Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 📸📽️🎥 Saturday, 11 January, 2025
indisin@aussie.zone 1 year agoThose clicks require effort though and the dev in me would not be clicking anything.
But the dev and mentor in me is now desperately wanting to jump on a call with you to pair and so I’m closing this tab.
Baku@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Haha super kind of you, but don’t waste your lovely Saturday on helping me with my silly projects! If anything, this script is largely about helping me become more familiar and comfortable with command line tools and troubleshooting/debugging python scripts.
Eventually I’m sure the extra clicks may get annoying, or something will break in the current flow and the API is the last option, or whatever. When I do, I might very well post up here “hey @indisin you know that time 9 years ago on the 11th of January, 2025, at about 4am when you really wanted to help me with a dumb project? Your offer still stand” 😂
small tangent
I know using an LLM to write code isn’t exactly “learning” very much in the conventional sense, but honestly, I did try to actually learn python a few times, and it all just went over my head. But one of the most helpful things about ChatGPT is that, at least for now before it fully enshitifies, I can ask it as many questions as I like. I can ask it do something I’d never have any clue how to do myself, then ask it why it did specific things specific ways, what would happen if X was changed to y, or why z thing needs to be an xy position in the code. A real person would’ve blocked me a long, long time ago 😆
indisin@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Always keep learning. Learning by doing and making your own mistakes in this space is more valuable than stating a degree on a CV in my opinion.
In 9 years I know that I wont get that message, and instead it will be “hey @indisin, I saw what you were thinking 9 years ago and here’s how I made it better and now I’m gonna show off and school you”.
On LLMs: I have absolutely no challenge on using them for your use case, you just need to remember they can’t have an original thought, which is something you don’t need today. If you end up pursuing this as a career though know that the money is stupid, the days are easy, and you must (absolutely must) learn UML basics to communicate effectively. Also knowing your gang of 4 will simplify your cognitive load and implementations and then domain driven design will help how you think about problems. Also, raspberry pis are perfect toys for playgrounds. All very easy money, where you can work anywhere in the world.
I’m leaving that there as we’re at the point of a call otherwise I’ll start replying as thesis levels of word count text haha.
Good luck though and most importantly have fun!