Yucel Evrimer 🇪🇺💙 @youeee

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Yucel Evrimer 🇪🇺💙 @youeee

9 months ago

@CitizenUddin Red marks on their plates as well

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Coming up this week on Coffee & OSS I will be chatting with @david_whitney about all sorts of #tech and #opensource topics. Streaming live on #Twitch this Tuesday April 29th at 11:00 AM PDT. Come say hello and join the conversation. coffeeandopensource.com/schedule.html

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Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg

a year ago

Even though I’m a much better Python than JavaScript developer, with AI assistance, I’ve been writing a lot of JavaScript code recently. AI-assisted coding, including vibe coding, is making specific programming languages less important, even though learning one is still helpful to make sure you understand the key concepts. This is helping many developers write code in languages we’re not familiar with, which lets us get code working in many more contexts! My background is in machine learning engineering and back-end development, but AI-assisted coding is making it easy for me to build front-end systems (the part of a website or app that users interact with) using JavaScript (JS) or TypeScript (TS), languages that I am weak in. Generative AI is making syntax less important, so we can all simultaneously be Python, JS, TS, C++, Java, and even Cobol developers. Perhaps one day, instead of being “Python developers" or “C++ developers,” many more of us will just be “developers”! But understanding the concepts behind different languages is still important. That’s why learning at least one language like Python still offers a great foundation for prompting LLMs to generate code in Python and other languages. If you move from one programming language to another that carries out similar tasks but with different syntax — say, from JS to TS, or C++ to Java, or Rust to Go — once you’ve learned the first set of concepts, you’ll know a lot of the concepts needed to prompt an LLM to code in the second language. (Although TensorFlow and PyTorch are not programming languages, learning the concepts of deep learning behind TensorFlow will also make it much easier to get an LLM to write PyTorch code for you, and vice versa!) In addition, you’ll be able to understand much of the generated code (perhaps with a little LLM assistance). Different programming languages reflect different views of how to organize computation, and understanding the concepts is still important. For example, someone who does not understand arrays, dictionaries, caches, and memory will be less effective at getting an LLM to write code in most languages. Similarly, a Python developer who moves toward doing more front-end programming with JS would benefit from learning the concepts behind front-end systems. For example, if you want an LLM to build a front end using the React framework, it will benefit you to understand how React breaks front ends into reusable UI components, and how it updates the DOM data structure that determines what web pages look like. This lets you prompt the LLM much more precisely, and helps you understand how to fix issues if something goes wrong. Similarly, if you want an LLM to help you write code in CUDA or ROCm, it helps to understand how GPUs organize compute and memory. Just as people who are fluent in multiple human languages can communicate more easily with other people, LLMs are making it easier for developers to build systems in multiple contexts. If you haven’t already done so, I encourage you to try having an LLM write some code in a language you’d like to learn but perhaps haven’t yet gotten around to, and see if it helps you get some new applications to work. [Original text: deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issu… ]

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Yucel Evrimer 🇪🇺💙 @youeee

2 years ago

@david_whitney YES!

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Yucel Evrimer 🇪🇺💙 @youeee

2 years ago

@CitizenUddin @EalingCouncil Madness

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Yucel Evrimer 🇪🇺💙 @youeee

2 years ago

Thankfully in the domain I work it is unlikely.

Rendle Has Left The Dumpster Fire @markrendle

2 years ago

@david_whitney Software is like medicine because sometimes when you do it wrong people die.

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Yucel Evrimer 🇪🇺💙 @youeee

2 years ago

@markrendle @dylanbeattie @quorralyne @ooobject @hannes_lowette That is far too awesome

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Yucel Evrimer 🇪🇺💙 @youeee

2 years ago

@JamesBenamor Do you think? Everything level? equalitytrust.org.uk/scale-economic…

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Yucel Evrimer 🇪🇺💙 @youeee

2 years ago

Looks awesome... How much?

David Whitney @david_whitney

2 years ago

@cainux Had to zoom out to fit it in

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David Whitney @david_whitney

2 years ago

@cainux Had to zoom out to fit it in

@CBikeLondon Ah darn... The world is strange. It's actually someone who should know better. However most lollipop people are probably not in the 20% tax bracket even....