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Yes, there is a middle ground. Elixir's Ecto does this well. Database rows map to structs. But it doesn't try to figure out how to mutate the data for you to keep the struct in syn…

This reminds me of the recent Claude Imagine, which passed quietly through most people's radars, but let you create web interfaces of any kind on the fly. There was no JS code gene…

I agree, prototyping seems like a great use-case.

These seem like a lot of great ways to work around the limitations of LLMs. But I'm curious what people here think. Do any career software engineers here see more than a 10% boost …

I have a pet theory that LLMs being confused about what they just wrote is why they use so many em dashes. It's a good way to conceptually pivot at any point -- or not.

Elixir handles all of this pretty well, for example differentiating between Date, Time, NaiveDateTime (a date and time), and DateTime (a date and time in a particular timezone). Th…

I have personally no interest in the actual debate the two were engaged in.

Ha, I'm certainly not expecting my writing to change human nature! I feel more like David Attenborough or something, watching nature from the outside and commenting on things for t…

I pointed out in the article that this is the system working as intended. Getting a meeting with a VC is not the same thing as getting an investment. And if you're getting thousand…

This is a strange response for someone demanding generosity and charity from others.

Thank you!