> The tradeoff of higher velocity for less enjoyment may feel less welcome when it becomes the new baseline and the expectation of employers / customers
This is what happens with big technological advancements. Technology that enables productivity won’t free people time, but only set higher expectations of getting more work done in a day.
Based on the abstract it's not a study showing that "Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease [are] attributable to sugar beverages", it's a paper quantifying the "[Amount of] Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease [that are] attributable to sugar beverages [in various countries]". The link and causation is already well established. This is trying to determine how much harm it's doing in different parts of the world.
It is made possible by my code. But I would emphasize that the code is quite trivial. It's literally just populating a prompt template with the output of a previous template-- simple string manipulation. I never could understand why anyone would want to use Langchain for that sort of thing.
We're trying to cover two main use cases: API apps and full stack web applications. There are features in Rails that we recognize to be really useful. For that niche we're trying to be a lightweight alternative.
@vidarh Lotus doesn't depend on Lotus::Model. I kept it out from the dependencies because of the reasons that you've described. Future versions of Lotus will have some facilities for Model, but it won't be a requirement.
EDIT: BTW Lotus::Model is shipped with an SQL adapter that is a nicer wrapper on top of Sequel. If you love this library you will love Lotus::Model too.
This is what happens with big technological advancements. Technology that enables productivity won’t free people time, but only set higher expectations of getting more work done in a day.