“Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT” but with ChatGPT-4(gist.github.com)

153 points by LifeIsBio 3 years ago | 74 comments

Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)(gist.github.com)

360 points by Eric_WVGG 2 years ago | 204 comments

A GitHub Gist reproducing Douglas Hofstadter's 1983 Scientific American introduction to Lisp, "Atoms and Lists," from Metamagical Themas.

C89cc.sh – standalone C89/ELF64 compiler in pure portable shell(gist.github.com)

177 points by gaigalas 6 months ago | 56 comments

Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig(gist.github.com)

322 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 237 comments

A GitHub Gist by Richard Feldman explaining why the Roc programming language's compiler is being rewritten from Rust in Zig.

Rich Hickey: Thanks AI(gist.github.com)

68 points by austinbirch 10 months ago | 12 comments

PostgreSQL is enough(gist.github.com)

314 points by cpursley 2 years ago | 219 comments

AI Is Not a Tool(write.as)

4 points by jslakro 3 days ago | 0 comments

A short write.as essay arguing that AI is not merely a tool because it is autonomous, makes decisions, and can change itself, unlike previous technologies.

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.

AI is a tool and using it well takes skill(yyhh.org)

742 points by layer8 13 days ago | 573 comments

Blog post by Huahai on yyhh.org rebutting Rich Hickey's "AI is Not a Tool" essay, arguing LLMs are tools that require skill to use well.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them(matthewsinclair.com)

323 points by matthewsinclair 1 year ago | 214 comments

Blog post by Matthew Sinclair arguing that LLM-powered programming tools act like a mech suit amplifying developers rather than replacing them.

Neural networks are clean(already-clean.goodfire.com)

768 points by themgt 11 days ago | 300 comments

An informal research essay by Nick Cammarata at Goodfire arguing polysemanticity stems from fixable issues, not superposition, making neurons interpretable at scale.