I’m very interested in how people are using LLMs to augment their work, especially in software development.

I did three interviews with friends who are using them in different ways.

• Jowanza Joseph is building a startup where Cursor is doing much of the legwork.
• Ravi Mody primarily interacts with web-based chat clients like ChatGPT to write his code.
• Robert Ghrist “directed” Claude on how to write a beautiful linear algebra textbook in his style.

I’ve enjoyed several other pieces lately on how others are using LLMs:

• Harper Reed posted a detailed account of his workflow to robustly generate new code bases. I’ve been playing with his provided prompts and am impressed.
• Simon Willison wrote about using LLMs to write code, especially enabling him to build things he wouldn’t bother with otherwise. He shows concrete examples with his LLM generated tools page.
• Andrej Karpathy published a 2-hour long video that is the best introduction I’ve seen to the current state of LLMs and what they can do.

I’d love to hear about your use of LLMs. Please drop me a note in the form below.