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It is absolutely not the em dashes that make it read like slop and the author even acknowledges it.

The "contributor poker" made by someone on the Zig core team is a good one. You're thinking from the perspective like yourself and how they might be affected negatively by this pol…

LOC is not a good indicator of productivity or quality - or it anything these days it's a negative one. "Million-line software" is meaningless.

What kind of evidence do you expect beyond "random claims" here? This post is incredibly obviously AI generated, to the extent that I doubt a human author edited it at all. Not "wr…

The Phoronix article contains no more information than his resignation email.

They also complained about build times, and in fact the Rust rewrite started immediately after some other drama about Bun being unable to contribute back LLM-written changes to the…

As a comparison point, someone decided to try to fix the issues in the Zig original and is now claiming sub-second build times, plus fixed bugs, by modernizing the codebase and sti…

You're not making all the decisions in that case. You're making approvals and steering but the agent is making decisions and is framing what is even available to you to approve. Wh…

Reverse centaur means a machine is using you to get things done. Presumably at the other end of the ticketing system is other people. So not really the same thing at all.

Kids fresh out of college with crippling student debt and no jobs should just buy increasingly expensive GPUs capable of running the best local models. Well done, problem solved.

They claim to have made the Zig compiler faster, which is disputed. Even if true that wouldn't make it inadequate without their changes.

Why in five years? Where are these hyper productive small companies running laps around bigger ones right now?

They don't have to do that at all. They could've used mainline Zig, without their vibe coded changes to it.

You don't have to agree to treat people with respect. Using someone's preferred pronouns doesn't hurt you.

Believing in the capabilities of _upcoming_ LLMs that you have never actually used shows that you buy into marketing and hype very easily. No one really knows what the future will …

To answer "what better way," clearly using the skills regularly is much better. Letting them atrophy for potentially multiple years and then trying to resurrect them repeatedly doe…

I think you should be very picky about generated PRs not as an act of sabotage but because very obviously generated ones tend to balloon complexity of the code in ways that makes i…

It's disappointing that this is clearly being downvoted due to disagreement - it's a valid perspective. We have very little evidence of the overall impact of aggressively generatin…

>Here are some well known names who are now saying they regularly use LLM's for development. For many of these folks, that wasn't true 1-2 years ago: This is a huge overstatement t…

You're going to get a lot of "skill issue" comments but your experience basically matches mine. I've only found LLMs to be useful for quick demos where I explicitly didn't care abo…

>It should've been a lot shorter Honestly I don't think so. An essay like this is more than just content, it's an experience for the reader. I value the time I got to spend with it…

This a hilariously ironic parallel to the debate over whether code is an art or a science, referenced right in the article. It can be both.

>I had actually just been told by management this last week that I need to become AI 'fluent' as part of future performance evaluations and I have been deeply conflicted about it. …

>The rent-a-brain aspect is more acutely alarming. And I will be blunt here: It sure does seem like the prolonged use of LLMs can reliably turn certain people’s minds into mush... …