Is it? If the spec is as detailed as the code would be? If you make a change to one part of the spec do you now have inconsistencies that the LLM is going to have to resolve in some way? Are we going to have a compiler, or type checker type tools for the spec to catch these errors sooner?

It IS a compiler. You might as well ask if the machine-language output of a C compiler is as detailed as the C code was.

To anticipate your objection: you can get over determinism now, or you can get over it later. You will get over it, though, if you intend to stay in this business.

> It IS a compiler.

What are you talking about? If an LLM is a compiler, then I'm a compiler. Are we going to redefine the meaning of words in order not to upset the LLM makers?

Originally, the word "computer" referred to a human being. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)

Over time, when digital computers became commonplace, the computing moved from the person to the machine. At this time, arguably the humans doing the programming of the machine were doing the work we now ask of a "compiler".

So yes, an LLM can be a compiler in some sense (from a high level abstract language into a programming language), and you too can be a compiler! But currently it's probably a good use of the LLM's time and probably not a good use of yours.

I don't know, having done a lot of completely pointless time-wasting staring at hex dumps and assembly language in my youth was a pretty darned good lesson. I say it's a worthwhile hobby to be a compiler.

But your point stands. There is a period beyond which doing more than learning the fundamentals just becomes toil.

Or something like https://antithesis.com/

Ah yes, all of the precedents and lawful authority that this president cares so much about adhering to.

Crypto shredding?

Some have done it (repo includes links to main articles covering the process): https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-watchdog

Note: I work for sentry.

If you’re on iOS, and don’t use swipe keyboard, disable that functionality. I found it made a big improvement for me.

There is a whole KIP that is “preview” on Kafka 4.1 to handle this use case natively: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/plugins/servlet/mobile?c...

Note: I haven’t had a chance to test it out in anger personally yet.

yep i mentioned that in another thread below. very excited to see it added, but it will be some time until its production ready / they implement the full feature set

“I can stop any time I want!”

You don't stop doing drugs because there's some movie you want to see. People do get off their phones for that.

Have you seen how many people watch movies these days? Even in the cinema they are scrolling.

Not touching alcohol for 12 hours a day does not mean you are not an alcoholic.

If you stare at a wall all day because you have nothing to do, are you addicted to staring at the wall, or do you just have nothing to do?

If someone stops drinking for a long enough period, with no urge to return to drinking, then yes, they aren't an alcoholic. You just made up a silly 12 hour window so you could beat a straw man to death.

If an alcoholic has been clean for decades, he is still an alcoholic, because the second he takes alcohol again, his brain switches back to addiction mode. That's the thing with addictions, they even destroy the good feeling you initially had about with drug.

When you are staring at a wall all day, you can probably think of a lot of other things you could do and did. When you stare at a wall all day, and think of nothing and enjoy it, then I would say you have mental problems. The problem isn't that you do something for a long time, the problem is that you can't think of something else or can't control you to do something else, even if you want.

Uv solves this (with some new standards). ./script.py will now install the python version, create a venv, and install dependencies (very quickly) if they don’t exist already.

#!/usr/bin/env -S uv run --script # /// script # requires-python = ">=3.12" # dependencies = [ # "ffmpeg-normalize", # ] # ///