Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 05/07/2026I’ve asked each member of my group how and if they use LLM and shared how I do it. I want to make sure they’re learning, but a bit like hazing, I’m not really convinced there’s merit in suffering (=spending a day translating old code to new languages, grinding away at arbitrary rules). 120 2
Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 05/07/2026My PhD advisor was convinced I needed to learn F77 first because that’s how the CCM I was using at the time was written, and how he’d learned after punchcards (that was the real “true coding”), and that F90 was cheating. Now I have PTSD about the words “GO TO” as a result. 260 6
Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 05/07/2026When the dust will have settled, I think it will be easy to recognize what these tools are good at and what they’re bad at. And this isn’t even touching on the potential to avoid needless bureaucracy - not all requests to write a report-out or a 2-pagers or a package or learning opportunities. 130 3
John Mashey @johnmashey.bsky.social · 05/07/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conside...en.wikipedia.orgConsidered harmful - Wikipedia 110 1