A famous Murray Gell-Mann quote: "Imagine how hard physics would be if atoms could think."
...n them. But now LLMs can "think". Suddenly, corralling them becomes harder than writing code!
Topic: writing code
26 chunks · 24 episodes
1.8x burst in 2024 Q3
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- writing code appears in 26 chunks across 24 episodes, from 2024-01-08 to 2026-10-05.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 8/12/24 (2024-08-12), with 2 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with sensitive data, become increasingly, and higher quality, while by chunk count it sits between lowest common and Twitter; its yearly rank moved from #62 in 2024 to #56 in 2026.
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Writing code is expensive.
Writing code is expensive. It requires an expensive, specialist human. Running code is cheap. LLMs are more expensive than normal code, but can write bespoke code...
In any community of people there's a power law of motivation.
.... Typically 90% are passive consumers. 1% are engaged, active creators: perhaps writing code. 9% are engaged tinkerers, but not savvy enough to write code. Those 9% are the people who are on the precipice of being activated by LLMs. "I could ...
A hugely intentful datastream: corrections users make to a model's output.
... correcting it if it wasn't close enough to right but still not right. A way of writing code: don't give it a big design doc, just tell it to do a thing and then give it feedback on specific things that are not what you wanted. You don't have...
LLMs are superb thought partners
...st by playing it back to you. The actual amount of time when coding that you're writing code is low. It's a lot of googling to find specific error messages, etc. But LLMs can just give you an answer. There are a lot of small frustrations in c...
Systems that have a structured formal language will have interesting applications with LLMs.
...have a structured formal language will have interesting applications with LLMs. Writing code (or any formally structured document, e.g a Domain Specific Language) has two things that must be true: syntactic correctness (is this thing describe...