Tag: assisted programming

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: The 3 AI Use Cases: Gods, Interns, and Cogs

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/20/gods-interns-and-cogs/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The 3 AI Use Cases: Gods, Interns, and Cogs Feedly Summary: The 3 AI Use Cases: Gods, Interns, and Cogs Drew Breunig introduces an interesting new framework for categorizing use cases of modern AI: Gods refers to the autonomous, AGI stuff that’s still effectively science fiction. Interns…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: An LLM TDD loop

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/13/an-llm-tdd-loop/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: An LLM TDD loop Feedly Summary: An LLM TDD loop Super neat demo by David Winterbottom, who wrapped my LLM and files-to-prompt tools in a short Bash script that can be fed a file full of Python unit tests and an empty implementation file and will then…

  • Hacker News: Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/24/xkcd-1425-turns-ten-years-old-today/ Source: Hacker News Title: Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the evolution of tasks in software development with the advent of large language models (LLMs) and AI-assisted programming tools. It highlights the complexities of distinguishing between easy and…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: XKCD 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/24/xkcd-1425-turns-ten-years-old-today/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: XKCD 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today Feedly Summary: XKCD 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today One of the all-time great XKCDs. It’s amazing that “check whether the photo is of a bird" has gone from PhD-level to trivially easy to solve (with a vision…