I tried to use aider to build a crossword generator in Python. Even with a preselected set of words, this proved difficult. Or perhaps the preselected set of words was why it was difficult. Either...
One of the most painful lessons beginners have to learn is just how often everyone is wrong about everything. Imagine a spreadsheet where every time you change something you must open a terminal, run...
Erik wrote about how it's hard to write code for humans. Getting started is the product!
Cool article by Jacob on a blog re-write to Astro. I've been getting a bit of a re-write itch lately but I don't want it to be a distraction. Might need to wait until the end of the FastAI course...
Several interesting releases today/recently.
I finally found some time to run a more comprehensive evals of Connections with one guess at a time and using Python code to validate the guesses and give feedback. I ran about 100 puzzles with...
Some interesting commentary on the behaviors of founders, managers and leaders written by Rands.
There have been a number of small-in-scope, but tough problems that I've run into that models haven't been able crack as l've presented them via prompting. Usually, these are problems with a few...
I'm making another, more thorough pass of course.fast.ai, including all notebooks and videos and this time I am going to focus more on the projects. I'll also be logging a lot more notes as doing so...
A nice writeup by Eugene on building a simple data viewer webapp with a few different framworks. I am going to need to try out including llm-ctx.txt next time I write FastHTML to see if it helps make...