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I would be mad if the syntax was constantly changing but I want the internal implementation to be moving as fast as possible while retaining success. I think that rate is higher than what humans alone can do.

Python has so many footguns for server work and the world's worst typing system. It sounds like Golang is perfect for your use-case

More gets done in the Bay Area than those places.

GLM 5.2 (open-weights) is at or near Opus 4.7 level performance already. I think it's unlikely Anthropic will be able to durably charge us much more than the CapEx depreciation cost of GPUs + the OpEx of running them for non-frontier models (which Fable will be in 6 months to a year).

The scary thing is the zig project prohibits LLM contributions - the world is going to move faster than them.

I would guess the cost to do this with humans would be _at least_ $1.5M in compensation alone (I'm thinking three 500k/year Bay Area engineers) so this is already an order of magnitude cheaper.

Is it worth $165K? I'm less sure of that but it's honestly a moot point - this will get to 5 then 4 digits of cost pretty fast.

We haven’t committed to rewriting. There’s a very high chance all this code gets thrown out completely.

God forbid an engineer express uncertainty.

Not a compiler expert - shouldn't language verbosity and binary size be, at best, very loosely related?

Anyone with knowledge of Indian regulatory culture would not take this as dispositive.

It's pareto better, all else equal (which, fair, it may not be in this case) for a company to serve businesses from $1 and up than to only serve $5M and up.

The headline is implying that AI mode is super unpopular with the very large number "28" and not the more accurate number of .16.

... DDG had .7% marketshare (https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share). 28% more visits would take it to .84%. Assuming those all come from Google, that would mean .16% of Google users didn't love AI mode enough to switch.

Classic example of misleading with stats.

I meant the structural problem of the EU not having a tech industry (nor any similarly prominent 21st century industry).

Yes, it would be better for America and for the EU if America acted normal but I would not advise anyone to plan hoping on that.

It is very true that if your company is a political vehicle, having the powers that be enforce that all companies must be political vehicles is quite good for you. America certainly has its version of this in its defense companies. I would not say those are the American companies that make me most proud to be American though.

I think this is more of a corporate metrics tracking than advertising. Decision makers aren't seeing these ads in commits but they certainly are seeing a report from Anthropic that "75% of your commits last quarter are from Claude code".

I have a lot of issues with the Ive era and the Mac... but every iPhone he designed was a banger. I think the 12-14 era is the only era of iPhones I thought were bad and that was after him.

I suppose the iPhone 6 was bendable but that was a hardware engineering issue as shown by the same form factor not being bendable for the 6s through 8.

The concerning thing for the EU should be that this valuable firm had no European capital trying to buy it. The Dutch have protected their sovereignty today while decreasing the incentive for the next entrepreneur to make something on European shores. Probably the best choice but doesn't change the structural problem.

You mean Chrome would have pushed it, Apple would have filibustered it by refusing to comment (via lack of investment in the WebKit team), and then gullible folks on the internet would defer to them.

(I will note that Apple seems to have upped WebKit investment this decade since their regulatory problems started in earnest - so it's possible this would end differently today)

Your point is taken but we've turned lead into gold: https://home.cern/alice-detects-conversion-lead-gold-lhc/

I'm sure he copied it from somewhere but this reminds me of Paolini's elves in Eragon singing (magicking) trees to their desired shape.

I feel like "find me the shirt from the Instagram post" (which is what's depicted in the ad) is a use case that most people will love.

The lumping together of Typescript with Python is a mistake. Typescript is much faster (mostly due to engine investment), is much saner, has more expressive types, and generally has better ergonomics for the backend than Python.

I did and I read it previously. It has not changed my interpretation that the Zig project would decline issues mostly generated by LLMs due to their stated policy saying so.

If you’re saying their philosophy is compatible with LLM issues, I agree and I think they should change their policy to reflect that.

Quoting from https://ziglang.org/code-of-conduct/#strict-no-llm-no-ai-pol...:

Strict No LLM / No AI Policy

No LLMs for issues.

No LLMs for pull requests.

No LLMs for comments on the bug tracker, including translation. English is encouraged, but not required. You are welcome to post in your native language and rely on others to have their own translation tools of choice to interpret your words.

If they would accept issues filed by AI or written by AI, they should edit their policy to say that.

Next decade seems possibly false - if Intel starts getting deals and commitments now, it takes them about half a decade to build a fab. Agree it seems unlikely though.

Yeah but Zig essentially has till Mythos releases (and arguably less time) to fix their policy. OSS that doesn't take LLM security reports at that point is a liability.

Reading this article in the context of the Zig folks refusing to even consider LLM-generated bugs certainly shapes my perspective on what technologies will be in my toolchain.

The value generation is for passive observers: it is theoretically more informative to be told that there is a y% chance of x from someone with a financial incentive to be right.

(also, we allow plenty of zero and negative sum interactions in society. I don't know why this is special.)

I understand the hostility to them getting into sports betting since that seems to trigger a particular unhealthy impulse in young men but your anger should be first directed at the companies that are 100% sports betting (DraftKings and their ilk). I don't think the normal things prediction markets do subject young men to the same temptations.

I don't think it's actually that hard - 5 minutes of skimming on Reddit will do a lot. You can also usually see Wirecutter's recommendations (even if they paywall the full article). People just don't care upfront but complain later.