Hi Paul, thanks for your kind reply. My experience with AI is sort of like when I was 4 and my brother 2 - he asked me to salt his sweet cake, so I took salt and salted it, even though he was crying and saying "no, salt!". (He meant "sugart it")
But if I had the priviledge to code AI, I would add what I have called limitergy and rewardergy... Michal --- Michal Navrátil, PhD <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virenfrei.www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> so 24. 1. 2026 v 23:40 odesílatel Paul Emsley < [email protected]> napsal: > On 24/01/2026 20:59, Michal Navratil wrote: > > Hello Paul, > > Hello Michal, > > > thank you for the kind reply. > > Btw. wouldn't AI-assisted coding help you? > > It does help me. I am part-way through a blog-post/article about it. > > Americans are already pretty near this milestone - you get like the most > of it written and than just go through it and make it perfect... > > There are technical limitations. This fragment of Coot is about 500k loc, > say about 2M tokens. Using Claude, I get 200 k tokens budget - that's an > order of magnitude less than it needs to understand the context. Or so I > believe. I actually haven't tried asking Opus 4.5 to make the fix - maybe > it could do it. If I tried, it would blow my budget for the rest of the > month I imagine (and I now like programing with a Claude window open). > > I think it is like with the progressive Italians making their marble > sculptures using 400 000 USD robots - they make 99 %, but the final human > touch makes them perfect... > > My experience so far has been largely the other way around, as long as I > have put in place the groundwork, dug the foundations, as it were, it can > do a nice job with the building and decoration. > > May be I will add, besides stressing how important is the cross-eye > stereo, some other suggestions, like a hot key for moving by 10 residues > (thanks for space forward and shift+space backward, that is awesome) > (ctrl+space 10 forward and ctrl+shift+space 10 backward?). > > One of those things is not like the other! (one is 5 days (or more) and > the other is 5 minutes (or less)). > > The key-bindings/shortcuts system has been re-written from scratch and is > now flexible. Lucrezia is the doyen of all things key-binding. > > Anyway see attached - stick it in your ~/.config/Coot directory (and > restart, of course). > > There isn't a key-code for Shift-Space so backwards is Ctrl-X. You can > check that it's been stored using coot.print_key_bindings() in the Python > interface. > > Oh, and on testing, it became apparent that it would be nice if there was > a visual cue meaning or saying "that residue doesn't exist" - that isn't > available in scripting (not easily, anyway). I will add something. > > Paul. > > p.s. and (Adrian) for the record, the Gravity's Rainbow reference was > something to do with getting your message past the text filter? - with > ironic overtones, perhaps? > > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
