Kris Brandow

I mean, as someone that writes a lot of prose and has a degree in writing prose, I just...

I mean, as someone that writes a lot of prose and has a degree in writing prose, I just...

it's it's it's kind of like saying we should get rid of all of mathematical notation and just write all math problems with prose it's like there's a reason we came up with mathematical notation right it's much more precise and it's much more like you know you can easily find a mistake and it's not like oh i misunderstood the context of this word it's like no we have these symbols these symbols mean specific things like i i

it's it's it's kind of like saying we should get rid of all of mathematical notation and just write all math problems with prose it's like there's a reason we came up with mathematical notation right it's much more precise and it's much more like you know you can easily find a mistake and it's not like oh i misunderstood the context of this word it's like no we have these symbols these symbols mean specific things like i i

I find it interesting that people are so quick to kind of buy into the idea that, oh, we'll just replace all of coding with writing prose, but they're not saying let's replace all of math notation with prose, right? Like that's just not something I'm seeing anybody really talk about or anybody really suggest, even though these are two basically equivalent things.

I find it interesting that people are so quick to kind of buy into the idea that, oh, we'll just replace all of coding with writing prose, but they're not saying let's replace all of math notation with prose, right? Like that's just not something I'm seeing anybody really talk about or anybody really suggest, even though these are two basically equivalent things.

In fact, you could say there's more reason to replace math with prose since math is just a language and we're kind of replacing languages with languages.

In fact, you could say there's more reason to replace math with prose since math is just a language and we're kind of replacing languages with languages.

Whereas like to some degree there's a machine readable element of this, you know, there's a machine readable element of coding of programming languages because they are an unambiguous, whereas some math equations can be ambiguous if you're not careful. So they're much more closer to natural languages, I think, than they are to programming languages.

Whereas like to some degree there's a machine readable element of this, you know, there's a machine readable element of coding of programming languages because they are an unambiguous, whereas some math equations can be ambiguous if you're not careful. So they're much more closer to natural languages, I think, than they are to programming languages.

But I think it's because a lot of us feel like we're writing a natural language when writing code that we get tripped up by this idea and it becomes very alluring.

But I think it's because a lot of us feel like we're writing a natural language when writing code that we get tripped up by this idea and it becomes very alluring.

I think anything that gets us to write more docs is good. I think at the top of my head I want to say, sure, seven actions, the actions seem pretty good. I'd say try it. I'd say try as many different things as we possibly can at this point. I think my biggest gripe right now is just how few docs we have, how little documentation so many things have.

I think anything that gets us to write more docs is good. I think at the top of my head I want to say, sure, seven actions, the actions seem pretty good. I'd say try it. I'd say try as many different things as we possibly can at this point. I think my biggest gripe right now is just how few docs we have, how little documentation so many things have.

But if there was a way, I think there was a specialty. What was it? There was one that was the discover and learn steps. I am very frustrated often at... libraries that I want to go in and understand.

But if there was a way, I think there was a specialty. What was it? There was one that was the discover and learn steps. I am very frustrated often at... libraries that I want to go in and understand.

And there's no like, oh, like, start looking here or like, here's the basic architecture that you can then use to understand how this code base is laid out so you can go read the code and understand how we've implemented all of these things. That documentation is almost always completely missing.

And there's no like, oh, like, start looking here or like, here's the basic architecture that you can then use to understand how this code base is laid out so you can go read the code and understand how we've implemented all of these things. That documentation is almost always completely missing.

So anything that gets us closer to having that documentation and having a way for people to actually go in and learn more about a code base, I am fully in favor of. Anything that gives us troubleshooting or FAQs, anything like that also, definitely I'd like to see more of that.

So anything that gets us closer to having that documentation and having a way for people to actually go in and learn more about a code base, I am fully in favor of. Anything that gives us troubleshooting or FAQs, anything like that also, definitely I'd like to see more of that.