What breaks my heart about LLMs is that when I teach it something about coding, I’m not teaching a person.

[brentsimmons@indieweb.social]

What breaks my heart about LLMs is that when I teach it something about coding, I’m not teaching a person. And the LLM is going to fucking forget anyway.

[chris__martin@functional.cafe]

@brentsimmons Collect everything you explain into markdown files, commit to the repository. Then it saves it for the machine, and also serves as documentation for people. There's a silver lining here.

[chris__martin@functional.cafe]

@brentsimmons So much of what we do for the LLM's sake mirrors what you would do for a person's sake, all the way down to providing assistance as to how to navigate the docs and find what's relevant, pointing to what you need to read before performing specific tasks, etc.

[davew@mastodon.social]

@brentsimmons

with claude code, you just load a folder up with your source code and it's ready to work on it. i've tried it out with a simple app and it works as advertised.

[wcbdata@vis.social]

@brentsimmons
Pro tip: Don't use LLMs.

[causticmsngo@mastodon.social]

@wcbdata @brentsimmons Underrated response.

[vmachiel@mastodon.nl]

@brentsimmons also the massive theft, energy usage and externalities that disproportionately affect the poor.

[eljorgeabides@mastodon.world]

@wcbdata @brentsimmons

Most of the places I am applying for require some form of LLM work. Either for prototype or building a tool. Also need to explain what you have built during the interview.

It sucks but it's required now. In a few years probably not but it's here and companies "don't want to be left behind"