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Why are you obsessed with Pelicans? What’s your story?
I'm from the UK originally. On one of my first trips to California I was up on the cliffs in Marin County and a squadron flew by and I was amazed by them - and the Californians I was with were like "yeah, you see them all the time". Now I live in California and I still can't believe I get to see them here. They're absurd - they don't look like they should be able to fly at all. They're also incredibly pretty, especia…
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I'm in the camp of 'no good for existing'. I try to get ~1000 line files refactored to use different libraries, design paradigms, etc and it usually outputs garbage - pulling db logic into the UI, grabbing unrelated api/function calls, to entirely just corrupting the output. I'm sure there is a way to correctly use this tool, so I'm feeling like I'm "just holding it wrong".
I'll back this up. I feel constantly gaslit by people who claim they get good output. I was hacking on a new project and wanted to see if LLMs could write some of it. So I picked an LLM friendly language (python). I picked an LLM friendly DB setup (sqlalchemy and postgres). I used typing everywhere. I pre-made the DB tables and pydantic schema. I used an LLM-friendly framework (fastapi). I wrote a few example reposit…
It's possible I've published more of those than anyone else. I share links to Gists with transcripts of how I use the models all the time.
You can browse a lot of my collection here: https://simonwillison.net/search/?q=Gist&sort=date
Look for links that's at things like "transcript".