How I was taught to write an essay in high school:
- intro and thesis
- 3 paragraphs of examples and supporting ideas
- conclusion
How we professionals write computer programs:
The frontier labs regularly run promotions like “Long weekend or holiday soon! Tokens or this new model is half-off until the next business day back.” I don’t like the nudge to “always be prompting”, working with the models at all time. Trading a long weekend is even worse.
So what had happened was, my daily reading sort of tailed off. Distractions and all that. Then my writing dropped off. And then, the web hit me with three great ideas hit me right in a row. The web provides energy for reading, the reading transforms in...
You ain’t got time for all this – the latest newsletter edition from yours truly. Some of my recent material, remixed. Some all new links. If you’re seeing this on your computer screen, you might like it!
I don't think token-maxxing or agent swarms are going to get us past the "yikes now everyone is a prolific coder"-shaped challenges facing software developers. The way through probably rhymes with re-inventing how we review and evaluate software+code.