Whole-known-network
<p>This got me thinking about LLMs and AI assistants. If you're relying on something like that, you're basically coding in the past. </p><p>Whether that's good or bad, I'm not here to say. I just know that it's a wildly different thing than what we tried to do in that book 12 years ago.</p><p>I'm not even sure if it would be practical to write a book like that now. Or if anyone even reads programming books for that matter. </p><p>Anyways, just an idle thought for the day. 2/2.</p>
<p>Had a recent conversation with someone who made a comment about the Python Cookbook saying "they had never seen any other Python code like it."</p><p>I then recounted how the 3rd edition was written from a spreadsheet. Brian Jones and I made a spreadsheet of all planned topics in advance. We then worked to write each topic completely from scratch in the most non-hacky forward-looking Python 3 way that we could think do it. I don't really remember looking at much already existing code. 1/2</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Whats the job description?</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@qdoit" class="u-url mention">@<span>qdoit</span></a></span> hello miss ^^</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@estelle" class="u-url mention">@<span>estelle</span></a></span> probably a mix of both? dunno why you'd want a narcissist on your crew but im sure they know what they're doing :)</p>
<p>oh, it made me cry...</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> me when talking to my family</p>
<p>anisiphia (magirevo) is so aspirational >.></p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> rebellion homura definitely would</p>
