2026-07-01T17:29:33Z

beka valentine@beka_valentine@kolektiva.social

personally i'm ok with AI techniques being less well known but there's a deeper thing going on here which is far more important IMO, because it's also partially why LLMs have taken over

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X (formerly Twitter)Kristopher Micinski -- REBORN (@krismicinski) on XOne sad thing about the modern AI frenzy is that many of the engineering techniques are not too tough but just tough enough that they warrant a uni-level course. And yet, few uni-level courses (aside from "paper reading" ones) on LLM reasoning seem to exist.

2026-07-01T17:29:41Z

beka valentine@beka_valentine@kolektiva.social

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in particular, there are a lot of software-related skills which were either never properly developed into novice-friendly forms, or which were left to languish and complexity and die over the last 20 years as the idea of the novice ceased to be widely recognized as real

2026-07-01T17:30:00Z

beka valentine@beka_valentine@kolektiva.social

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for example, let's consider so-called End User Programming, which is a broad term used to refer to programming done by people who are not programmers but rather just average people trying to achieve a goal

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2026-07-01T17:30:10Z

beka valentine@beka_valentine@kolektiva.social

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very little consideration has been given toward ensuring that end users can relatively easily take up the task of programming their own computers. historically, more attention was given to this, in fact

2026-07-01T17:31:31Z

beka valentine@beka_valentine@kolektiva.social

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what was end user programming like in the 1970s and 1980s?

for the average person, BASIC. by necessity, sometimes, because the software industry wasn't yet distributing as widely, and physical copies were harder to produce, etc.