Many people are using LLM's the way we see the compiler.
Where "generated source code" becomes the "compiled binary" and thinking "the prompt" is a good alternative for "source code".
This won't scale, our source code is becoming incomprehensible!
This is a post about why DSL's are an important technology. In #mgmtconfig, just a few hundred lines of our mcl language, can replace 100k+ line code bases of imperative slop.
I'll be in #Halifax at "The Oxford Taproom" from 6pm-8pm tonight for some sort of nerd meetup!
#mgmtconfig stickers will be available and the best mgmt related patch/hack/contribution gets a special present from Montreal!
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@whack/116633678915600130
Jordan is providing many valuable bug reports which is making my software more robust!
@deobald @matrix I've had customer interest, but nobody has stepped up to pay to build out the #mgmtconfig module to automate it!
If you find someone interested, lmk! A lot of SMB's would love this kind of feature. In the meantime, using the matrix home server is useful enough.
TL;DR fast debugging:
Set debug params on the phone and point to some linux box.
Listen on that box:
while true; do nc -u -l 514; done
Test:
logger -n 192.168.210.1 -P 514 -d "Test message from logger"
See logs. Find issue.
tftp 192.168.210.1
get <cfg$mac.xml>
xmllint --noout <cfg$mac.xml>
Find issue and face palm :/
Working with #mgmtconfig made this much easier! Contact me to see how we can help.
Thanks to @whack who found and reported a previously unnoticed bug in our use of the package kit API in #mgmtconfig.
Every great report adds extra beautiful polish!
https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/commit/28d81c6a06c30f263182f66e0a9dac91ae50d5c5
James Just James