Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: šøš½ļøš„ Saturday, 11 January, 2025
Baku@aussie.zone āØ3ā© āØweeksā© agoHaha super kind of you, but donāt 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 Iām 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 āhey @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 standā š
small tangent
I know using an LLM to write code isnāt exactly ālearningā 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 Iād 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 wouldāve blocked me a long, long time ago š
indisin@aussie.zone āØ3ā© āØweeksā© 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 āhey @indisin, I saw what you were thinking 9 years ago and hereās how I made it better and now Iām gonna show off and school youā.
On LLMs: I have absolutely no challenge on using them for your use case, you just need to remember they canāt have an original thought, which is something you donāt 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.
Iām leaving that there as weāre at the point of a call otherwise Iāll start replying as thesis levels of word count text haha.
Good luck though and most importantly have fun!