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Re:Understand how transformers work by demystifying all the ... by quickthrower2 on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @04:44PM (#38860335)
Transformer tutorials might be the new monad tutorial. A hard concept to get, but one you need to struggle with (and practice some examples) to understand. So a bit like much of computer science :-).
Re:Understand how transformers work by demystifying all the ... by amelius on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @05:18PM (#38860633)
Waiting for a blogpost titled "You could have invented transformers".
Re:Understand how transformers work by demystifying all the ... by hdhfjkrkrme on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @04:54PM (#38860430)
The moment you understand the Transformer you become incapable of explaining it.
Re:Understand how transformers work by demystifying all the ... by csdvrx on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @05:22PM (#38860675)
> Transformer tutorials might be the new monad tutorial. A hard concept to get,

A hard concept?

But a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, so what's the problem?