Which I can totally understand, but I would like to spend more time with my family and less time writing code.

This also allows me to iterate faster and identify useful ideas That justify deeper effort.

Yeah, that’s always a risk, but as you said, humans make mistakes too. And if you change your approach to software development by writing more tests and using strict interfaces or type annotations, etc., it is pretty reliable and definitely saves time.

They can also be really good for quickly writing code if you line up a whole bunch of tests and line up all the types and then copy and paste that a few times, maybe with a macro in Vim.

The LLM will fill in the middle correctly, like 90% of the time. Compare it in git, make sure the tests pass, and then that’s an extra 20 minutes I get to spend with my wife and kids.

It would be on the order of aN intensive video game, maybe. Depends on the size of the model, etc.

Training is definitely expensive but you are right in that it’s a one-time cost.

Overall, the challenge is that it’s very inefficient. To use a machine learning algorithm to do something that could be implemented deductively is not ideal (On the other hand, if it saves human effort…)

To a degree, trained models can also be retrained on newer data (eg freezing layers, LoRa, GaLore, Hypernetworks etc). Also newer data can be injected into a prompt to make sure that the responses are aligned with newer versions of software, for example.

The electricity consumption is a concern, but it’s probably not going to be the end of the world.

Yeah but wine helps lol

What’s your desktop environment? I’m pretty sure hyperland and sway will give a json output of open Windows.

You could parse that with jq and pipe it into fzf or dmenu?

Not quite the same as the clicking but probably just as quick.

I’ve always had an easier time jumping into an oop code base, then eg a lisp one.

I hear people when they say they don’t want their data mixed in with their logic but The pressure to structure code Is very nice.