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Adam Leventhal

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Appearances Over Time

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Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

I think the advice I would add is like, hey, now you've got the ability to pick up a new language, pick up a new system much more quickly than before.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

And you should use that as a way of getting into something.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Maybe you would have been intimidated by it.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

I mean, I do think that like, I mean, look, kernel development feels intimidating to people.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Lots of people don't pick up kernel development because they're intimidated by it.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

And if you view an LLM as like giving you the opportunity to jumpstart you in kernel development, go for it.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

That's great.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Like it, that, that's, that is, it's got a very robust basis.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

So hop in there and, you know, hop into, to a Lumos or, or something that you wouldn't do otherwise, maybe a database, what have you.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

And I, I,

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

use that LLM to get you jump started and to get you mastery over this thing.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Be like, that is kind of a bad question, but...

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Okay, this is why pair programming never really worked out for me is because you always have someone being like, you use, what?

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

You don't use Dvorak?

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Like, I thought, like, no, I don't use, or like, you're like, do you actually know that there's actually a faster key binding?

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

That's like, no, can we, aren't we like trying to work on this problem together?

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Like, why are you coming?

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Like, you don't use syntax anymore.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

highlighting what am i even here for you know it's like okay we're just now having fights over things and you know it's just like we don't you know you don't have those those the l unfortunately i don't think the lm maybe i'm a little maybe i should confide to claude code that like by the way i don't use syntax highlighting what do you what do you think about that let's see what it's uh um but yeah it's it's free of judgment which is really terrific

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Well, thank you all.