Tim Carlson
I'm a lecturer at University of Washington
Tim Carlson
Winter 2025
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Conclusions
View of the Day
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Last Questions
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Conclusions: Tools & Libraries
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Administrivia: Evaluations, etc
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Work time / "office hours"
Any last questions?
So many tools...
Tool Dependency
Much of the web (and software in general) is built on shared, reusable libraries.
"Protestware"
Are they the right tools?
Future of Frameworks?
I've been building lots of apps by using LLMs and Agents. I'm currently up to about 17 tools, utilities and demos over the duration of a couple of weeks. I build them for me and because tools like Replit have enabled me during my small spots of free time to build fully working sites and apps that solve the immediate problem that I have. I've felt incredibly productive.
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I'm of the belief that software development is entering a radical shift that is currently driven by agents like Replit's and there is a world where a person never actually has to manipulate code directly anymore. As I was making broad and sweeping changes to the functionality of the applications by throwing the Agent a couple of prompts here and there, the software didn't seem to care that there was repetition in the code across multiple views, it didn't care about shared logic, extensibility or inheritability of components... it just implemented what it needed to do and it did it as vanilla as it could. I was just left wondering if there will be a need for frameworks in the future? Do the architecture patterns we've learnt over the years matter? Will new patterns for software architecture appear that favour LLM management?
- Paul Kinlan, Chrome Developer Relations Team lead, Nov 2024
Course Feedback
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Thank you for your hard work in this class!
What's next?
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Complete the Course Evaluation
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Late/missing Problem Sets due by Friday Mar 14
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Final Project due on Monday March 17
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Hard deadline;
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Have a great break!
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