Waiting for the LLM to produce the next patch is painful. The last time I spent so much time just waiting was in the late 80s, when the MK-61 programmable calculator took me to the Moon and back. It blinked while crunching the digits (the same way older people murmur numbers when doing addition or subtraction in their heads), running a 105-step program in over a minute.
Yes, there were games for programmable calculators. Plenty of them, actually. There was even a section in a popular Soviet technical magazine where new games were published, discussed, and sometimes accompanied by sci-fi stories based on them.
What do other people do in those moments of waiting now? Just watch the streaming progress, like the heroes in The Matrix watching green falling hieroglyphs? Open another IDE in parallel, trying to match the heroics of Alexei Stakhanov? (They weren’t actually heroic, we know.) Keep an eye on the hopeless Phoenix Suns losing to the Oklahoma City Thunder? Learn a foreign language? Enjoy cute Korean cheerleaders on YouTube? Or just wonder what else you could do once it’s finally done with the programming?
Just curious.
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