A Journal Through My Activities, Thoughts, and Notes
#网摘 Simon Willison My obituary for programming
Jeremy Scheff poignantly captures the key loss caused by coding agents for career programmers who enjoyed the puzzle of developing code:
> Programming turned into one of the greatest jobs you could imagine. You got paid to work on tricky little logic puzzles. The trickier the puzzle, the more you got paid. But even pretty simple puzzles were worth a lot of money because regular people just couldn't do it! No, they needed us. They would give us a problem and we would solve it the way we wanted. We set the strategy, we made the timeline, we defined what was and was not possible.
If you're a programmer who thrives on building working systems and doesn't care too deeply about the problems solved along the way, LLMs are the gift that keeps on giving.
If solving those many problems were a big part of your enjoyment, the loss is very real.
Via lobste.rs
Jeremy Scheff poignantly captures the key loss caused by coding agents for career programmers who enjoyed the puzzle of developing code:
> Programming turned into one of the greatest jobs you could imagine. You got paid to work on tricky little logic puzzles. The trickier the puzzle, the more you got paid. But even pretty simple puzzles were worth a lot of money because regular people just couldn't do it! No, they needed us. They would give us a problem and we would solve it the way we wanted. We set the strategy, we made the timeline, we defined what was and was not possible.
If you're a programmer who thrives on building working systems and doesn't care too deeply about the problems solved along the way, LLMs are the gift that keeps on giving.
If solving those many problems were a big part of your enjoyment, the loss is very real.
Via lobste.rs
我们成了不踢球的足球运动员 - 虽然人们还管我们叫足球运动员。我们其实是裁判。我们口水四溅,指手划脚。我们让水平不一的agents替我们踢。我们不知道我们的“裁判”生涯其实很短暂。我们只是快意当下。我们不得不快意当下。
#网友语录 菠萝切盘 终于看了传说中的《人生七年》因为最近七十岁的这集更新了。14个英国小孩从7岁跟踪到70岁,大部分人都没有“跨越阶层”,而且感觉大家的个人经验体悟基本只是环境的反映,虽然人有主观能动性,但是自己天生的个性那和周边社会、伴侣、家庭构成的环境互动的总和,基本就成了命运本身。
(改变命运总是伴随着刻意努力,而刻意努力是一件很稀缺的事情。大部分刻意努力短时间里都没有什么回报。就连打游戏,也需要非常刻意的努力才能打得好--这个倒是较快就有回报--虽然长远来看,这个回报可能并不积极--只是让你更上瘾的打游戏。
(改变命运总是伴随着刻意努力,而刻意努力是一件很稀缺的事情。大部分刻意努力短时间里都没有什么回报。就连打游戏,也需要非常刻意的努力才能打得好--这个倒是较快就有回报--虽然长远来看,这个回报可能并不积极--只是让你更上瘾的打游戏。
上班。同事问,anything exciting about your weekend?“Nothing special.”
但现在盘点一下,其实还是有“亮点”的。mat cloud在测试环境里已经全面调通了,也许下周就能上架销售。我的一人公司的GST Return也赶在deadline之前递交了。购物买到了自己爱吃的零食。育得菜苗子也一天一个样儿的显摆自己的生命力。
生活还是很美好的。图为早上的海格力公园的一条边。
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但现在盘点一下,其实还是有“亮点”的。mat cloud在测试环境里已经全面调通了,也许下周就能上架销售。我的一人公司的GST Return也赶在deadline之前递交了。购物买到了自己爱吃的零食。育得菜苗子也一天一个样儿的显摆自己的生命力。
生活还是很美好的。图为早上的海格力公园的一条边。
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#网友语录 郝靠谱 时不时回顾过去的笔记和饭否,最大的感慨就是——人要活在当下。保持此时此刻的“在场感”,注意力放到现在,相信自己此刻的选择就是最好的选择。如果总是把想法 focus 在“要是当时 xxxx 就好了”“等以后 xxxx我要如何如何”,那人生中的每一个当下都是被错过的。
我对agent memory的各种奇技淫巧不感兴趣,不管一个项目有多少个星。项目最新的代码是第一手的无可辩驳的真相。memory是二手的,有错误,并且容量不可控制的。我才舍不得把宝贵的上下文资源用到memory上。
不过话说回来,也是因为上下文资源宝贵,我才要求harness在200多k就主动压缩上下文。在我看来,好的宪法+小上下文(400k以下)是当下最好的方案。
不过话说回来,也是因为上下文资源宝贵,我才要求harness在200多k就主动压缩上下文。在我看来,好的宪法+小上下文(400k以下)是当下最好的方案。