What’s a Zettelkasten Good for in the Age of Affordable LLM’s?

Nov 21st, 2025

Last Saturday was Global Day of Code Retreat (GDCR) and one challenge session was to only use AI with prompts to implement the Game of Life rules. Folks who don’t use LLM’s a lot tried to describe the rules to the LLM in their prompts – while others knew that the rules are well-known and that the LLM could regurgitate them based on training data easily.

Global Day of Code Retreat 2024 Retrospective

Nov 10th, 2024

Whenever I can, I participate in our local software craftspeople’s Global Day of Code Retreat (GDCR) in November. Yesterday was this year’s event. It was the first time I remember where I haven’t taken away something new for myself as a programmer. I learned much more about people. My mind has been occupiec with a lot of things in recent months, most of which were about our newborn baby. For me, having a child changed all priorities: the baby comes first.