Gilbert the tanuki

[Id 1 to 4 : Different points of view of a wood carved humanoid tanuki wearing a tunic, hands joined on its belly. It stands on a workbench. Paint is used to make the pattern of the fur on the face, on the tip of the ears and for the eyes.]

#art #sculpture

Parts of my job that I enjoy:
- Designing systems
- Writing elegant code
- Learning new things
- Solving interesting problems
- Sharing knowledge

Parts of my job I don't enjoy:
- Reviewing other people's code
- Debugging systems I'm not familiar with
- Blindly using poorly documented interfaces
- Dependency hell
- Being forced into the latest fad

AI enthusiasts: "What if I told you I've solved one of those lists for you?" 😏

I had a recent conversation about LLMs and impromptu said something that has stuck with me.

Even if we granted that LLMs made you more productive at work...

Why should I care about being more productive? I'm already great at my job. I don't need to be more productive - that gains me nothing.

#LLM #AI

I found this photo, from a few years ago. Seems relevant now.

Photo by Roan de Vries
Text by Heydon Pickering.

TIL: you can search only posts that youve boosted or favorited if you use "in:library"

for example
in:library "viss wtf"
in:library "viss what did you do"
in:library "viss shut up about hotsauce"

etc