I wonder if there's a tracker out there for the number of times "he" appears as a pronoun when describing LLMs of any kind by software devs. There should be to see if we're accelerating towards some sort of mass psychosis of what these models are
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Sometimes while I'm suffering I solve problems If bending software into odd shapes was a strongman category I might be a runner up
I'm behind the curve but I don't care-- using Claude code instead of writing your own harness is something I shake my head at now. I recently wrote my own agent harness with neovim and I can't possibly imagine why I'd go use someone else's harness.
The more I read into what folks at anthropic and openai are doing (ex: "loop engineering") the more it reminds me of the heydays of micro services and react-- over application of a useful thing to the point of absurdity. "Of course we have 1000 services, we're a team of 10 engineers! So much speed!"
mattducharme.dev/posts/verbal... Musings on LLMs and productivity, as if the world needed more content in this space.
Verbal Space
I had a discussion today about LLMs that helped me focus my attention on something I’ve been feeling for a while. I’ve been feeling fairly productive in vertical slices with LLMs when I’m having agent...
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Had a bit of fun with @ponylang.bsky.social recently. Working in a different actor paradigm than what I'm used to really stressed out the gray matter. github.com/ducharmemp/s... pretty neat little project.
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