LLMs

After watching videos to see how veteran programmers – and even non-programmers!!! – are using AI to code, I decided to grab the wheel and take AI for a spin. I heard great things this weekend about Google’s brand new Gemini 2.5 Pro, which was initially free because Google still considered it experimental. It was reportedly close to the coding performance of Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet, which many consider the best coding LLM, but with several advantages: the paid version would be significantly cheaper than Claude – “Sonnet is 2....

For many years, I’ve been a programming machine, obsessively churning out code that powers my employers. I love coding and pour my heart into it, but I’m pretty wiped by the end of the day/week. I’ve seldom taken as much vacation as I’m entitled to. And even when I’ve changed jobs, I’ve seldom given myself any break… generally finishing on a Friday and starting my new job the following Monday....