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My brother has been playing with Vibe Coding using Gemini, and asked it for an assessment of how it was progressing. Here is the response: "Your primary weakness is a complete tech…

I have had very good results using Claude to write Rust. My prompting is often something like 'I have a database table Foo, here is the DDL: , create CRUD end points at /v0/foo; an…

I find that Claude writes boilerplate SQL very well, and is effectively an 'ORM' for me - I just get plain SQL for CRUD. Complex queries I write myself anyway, so Claude fills the …

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I have been writing software for about 20 years (following on from OChem PhD and research for a few years). I am 'senior' and get paid plenty in Oz... I have aphantasia - I can't v…

> However the novelty of what can be solved is very surprising. I've read that the 'surprise' factor is much reduced when you actually see just how much data these things are train…

"The purpose of economics is to make astrology look respectable!"

I program Rust using the Axum framework and Sqlx. Github copilot is so good at writing CRUD db queries that it feels as easy as an ORM, but without the baggage, complexity, and the…

I got a PhD in Organic Chemistry in 1994. I was a researcher for a few years and converted to software in 2000. The degree turned out to have a lot of transferable skills - especia…

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My journey has been from JVM (Java, Scala, Kotlin) -> Go -> Rust, writing web backends, APIs, integrations etc. I don't write 'clever' code, just sticking stuff into Postgres/PostG…

wow, sounds like someone is taking the back story of Snow Crash a bit too seriously!

I work at an ISP that offers fixed wireless Internet. For marketing purposes I generate viewsheds around each of our ~500 towers, so we can get an idea which suburbs to market to. …

In keeping with the spirit of no-code, this article appears to have been written by ChatGPT... Apart from the mention of some no-code frameworks it is pretty much content-free.

I have recently introduced Rust into my workplace. We do basically Go microservices supporting VueJS front ends. In my opinion Rust is generally superior to Go for basic JSON web s…

I think they make a category error by putting ChatGPT etc in the General column. As far as I can tell we only have narrow definitions of 'intelligence' and ChatGPT falls into one o…

I suspect we are 'looking for the keys under lamp posts' - ie looking where we have the most / easiest to get data.

it seems that 'making a better' GPT-3 or similar model is like climbing higher up a tall tree and claiming you are closer to the moon... technically true, but...

There is a podcast interview [1] with Nick Lane by Sean Carrol that goes into more detail along these lines - a very compelling argument! [1] https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/p…

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