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I really don't want this to be AI writing because I enjoyed it, but as other commenters have pointed out, the rate of publishing (according to the linked Twitter account) is very rapid. I'm worried that I can't tell.
I really don't want this to be AI writing because I enjoyed it, but as other commenters have pointed out, the rate of publishing (according to the linked Twitter account) is very rapid. I'm worried that I can't tell.
I really enjoyed the essay, only checked afterwards when I started reading comments.
I hate that I'm starting to develop a media literacy immune system for blog posts of all things.
Ada is a language that had a lot of useful features much earlier than any of the languages that are popular today, and some of those features are still missing from the languages easily available today. In the beginning Ada has been criticized mainly for 2 reasons, it was claimed that it is too complex and it was criticized for being too verbose. Today, the criticism about complexity seems naive, because many later l…
> Today, the criticism about complexity seems naive, because many later languages have become much more complex than Ada I don’t think you really understand what you’re saying here. I have worked on an ada compiler for the best part of a decade. It’s one of the most complex languages there is, up there with C++ and C#, and probably rust
The Twitter account is from April 2026: https://xcancel.com/Iqiipi_Essays There is no named public author. A truly amazing productivity for such a short time period and generously the author does not take any credit.
No author because its a bot.
Ada was also ignored because the typical compiler cost tens of thousands of dollars. No open source or free compiler existed during the decades where popular languages could be had for free. I think that is the biggest factor of all.
In that era, the largest blocker for Ada was it ws viewed as having a lot of overhead for things that weren't generally seen as useful (safety guarantees). The reputation was it only mattered if you were working on military stuff, etc.
Every time Ada is mentioned here, I start a quest - how to try it for free on Windows. And every time I fail.
Every time Ada is mentioned here, I start a quest - how to try it for free on Windows. And every time I fail.
Nowadays, you should be able to use anything from Linux under WSL.
In the past using Ada was more painful, because you had to use some old version of gcc, which could clash with the modern gcc used for C/C++/Fortran etc.
However, during the last few years these problems have disappeared. If you build any current gcc version, you must just choose the option of having ada among the available languages and all will work smoothly.
Every time Ada is mentioned here, I start a quest - how to try it for free on Windows. And every time I fail.
Every time Ada is mentioned here, I start a quest - how to try it for free on Windows. And every time I fail.
I really don't want this to be AI writing because I enjoyed it, but as other commenters have pointed out, the rate of publishing (according to the linked Twitter account) is very rapid. I'm worried that I can't tell.
does it really matter? If AI can produce an essay of such quality - take my respect and steal my time please
Most longform readers will assume an author has deep expertise and spent a lot of time organizing their thoughts, which lends their ideas some legitimacy and trust. For a small blog, an 8,000 word essay is a passion project.
But if AI is detected in the phrasing and not disclosed, it begs a lot of questions. Did AI write the whole thing, or just light edits? Are the facts AI generated, too, and not from personal experience? What motivated someone to produce this content if they were going to automate parts of its creation; why would they value the output more than the process?