AI vs LLMs: The Misnomer That's Costing Us
I think one of the biggest mistakes we have made as an industry is conflating the words "AI" and "LLMs." The irony is right there on the surface. Naming is one of the hardest things to do in software,
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Before getting into Elixir/BEAM, I did a lot of JavaScript, Java, and Python in my day job. They all have similar patterns for dealing with errors, typically using try/catch. There are some nuances across different platforms and languages, but in ess...
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A case for alt JS langs - not TS.
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