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Imagine if artists were embracing AI the same way coders were being forced to. All that would be left there is taste, and your argument applies as readily there as well.

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I think you are taking the wrong lesson. The lesson is not "things make break." Many languages break things. Haskell has made it a feature, not a bug. But this change did more than…

You should consider doing the hard work yourself here. I sat down and reasoned through a Perceus-style RC mechanism a few years ago, made difficult by the presence of one-shot deli…

Tonka seems better equipped and free…

You should link to your resume

I've had it write Scheme with little issue -- it even completely the latter half of a small toy compiler. I think the REPL is the issue, not the coding; forcing it to treat the REP…

Bro, of all the stupid shit we spend taxes on ($50 billion on corn subsidies), you're mad about space exploration?

Coining this phrase now: "It's the tokens stupid" Hooking up to and generating calls across filesystem APIs cost multiple orders of magnitude more than calling `ls`. These tooling …

When they are the people in charge of the nuclear arsenal, the silliness stops.

I do not want to read a bunch of gross torture porn, though. Greg Egan is far more interesting and spares you that.

As someone who has implemented full match in several industrial languages: this isn’t really match; it doesn’t not handle unpacking. And that is by far the only interesting bit. Th…

I watched an older sibling go off the rails. That is what kept me from doing it.

Shouldn't compaction be exactly that letter to its future self?

How's the war effort?

It is referred to as "simple sabotage": https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/the-art-of-simple-sabotage...

It also doesn't matter because Claude 4.6 is so much better at writing code that nobody cares what OpenAI is doing.

So, to be clear, you pulled your children out of public school because students were being educated to accept other people who do not adhere to their own set of religious and cultu…

It's pretty easy to do at runtime without weak pointers, people who write rust are just allergic to reference counting. Which is absurd, because most programmer use RC values thous…

Rust will when when I can finally match through boxes.

My thoughts exactly: he figured out in 2025 what the rest of us knew in 2022.

I have retreated into only accepting small snippets from it. Asking it to write print functions, that sort of thing, or a specific loop that I hand-review. For the same reason.

The issue is most developers do not bother to write any, and the ones that are written are most-often vapid typing failures ("these`int`s cannot be negative" should be handled by a…

This sort of manual has since been gamified by Zachtronics, and I think it is genuinely a better alternative. If you are trying to pick up the basics of programming assembly and ar…

Luckily, humans are rather expert water-boilers at this point in time.