingrained piece of habit, culture, instinct etc. At which point the measurement may end up being a friction point that would be best left to the wayside.

It was at that moment I went "I think this game was made with love!"

To whomever was filling entire boards with matching white pieces. You put up a noble fight but I have to say it felt good wiping the board clear.

Chuckled when my rook gained the title "self-hating" after clearing numerous rooks.

You pulled an Xavier youtu.be/Ye_iob2MwGw?...

Fair enough! Apologies if I was coming off crass about it, hearing Merlin's name dragged through the mud is... upsetting to me. 😅

A book series that instead does the Merlin archetype some justice IMO is The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell

The rich traditions of real world grimoires and works which are and were actively contributed to by artists, philosophers, and minds such as Isaac Newton. Which she distilled and watered down in order to make a pretty penny while contributing nothing back to the culture she land-grabbed from