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Phillip Carter

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Phillip Carter's personal blog at phillipcarter.dev covers ai, programming and career. Since 2021, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “LLMs Are Weird Computers”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2021–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2025

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phillipcarter · 4,876 karma · member since 2015

Agent Platform @ GitHub https://www.phillipcarter.dev/

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Most-linked posts?

  1. LLMs Are Weird Computers
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-03-03
  2. I Code with LLMs These Days
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. I don't think Copilot is useless at all. Today it's actually been very helpful for me with interactive, notebooks-based programming. And it's also just an early beta right now; as the model improves and the tooling around it matures a little more, I suspect I'll be using it a lot for interactive stuff. Notebooks programming has a flow of "execute a small bit of code, check the results, and iterate", and this fits pe…

    Comment linking /posts/four-dev-tools-areas-future/

    on “FSF-calls for white papers on philosophical and legal questions around Copilot”
  2. Submitted I Code with LLMs These Days as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  3. > practitioners and vendors alike are overly focused on "just put embeddings somewhere and do cosine similarity" and that's the only problem to solve I agree, and as one who does exactly and only this on the search side, it's also something that falls flat on its face if you don't think a little more about the data and tasks involved. I wrote about it here[0], but the gist of it for our use case is that if we don't…

    Comment linking /2024/01/15/three-properties-of-data-for-making-llms-awesome/

    on “Are we at peak vector database?”
  4. Submitted Big (tech) company bullshit as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  5. Sad to see it, but I'm not terribly surprised either. I wrote about this after reading a few articles as well [0]. I also wonder if a lot of it is sunk cost related to office space. [0]: https://phillipcarter.dev/posts/remote-skeptical/

    Comment linking /posts/remote-skeptical/

    on “Remote working: Is Big Tech going off work from home?”
  6. Submitted How I code with LLMs these days as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted I code with LLMs these days as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted LLMs Are Weird Computers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted LLMs Are Weird Computers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted LLMs Are Weird Computers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted LLMs Are Weird Computers – A perspective on AI models as a computing paradigm as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted The Observability CAP theorem as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted The F# project-product duality as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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