pmarreck

Did it ever claim it was a CLI?

I am absolutely plotting the route and intervening when the car tries to do something stupid. That ends up working out a lot better than actually driving the car because you can focus on the goals, the car often knows better routes that you failed to consider, you can measure the tradeoffs and you can determine the minimum-viable-path to get there, so just fuck right the hell off with this stupid-ass baseless skepticism

the ones learning how to run the looms safely and productively are going to continue to succeed and scale upwards and outwards while you get paid pennies to use knitting needles on bespoke hand-coded solutions. And at this point, I don't give a damn anymore because you lot deserve your upcoming rot 1000%, especially with a stubborn pissant plebe fucking answer like that. Holy shit. You're literally going to stubborn yourself into poverty just to make a point. Enjoy.

Same. In fact I think going to Zig, possibly on the way to Rust, would have been a far more pragmatic route.

But I guess my opinion is null and void since I "slop-code"

I guess that since you haven't built the car you're driving, your opinions on it are null and void as well.

Anyone who actually believes that I can't have ANY sound opinion on Zig after 31 projects building with it should get their head examined for brain tumors. I mean, it's not like I have to deal with all the positive and negative effects of things written in it. It's not like I've had to solve problems in it that emerged when the LLM didn't do things correctly (and yes, I can tell when this is so, and not just when things are buggy). And it's not like I don't know (by heart, not by LLM) at least 15 other languages that I can draw on (C, for example, for which I not only got an A in a class at Cornell once, but was in fact the person with the highest score in a class of ~150 people... A perfect score, in fact) to form valid opinions in combination with how I see Zig working.

So please take your baseless skepticism and baseless assumptions and shove them up your ass, dude. I have work to do, and I'm far more capable of it now than I was, thanks to the LLM boost.

Anyone actually using it knows it is better. The C interop is so good that there is no use-case where C is the better option IMHO

there’s a simple answer to all of these things that will cause the market to take care of it: simply increase the Linux gaming market size

and given how shitty Microsoft is treating everything lately, it won’t even be hard

And what has happened in the past any time there was job displacement? Should we have continued to employ the manual knitters after looms came out?

Gaming’s home deserves to be on Linux.

I know GabeN agrees with me, and he’s worked hard to make it happen.

i’m thinking it’s an intentional turn of phrase

so for example in native English, if someone upset some people, you might say, just to be creatively different:

“oh boy. people be big mad”

it is an idiom, not necessarily officially part of the language. just saying things in a silly way to be different

“now you’ve done it… People be cryin’!”

I think it might also be an echo of pidgin English/Creole/caribbean English? Would be an interesting language dive. Ask an AI!

you must be this guy

https://x.com/peregrinepulp/status/2077839461749338560?s=46&...

The limit of these things being at least partially due to the users’ imagination explains at least some of the terrible criticisms I see out there which do not stand up to scrutiny. Perfect example just now in the wild: https://x.com/peregrinepulp/status/2077839461749338560?s=46&...

anyway, your idea is sweet, likely because you are smart

Impressive and surprisingly performant, but what's the use-case?

If anything, this is an ad for WASM!

It worked for me but I had to enable something in about:config

javascript.options.wasm_js_promise_integration

AI will replace humans because giant business believe they can do the same work, not because they will actually be able to.

This has been being claimed for at least 2 years now. Wouldn't we already be seeing disasters if this was the case? It's certainly been around long enough to cause some real damage. Instead there is a slow trickle of things that makes the news by people who didn't bother instituting a single fucking control. For example, I am completely immune to `rm -rf` style fuckups because I wrote rm-safe years ago and it is mapped to `rm` in any environment that the LLM will run in: https://github.com/pmarreck/rm_safe

In any event, it's not a replacer, it's an augmenter. Nothing will replace humans, because we are the stakeholders; it may shift them around, though.

The correctness of an application is limited by your ability to understand and describe what you need.

If you write code in Lean 4 or Idris 2, you may not completely understand why it is or isn't correct, but their respective compilers will certainly prove it to you one way or the other.

We already are perfectly functional with incomplete understandings. An entire generation of web developers have had successful careers without having a single clue how compilers work or how machine code works. Now is there a type of problem that sometimes comes along that DOES require deep understanding? Of course, that's when you call in the heavy artillery. Or the advanced LLM. Or both. See my point?

I was going to say, perhaps generate a failing test case, but testing for proper unicode rendering might be tricky??

I'm sure this exact topic has been argued hundreds of times already on HN, but I think I have a new "possibly agreeable to both sides" perspective on this after having lost man-years to retired corporate code aka "FAIAP, throwaway code"

Let LLMs write the corpo code, as it will be unlikely to still be running in 5-10 years. Frontier AI is already at the point where it writes fewer bugs per LOC than humans. By a lot.

Go ahead and do your bespoke coding on your side-project loves and core libraries... The stuff that will last, anyway.

But if you're working for a corpo and still doing bespoke... That's... not gonna last, I'm afraid. Well, either you remaining there, or that, as it were.

cool, now do zstd!

LOL.

The article makes a point of explaining how the world-renowned expert on identifying deepfake scams can no longer pass his own tests.

If an expert can't distinguish, it has absolutely nothing to do with being "stupid" or not. So send them that, maybe.

If they are still stubborn about it, then thank them for contributing to the future funding of Scam the World With AI.

Arrange a secret phrase in advance- ideally generated randomly. Stick it up on the wall of the aging parent or grandparent- maybe in the bedroom, where guests are unlikely to go. Make it innocuous-looking (hidden in plain sight). Require that phrase to be said to prove identity. Reset it if it ever gets used on a call legitimately.

only if the book is being held by someone in the car.

Presumably, the example missed the part where they stated the book was being held in front by an outside agent, because that is the only way it would make sense.

I have learned the hard way that "corpo code" is ephemeral. I spent at least 2 man-years on Ruby/Rails code for Desk.com, once spending an entire month to solve a really bad and intermittent session-logout issue that stumped 8 developers before me (I could tell because they left a bunch of commented-out debug code and I had the git-blame lines), and after I left, that whole stack got retired and its clients moved to some garbage Salesforce offering as part of their crufty Java monolith. (Sorry, SFDC.)

So if we move from "bespoke handcrafted code" to "roughly-engineered, unstylish but still quite working LLM-generated code" in that space, there is LITERALLY no love lost.

Spend your handcrafted love-energy on open-source or library code that will stick around. Leave the corpo code to the LLMs, I say, especially if you don't own it.

Yes, but some cheap USB-C devices only charge when the other end is USB-A.

This is not to spec, and to my knowledge this was a cost-cutting measure done by Chinese companies to cheapen manufacturing costs.

So for that reason I CANNOT simply rely on USB-C, I also have to have a USB-C-to-A converter and a USB-A-to-C cable, which is of course ridiculous. Thanks, China.

Yes, I signed up for the waitlist for the new one and got in.

Still sucks

So this is essentially a predictive mental model similar to the one real programmers have while they're coding?

I'm running the developer beta and it's still horrible.

The first Mac app I ever built, which was at least 6 months ago using only AI, was purely LLM without XCode at all.

Why is my Siri still so horrible at dictating text then?

also, the fact that you can compile to any target from any target

Define “quality”

(I’m pretty sure both you and I would “know it when we see it”, but…)