I really enjoy meeting people who work with APIs that are directly tied to money. Financial services, gambling sites, and similar.
They tend to have excellent stories about bugs.
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LLMs are a really accessible machine learning technique. I dabbled with text classifiers a few years ago and the APIs were way more involved.
(system_prompt: String, input: String) -> String
I can prototype with this much more easily!
Which languages do you consider to have the biggest/smallest standard libraries?
JS and Rust have a reputation for being pretty small. C has fewer data structures, but a bunch of system APIs.
Python feels more like a kitchen sink.
Where are other languages on this spectrum?
@nachobarrientos@emacs.ch Gosh, really? Helpful has reasonable unit tests IMO, although it definitely uses a bunch of obscure Emacs APIs.