RE: https://hsnl.social/@revspace/116256653592044537
RevSpace, the hackerspace I'm a regular at, will have it's open day next saturday. I will be exhibiting my PDP-11/84 and possibly work on some other retro hardware as part of this.
Perhaps I'll attempt to repair my 11/44, or show off the VAX-11/750 I keep around there.
They do require visitors to sign up to help load balance the tours of the hackerspace, so check the link below.
#revspace #hackerspace #netherlands #thehague #retrocomputing #leiden #pdp11
I love the fact that you can talk to LLMs in ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ natural language. It's so easy to imagine a world where you'd either speak to AI like it's a bank manager or it would throw a syntax error.
Sometimes I want to use slang. Sometimes I positively ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ using slang. How awful would it be if I had to download british_english_colloquial_langpack.v1.0.13.txt just to have a natter? ๐
Finally, I believe that having coding skills is a good to have when writing code with LLM assistance. It is impossible to say, however, whether being a good coder is a prerequisite for creating maintainable software with LLM assistance. It is not impossible that architectural skills and the ability to clearly express requirements are more important factors.
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116284228732572298
This is an amazing take.
@hanshuebner @matt Yes it can hurt to try them. They are cognitohazards and are designed to make you think they're doing things they're not. This works on a lot of people, even people who think themselves very intelligent and thereby immune.
This is how we end up with folks praising them while putting out clearly worse writing, code, etc. that nobody wants.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@scalzi/116252733614979841
Who could have known!
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