mnl mnl mnl mnl mnlAug 18, 2023

This attitude irritates me so much.

Like yo do you even know how a computer works you always had a compiler to transform your source code to machine instructions? Do you even a book because screen?

People are smart and curious and if anything people into computers love looking under the hood. I didn’t learn embedded programming because I had no choice.

#llms

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Can't wait for the second generation to grow up "programming" with LLMs. They'll have never actually written a program themselves and won't know if what gets generated has any bugs or not. It'll be like watering plants with gatorade.

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If you are so worried about the next generation’s programming skills, then share your knowledge instead of wringing hands. Indeed teach people how to work with the new tools emerging.

I remember being in that spot, told I should mumble mumble punchcards, and me and my kiddy Debian 1.2 being like “whatever bro! I’ll recompile until it works!”.

these days we call it test driven development…

Let’s figure out the unit testing and Linux of llms and not play greybeard gatekeepers.

#programming

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So since I got asked about llms by people I mentor, here is one way to leverage them for self learning.

Ask llms to:

- suggest additional features to build into your toy program
- suggest a list of exercises to learn x

Try to:

- have the llm explain code you wrote / already understand, to get an understanding of what these models make up and how.
- only copy paste the code you think you understand (that’s a slightly more subtle point)

I definitely tell them to turn off copilot entirely.

Aug 18, 2023 at 11:34amWeb
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It doesn’t take more than 1h of pair programming to show people what the pitfalls and strengths of llms are, enough so that they can continue venturing out on their own without feeling overwhelmed, anxious or on the other hand too eager to skip the important stuff.

Mostly it’s anxiety.

So don’t add fuel to the fire by being old and berating the younger generation.