Started thinking of how communication is a similar exercise to programming architecture. I seek to make my emails self contained and decoupled. The more context you need the less testable it is. Each person should have responsibilities that allow them to process your message independently.

I’m cooked

It’s not like talking to a person. I guess that’s obvious, but we give it character nonetheless.

It’s more like talking to a mirror of the sum of humanity.

Not an unusual perspective, but worth repeating

That’s all. It’s for the developer. It’s for you, the fanatic.

My wish for 2024 was mostly granted. I think LLMs are just good enough to warrant a lot of use. Part of me wonders if I’m trading off my brain, but it’s just so much help.

everyone knows that markdown is the best and I might have added support for markdown to the musings section. You’d be none the

wiser.

I could have written it myself! (the main problem I have with LLMs)

I never knew this… apparently Oracle introduced Javascript support within the last year. And not just within Oracle DB but within MySQL, too.

Stored procedures with Javascript?
https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/post/introduction-javascript-oracle-database-23c-free-developer-release

SQL is wild. That’s all. SQL admins were given a very unique and sometimes limiting toolset and they use that toolset to the extreme and sometimes absurd edge.

I went through a phase with LLMs (as I think most did) in 2023. What’s funny is that as the year progressed, I started to see the limitations and blindspots of AI companions more and more. To the point that I started to write my own code primarily, again.

In fact, what I find them most useful for is to simply automate the boring stuff (looking at you, mapping). My hope for 2024 is some sort of breakthrough for programming with LLMs where they gain some killer functionality. 10x programmer?