It was a funny moment where she was like "you have perfect pitch!" "What is perfect pitch?"

I guess it's a shame, I could've been a great musician if I was trained.

In any case, if you want to meet up online, my email is in my profile. You sound fun!

I know people in both camps. I have more respect for English speakers learning Dutch than for Dutch speakers learning English. Even though I respect both. But the simple truth is: there's a lot of incentive to learn English. There is not a lot of incentive to learn Dutch.

I remember that I wanted a visual step by step debugger for a visualization library [1]. I was lucky enough to find the library maintainer himself. He liked the idea, and within just 30 to 60 minutes we programmed a prototype in (this was around ChatGPT 3.5, so pure hand coding).

[1] https://github.com/pharo-graphics/Roassal

Most of my thoughts are things that other people have come up with as well. Aka it feels like I'm just predicting the next token based on the data that I already have.

It's only when I go to places such as "what if life at the speed of light is possible, what would that look like?" that I get to places I personally find somewhat novel. It's almost a different dimension for these guys of course since a million years can feel like 10 years to them. Yet, they're moving so fast, but time-wise they move so slow, maybe even too slow for us to understand that anything can be alive at that speed (I'm not claiming there's life at light speed by the way, I just think it's fun to imagine that there is).

For web apps, WebMCP is a way where you can make a frontend way more discoverable to an LLM rather than that it is going to read all your code. I sometimes create this in my apps at home and sometimes in my apps at work and it makes LLM assistants way more usable. It also helps if they can highlight certain things of a visual.

We humans can do this too on paper. We can point at something, we can highlight something with a marker. Why not give an LLM these capabilities as well?

Quite drastic to move away from a country for just this. Did you only do it for just this? Or was this simply one of the factors why you moved away?

In a high trust culture I get this. But what about if you're in a low trust culture with quite some "not so orderly behavior" (if you will).

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY96hTb8WgI

I feel this. When I first got to learn what a workspace was (in Eclipse, of all things), and I really drilled down into the English meaning of it (I'm Dutch), I thought about exactly what you're describing right now.

Personally, I use LLMs for a lot of things. Oftentimes, I'm a think out loud type of person so even having something that feels like a rubber duck, but more competent, is already amazing for me. And LLMs are a lot more competent than a rubber duck.

But especially sometimes I've noticed that LLMs can be unbelievably stupid. It recently happened a few times with Fable 5.1 as well. Ultimately, I think it comes down to that LLMs can't think broadly. In software development one can usually see this too. For example, a whole app might be built by an LLM and it didn't spend a single token thinking about security because the prompter is at the level of "build a dating app for dogs, make no mistakes". Now you have a dating app for dogs that is insecure.

Since I prompt for almost everything in my life to have an LLM as a sounding board, I'm usually not an expert either. I've noticed LLMs are amazing at "bulk search engine information aggregation" (or whatever you want to call it). So if I need something from the Dutch government, I can find it way more quickly. But oftentimes I've noticed that going for a walk and thinking about a particular thing I'm facing is a more effective way of finding a good solution.

Other times times they are not incredibly stupid, but can't form a strong opinion. This usually happens when I'm tackling a wicked problem [1]. When that's the case, prepare for LLMs to sway with you for every small change in your opinion that you ever will experience.

So I agree: drop in replacement for knowledge workers? No. Rigorous specification is usually needed yes. Though, the small win here is that it doesn't always need to be as rigorous as programming is and it can happen in natural language. It depends on the topic/problem being tackled.

I really like them as UX tools though. Amazing for interactive prototyping and requirements elicitation. And that also corresponds with what the author is saying. Though I find it a bit of a disservice saying "just 3". You know how hard requirements elicitation is? It became a whole lot easier thanks to LLMs (I might change this opinion in a year, haha, but this is the opinion I hold now).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem

Because if kids can go this far. Then how far could I go? How far could we all go?

Also: I'm having a blast, quite literally. Love raving while mathing, it's my new favorite hobby. Shout out to Nigel Good. Nigel sure know's what's good when EDM is considered.

[1] Having 100+ hours of good EDM tracks apparently motivates me a lot. There are papers that mention it's not the best for focus, but I've noticed that I don't do any math at all if I don't feel the warm synths that I love with my favorite playlists [3] (I take a lot of care in constructing them). I'm curious to see if this will keep up since I've only been going hard at it around late August.

[2] https://mathacademy.com/

[3] My main playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3BUgKCDAWvcDa28MVToIFM?si=...

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