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Koen van Gilst
Personal blog · koenvangilst.nl/blog · on HN as vnglstaiprogrammingphilosophy
Koen van Gilst's personal blog at koenvangilst.nl covers ai, programming and philosophy. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “AI and the Complexity of Code”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers discuss this post on asking ChatGPT to write a simple 'Hello, world' program as a junior developer. The thread focuses on the prompts used and whether the generated code handles the opening-hours example.
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Principal Engineer at Rabobank with a background in philosophy and lifelong passion for programming. I focus on AI, team building, and bridging business with technology to deliver real value.
Most-linked posts?
- AI and the Complexity of Code2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-03-22
What Hacker News says?
I think it'd be interesting to see the actual prompts that went with this. I followed it through to the accompanying blog post[1] and I found the examples for "we close at 6pm on Friday" interesting because none of them work. They fail the stated problem (they don't test for Friday) and the unstated problem (when do we re-open? the examples re-open at midnight). And of course, without the prompts I can only guess wh…
Comment linking /blog/keeping-code-complexity-in-check
on “I asked ChatGPT to write the code to print "Hello, world " as a junior developer”Submitted Code colocation is king as a story · 169 points
HN discussionInspired by Andrej Karpathy's excellent YouTube video on tokenizers, I used Llama3 to analyze all of GPT-4's 100.000 tokens and today I wrote a blog post about it! https://koenvangilst.nl/blog/analyzing-gpt-4-tokens
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on “What Are You Building? Share Your Projects”Submitted Show HN: I created this land use visualisation for the Netherlands as a story · 78 points
HN discussionSomething I've been working on this weekend: visualising climate change in the Netherlands. https://koenvangilst.nl/blog/rising-temperatures I particularly liked the heatmap with monthly temperature data since the 1900s. It's a lot of scrolling, but you can clearly see that climate is accelerating since the '90s.
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on “Rising Temperatures in the Netherlands”Submitted Show HN: Forest Watch as a story · 72 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clean Code Is a Phase as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Phoenix tutorial for creating live cursors (as seen in Figma) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shepherd's Dog: A Game by the Most Dangerous AI Model as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted European Land Use Visualization as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beginning a Story of One's Own as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Waiting for Anthropic Support as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GenAI in the Wild as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Code Doesn't Speak for Itself as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software for One as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adding llms.txt (and a honeypot) to my website as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Land Use in the Netherlands as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rising Temperatures in the Netherlands as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I asked ChatGPT to write a blog post on it's impact on the way developers work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Phoenix LiveView Cursors as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Returning to the Office as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clean code is a phase. Or: Why it's better to be kind, than to be clean as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Growing a better world together with AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Computer Says No as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coding Is Dead as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Tetris Time with Claude Code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Brief History of Large Language Models as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is creativity nothing more than just a little randomness? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Analyzing GPT-4 Tokens with Llama3 as a story · 1 points
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