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Reply to my CEO on LLMs, the value of code, etc.

1 June 2025

I posted to our internal chat channel #continuous-learning this post by Itamar Turner-Trauring:

So I have a Take:

Imagine if LLM coding assistants had come out when programming required explicit manual memory management.

Prerequisites

gh installed
gh authenticated with gh auth login --scopes write:packages,delete:packages
If you already have gh installed and authenticated you can use refresh instead of login

Leaves

$ brew leaves --installed-on-request
actionlint
aws-iam-authenticator
babashka/brew/obb
bat
borkdude/brew/babashka
borkdude/brew/carve

I’ve noticed that there seems to be a new crop of “modern” knowledge sharing apps for teams and I just wanted to start keeping a list. I have not tried all of these.

Some of my favorite resources on software design and development

As of May 2021

Articles, Essays, and Monographs

Local-first software by Martin Kleppmann, Adam Wiggins, Peter van Hardenberg, Mark McGranaghan
The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction by Jay Kreps
PHP: a fractal of bad design by Eevee
Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses by Geoffrey Litt & Peter van Hardenberg

	[
	// // Evaluate
	{"keys": ["ctrl+enter"],
	"command": "clojure_sublimed_eval",
	"context": [{"key": "selector", "operator": "equal", "operand": "source.clojure"}]},

	// // Evaluate Buffer
	{"keys": ["ctrl+b"],
	"command": "clojure_sublimed_eval_buffer",
	"context": [{"key": "selector", "operator": "equal", "operand": "source.clojure"}]},

	#!/usr/bin/env python3

	import fileinput


	def cleanup(line: str) -> str:
	return line.replace(" ", " ").replace('xml:space="preserve"', "")


	def __main__():

	curl -v https://gitpod.com/
	* Trying 45.79.154.83...
	* TCP_NODELAY set
	* Connected to gitpod.com (45.79.154.83) port 443 (#0)
	* ALPN, offering h2
	* ALPN, offering http/1.1
	* successfully set certificate verify locations:
	* CAfile: /etc/ssl/cert.pem
	CApath: none
	* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):

	# We could use a smaller/simpler image to download the package, but this is the same base image as
	# our ultimate image that we’re building, so we get to reuse the same cached layers.
	FROM debian:buster-slim AS builder

	WORKDIR /tmp/install

	RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -yq wget

	RUN wget --quiet \
	-O confluent-community.tar.gz \

	# An example of a GitHub Actions job that builds a Docker container image and then pushes
	# it to to the GitHub Packages container registry associated with the same repo, using
	# regular `docker` commands.

	# Change these to whatever you want, of course. For example, you might want to only run this workflow for
	# PRs. Personally I like to check the build on every push. That said, it’s probably not necessary to publish
	# an artifact (container image) for every single push; I’m personally planning to add an `if` to the push
	# step that skips the `docker push` if the GitHub event is `push`.
	name: Push
	on: