mrbananagrabber

Honestly, you're right. I didn't listen to you and that's on me. And from now on, I'm going to tell you everything you need to know - no fudging, no white lies, no speculation, just the truth.

this is the way LLMs _should_ be used, as an assistant to create reliable, deterministic code. and honestly, they're fantastic when used this way. build the thing you need with the LLM, then put the LLM away.

but in practice, the current obsession with agents means people are creating applications that depend entirely on sending requests to LLMs for their core functionality. which means abandoning the whole idea of deterministic software in favor of just praying that all of the prompts you put around those API requests will lead to the right result.

I uh might be skewing that as I generally just use a lot of curse words with Claude by default

I've had to migrate to mostly Python for my work, and this is the thing I miss the absolute most from R (and how it works so seamlessly with the tidyverse)

I love the story of the Framingham Heart Study, it's one I've referenced a lot when I talk to people and organizations about how they might not have the data they need and how important data collection is.

renv and rocker have really addressed these issues for using R in production

https://rstudio.github.io/renv/index.html

https://rocker-project.org/images/