> Akash Bobba was part of the highly regarded Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology program at UC Berkeley and has held internships at the Bridgewater Associates hedge fund, Meta and Palantir.
> During a project at Berkeley, I accidentally deleted our entire codebase 2 days before the deadline. I panicked. Akash just stared at the screen, shrugged, and rewrote everything from scratch in one night — better than before. We submitted early and got first in the class.
My productivity is probably 2-3x what it was prior to integrating LLMs into my dev work, if not greater.
Others may have a different experience, but being able to write *some* of the code and instruct the LLM to finish the monotonous parts is great. It frees my mind to think about what I need to do next while I wait for it to churn, as opposed to having to be fully engaged typing out loops and conditionals for 2-5 minutes.
@petaluma Presently I use qwen2.5-coder-14b-instruct for dev work, primarily Go and web stuff (Vue, Tailwind, etc). I use mistral-nemo-instruct as my general purpose rubber duck.
I wrote my own wrapper around llama.cpp to handle dynamic model switching based on my task, but LM Studio is probably the best place to get started using LLMs locally on your own hardware if you're just starting out.
The codegen LLMs I've been using for the last quarter are quite good, given that they fit on my single GPU.
Beyond boilerplate, given a description of a program, it can reliably produce functional code to do one-off things. Useful for both writing tests and writing implementation based on tests I've written manually.
It's also quite good at creating a styled webpage based on a description, as well as fixing CSS issues when given commentary about the visual bug.
They get the money from what we would all consider “insider trading”, though not meeting the fake SEC definition. They make leveraged trades on corporations based on bills they’ve heard in committee or through each other. About to appropriate a bajillion dollars for AI? Nancy’s buying Nvidia calls.
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