<div dir="ltr">Due to hearing mostly crickets, the topic of "Using LLMs to help with programming" has been cleared from my calendar. <div>I went to a really interesting talk last night at the Victoria Data Society on recognizing AI generated voice calls. Oops, off topic...</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 2, 2025 at 1:11\u202fPM George Bowden <<a href="mailto:gtbowdeng@gmail.com">gtbowdeng@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>At Saturday's Linux SIG, I asked who would be interested in one or more sessions on using LLMs to help with programming. I was asked to put the question to the projects email list.</div><div>As an example, I have been slow to convert my IOT wifi devices to accommodate changing SSIDs and IP networks. So I asked Claude.ai for a script to switch an ESP32 from a wifi access point mode to a station access mode and got working code quickly. I loaded it on an ESP32 Node MCU, and it worked. I then broke the code by changing some of it. That will lead me to learn more about IP gateways and ESP32 EEProm storage.</div><div>My point is that LLMs expanded my need to learn the principles of what it coded.</div><div>I was very resistant, but now think using LLMs is inevitable and should be explored in the VicPiMakers meetings. What do you think?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">George Bowden 250-893-7423<div>Victoria BC</div><div>No ChatGPT used</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><div><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">George Bowden 250-893-7423<div>Victoria BC</div><div>No ChatGPT used</div><div><br></div></div></div>