The REPL: Issue 135 - November 2025
LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger
LLMs can give you false confidence, because they can reinforce your prior beliefs. They are “eager to please”. Asking leading questions can change the results greatly. I am mindful of asking questions that are neutral.
Using the expand and contract pattern
A good overview of the expand and contract pattern. Handy to keep around to send to others, which comes up about once a month!
We should all be using dependency cooldowns
This is the first time I’ve heard “dependency cooldown” as a term. In a sense, I already implement the cooldown instinctively. I upgrade methodically and purposefully, especially when major versions are concerned.
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