I don’t want to code with LLMs

Link: https://blaines-blog.com/I-dont-want-to-code-with-LLMs#footnote-ref-1

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This is the best of the lot. Nailed every point. Coding was never a bottleneck, communication was (is). Yes, it can do trivial task, but that is not 20% of developers work. Its still bad at complex stuff. Vibe coders hit a ceiling after a while. Reviewing is worse than writing it yourself. AI is a tool just like IDEs, you are not losing or missing out on it. When did learning deeper and low-level knowledge get uncool or not important? It hasn’t, its just hype, hiding form us the actual pillar behind the rise in information accessibility.

I hate myself more for seeing this, than I hate javascript

Link: https://youtu.be/7bvBVBy_CrM

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This is gross. I really hate seeing this now. I can’t bare this. I mean, javascript is a good language, but why people just used it and didn’t improve it. The author developed it in a week, weren’t the industry leaders a bit mature to make it better? The Java developers have fixed things from it, but the thing that was copied to Javascript is still ain’t? This goes back to the meme of pillars holding the bigger stones.

One last id

Link: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/one-last-id

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Man! SQL is tricky sometimes. The number of abstractions people create in the dialects is so jarring. It really breaks stuff.

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Processes and Threads: Planetscale Blog

Link: https://planetscale.com/blog/processes-and-threads

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This was cool actually. The interactive elements really make things so clear. They remove the textual-ness in the blog and add a depth to it. There is a clear explanation of program, process, ram, fork and low level details that are quintessential to a developer, any f-ing developer.

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SQLite SQL: Collate Column Modifier

Link: https://www.meetgor.com/sqlog/sqlite-collate-column-modifier

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SQLite SQL: Create Temporary Table

Link: https://www.meetgor.com/sqlog/sqlite-create-temp-table

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SQLite SQL: Many to Many Table without RowID

Link: https://www.meetgor.com/sqlog/sqlite-many-to-many-table-without-rowid

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Tokenization from scratch from Andrej Karapathy

Link: https://youtu.be/zduSFxRajkE

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What a beautiful piece of content. Archive and store it in a museum. The depth with which he explained it, the low-level details, the pythonic bits, is so fun and contagious to watch, and feel. I learnt a few tricks about interaction with LLMs and understood certain quirks. This could give a intuition for why certain LLMs won’t be able to give good completions for certain tasks. I also don’t quite liked the Sentence piece tokenization logic. But I can see where it could be probably come handy, in PDFs for example, the scope of sentence is well defined. In arbitrary piece of text on the internet, it might not be.

Tokenization in C from Tsoding

Link: https://youtu.be/6dCqR9p0yWY

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This was another great livestream like tutorial. The depth with which he communicated and came up with the solution is what helped me get better understanding of tokenization. This is an example, why learning from first fundamentals is still cool. The ability to learn and explain with confidence and comfort is remarkable quality for a developer. This is also I am still thinking about doing livestream and being able to develop something from scratch.

What is a Tensor? A beautiful intuition and question and answer based explanation

Link: https://youtu.be/k2FP-T6S1x0

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This is a great piece of explanation. The question from Richard Feymann are so deep, provoking and sensible. The way the author explained and questioned his own thinking is really great. I liked that way of teaching. The direction bit and the animation also helped a lot. Nice editing skills.

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