Except not everything was properly documented, and it turned out the employee had given admin rights on some resources to a contractor which proceeded to wreak havoc on their behalf (the 'rm -rf' kind). Eh!

Would you say calculators rot brains?

Did the invention of writing rot the brain?

The skill is in making the LLMs reliably generate useful and pertinent streams of tokens. That takes work, reading the output, intuition, experience, rigor, real commitment to doing good work, not fall prey to being lazy, etc.

Just yesterday I was interviewing for a very interesting job and I completely flunked the coding question in an unacceptable way for my level of experience. The question was easy, I just couldn't get past some syntactic issues. For 8 months, Claude wrote all of my Python classes and Pydantic types. Now I had to write a dataclass, and because I always just resorted to standard classes before the advent of LLMs, I stumbled. And froze. And panicked. And that was it. Of course you could say I should have just scrapped the dataclass and written it as a simple class. The point is I felt very, very stupid. LLMs suddenly felt like a huge disadvantage.

All this to say I disagree with LLMs "rotting" my brain. Quite the opposite, I know that it's possible to use LLMs to be efficient and correct. It's more the actual mechanical act of writing that gets rusty.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No unless very strong client commitment.

Technologies: Python, JavaScript, Scheme, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, compilers, interpreters, foreign function interfaces, FastAPI, Flask, Celery, RabbitMQ, Redis, Pydantic, SQLModel, technical strategy, team management (6+ devs + interns), SDLC best practices, etc

Résumé/CV: Sent by email

Email: See profile!

I have about 14 years of experience working in various roles and industries, from healthcare to education to finance. My last role was CTO of a FinTech that I brought from zero to one, architecting and implementing all of the tech stack from compliance down to distributed locking while managing a team of 6 developers.

I am looking for interesting problems and a good team. I strongly believe that good, thoughtful work pays dividends when things break or need to move fast. Boring, proven tech before shiny new thing. Sleeping at night is priceless.

Contact me, let's talk :)

We don't want to break the current experience but we need to do a better job of explaining what our software can do.

I appreciate your comments!

It really is a joy to program with, but we're struggling a bit to communicate everything it can do. We are working hard on that front and should have a landing page and better explanatory material soon. We're very interested in feedback. If anybody wants to learn more, just contact me through the email in my profile.

Cheers!

It's a fully client-side Python IDE with single-stepping, a virtual (non-hierarchical) filesystem, an FFI to call JS code and a few other things (see the docs). Sharing apps in CodeBoot is trivial: right-click the "play" button and copy a shareable URL. I have helped people solve data wrangling problems using CodeBoot and they now have their little app bookmarked. It works really well.

I could go on for a while. AMA if you're interested. We're actively working on it and some great new features are on the way!

Pr. Marc Feeley's lab develops codeBoot [2], an online IDE to teach students programming (and more!). We created BLINX as a hardware platform for students to go along with our IDE. The device acts as a data collector for various Grove sensors and publishes the data as an HTTP endpoint. You can program it directly from codeBoot.

BTW if anybody has any questions feel free to reach out!

[1]: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blinxinc (working on a landing page)

[2]: https://codeboot.org (also working on a landing page)

I understand your comment was tongue-in-cheek, but we certainly have an interest in cross-language interoperability! You can check out our work here:

- https://try.gambitscheme.org is Gambit compiled to JavaScript with the universal backend. Evaluate \alert("hello!") at the REPL to see the JS<->Scheme Syntactic FFI in action.

- https://codeboot.org is our own Python interpreter running in the browser. It has a Python<->JS FFI. Evaluate \alert("hello!") at the REPL to test it out. You can even import JS libraries using the standard Python syntax by replacing the identifier with a string: import "https://mycdn.com/mylibrary.js".

- https://github.com/gambit/python is a Gambit module that integrates Gambit with CPython, using the same syntactic FFI. You can import PyPI modules from Gambit.

References to conferences/papers describing these features can be found on my GH profile (https://github.com/belmarca). AMA if you wish!

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Scheme, JavaScript, C, Vagrant, Docker, Ansible, PostgreSQL, VueJS, AWS, OpenBSD, ESP32, DICOM, Healthcare, Compilers, Interpreters, Dynamic languages, Web, Full-stack, Backend, Web3, Blockchain, etc...

Resume: On request

Email: marc-andre (\dot) belanger (\at) umontreal (\dot) ca

The list of keywords is not in any particular order of importance or experience. My most recent (and current) experience is working on a full-stack Python/JS code base where we develop a web-based Python interpreter. Serious inquiries only please.

I have an uncannily similar physical and symptomatic profile. Do you experience anxiety? My symptoms were so intense and unpredictable that I developed anxiety from it. I had to learn to manage and distinguish both issues, which helped a ton. I never had any formal diagnostic as every doc basically says "everything's normal", but I now suspect a heightened stomach sensibility due to multiple COVID-19 infections coupled with a highly stressful period in my life. I haven't had COVID in a while now and my stress levels are much lower so symptoms are mostly gone.

I understand how debilitating and hellish it can be. I wish you all the best!

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Scheme, JavaScript, C, Vagrant, Docker, Ansible, PostgreSQL, VueJS, AWS Lambda, OpenBSD, ESP32, DICOM, Healthcare, Compiler, Interpreter, Web, Full-stack, Backend, etc...! Worked all over the stack.

Resume: On request

Email: See profile

Finishing an MSc in compilers, ideally looking for contract work to fund further studies. Keeping it short:

I work mostly in Python, JavaScript, Scheme and C. I have experience anywhere from building and maintaining full-stack web apps in the healthcare sector to working on research (but production-ready) Python and Scheme compilers or debugging WebSockets implementation issues using WireShark to web scraping to programming ESP32, etc. Working at all levels of abstraction, throughout the stack, is what I love about compilation. Fundamentals are universal. Do what you must.

Some buzzwords: Vagrant, Ansible, Docker, Lambda, Python, JavaScript, Scheme, C, VueJS, PostgreSQL, OpenBSD, etc...