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The reason I get so annoyed about people pitching LLMs as a way to 'democra… | |
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@david_chisnall all i'm reading is "copy excel" | |
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@david_chisnall I would argue that actual end-user programming got worse in the… | |
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@mhd Access got a lot of flak because it did one thing very well and another ve… | |
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@david_chisnall newbie question: which spreadsheet is not terrible? Asking for … | |
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@Kowal155 I have a much longer rant about this, but Lotus had two spreadsheets:… | |
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@david_chisnall What would a visual debugger look like for, say, Python?Same as… | |
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@androcat Python is basically Smalltalk with ugly syntax and better FFI, so a s… | |
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@david_chisnall @androcat Did you ever see LightTable?http://lighttable.com/It … | |
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@david_chisnallOne thing I've been meaning to write for a while is a dtrace… | |
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@david_chisnall And more importantly: teach people (how) to use those debuggers… | |
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@dfyx @david_chisnall I don't want fancy breakpoints, I want invisible logg… | |
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@david_chisnall I once got into an argument with somebody pushing an LLM progra… | |
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@wrosecrans @david_chisnall I bet! Deliberately misunderstanding code is imposs… | |
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@david_chisnall Someone will create a formal language for writing prompts to te… | |
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@muczachan @david_chisnall It's called "prompt engineering" and i… | |
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@Dss @david_chisnall not formal enough | |
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@muczachan @david_chisnall It's not formal *at all*. It's mostly LLMs w… | |
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@david_chisnall this isn't even a new phenomenon. Before there was vibe cod… | |
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@sophieschmieg I think a lot of the low-code or no-code things were better beca… | |
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@david_chisnall @sophieschmieg If it only were so.In my experience LLM produce … | |
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@david_chisnallMy personal worry is always, what happens all the cool uses of L… | |
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material to verify the position paper content. So the moment the LLM starts pro… | |
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@david_chisnallSo whenever somebody mentions AI/LLM, the first question is what… | |
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@yacc143 @david_chisnall @sophieschmieg That's the problem. Luckily (?) wit… | |
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@DssAh, but that's a slightly faulty reasoning. No not all faults get teste… | |
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predicted and insured of a result in 24h it's still running after 3 days. S… | |
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@yacc143 @sophieschmieg @Dss In particular, most security vulnerabilities appea… | |
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@raganwald @androcat Indeed. Smalltalk isn't a great end-user programming … | |
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@sleepyfox @androcat Yes, it looked very much like an offshoot of the STEPS pro… | |
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@david_chisnall @androcat LightTable died years ago, the author Chris Granger w… | |
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@david_chisnall @mhd I did that for about 2 years for a major multinational! We… | |
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@jrootham @david_chisnall What do you mean by invisible logging? | |
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@dfyx @david_chisnall Setting logging points that don't show up in the sour… | |
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@jrootham @david_chisnall C# can do that. You can configure a breakpoint to log… | |
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@dfyx @david_chisnall That's good. Unfortunately not my toolchain. I was … | |
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@david_chisnall Hmm, yes... AND?I have first-hand experience with dozens of non… |