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Do you think the LLM reads every page on the internet before generating your answer? Of course not. What happens is that it use some sort of ranking algorithm to pick the pages tha…

Google (as it originally) existed wasn't a source of information, it was an *index* of it. You were trusting google as a source for {search_query}, you were trusting the links it g…

Sensible companies don't do a lot of stuff Meta has already been caught doing - sometimes with real consequences (but never enough to actually deter them, of course) - in the pursu…

Meta literally ran a man in the middle attack to spy on it's user's encrypted network traffic when they used third party apps [0]. More recently (and relevant to this issue), the e…

In that case, you'd branch into a separate function/block that runs the calculation. Sure, it's slower than a simple array index to find a coefficient, but you're only incurring th…

Actually, that video predates the one on clean code.

It won't do that for free, companies (and open source maintainers) will have to pay for the tokens used finding vulnerabilities in their own software. That increases the cost of re…

Wouldn't that explanation predict that lower ranking employees would be more impressed with AI than higher ranking ones? Because what we actually observe [0] tends to be the opposi…

> One nice thing about using React even on the web is that it forces your Backend to be REST right from the start. The creator of HTMX would disagree with you (as the person who de…

LLMs are very impressive. Five years ago, the idea that we'd have software that you could ask - in English, mind you! - to rewrite an entire server side JS runtime and you'd get so…

> Deno for instance have ~0.2x as many unsafes. Another point of comparison is density of unsafe: the number of unsafe blocks per line of code and/or file. By this metric, Deno has…

I think 2 is a reasonable concern (and one which has solutions in rust async/await tokio, as FridgeSeal points out). I'm not sure about 1 though. I think having a rough idea what p…

I didn't say they made a good, safe port. I literally said the opposite ("especially if you're flexible about actually upholding rust's rules"). You can get a line by line port to …

To be fair, you can throw an Arc > or Rc > at it if you're starting from something that has multiple "mutable borrows", but that adds runtime cost and complexity.

> Which is still a step ahead of Zig First off, you seem to be under the impression I'm a rust hater. Noting could be further from the truth. Rust is easily my favorite language at…

You can also do one by using `unsafe` liberally, especially if you're flexible about actually upholding rust's rules (as the bun team just did). But either way, you're still stuck …

Except that writing safe rust often requires designing the architecture around rust's ownership model, meaning a file by file, line by line translation doesn't necessarily leave yo…

First, we're talking about a massive rewrite of complex software project which no one has fully reviewed and which the people most familiar with the code base (the bun maintainers)…

There were/are absolutely plenty of real problems with the resulting code pointed out. Running Miri trivially found soundness issues, `SAFETY` comments that demonstrate that the mo…

It's funny, because editor choice is also an analogy I use, to argue for the exact opposite conclusion. Your hypothetical developer wouldn't be using notepad because they're unawar…

You can set the lints to `forbid` instead of `deny`, which means they can't be `allowed` like that.

Normal users aren't using harnesses in the sense developers think of them. They're interacting with models where they've been shoehorned in for no good reason, or they're using the…

Is Claude really that much better than all the others for normal use?

(Sorry I'm being vague, but I'm not sure I'm not sure what's public knowledge) The cap is moderately above the high subscription tiers, and managements/the executives were clearly …

Uber is not the only company that's putting a per-developer limit on AI spending. I know this because I work for another one (and we have a significantly lower limit). You just hea…