I’ve been using Cursor at work (been kind of forced to, not entirely my choice) but I’m not a developer, as I do “development-adjacent” tasks. So I sometimes ask it to read large config files and such, and extract information for me.

Seeing how it works, I suspect if I asked it to write the word “elephant” 30,000 times, I kind of expect it to write a script that will do that by writing it to a file, run the script, then display the resulting file.

ChatGPT would probably just start writing “elephant” repeatedly until it runs out of context, then start doing weird things.

But I haven’t tried… To anyone reading this: feel free to try it and report back

Faraday, after demonstrating how moving a magnet through a coiled wire induced a current in the wire was asked by a visiting statesman what was the use of this.

Faraday responded, “In twenty years, you will be taxing it”

Similarly, at a demonstration of hot air balloons in France, Benjamin Franklin was asked “Of what use is this?”

Franklin replied, “Of what use is a newborn baby?”

It’s not density, it’s mass. A mass of 1kg compressed to the density of the Sun’s core would pull the Earth with just as much force as a 1kg ball of styrofoam.