Developer Productivity

I always learn something at the PyTexas training day. This year, I learned how little I actually know about Python imports. Heather Crawford ran the morning session on sys.path, modules, and packages. I have been writing Python long enough to fix ImportError messages without understanding them. The mental model she gave us helped me make sense of it. Find, then bind. Everything flows from those two steps. I had to redo my imports multiple times during the lab exercises. I still need my notes to walk someone through the whole picture, but I have a map now where I had guesses before. ...

Karpathy’s LLM knowledge base method works by having an LLM maintain a wiki of markdown files rather than retrieving from raw documents at query time. When you add a source, the LLM integrates it into the existing network, updating pages, revising summaries, and noting contradictions. By the time you need an answer, the synthesis is already done. Your job is to curate sources and ask good questions. The LLM does everything else. ...