self-dev posts
- Lessons from LLMs and Life 9 minutes
“The unpredictability in life is what makes it interesting”
I’m Mahesh Bansod. A software engineer. I love building stuff for the sake of building it.
Building software has never been so simple - type a prompt and boom you got a working interactive system!
I really love this era. I have been programming since years now, and I still love to. I find the most joy in building software when I’m programming it as opposed to when I’m prompting it, but it’s wonderful to see applications come to life as I type in English what I want!
There’s one thing I struggled with though while working with an LLM and that is deterministic output.
If you do the same prompt a second time, it is sure to give you a totally different output.. and maybe the second time it may not even work when the first time it did!
This “non-deterministic”ness of it all has been making me draw parallels to life.
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Being a human, you gotta do what humans do. You walk, you eat, you communicate. Human stuff.
You’re walking down a street and notice a dog, it’s cute. You want to say hi to it, and so you move towards it. It moves towards you. You’re both moving towards each other but wait.
why is the dog barking? why does it look angry? what did I do wrong?
The dog comes at you faster giving you lesser time to process. The dog knows batman is invincible with prep time, so it removes the prep time.
"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies"
— Andy