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https://josephg.com/blog/3-tribes/ https://josephg.com/blog/3-tribes/
by eternityforest 2y ago
https://josephg.com/blog/3-tribes/ https://josephg.com/blog/3-tribes/
- 082349872349872 2y agoThanks! That {hacker,informatiker,maker} prism explains why LLMs leave me so meh: they're wonderful for makers, may be exploitable by hackers who wish to autogen all the boilerplate around their hand-crafted machine-sympathetic kernels, but huge slushy piles of artisanally-stirred linear algebra are pretty much the opposite of an informatician's quest for elegance.
- eternityforest 2y agoIt's probably the biggest influence on my understanding of what computers are to other people. For a maker, LLMs are the biggest thing in coding since type hints getting popular. They completely change how I code now that my typing speed is effectively unlimited and I'm never tempted to choose less best practicesy code to save a half hour of typing. Most of the people I work with are hackers or mathematicians/code philosophers, and it seems like to a lot of them the whole industry is stagnant, they want new ideas, not cleaner repackagings.