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Mark Techson @marktechson.com · 3d

My watch keeps telling me that I'm showing signs of stress.

Oh really? Tell me something I don't know mf

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Mark Techson @marktechson.com · 4d

I can talk about both, and I am inclined to use the LLMs version (as long I write NON-SKIPPED tests).

This didn't make me faster in the short term, but I'm thinking about how it'll make the total process of landing this change faster.

I wish I was streaming so I could have chatted about this live!

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Mark Techson @marktechson.com · 4d

in both its suggestion AND mine.

Then things started to click! I noticed the subtle changes to the code and then I thought about what a reviewer of my PR might think seeing the changes. Which could I confidently discuss with a human? Well, after going through the steps of actually investigating

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Mark Techson @marktechson.com · 4d

than I thought for my approach and I didn't agree. So I started a conversation with the LLM to get to the bottom of why my approach wasn't better. (This isn't a me vs LLM thing)

The explanations it gave were good, but I couldn't visualize the difference. So I asked it to layout the code changes

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Mark Techson @marktechson.com · 4d

I've been thinking a lot about meaningful and thoughtful ways to leverage AI in my own engineering work. Today I actually had a chance to put it to the test.

I wanted to add some optional properties to an interface and asked the LLM what it thought I should do. It suggested a different outcome

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Mark Techson @marktechson.com · 4d

Lol 🤣

Radical candor

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Mark Techson @marktechson.com · 4d

😂😂😂

I saw this on Bob's Burgers

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Mark Techson @marktechson.com · 5d

I have sleep apnea and sleep fartnea

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Mark Techson @marktechson.com · 5d

That's how I feel about my Reverend! Something about the feel makes me want to play it.

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