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jasongorman

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Software developer, trainer and mentor at Codemanship. Now run your tests.

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It seems blindingly obvious to me that the UK government's Rwanda policy was never about refugees. It's designed to precipitate a legal stand-off over human rights. And it's not the human rights of asylum seekers that they have in their sights.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/23/council-of-europe-human-rights-watchdog-condemns-uk-rwanda-scheme

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I'm seeing a small trend among young male software developers to dismiss out of hand any insight about software development that comes from anybody over the age of 45, or any book that was published before 2010.

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I'm addicted to these YouTube camping videos. A lot of them seem to come from South Korea. I'd like to see some camping videos from North Korea. I imagine there'd be more camouflage, perhaps.

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I'm wrestling with some deep philosophical questions. Go out for lunch? Or stay in for lunch?

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I'll take rapid iteration over detailed planning any day.

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If code's a liability, I can't help wondering if a true "productivity" tool might encourage teams to produce less of it.

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"But sometimes you don't need to wash your hands before performing surgery"...

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Sing along if you know the words https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gudiJ7C1e84

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I've worked with enough great software developers who don't have computing degrees to be pretty darned sure at this point that you don't need one to do this job.

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Hiring managers: I highly recommend using a chat bot like this one to conduct software developer interviews.

It saves candidates a tonne of time determining if they should definitely not bother applying to work for your company.

https://www.micro1.ai/

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An interesting proof from Yann LeCun about how we know LLMs don't reason about anything other than what tokens most likely come next: the computational overhead of responses is 100% predictable by the number of tokens, regardless of the complexity of the problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N09C6oUQX5M

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I called it a year ago - it's an S-curve.

If I were an investor in a proprietary LLM, I'd be looking to offload those shares soon.

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/evidence-that-llms-are-reaching-a

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The thing is, the 100x-revenue valuations of Nvidia, OpenAI etc (which is losing money hand over fist) are built on the anticipated exponential advancements in the technology and therefore in the market for it. If that's not coming any time soon, there'll be a big reset in market caps.

And the rest of us will have to go back to addressing real business problems.

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If you want to know what that looks like, just ask Cisco

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When you first leave home and discover rent, bills, shopping, cooking, cleaning, washing etc.

That often seems to be what happens to developers who leave Big Tech for a small (or their own) company.

No, mate. If you want un-creased shirts, you have to iron them.

And if you want a build server, you're going to have to set that up.

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I feel 10 x as productive already! https://chat.openai.com/share/a21e5542-49c0-43e4-839f-09b1ed2a09e3

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@matthewskelton I'm running a few experiments to try to understand how some of the solutions to my Code Craft Foundation individual exercise came about. I saw a lot of "A.I." code generation in their screen recordings.

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@thirstybear That's a house of cards, though. ML researchers keep telling me that you have to sacrifice the statistical fluency of the model if you use a significantly smaller data set.

It bullshits. But it bullshits fluently.

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@thirstybear With a 100:10:1 ratio, there just wouldn't be enough training data to produce a model fluent enough to generate code.

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@nonspecialist @aj @emilybache @matthewskelton But one that stops learning by the time you're pairing with it

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@davenicolette @nonspecialist @aj @emilybache @matthewskelton I'm telling students the same thing. See also: copying and pasting. It stunts their growth. Like trying to learn French by having an app translate and speak it for you.

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@davenicolette @nonspecialist @aj @emilybache @matthewskelton Not the same thing, really. With training wheels, you are riding the bike.

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@davenicolette @nonspecialist @aj @emilybache @matthewskelton You have to pedal 🙂 Having something write the code for you isn't pedaling. You're watching someone ride the bike 🙂

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@davenicolette @nonspecialist @aj @emilybache @matthewskelton I've noticed over recent years that heavy reliance on code generation and/or copying+pasting tends to lead to devs not actually wrapping their heads around code. They learn a lot slower. There's research to back this up, too. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232457619_Exploring_Differences_in_Students'_Copy-and-Paste_Decision_Making_and_Processing_A_Mixed-Methods_Study

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Smart companies aren't obsessed with how much software developers cost because their focus is on what software developers are worth.

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