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Post #450930

2026-02-27 17:35 UTC

What breaks my heart about LLMs is that when I teach it something about coding, I’m not teaching a person. And the LLM is going to fucking forget anyway.

Replies (10)

  • @brentsimmons Collect everything you explain into markdown files, commit to the repository. Then it saves it for the machine, and also serves as documentation for people. There's a silver lining here.

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  • @davew@mastodon.social 2026-02-27 17:42

    @brentsimmons with claude code, you just load a folder up with your source code and it's ready to work on it. i've tried it out with a simple app and it works as advertised.

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  • @jkrahn@mstdn.ca 2026-02-27 17:48

    @brentsimmons You're not teaching a person — so you don't get the satisfaction of helping a person grow (profound); and there isn't a person getting better (more satisfaction themselves, better able to provide for their families, not growing as a teacher who can then teach others).

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  • @wcbdata@vis.social 2026-02-27 17:50

    @brentsimmons Pro tip: Don't use LLMs.

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  • @vmachiel@mastodon.nl 2026-02-27 18:13

    @brentsimmons also the massive theft, energy usage and externalities that disproportionately affect the poor.

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  • @brentsimmons that feeling when you catch yourself carefully explaining a concept like you would to someone you’re mentoring, and realize you are talking to … nothing.

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  • @louie@pdx.social 2026-02-27 20:36

    @brentsimmons Instead of writing in the box to nowhere, write in the box that posts to your blog. Then, you’ll be teaching the world.

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  • @groue@hachyderm.io 2026-02-27 23:18

    @brentsimmons Classic Socratic(?) questions are: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

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  • @heathborders@hachyderm.io 2026-02-27 23:20

    @brentsimmons yeah it took me a moment to remember that there is no point in teaching an LLM anything or in convincing it that I'm right. Getting the answer is all that matters

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  • @brentsimmons if you end your session with the question “what learnings from this session can we add to agent.md?” it won’t forget :)

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