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| | The personal blog of Nat Welch
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| | If we can't have a more truthful world, I think I would prefer more lies and fewer delusions on the margin. When the heroine of a dystopian YA novel uncovers the big lie at the center of her society, she wakes up tied to a chair in a dungeon, and ...
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| | The tail wagging the dog refers to a situation where small or unimportant things are controlling the larger or more important things. A common reason this occurs in software engineering is when you get too absorbed in solving some low level problem that you forgot the whole reason you were writing the code in the first place. LLMs are particularly susceptible to this problem. The problem is that in the most common chat modality, everything LLM does is put into the context. While the LLM has some capability of understanding what is more or less important, if you put tons of irrelevant things in the context, it will become harder and harder for it to remember what it should be doing. Careful prompting at the beginning can help, as is good context hygiene. Clau...
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| Looking ahead to the future of programming that increasingly involves LLMs, it's becoming clear that the most important thing for software engineers to cultivate is taste. As I discuss in GenAI is not a silver bullet, training great software designers will continue to be the essential challenge o...