If you asked me where I fall in the AI camp, I’m in the skeptical-but-curious quadrant (example). Notwithstanding the various legitimate critiques of what everyone is calling AI and doing with it, I have been finding some interesting utility with it in my — I don’t want to say every day but in — my week to week. This is particularly in the space of large language models (LLM)s. Places and Niches for Use How and where I’ve found utility with LLM is not quite as proponents have framed...| matttproud.com (blog)
Today, driven by annoyance, I refactor-extracted a small set of test helper code found in various private personal projects around the topic of golden file management into a dedicated Go module: github.com/matttproud/goldentest (API documentation). I’m happy to finally have a canonical solution that I am happy with. I’ll freely admit it: I use change detector tests1 for some things, as a slew of these personal projects use reference data defined in the testdata directory as canonical want...| matttproud.com (blog)