January 22, 2026

I tried vibe-code a CSV to colored HTML table converter using this prompt. Create a tool that can convert pasted tables into colored HTML tables. Allow the user to paste a CSV or tab-delimited or pipe-delimited table. … Create an HTML table that has minimal styling. … Add a button to copy just the HTML to the clipboard. Codex built this. Which is perfect. AWS Partyrock built this. Which is a joke, because it didn’t write the code to do the conversion. It uses an LLM every time. ...

As a teenager, I asked my mother “What is the aim of life?” She said, “To be happy and to make others happy.” This was my gospel for a decade. It made sense. It even aligned with my name (Anand = happiness). In my twenties, I was confused that happiness has tradeoffs, like: Long term (study hard) vs short term (party hard) Self (e.g. save diligently) vs others (gift generously) Getting what we like (e.g. favorite food, ambitiousness) vs liking what we get (e.g. any food, gratitude, lower standards) Outcome (e.g. wealth) vs process (e.g. enjoying work) By my thirties, I felt happiness is the intersection of pleasure and meaning. So I tried to be aware of and balance both. ...

Summary: Nano Banana Pro is much better than recent models at copying images without errors. That lets us do a few useful things, like: Pre-process images for OCR, improving text recognition by cleaning up artifacts while preserving text shapes exactly. Convert textbook raster diagrams into clean vector-like images that vectorizers can process easily. Create in-betweens for cartoon animations Copy torn, stained 1950s survey maps into pristine, high-contrast replicas with boundary lines preserved pixel-perfectly. Redraw sewage map blueprints or refinery blueprints into clean schematics, separating the “pipes” from the “background noise”. … and more! GPT Image 1.5 has a good reputation for drawing exactly what you tell it to. ...