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Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

There is also plenty of extremely experienced programmers saying "this stuff is useless for programming".

Why do you care so much to write a blog post? Like if it's such a big advantage, why not stay quiet and exploit it? Why not make Anti-AI blog posts to gain even more of an advantage?

One of the big red flags I see around the pro-AI side is this constant desire to promote the technology. At least the anti-ai side is reactionary.

He's built lots of cool stuff with AI. Here is four random ones pulled from https://tools.simonwillison.net

- https://tools.simonwillison.net/bullish-bearish

- https://tools.simonwillison.net/user-agent

- https://tools.simonwillison.net/gemini-chat

- https://tools.simonwillison.net/token-usage

I find it slightly ironic that Anthropic benefits from ignoring intellectual property but then tries to enforce it on their competitors.

How would they even detect that you used CC on a competitor? There's surely no ethical reason to not do it, it seems unenforceable.

I wonder what would happen if Github was flooded with a few thousand repos that looked legit but had some poison files embedded inside.

This isn't sabotaging AI research, it's sabotaging companies who scrape information indiscriminately from the internet to power their LLM-as-a-service business. AI is far more than just OpenAI and Anthropic...

Or Lua... :>

Go's type system is fine. This kind of comment is just pointless and goes against HN rules.

Probably stop using technology. Might go back to bartending tbh.

I hate to say it, but this probably would not have happened in a garbage collected language.

GC languages are fast these days. If you don't want a runtime like C# (which has excellent performance) a language like Go would have worked just fine here, compiling to a small native binary but with a GC.

I don't really understand the aversion to GC's. In memory constrained scenarios or where performance is an absolute top priority, I understand wanting manual control. But that seems like a very rare scenario in user space.

I tried everything lol.

Last time I tried Linux I was so done with Windows I installed Arch. Couldn't connect to Wifi. I figured it was Arch, so I installed Ubuntu. Literally the same problem. So I got a new USB wifi adaptor that said it supported Linux...same problem. I gave up and have been using a MacBook ever since lol.

Doesn't everyone use OpenCode or Claude Code these days? I haven't heard about V0 in a long time.

I was wondering why stuff was written in JS in the past - it seems obvious to use a faster language for these tools, but I then realised that these massive sprawling Typescript codebases are a modern phenomena. I sort of wonder if the tooling is just step one, and step two is not just the tooling but the other codebases going from TS to a faster lang (like Go).

Speaking of Go, Esbuild is amazing. You can write entire dev servers and build pipelines in a couple hundred lines of Go, with hot reloading etc. Full control over your build process, plugins are compiled with the builder so you don't pay the JS -> Go cost, it's really great stuff. I love Esbuild, thank you Evan :)

Yeah my guess is that it takes roughly the same amount of time regardless if it's AI agents or hand coding, the time just gets spent in different ways (writing vs reading for example).

I suspect the argument is that both AI and a compiler enables building software at a higher level of abstraction.

I think it's pretty clear at this point we will need some mechanism of confirming the veracity of media online. Unless we can reliably detect AI-generated images and videos we will need something like a chain-of-custody for media, but I'm sure that will bring it's own challenges and issues with a lack of openness.