[hshdhdhehd]

There is a lot of stuff I should do. From making my own CPU from a breadboard of nand gates to building a CDN in Rust. But aint got time for all the things.

That said I built an LLM following Karpathy's tutorial. So I think it aims good to dabble a bit.

[coffeecoders]

Yeah, it’s a never-ending curve.

I built an 8-bit computer on breadboards once, then went down the rabbit hole of flight training for a PPL. Every time I think I’m "done," the finish line moves a few miles further.

Guess we nerds are never happy.

[javchz]

One should be melting sand to get silicon, anything else it's too abstract to my taste.

[krsdcbl]

Given the premise, one could also say we nerds are forever happy.

[ericmcer]

Seriously I feel like it's self-sabotage sometimes at work. Just fixing the thing getting tests to pass isn't enough. Until I fully have a mental model of what is happening I can't move on.

[qwertygnu]

Very early in TFA it explains how easy it is to do. That's the whole point of the post.

[z2]

It's good to go through the exercise, but agents are easy until you build a whole application using an API endpoint that OpenAI or LangChain decides to yank, and you spend the next week on a mini migration project. I don't disagree with the claim that MCP is reinventing the wheel but sometimes I'm happy plugging my tools and data into someone else's platform because they are spending orders of magnitudes more time than me doing the janitor work to keep up with whatever's trendy.

[efitz]

Non sequitur.

If you are a software engineer, you are going to be expected to use AI in some form in the near future. A lot of AI in its current form is not intuitive. Ergo, spending a small effort on building an AI agent is a good way to develop the skills and intuition needed to be successful in some way.

Nobody is going to use a CPU you build, nor are you ever going to be expected to build one in the course of your work if you don’t seek out specific positions, nor is there much non-intuitive about commonly used CPU functionality, and in fact you don’t even use the CPU directly, you use translation software whit itself is fairly non-intuitive. But that’s ok too, you are unlikely to be asked to build a compiler unless you seek out those sorts of jobs.

EVERYONE involved in writing applications and services is going to use AI in the near future and in case you missed the last year, everyone IS building stuff with AI, mostly chat assistants that mostly suck because, much about building with AI is not intuitive.