That looks incredibly cool! My primary usage for LLM is as a learning assistant, and this looks like the perfect tool to play around with Funx.
arcanemachine
arcanemachine
On a scale of 1-10 , would you recommend this book for someone who considers themself a “working man programmer” and not really reading for the theory or intellectual stimulation.
To answer your question directly, I would personally say “no”, but I still think the book is worth a read. (If you have to manage applications with a lot of complicated rules and are looking for a way to wrangle the complexity, I would probably say “yes”, the book may be directly useful to you.)
For me, this book was definitely very intellectually stimulating, and I feel like the techniques involved would be very useful in managing the organization of ever-increasing complexity. For example the book uses amusement park ride management as an example, but the same situation can happen with many legacy applications as the rules (and exceptions to those rules) grow like a cancerous tumor.
If the concepts in the book are applied properly, I do believe that they could be used to compose the logic required to manage some pretty complicated scenarios. Of course, I haven’t yet had the opportunity to do this, but I look forward to using this tool if I find a need for it in the future.
This book is pretty much a guided tour of the Funx library. It gives you the logical bits and pieces from that library, and shows how the different parts come together from the ground up, and how they work with each other.
I don’t know if it is essential to read the book before using the library, but I will say this: Before I read the book, I had no idea what any of the stuff in the Table of Contents meant, but after I read the book, it made perfect sense. I think that it would be a big undertaking to understand what’s happening in Funx without reading the book beforehand, unless you’re familiar with Haskell. (I believe that Haskell is the source of a lot of the concepts used in the book.)
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JKWA
Author of Advanced Functional Programming with Elixir
Funx provides a lot of context for LLMs, which in theory means they can leverage that context to teach you how to use Funx. The project I shared above is a natural outgrowth of its usage rules. But LLMs tend to wander, so the book paints the most direct path.
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JKWA
Author of Advanced Functional Programming with Elixir
arcanemachine
My initial hurdle would be that I don’t use Claude Code, and prefer to run local LLMs. I’ll see how much progress I can make, and report back if I can get anything going that way.
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JKWA
Author of Advanced Functional Programming with Elixir
Interesting, I run Ollama on my home server as well. I figured it would struggle with assembling and managing all that context so I have yet to see what it might come up with.
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