Abstract Heresies

Git has a built-in persistent store for objects based on Merkle trees.

Why write boilerplate code when you can ask an LLM can do it for you?

I was talking with Amit Patel of Red Blob Games the other day and he mentioned that he had been participating in a programming endeavor where people were creating variations of rogue-like games based on a tutorial.

Continuation-passing style (CPS) is a programming style in which you pass one or more first-class procedures (continuations) to a function as arguments.

This is an anecdote, not a data point, yet.

Yesterday I mentioned that my LLM was generating some fairly good Lisp code and showed some examples of the code it generated.

I vibe coded my web site, not bothering to examine the code generated by the LLM, but giving it specifically directed prompts to generate a `secure` web service.

Sometimes you want to visualize your time-series data in a chart.

The current temperature of the universe is 2.72548 Kelvin.

I'm apparently doing it wrong.

A few of you have noticed the OpenAPI spec floating around the site lately.

It's a web site!

An anonymous reader said it out loud: "Alright, it's a simple website… can we see its sources though?"

I believe that vibe coding is the future.

A reader named Madhu sent me a patch for running llambda.lisp under linux.

Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation?

My coding agent interviewed me about `vibe coding': Victoria: Alright, the recorder is on.

I wanted to implement 2FA as per RFC 6238.

I needed a function that could tell whether a string was a valid Common Lisp program.

A year ago, you couldn't vibe code in Lisp.

I wanted to run LLM models locally on my machine.

Lately I've been playing with writing a chatbot library in Common Lisp.

I saw that there was some argument over how much slower slot access is than struct access, so I just decided to measure it naively.

Back in the day, the US government had a program called SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) that funded small businesses to do research and development.

Last year I wrote some Lisp related AI apps.