Marcus has more experience with such than I have. But my take is that I've
always regarded reading code as more important than writing code. And debugging
is more important still. So the impact of LLMs on coding *can be* fantastic ...
not that it will be or always is, but can be.
On 4/29/25 9:35 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Hey, there, Glen. Them are some tall metaphors!
I have from a friend some inkling about the way in which llm's have affected software writing (as opposed tothe regular kind). But only an inkling. Could you say more?
Nick
On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM Marcus Daniels <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I know. If small green bipedal creatures landed on earth and started
tending to yardwork would that also be a disappointment? ____
They’ve failed to trim my tall hedge, so curse them!____
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*From:*Friam <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
*On Behalf Of *Nicholas Thompson
*Sent:* Monday, April 28, 2025 9:44 AM
*To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
*Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] The comparative thickness of the tropospheree____
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Hi Marcus,____
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I find that George's indulgence with bad metaphor very useful. ____
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I also find amazing his ability to grasp the gist of what I am asking. I
have essential tremor and a bad keyboard and still George almost always gets
the message. Siri will take any opportunity to misunderstand. ____
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In this case, it was I, not George, who was cranking out the sloppy
metaphors, trying to find a way to convey just how thin the atmosphere is. I
was hoping Saran wrap thin, but that appears to be an order of magnitude too
far. ____
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Am I reading this wrong? people often talk about LLM's as if they are
/disappointed/ in them, as if there is something they SHOULD do that they
aren't doing. Do you have any idea what the disappointment might be?: What is
the world hankering for that they don't provide?____
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Nick____
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On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM Marcus Daniels <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:____
I wonder if the George makers 1) realized that people have an affinity
to iffy analogies and they should give the people what they want, or 2) the LLM
was prone to generating them so they just made it a feature?____
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*From:*Friam <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> *On Behalf Of *Nicholas Thompson
*Sent:* Sunday, April 27, 2025 8:12 PM
*To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
*Subject:* [FRIAM] The comparative thickness of the tropospheree____
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George and I were looking for intuition pumps to help a reader imagine
how very thin the troposphere is. Here is what we came up with:____
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