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As the old joke goes: there are two hard problems in computer science - cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors Naming things doesn’t get easie
by PaulRobinson 1y ago
As the old joke goes: there are two hard problems in computer science - cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors
Naming things doesn’t get easier just because you bring an LLM to do it based on an incoherent stochastic process.
Have you asked why those environments have not been renamed to align? As a former CTO I’d see it immediately as a signal of poor communication, poor standards adoption, or both. It’s this low hanging stuff that you can fix relatively easily where you’re actually using that work to make the culture better and make people care more.
Don’t outsource things you should care about a lot. Naming things is something you shouldn’t be hand waving away to a model.
- bjornsing 1y agoSure, I can spend my days doing that. But I appreciate the help (from the LLMs). And I think we actually have the same goal function: we want to make naming more compressible, less unexpected. You can call that culture (and it is) but you can also see it as pure information theory.