life 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.
"How you doin'?"
— Joey