Best advice I can give for in the loop iterative work with agents on UI/system stuff:
1. Do one thing at a time do not send multiple tasks in a single prompt
2. /new often, no reason to stay in a single session and pay the toll
3. Make sure it removes more code than it adds.
EXCEL HAS BEEN QUIETLY DESTROYING YOUR CSV DATA FOR 30 YEARS.
It silently converts gene names into dates. It strips leading zeros from ZIP codes. It mangles UTF-8 the moment you hit save. It refuses to open files over a million rows.
A German developer just open sourced the app that was built specifically because Excel ruins CSV.
It's called Tablecruncher. C++17. Native binary. No Electron. No cloud. No "smart" autoformatting that wrecks your data.
It opens a 2 GB CSV with 16 million rows in 32 seconds on a Mac Mini M2.
What Excel does to your CSV vs what Tablecruncher does:
- "00123" → Excel turns it into 123. Tablecruncher leaves it alone.
- "SEPT2" gene name → Excel turns it into 2-Sep date. Tablecruncher leaves it alone.
- 5 million row file → Excel refuses. Tablecruncher opens it cold.
- Latin-1 encoded export → Excel guesses wrong and adds garbage characters. Tablecruncher supports UTF-8, UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE, Latin-1, and Windows 1252 with auto-detect.
- Anything → Microsoft 365 needs your login. Tablecruncher needs nothing.
Here's the wildest part:
Stefan Fischerländer sold Tablecruncher as a $29 commercial app for 8 years. In May 2025, he open sourced the entire codebase under GPL v3.
No press release. No fundraise. No "AI-powered CSV revolution" pivot. He just pushed the code, wrote a manifesto that says "CSV files demand privacy" and "the data stays only on your computer," and went back to work.
There is a 2016 academic paper titled "Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature." It found that Excel silently corrupted gene names in about 20% of papers with supplementary CSV data. So bad that the human genetics community had to rename genes to protect them from Microsoft.
That is the software you are still paying $99 a year for.
This is the alternative. 738 stars. 38 forks. GPL-3.0. One solo dev in Bavaria.
But please, keep letting Microsoft turn your gene names into dates. Stability matters.
Link in the first comment.
@hisfavstepdad Holy shit. The incels are right. Hypergamy does exist 😭🥀
I’m saying this to try and snap you back into reality, you will die alone if you genuinely have these standards
Mike Lee's complaint only works if everyone agrees to ignore what Mormonism actually teaches.
He wants the public to focus on the label while averting its eyes from the contents.
But theology is not judged by branding.
If it were, every cult in America could become orthodox by hiring a better marketing department.
Mike Lee belongs to a religion that teaches God the Father was once a man who progressed to godhood, that human beings may follow the same path, that Jesus and Lucifer share the same heavenly parentage, and that the highest aspiration of the faithful is not merely to worship God forever but to become gods themselves.
These are not minor disagreements within Christianity. These are different answers to the most basic questions Christianity asks.
Mike Lee knows this.
He was raised in Mormon royalty, educated in Mormon institutions, and formed by Mormon theology. His objection is not that the Pentagon misunderstood Mormonism. His objection is that the Pentagon accidentally described it accurately.
What makes the spectacle particularly amusing is that Mormon leaders spent generations insisting they were not what Mike Lee now demands to be called.
-Joseph Smith launched his movement by declaring every existing church on earth an abomination.
-Brigham Young mocked the God of Christianity as a being who "never did exist."
-John Taylor described Christianity as "a perfect pack of nonsense."
-Bruce McConkie warned that the doctrines of Christendom would damn men's souls.
-Gordon Hinckley openly admitted that the Christ worshiped by Mormons was not the Christ worshiped by traditional Christians.
For nearly two centuries Mormon leaders built a theological wall between themselves and Christianity brick by brick, sermon by sermon, book by book. Now Mike Lee appears before that same wall demanding to know who built it. The answer is simple: his own prophets did.
The deeper problem for Senator Lee is that Mormonism's truth claims are so spectacularly strange that they force a choice. Either they are true, in which case historic Christianity has been wrong for nearly two thousand years and Joseph Smith really did restore the gospel through golden plates, angelic visitations, sacred underwear, proxy baptisms for the dead, and a seer stone in a hat. Or they are false, in which case Mormonism is one of the most successful religious inventions in American history.
What it cannot be is ordinary Christianity.
The faith that emerged from Nicaea and Chalcedon has many internal disputes, but none of them involve exalted men becoming gods, planets populated by spirit children, or a deity residing near a star called Kolob.
Mike Lee is free to believe every one of those things.
What he is not free to do is pretend they are the same religion that produced the Apostles' Creed.