Week 15, year 2023
- An example of LLM prompting for programming - A couple of weeks ago I watched a fascinating Zoom call hosted by Xu Hao, Thoughtworks's Head of Technology in China. He showed an example of how he uses ChatGPT to help him code in a self-testing style. His initial prompt primes the LLM with an implementation strategy (chain of thought prompting). His prompt also asks for an implementation plan rather than code (general knowledge prompting). Once he has the plan he uses it to refine the implementation and generate useful sections of code. [Martin Fowler]
- Postgres Superpowers in Practice - Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman! I have such a thought quite often while working with Postgres. Why? Let’s say… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]
- Programming without a stack trace: When abstractions become illusions - As the complexity of our platforms increases, we keep looking for better abstractions. Cloud compilers might help, but only if they include one key feature: the stack trace [The Architect Elevator]