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Not really about the content of the blog post but am I the only one bothered by the complete lack of capitalization? Granted it may be because of my screen reader but my TTS engine…

This is interesting but what I would love to see is Mac M4/M5 performance (speed) on an Intel laptop CPU. I know that it will be really difficult to pull off (assuming it's achieva…

> Oh. So, because I said I work in software you assumed I worked in safety critical systems? No, I didn't. I asked you to provide me an example of code that you had generated via A…

Sorry, but we aren't talking about me here. You were the one who made the claim that AI pretty much makes making software trivial nowadays. Specifically, you wrote: > Making softwa…

Interesting take. Can you link us to your (correct, maybe even formally correct) AI-generated software? Given how general this post is, I assume you wouldn't mind if I extend this …

And if you believe that blocking bots is bad, then by all means provide a better alternative that doesn't increase costs for sysadmins. If you believe that the website should just …

Sure, but I would be incredibly shocked if the courts overturned these conclusions. These kinds of determinations are within the remit of the USCO, so a court does not need to come…

This is not necessarily true. While no court has explicitly come out and said that copyright does not apply to AI-generated works of authorship, the US copyright office has[0]: > B…

> Let's take world leaders as an example. Suppose one starts making up everything they say on the spot, never researches or cares about facts, and just says things people like. Uh.…

For me it's the opposite: I don't have $200 plus to throw at Anthropic every Month, and when I do get to use Fable it rips through my usage credits like there's absolutely no tomor…

I mean. This is what happens with vibe-coded projects. When there's no actual software engineering going on, I wouldn't expect anything better than this.

I don't use Claude code, just Claude web, and I get this all the time. Or (since I have it push me to actually think) it will ask me some question in our back-and-forth, and then r…

I would look at osxcross[0] if you haven't looked into it already. It can at least do the "build stuff targeting macos" part (well, relatively speaking). Swift support kinda breaks…

> The deterministic script is probably overly complex and hard to read, maybe supports ten billion platform combinations. Uh sorry what? Can you point to a PKGBUILD that is indeed …

I did also say optimize as well as. As in: your compiler needs to be genuinely better than GCC to compete with it. Good Windows support is a start, but you have yet to reach archit…

Prove it and that your compiler is fully C compliant and can handle all possible inputs GCC can accept (and optimize as well as GCC), then we'll talk. Only then will your compiler …

To be clear, that case did not decide copyrightability of APIs, just fair use in Google's specific circumstances. I wish the court had ruled that APIs themselves could not be copyr…

Yep, same for those LLM creators who get all pissy when you provide (constructive) criticism about what they've outputted (or ask reasonable questions like if the person is doing a…

Agreed. And DuckDB certainly has a very nice API. But I wouldn't use it for a general dataset (think document storage).

Sure, but this is what I'm getting at. :) SQLite is a general-purpose engine that is absolutely amazing at what it does and where it's used (and in many cases even where it isn't a…

Yes? They certainly act like they are...

How are these two DB engines even comparable other than at the edges? They handle two completely separate workload types: one is more a general-purpose DB engine and the other is s…

No, because AI safety standards are, I think, context-specific. We could for example say that "no development of nuclear weapons" should be one, but then you need all of these exce…

Agreed, I'd prefer it stick around for the long-term because I use it when creating temporary venvs to screw around with things that I'm not certain about committing to in my actua…

Might get downvoted but was thinking this exact thing when reading this debate. Rustations have this very bad habit (IMO) of pushing the "my language is better than yours" to an ex…