Higher Levels of Abstraction
Over the weekend, Andrej Karpathy shared this tweet & it inspired me to conduct the 2024 GTM Survey Analysis this way.
I use a language called R to analyze data
Programming is becoming prompting.
I used to write something like this to generate a chart :
ggplot(data) + geom_bar(aes(x = variable, y = value), stat = "identity") + theme_minimal() + labs(title = "Title", caption = "Caption")
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Copilot autocompleted the different fields. But using Sonnet & Cursor, I first wrote “Perform a conjoined analysis, comparing the correlation across all variables within the data frame. Plot this on a bar chart using my particular theme, with an insightful title & a caption for Theory Ventures.”
Then I wrote “Run the same analysis for sales quota compared to company size.” Next, “how about NDR for company size?” Each time, the robot produced 150 lines of code in seconds.
More than just the code, I request a test for statistical significance
All of the code is formatted according to proper syntax & it works. The only errors I found concerned color palette specifications.
English is the new programming language. Coding this way, I explored the data much more deeply, more rigorously, & more quickly than I would have otherwise.
The user still needs to be aware of the underlying syntax to fix errors & some statistical tests to verify the computer is doing the right thing, but gone are the days of memorizing the functional arcana of individual programming libraries.
In other words, I’m operating at a higher level of abstraction
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6 个月Very insightful Tomasz Tunguz. This highlights a major shift in programming and data analysis. It brings efficiency and speed.
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