Breaktime Tech Talks

Ep82: AI and Code Generation + Code Reviews in a Changing Landscape

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Recap of my week, with several different topics where I expanded my knowledge or surfaced some recurring patterns in my efforts.

Highlights:
  • Repeated prompt iteration can cause LLMs to get stuck in unhelpful loops or produce slightly different code on reruns. Restoring to a checkpoint helps reset context and regenerate cleaner output.
  • A personal AI workflow shortcut: using chat models to brain dump and organize ideas into structure before writing.
  • Pet projects. Alongside expanding a Goodreads project, there's a potential new personal improvement app idea
  • Other tasks: session review for NODES conference, upcoming refresh work on a Knowledge Graph e-book, and plans for short-form video content.
  • Article: “Read Less, Steer More” by Ezyang on mentoring code reading, using LLMs to explain code, avoiding auto-accept edits, and writing code by hand when learning fundamentals.
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