Stories by dboreham
Something of a common problem in JS/TS-land, I've found is that unit tests are expected to be run in a Node.js process. In the past in various projects this approach proved problematic because "environment parity" with the target runtime (browser) couldn't be achieved (e.g. ...
Lifelong AI skeptic now turned LLM proponent here. I'm almost in the Adrian Cockroft/Joe Magerramov camp: for me today's LLMs are by far the most productivity-increasing tool for software development since the compiler. Yes I'm so old that I remember making software without a com...
Occam and golang share a common ancestry for their approach to concurrency, in CSP.
So I've long wondered whether Occam could be successfully translated into golang.<p>I began this project: <a href="https://github.com/codeassociates/occam2go" rel="nofollow">https://...
Investigating a report from someone in the office today I found their browser displaying one of those full screen "Your computer has been hacked, call this phone number" pages. Not too surprising: I clicked the exit full screen button. But when I looked at the URL it appeared to be a legit...
This repo is the result of a debate about what kind of programming language might be appropriate if humans are no longer the primary authors. Initially the thought was "LLMs can just generate binaries directly" (this was before a more famous person had the same idea). But that on reflectio...