Tris talks about defaulting to much simpler tools, including plain text in the video [The Plain Text Team](https://youtu.be/WgV6M1LyfNY?si=Rf3xP7sasTtPCmTu). Much of the video is a push to move away from special purpose tools that lock up your knowledge and data, pushing you into a repeated upgrade cycle. He suggests moving to a format that you have… Read More »
No Human Coders in 5 Years? starts with the many predictions that these new LLM tools will replace all programmers. He makes the prediction instead that the best programmers with work with these tools to be better than any ordinary coder. My problem with this narrative is that it still assumes that the LLM tools… Read More »
Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already from Rodney Brooks talks about his long-term study of AI and how he is not really excited about this new technology. The title of this post is his observation about humans mistaking AI.
Chatbots don’t help programmers summarized an article from Bertrand Meyer. Meyer suggests that an AI programming assistant as “a cocky graduate student, smart and widely read, also quick to apologize, but thoroughly, invariably, sloppy and unreliable”. A lot of people suggest that using an AI chatbot as an assistant might not result in a correct… Read More »
Artificial General Intelligence remains a distant dream despite LLM boom
I saw a good talk on EDA at work. I’ve seen talks and talked to people who are doing some event-driven stuff, but this talk seemed much more fleshed out. There were a few concepts that came out of this talk that I like: The speaker also recommended a couple of books.
I was playing around with the NewType pattern in Rust by coding a set of length quantity types. As usual, that means a set of similar crates wandered into my view:
I’ve noticed that some companies tend to promote developers too quickly, giving people a Senior title after only a few years of experience. That’s often not enough time to develop a lot of experience. Steve Yegge made an interesting observation about maturity and years of experience in Portrait of N00b. He might have been going… Read More »
The Changelog podcast posted this Different take on why we procrastinate and how to help.