easy to underappreciate the value of good abstractions and reliable infrastructure
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The Permanent Nature of Saved Code Work
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Something that made a large impression on me when I started coding — each day when you're done working, you just save your work & it's there forever. Very unlike building something physical where your artifact can break, or math where daily progress is usually your mental state.
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Real-life problems GPT-4 solves for everyday people
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Reddit thread on real-life problems people needed GPT-4 to solve, e.g. parents using it to translate an emotional letter into a clear one explaining to a school their child was being bullied: https://
reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comme
nts/182zkdl/whats_the_hardest_real_life_problem_you_have/
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Finally Understanding Previously Inscrutable Code
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that feeling when you finally understand a piece of previously inscrutable code
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Pair Programming as High-Leverage Teaching and Skill Transfer
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pair programming is very high leverage — you don’t just get the immediate task done, but also teach someone to be able to do it themselves
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Working on AI’s most important mission with family team
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thankful to be working on the most important mission in the world, with a team who is family
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Productive Coding: Pair Programming and Bug Tracking Benefits
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sometimes productive coding days don't involve a line of code under your own name — spent about 6 hours today pairing with 3 different people & then tracked down two different subtle bugs that have been biting us for months
