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Using AI for over a year now on a daily basis, most AI tools do not struggle with Rust, they struggle to provide value. If I do not instruct them to keep the output to the bare minimum, I usually end up with 10x the output what would be a simple solution to my problem.
But I don't want to make the claim lightly, so I did an experiment.
I signed up for copilot pro, and have been using their 'edit' feature. This is more than just their auto complete.
I set myself a goal to create a playable web game of classic frogger.
It took 4 hours with copilot "edit" and my full attention.
I didn't write a single line of code, but I did ask it to refactor and gave it a project description.
I suspect this would have taken me 4 days full time to get to this level.
Try it out:
> Meanwhile, software developers spot code fragments seemingly lifted from public repositories on Github and lose their shit. What about the licensing? If you’re a lawyer, I defer. But if you’re a software developer playing this card? Cut me a little slack as I ask you to shove this concern up your ass. No profession has demonstrated more contempt for intellectual property. This kind of guilt-by-association play migh…
Plagiarism is taking somebody else's work and claiming that you yourself created it. It is a form of deception, depriving another of credit while selling their accomplishments as your own.
Piracy on the other hand is the violation of a person's monopoly rights on distributing certain works. This may damage said person's livelihood, but the authorship remains clear.
One thing that really bothered me that the author glossed over (perhaps they don't care, given the tone of the article) is where they said: > Does an intern cost $20/month? Because that’s what Cursor.ai costs. > Part of being a senior developer is making less-able coders productive, be they fleshly or algebraic. But do you know what another part of being a senior developer is? Not just making them more productive, bu…
Cursor is a heck of a lot more than $20/month if you actually want it working for a full work day, every day.
This article does not touch on the thing which worries me the most with respect to LLMs: the dependence . Unless you can run the LLM locally, on a computer you own, you are now completely dependent on a remote centralized system to do your work. Whoever controls that system can arbitrarily raise the prices, subtly manipulate the outputs, store and do anything they want with the inputs, or even suddenly cease to opera…
In 20 years, memory has doubled 32x
It means that we could have 16 TB memory computers in 2045.
It can unlock a lot of possibilities. If even 1 TB is not enough by then (better architecture, more compact representation of data, etc).
I'm on the side of AI is a huge productivity booster (by my guess... 10x) But I don't want to make the claim lightly, so I did an experiment. I signed up for copilot pro, and have been using their 'edit' feature. This is more than just their auto complete. I set myself a goal to create a playable web game of classic frogger. It took 4 hours with copilot "edit" and my full attention. I didn't write a single line of co…
I think this article is pretty spot on — it articulates something I’ve come to appreciate about LLM-assisted coding over the past few months. I started out very sceptical. When Claude Code landed, I got completely seduced — borderline addicted, slot machine-style — by what initially felt like a superpower. Then I actually read the code. It was shockingly bad. I swung back hard to my earlier scepticism, probably even…
Busy code I need to generate is difficult to do with AI too. Because then you need to formalize the necessary context for an AI assistant, which is exhausting with an unsure result. So perhaps it is just simpler to write it yourself quickly.
I understand comments being negative, because there is so much AI hype without having to many practical applications yet. Or at least good practical applications. Some of that hype is justified, some of it is not. I enjoyed the image/video/audio synthesis hype more tbh.
Test cases are quite helpful and comments are decent too. But often prompting is more complex than programming something. And you can never be sure if any answer is usable.
It's not just Rust. It's everything that has been created post the last vacuum. You need a large corpus for LLM to get decent-ish.
Making fun of people who care about copyright (implying that fly abuses GPL for instance) is just icing on the cake.