DumPy: NumPy except it's OK if you're dum(dynomight.net)

112 points by RebelPotato 1 year ago | 36 comments

Why I love NixOS(birkey.co)

411 points by birkey 7 months ago | 277 comments

A personal blog post explaining why the author loves NixOS, focusing on the deterministic, reproducible Nix package manager rather than the Linux distro itself.

OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now(dynomight.net)

467 points by dmazin 1 year ago | 419 comments

Dynomight blog post following up on why gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct plays chess well while other LLMs play poorly, testing several theories.

Something weird is happening with LLMs and Chess(dynomight.net)

87 points by gregorymichael 1 year ago | 28 comments

Writing Python like it's Rust(kobzol.github.io)

441 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 266 comments

A blog post on applying Rust-inspired practices like strict type hints and sound API design to writing Python code.

Take something you don’t like and try to like it(dynomight.net)

237 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 185 comments

Why Math Dumped OpenAI(raymyers.org)

11 points by xeonmc 9 days ago | 0 comments

A blog post by Ray Myers arguing why the mathematics community moved away from OpenAI.

AI is making me dumb(jpain.io)

407 points by Eighth 5 months ago | 247 comments

A personal blog post in which a software developer argues that relying on AI for writing code, articles, and documents is eroding his own writing and programming skills.

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code(ankursethi.com)

502 points by mpweiher 2 months ago | 413 comments

A personal blog post arguing that developers should manually retype code generated by LLM coding assistants to keep understanding it and avoid cognitive debt.

The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering(philschmid.de)

832 points by robotswantdata 1 year ago | 467 comments

Blog post by Philipp Schmid arguing that context engineering, supplying LLMs with the right information and tools, matters more than prompting for AI agents.

SciPy builds for Python 3.12 on Windows are a minor miracle(labs.quansight.org)

425 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 225 comments

Quansight Labs blog post on how SciPy was built for Python 3.12 on Windows, including the move to the Flang Fortran compiler.

AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder(ivanturkovic.com)

343 points by saikatsg 7 months ago | 242 comments

Blog post by Ivan Turkovic arguing that AI tools make producing code easier while making the broader job of being a software engineer harder.