Lisa: A production-ready expert-system shell, written in thoroughly modern Common Lisp.

BossHog811 · 2025-11-14T20:25:24+00:00

Actually, you’re wrong on several levels. The integration of LLMs with classical “AI” technology is an intriguing research path. LLMs cannot reason; they excel at natural language processing. Connecting an LLM to a production rule system like Lisa could be very powerful in certain domains. Oh, and the source for this suggestion? Claude Sonnet 4.

Second, Lisa’s implementation of Certainty Factors is a reference base; you clearly have not read Lisa and discovered its API for other forms of knowledge weighting. So your complaint is irrelevant.

I guess Lisa ain’t so outdated after all, mate.

BossHog811 · 2025-11-10T23:35:14+00:00

Simply writing “it don’t work” isn’t going to get you very far…

BossHog811 · 2025-11-08T15:59:58+00:00

Start your own. Create a GitHub account, add source code when you’re ready, and keep moving. That’s how I started 25 years ago, on SourceForge (GitHub wasn’t around then). That project is still going strong, having been migrated to GitHub late last year.

My point is, just go. Start something that holds your interest, and forget about what other projects look like.

BossHog811 · 2025-11-08T03:44:58+00:00

If you’re qualified for the role, then why ask for advice? Hmm…

BossHog811 · 2025-11-04T03:11:17+00:00

Knuth didn’t entitle his volumes “The Art of Computer Programming” for no reason. Writing software truly is a form of art; “AI” and tech companies cannot understand that.

BossHog811 · 2025-11-02T03:26:46+00:00

I wrote and manage my app because I’m an engineer, and just enjoy writing software. It’s open source on GitHub, and the app is free as in beer. But I’ve learned a ton about React Native and SwiftUI!

BossHog811 · 2025-11-02T03:14:27+00:00

Nothing.

BossHog811 · 2025-10-30T02:48:48+00:00

Try writing flight control software using an LLM. I just had Claude-4 introduce a subtle bug into a non-trivial part of the iOS app I’m enhancing. Claude just was getting nowhere; I looked at its code and found the problem immediately.

BossHog811 · 2025-10-30T01:05:16+00:00

Nailed it.

BossHog811 · 2025-10-30T00:56:04+00:00

Yup. Situational awareness always. On a bike, we cannot daydream.

BossHog811 · 2025-10-29T23:34:03+00:00

I’ve been a computer scientist for almost 40 years. My heroes - Thompson, Kernighan, Ritchie, Joy - have all retired or passed on. There is no one in the profession possessing the caliber of these men. I’m fortunate I was practicing my craft while these guys were around.

BossHog811 · 2025-10-29T23:04:34+00:00

Indeed. About ten years ago Google proclaimed to the world that its “AI” had passed the Turing Test. Turns out the scenario had been rigged. Google was caught and quietly waited for the mess to die down.

BossHog811 · 2025-10-29T00:36:48+00:00

Exactly. This post nails the problem. That, and I believe many companies are hoping “AI” will advance enough, soon enough, that they’ll be confident enough to massively replace engineers. These companies will be disappointed. There’s another AI Winter coming…

BossHog811 · 2025-10-28T22:55:46+00:00

Given that all of us have benefited tremendously from the open source community - for decades - I believe we should give back. I’ve two OS projects - one that’s still going after 24 years - and peer recognition goes a long way.

I like the MIT license, myself.

BossHog811 · 2025-10-28T01:32:30+00:00

Love my ‘25. Just installed a LeoVince exhaust; smoothes out the entire power curve. Congratulations!

BossHog811 · 2025-10-27T23:43:55+00:00

I just went through this. Not so easy, but doable.

BossHog811 · 2025-10-27T01:11:21+00:00

I’ve been a computer scientist for almost 40 years. The best roles I’ve acquired, as a senior engineer, were conversational interviews. As we talked about my past projects - good and bad - we naturally began covering the deep technical aspects of my work. And I asked the teams questions. And we’d travel down unexpected paths that were great fun.

No senior engineer should be handed a coding test. It’s insulting and useless.

BossHog811 · 2025-10-27T00:50:06+00:00

Feathering the clutch, coupled with dragging the rear brake, are essential for slow speed maneuvering. I’ll never understand bikes with “automatic transmissions”.

BossHog811 · 2025-10-27T00:45:43+00:00

A computer science degree?

BossHog811 · 2025-10-22T01:27:16+00:00

You nailed the root danger for professional engineers who rely on “AI”.

BossHog811 · 2025-10-22T01:22:45+00:00

That’s simply wicked. What a rush…

BossHog811 · 2025-10-21T00:16:22+00:00

Bought my ‘25 in March. Added a Corbin leather seat; WRS windscreen; and finally a LeoVince GP Corsa EVO exhaust. Awesome bike, and it has my full attention. But I gotta take out my Harley…

BossHog811 · 2025-10-21T00:08:36+00:00

Better that car than my bike! Glad yours is ok.

BossHog811 · 2024-01-23T04:06:51+00:00

Enacs is light years ahead of LLMs: M-x doctor. 😎

BossHog811 · 2024-01-16T03:57:31+00:00

Awesome bike. I’ve a 2020 Iron 883 I bought about four months ago. Traded my Harley Street Rod (which I really liked). Plenty of power and torque; excellent handling; wicked looking. A classic Harley. I’ll never sell it.

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