Welcome to The Passionate Programmers new blog. I am David Bernstein and I’m passionate about software development and what we’re learning in software that can help us in other fields. I’m passionate about some of the new paradigms and metaphors we are gaining for understanding. And I’m excited to share what I’m learning.
You don’t have to be a programmer to get value from this blog. Here is a brief description of the initial categories for this blog:
- Announcements: This are posts announcing an event or some news.
- Articles: These are long-form blog posts on specific subjects or areas of interest.
- Reviews: This is where I will share some of the things I find of value online.
- Roles: This category focuses roles, directives, and parameters to modify ChatGPT’s output.
- Software: In this category I’ll discuss some basic programming concepts useful to everyone.
- Tips: This category covers a range of tacit knowledge on how to do prompt engineering better.
- Use Cases: Here we look at ways you can use ChatGPT that you may not have thought of.
I’ll add other categories as needed. Each month I plan to offer longer-form articles, reviews of valuable things I found online, tricks to get ChatGPT to do what you want, and valuable use cases for getting the most out of ChatGPT.
I’ll start by focusing on ChatGPT and how it can help us in a range of tasks. I also want to talk about how these ideas are helping us understand ourselves more deeply. I believe that what we are learning in the software industry can be valuable in many other areas. I want to share some of these valuable ideas with people outside of the software industry.
Having been a software developer for the last four decades I’m familiar with a fast pace of change. I’ve spend most of my career focusing on how to write code that is straightforward to extend because this is of paramount importance to industry. In my quest to write extensible code I also discovered that information has a nature apart from its physical representation and by studying it’s nature we can use that knowledge to build more accurate models.
Virtually every field and discipline has become overwhelmed with information. This is something we’ve learned to manage in software long ago. We have techniques for modeling complex processes and understanding relationships between abstractions.
Even though most of us in the software industry don’t think about what we do in terms of modeling processes, it is a big part of what we do. We are problem-solvers. Let’s see how we can use these ideas in other areas. And if you thoughts in this regard then please don’t hesitate to reach out to me.
Welcome Aboard!
