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Better tested software duh

While, in general, I would agree, I fail to see how this point is relevant to the situation at hand.

What is being argued is that, currently, there's a hiring crisis across many industries, that affects even highly qualified people.

What you said would be relevant only if applied to today's market, not to the early 2000s.

Just to clarify: the *team* of Deno is joining cloudlflare. Deno as a project is being discontinued instead.

> I was initially skeptical that this would work. And if it did, it would require hours to complete with dead ends along the way.

> But it turns out it completed the task easily in 40 minutes with 0 deaths and minimal complications.

First of all, the fact that the article talks about "speeding up" the rust compiler doesn't automatically mean that the compiler is "slow"[0].

Now, is rustc slower than e.g. clang? by how much? why?

Those are different (and complicated) questions. It really depends on what you're compiling, but I'd say rustc can be 1-5x slower (maybe more at times?).

The reasons are many and varied, but in general rust compilation is slower because the compiler is doing way more things compared to C (monomorphization, complex trait resolution + type inference, borrow checker..)

[0]: Also I'd argue that "slow" without a concrete point of reference is a meaningless term in this context.

I'm surprised you didn't get any. I wouldn't have any issues in saying that I don't.

I also had similar feelings recently. I think the article is good and captures many of the issues I have with the current state of AI development, but I feel like the conclusion/reaction is somewhat exaggerated.

Of course if someone wants to stop using AI completely that's a completely valid decision[0], but I somewhat feel like AI is just a tool that can be easily misused.

I constantly have to review giant PRs and I noticed that I'm handwaving them more and more often. We went from almost no commit messages to walls of text that no one reads. We're starting to become bottlenecked on reviews because code is coming out too fast.

But at the same time, these are mostly issues stemming from a lack of understanding of why some of the standards/processes existed in the first place. If a developer thinks the commits have to be written just to tick a checkbox, they won't care about making them readable.

And at the same time, I'm getting a lot of value from AI, in tasks that do not necessarily have such adverse effects:

- I can create quick tools to test something, or parse/process some data. In these instances code quality is not important and I don't really want to spend hours on developing it myself (just to feel accomplished?)

- I can research issues in our codebase by just providing a log file. It's not always gonna be accurate or correct but it often gives me a very good starting point, almost always quicker than I could've done it myself

- While I do not use AI to completely generate ticket descriptions, asking it to generate me a body containing the relevant code snippets and references allows me to focus on verifying that what I'm writing is correct and understandable.

Etc etc.

So I don't know if it's just the nature of my work, the fact that I have a different skillset, or different priorities. But it somehow feels weird to me wanting to completely abandon AI just because in some cases it can lead to frustrating consequences.

[0]: I too just started a new project where I'm forcing myself to use absolutely no AI!

> log-in with X

No thanks? Also why do you even need a login?

Claude Cowork is also a better harness than GitHub Copilot. Many such cases. I never mentioned coding being the only goal.

GitHub Copilot is an incredibly limited tool compared to any real harness, and I'm so tired about all of these studies that claim a lack of efficiency while at the same time doing everything in their power to shoot themselves in the foot.

Also, it's insane to me that this whole article has been written without specifying anywhere the models being used.

Like, of course you're not gonna be productive if all you have is Sonnet 4.6???

Roughly 5-10$ for 10h, assuming you few-shot it.

Price per hour:

- 3.8 Flash TTS, standard: $0.81

- 3.8 Flash TTS, batch: $0.41

- 3.8 Flash‑Lite TTS, standard: $0.54

- 3.8 Flash‑Lite TTS, batch: $0.27

I'm sure this was already easily doable for years by using plain and boring computer vision

Ohhh. I just saw the ChronoWiki banner and clicked on it thinking it was a redirect. My bad!

That part is not on breezewiki.com, is it?

While I agree that fandom is shit - the link you shared doesn't contain any mentions about int overflow

No, what you said what that "They also downplay global warming, nuclear war, wealth inequality" which is just a flat out lie

Who are these "they" you're talking about?

If your answer is EA or rats then a simple Google search will just show you that it's not true?

This sounds incredibly judgemental and imposing of your own world view and moral compass

90% of this is just driven by strong emotional reactions from someone that feels uncomfortable about people being open about their non-standard sexual life, in the same way that many people have weird negative reactions about polyamorous relationships in general.

The remaining 10% is just the author trying to sprinkle in cult-like insinuations to justify his contempt.

Regularly meeting with people that have shared interests and ideas is not a cult.

Finding some of those people attractive and having sex with them is not a cult.

But somehow the fact that the romantic/sexual relationships are not traditionally monogamous makes it a cult?

Are you implying that every rationalist that preaches AI doomerism gets invited to orgies?

> but if you want to stop a boulder rolling down hill, what can you do besides run ahead of it and try stop it?

Maybe the first thing to do is to stop making the boulder bigger?

I'm ready to stand corrected, but I'm pretty positive that such a process would require 1) an insane amount of work and 2) wouldn't produce anything close to SOTA results because of the lack of training data.

It is my understanding that - sadly - the insane amount of copyrighted works and corporate crap is a prerequisite for having a corpus that is big enough

SMS are virtually free for every carrier. The prices for the customers exist to partially offset the fixed costs of the infrastructure (which already exists).

Communications/announcements from the government can easily be posted on the government's website or, if really needed, sent as an SMS

>one notable case had them pay 4.2mil

Ok so if most individuals that care sue them it will become a.. $17B fine. Doesn't sound that impressive either.

If I can afford to spend 10k$ on groceries every month then surely 10$ in gambling isn't all that bad?

Irrespective of how this number is calculated, whether is blue/green water etc here is some comparison data for context, since I personally think that hearing big numbers without any point of reference is pointless.

Annual withdrawals (2015)

- Thermoelectric power: ~48.5 trillion gal

- Irrigation: ~43.1 trillion gal

- Public supply: ~14.2 trillion gal

- Self-supplied industrial: ~5.4 trillion gal

- Aquaculture: ~2.76 trillion gal

- Mining: ~1.46 trillion gal

- Livestock: ~730 billion gal

- Total: ~117.5 trillion gal (322 Bgal/day)

Source: Estimated use of water in the United States in 2015: U.S. Geological Survey Circular - https://doi.org/10.3133/cir1441

If there's no service charge added explicitly then that amount is usually directly factored in the cost of the food and redistributed to the service staff. As far as I know there are currently no EU countries where tipping contributes towards salary.

However, contrary to what many might say, tipping has been a part of European culture for a very long time (especially in the UK, Germany and some Slavic countries). You won't offend basically anyone if you don't tip, since it's basically considered an extra thanks for the service, but small tips/round-ups are fairly common[0] and sadly somewhat important in countries with lower minimum wages or heavily seasonal tourism.

*That said*, while I have nothing against tips as a purely voluntary contribution, I'm of the idea that - regardless of traditions and customs - the push to de-normalize compulsory tips is of fundamental importance for establishing (and keeping) decent wages for staff.

[0]: from a few euros, up to 10%. The new 15/20/25% model is purely American and predatory in nature

What if an artist programs a programs a carving robot to create a sculpture? How is that meaningfully different?

Based on your logic that should not qualify, but it currently clearly does: https://quayola.com/selected-unfinished-sculptures/

What revenue do AI-boosted commits provide? Am I missing something?