Harper Reed gives a nice overview for how he is using LLMs to write software. I like his simple breakdown of using successive steps to (1) brainstorm, (2) plan, and (3) execute. Execute is where I still am learning. Right now my process pretty much just looks like copying pasting a lot of code between my IDE and Gemini.

I like his overall take on the current optimism and skepticism surrounding LLMs in general:

A lot of my friends are like “fuck LLMs. They are terrible at everything.” I don’t mind this POV. I don’t share it, but I think it is important to be skeptical. There are an awful lot of reasons to hate AI. My main fear is about power consumption and the environmental impact. But… the code must flow. Right… sigh.
If you are open to learning more, but don’t want to dig in and become a cyborg programmer - my recommendation is not to change your opinion, but to read Ethan Mollick’s book about LLMs and how they can be used: Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI.

Book purchased. Look forward to reading!

Found via Harper. A lovely little tool that takes your code repository and packages it into an AI-friendly file that you can use with your favorite codegen agent. There’s a dead-simple web UI that you can just point your Github repository at. Or, you can install locally to use in your terminal with more options.

A fun little webpage that provides a live estimate of chances that 2024 YR asteroid makes contact with Earth. Today the chance is 1 in 279 (I’ve seen it go as high as 1 in 47).

I think Matt Webb summarizes this perfectly:

It’s true, it is somehow comforting to contemplate the potential of the end of the world that at least isn’t my fault. It doesn’t make me feel like I’m complicit by not recycling a plastic bottle that one time or whatever. Like phew, I get to wallow in a guilt-free imminently immanentised eschaton.

Anil Dash in his post The Web Renaissance takes off

And I should never have underestimated the passion and resilience of the people who create the good internet, those who never stopped making things just for the love of the medium.

This captures so perfectly this unexplainable draw I’ve felt recently to resurrect a personal site. It’s not for traffic, eyeballs, money. Truthfully, I deeply regret not having made a personal site a ongoing committment. But here we are.