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I'm generally pro "llm assisted coding" or whatever you want to call it. But I do somethings think about the Butlerian Jihad from Dune. https://en.wikipedia.o
by genghisjahn 5mo ago
I'm generally pro "llm assisted coding" or whatever you want to call it. But I do somethings think about the Butlerian Jihad from Dune.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune:_The_Butlerian_Jihad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune:_The_Butlerian_Jihad
- hermitShell 5mo agoIf you like sci-fi takes on software systems, check out Vernor Vinge "A Fire upon the deep" and sequels. I recall ship systems software is something like all the code humanity has ever written, plus centuries of LLM churn. One of the protagonists is a space faring software developer particularly good with legacy code. We are used to thinking about software like in the article, a program that runs deterministically in an OS. Where we are headed might be more like where the LLM or AI system is the OS, and accomplishes things we want through a combination of pre-written legacy software, and perhaps able to accomplish new things on the fly.
- genghisjahn 5mo agoInteresting, I kinda do this. Sometimes when an LLM solves a problem for me, I have it write code so that I can reuse that exact same approach deterministically(and I line by line check it). Now I have about a dozen CLI commands that the LLM can use and I'm reasonably (although not 100%) sure I'll get an expected outcome. Really helpful with debugging via steam pipe and connecting to read replicas.
- Izkata 5mo agoSounds like a recipe for Star Trek holodeck malfunctions.
- DonHopkins 5mo agoPham Nuwen is a master of vibe patching legacy sedimentary software.
- genghisjahn 5mo agoOrdered Fire Upon the Deep. Looks interesting.