Coming off a successful undertaking, I have time for new endeavours. Potentially full time until end of August, and perhaps a few months more. Part-time with no definite end.

I may be particularly interested in improving legacy code. https://blog.ploeh.dk/hire-me

Are you using LLMs to generate so much code that reviews or other forms of quality assurance have become a bottleneck?

I may be able to help. https://blog.ploeh.dk/hire-me

I recently came across a quote that I forgot to bookmark. Does anyone recognise it?

It went something like this:

The people who find LLMs most useful for writing are people who don’t like to write. The people who find them most useful for programming are people who don’t like programming. They are constantly shouting about their productivity because they want validation from the people who actually enjoy the craft.

As impressive and occasionally useful as LLMs are, the hype means that I'm regularly disappointed when I try to get it to do something useful.

Latest example: I want some LLM to summarise a podcast episode. I can even provide a transcript. So far, no such luck. Suggestions?

Recently, I've been feeding LLMs photos of hand-drawn diagrams, asking them to turn them into TikZ drawings.

This seems to be at the frontier of what LLMs can do. It's not an entire fiasco, but on the other hand not going particularly well, either.