65 Lines of Markdown, a Claude Code Sensation
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#2With AI, it feels like deterministic outcomes are not valued as experience taught us it should.
The absence of means to measure outcomes of these prompt documents makes me feel like the profession is regressing further into cargo culting.
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#3Bro science is rampant in the AI world. Every new model that comes out is the best there ever was, every trick you can think of is the one that makes all the other users unsophisticated, "bro, you are still writing prompts as text? You have to put them into images so the AI can understand them visually as well as textually".
It isn't strange that this is the case, because you'd be equally hard pressed to compare developers at different companies. Great to have you on the team Paul, but wouldn't it be better if we had Harry instead? What if we just tell you to think before you code, would that make a difference?
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#4LLMs are the eternal September for software, in that the sort of people who couldn’t make it through a bootcamp can now be “programming thought leaders”. There’s no longer a reliable way to filter signal from noise.
Those 3000 early adopters who are bookmarking a trivial markdown file largely overlap with the sort of people who breathlessly announce that “the last six months of model development have changed everything!”, while simultaneously exhibiting little understanding of what has actually changed.
There’s utility in these tools, but 99% of the content creators in AI are one intellectual step above banging rocks together, and their judgement of progress is not to be trusted.
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#5These hopeful incantations are a kind of cargo cult… But when applied to programming, the wild thing is that the cult natives actually built the airports and the airplanes but they don’t know what makes them fly and where the cargo comes from.
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#6I know some people that would also benefit from these 65 lines of markdown. Even without using AI.
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#7With AI, it feels like deterministic outcomes are not valued as experience taught us it should. The absence of means to measure outcomes of these prompt documents makes me feel like the profession is regressing further into cargo culting.
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#8> But the original repository has almost 4,000 stars, and surely, 4,000 developers can’t be wrong?
This is such a negative messaging!
Let's check star history: https://www.star-history.com/#forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-s...
1. Between Jan 27th and Feb 3rd stars grew quickly to 3K, project was released at that time.
2. People star it to be on top of NEW changes, people wanted to learn more about what's coming - but it didn't come. Doesn't mean people are dumb.
3. If OP synthesized the Markdown into a single line: "Think before coding" - why did he went through this VS Code extension publishing? Why can't they just share learnings and tell the world, "Add 'Think before coding' before your prompt and Please try for yourself!"
PS: no I haven't starred this project, I didn't know about it. But I disagree with the authors "assumptions" about stars and correlating it to some kind of insight revelation
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#9All good advice in general. Could add others, like x-y problems etc.
This feels like a handbook for a senior engineer becoming a first level manager talking to junior devs. Which is exactly what it should be.
However, this will go horribly wrong if junior devs are thus “promoted “ to eng managers without having cut their teeth on real projects first. And that’s likely to happen. A lot.
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#10> But the original repository has almost 4,000 stars, and surely, 4,000 developers can’t be wrong? This is such a negative messaging! Let's check star history: https://www.star-history.com/#forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-s... 1. Between Jan 27th and Feb 3rd stars grew quickly to 3K, project was released at that time. 2. People star it to be on top of NEW changes, people wanted to learn more about what's coming - but it…
I just packaged the extension for the fun of it! And I do want people to try for themselves, that is the point. About people that are not dumb; surely many people are not dumb; many people are very smart indeed. But that does not prove there are no dumb or gullible people!