You may have seen my previous posts about my initial attempts to code with LLMs. At the time, they seemed promising. But in the past few months, my mood has shifted over into a sort of depression. Below are a few of my complaints. [1] Using LLMs takes a significant amount of the fun out […]
You may have heard about the requirement in the U.S. for most state and local governments’ web content to be WCAG 2.1 AA compliant by April 26th. This is a big lift, and our librarians have already been fretting about it for months now. But as I go about poking at Aider and o3, I […]
Last night, I got Aider properly set up on my laptop, both in the terminal and in neovim. It is remarkable. I honestly see how people get into a lot of trouble with vibe coding using tools like this. It’s a world of difference from chatting with Claude.ai via the web, or using GitHub Copilot […]
Someone I rather respect (both as a programmer and as a librarian) recently described the period of time after he got properly set up with LLM-enhanced coding tools as “the most productive two weeks of my life.” In a fit of enthusiasm, he completed a ton of previously unfinished projects in very quick succession. Despite […]
The past two days, I have been at CUNY’s 23rd annual IT Conference. It’s a conference I enjoy, even though it’s geared toward IT professionals, which I am decidedly not. Nonetheless, the smattering of librarian presentations is usually enough to keep me occupied and contented throughout the conference. I did catch some of the presentations […]
So I set up Copilot last night. Copilot is GitHub’s AI that helps with writing code. I don’t think I’d pay the list price of $10/month for this type of service, but it is free to anyone with a GitHub educator account, which was enough to prompt me to try it. Needless to say I […]
Being a subject selector in an academic library is pretty repetitive. I’m basically applying the same selection criteria to different materials over and over again. In my specific role, I’m almost always looking for books (and ebooks) that are for lower-division undergraduates/general readers; that are from reputable academic presses; and that fall within the subject […]
