Week #106

It was another continuous week of working hard. Weekends had no limit on work too. Didn’t sleep properly during week, was too anxious about the client, the project, the thoughts of how to solve it. Just a exciting but exhilarating week. AI can write code yes, but the judgement and taste is still driven by the human behind it. And expressing that is exhaustive task. Its like spending a days worth of work in a single hour. Plus a constant context switching also drains the battery. Anyways, pumping into action back on Monday.

Quote of the week

“There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”

― Khalil Gibran

A beautiful quote. Not just tears, but also sweat. Its a sacred symbol that blends from the nature. Its unique to humans? Maybe I am not a biologists. But if it is then it makes us connected to the ocean more and more deeper then we think. Of course we all originated from the ocean, yet we don’t know the depths of it, we are no more connected to it. Cities and modern world has disconnected these bonds of sacredness it seems. yet there is hope a calmness when someone just listens to the tide wash the shore. Nothing can come close to that.

Read

  • Sean Goedecke’s Blog: LLMs Rewards expertise

    • This is so true. Without having a clue what to build and wht it should feel like, LLM is going to generate a mediocre response. If you need exceptional results, be ready with a detailed tasteful questions to ask and give specific instructions.

    • I think this is the thing that makes software developer obsolete, if only he/she doesn’t have any taste or domain interest (knowledge is not needed, but the curiosity will fire you towards it). Without that interest or knowledge its like a mid-grunt work and nothing more. Writing software would not be your job anymore, it will be to develop the right one.

    • I had this experience, for the past 2-3 months I have been working with a client for developing a automation. Initially I had no clue what was happening, but having spent time with the actual reviewers and under-writers, it becomes a gathering knowledge of what to look for at what spot. That is the knack required to then prompt to build that system, not my coding skills. The ability to make software work is more important then to write it.

  • Yuris’s Blog: Coding is becoming like cooking a steak

    • Yeah! Yes that is right. its like anybody can cook the food, but you need to have the taste, the right judgement to add the salt and sugar. But what if it can do it? Maybe for some food it can, but some other specific tasteful food that only your mom can cook, it can’t. Just like this, software, you can’t build a software without the judgement of how a good tasteful software looks like.

    • The last statement of this post however took me a bit worried “Then hire a few AI cooks. Most people still won’t notice the difference. But you will.” Like what difference will it make, if i can notice the difference, its just my opinion, does anyone care about how the software looks if it gets the job done? I don’t think so anybody cares about it.

Watched

  • Typecraft: I almost quit youtube

    • A honest confession. Brave and humble. I don’t whats up with tech, everyone is getting laid off. I was lucky to get back, but not sure till when this will be survivable.

    • Its exhausting. I have to grind 10-12 hours daily to make sure I can complete the work. Its not work anymore, its a grind. People expect more, because LLMs can work more. Humans have a limit.

    • Feeling good for him and happy to see him back and recharged with the flame back. Hope he gets happiness throughout.

  • The Primeagen on SIMD, everybody should learn things, just because you can or want to

    • Right. If someone is making analogies or just saying everyone should know it and simplifying certain topics, why people get pissed off? Why can’t humans make complex things simple to understand. The lack of empathy is the reason. The people who went through the hardship of understanding these things, don’t want anyone to just learn it simply, they want them to grind as well. That’s clear a lack of empathy.

    • SIMD is single instruction multiple data. I still dont understand it, I haven’t got the time to read the article. Weird I watched the video but didn’t read the article.

  • Dwarkesh Patel’s thoughts on the end of Cheap compute

    • Wow. What a observation. Understanding the current landscape and then finding the pathways and crossing them with real genuine good way to insights into a near future trends.

    • I like how he summarizes everything. It feels intuitive. If someone has a powerful model then it incentivizes the compute provider to rise the price since a more capable model can run on that instead of the other providing low value. Wow! Market analysis.

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Until next week.

Happy Coding :)