This Day on SN: January 2 \ stacker news ~meta

#374395 on LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024
- 2433 sats \ 11 replies \ @south_korea_ln \ January 2, 2024
  
  I'll start by saying that this article is not meant to be a retrospective on LLMs. It's clear that 2023 was a special year for artificial intelligence: to reiterate that seems rather pointless. Instead, this post aims to be a testimony from an individual programmer. Since the advent of ChatGPT, and later by using LLMs that operate locally, I have made extensive use of this new technology. The goal is to accelerate my ability to write code, but that's not the only purpose. There's also the intent to not waste mental energy on aspects of programming that are not worth the effort. Countless hours spent searching for documentation on peculiar, intellectually uninteresting aspects; the efforts to learn an overly complicated API, often without good reason; writing immediately usable programs that I would discard after a few hours. These are all things I do not want to do, especially now, with Google having become a sea of spam in which to hunt for a few useful things. [...]
#116284 on Meme Monday - Best Bitcoin Meme Gets 10,000 Sats
- 11.8k sats \ 0 replies \ @GUERRILLA \ January 2, 2023
  
  The government seizing my Bitcoin funds [...]
#7075 on Giving sats on paper (idea)
- 107 sats \ 1 reply \ @hynek \ January 2, 2022
  
  I've done the same thing with LNbits - LNURLw. [...]

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- 33.8k stacked \ 0 revenue \ 42.2k spent \ 84 posts \ 214 comments \ January 2, 2024
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- 12.3k stacked \ 0 revenue \ 14.2k spent \ 100 posts \ 297 comments \ January 2, 2023
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look @bitcoinplebdev! yours 1/2/24, mine 1/2/23!

Automating it is brilliant - a tool for evergreen-ness. Thought-provoking, too, along w/ @siggy47's Golden Oldies series.

Curious how a post w/ 15 sats worth of zaps and 1 comment makes the top posts section?

You should have been here when I started this series.

Many of the 2021 top posts only had 1 sat. Sometimes, there wasn't even a top post for the day.

Ah, I thought it was an automated thing. This is manually curated, then? That makes sense.

It's automated now. I made the first month or so manually. Once it became routine and consistent enough, k00b automated it (which was a big relief).