Zig is a much smaller community and has already had some drama. You can’t magically avoid it. All communities of a sufficient size have drama.
It might be true that Rust has a bit more drama because of the high concentration of “cat girls” as flying_sheep put it, but I don’t think there’s enough data to really say. Also I wouldn’t be surprised if Zig attracts similar characters given its closely related goals.
Happy twelfth birthday!
simulation ≠ reality
Yes it is, if your simulation is sufficiently accurate. Let me rephrase. Which part of the brain do you think has behaviour that is required for intelligence/consciousness and that behaviour cannot be replicated with sufficient accuracy on a computer (of arbitrary capacity)?
Pay to use the better models.
Ask it to write a Typescript script using Deno. Bash is a horrible error-prone language. Humans cannot write correct Bash scripts; no way AI can do it.
Yeah I’ve quit startups twice when they ran out of money. They were both transparent about it and not everyone quit. One of them got bought and is still alive. One of them found a bit of extra money…
But to be honest a big part of quitting was because the product obviously wasn’t commercially successful enough, and I didn’t really want to work on a doomed product.
I don’t really understand what you’re asking tbh. If you want to quit, quit! You don’t owe them anything.
That’s just nonsense. There are plenty of competent nice people working there. You can say that about leadership if you like.
A machine learning model is a computer program. It is fundamentally a math equation, which we understand completely.
Lol you couldn’t be more wrong about this. One of the most widely commented things about DNNs is that we don’t really understand them completely. I don’t know how you would miss that if you knew anything about AI at all.
A living brain is not fundamentally a math equation
It is. A very complicated one, sure. Which part of the brain do you think is impossible to simulate with maths?
Probably fine if you review the code carefully. And if you’re working in a domain that AI is decent at (e.g. web stuff). But even if it wasn’t it doesn’t mean AI cannot program.
This is true. But it doesn’t invalidate any of my points. Humans have unique failure modes too.
This is like saying “but it is just a sophisticated network of neurons. All it can do is transform input signals into output signals. That’s what it does.”
That’s true for humans too surely? How would anyone fix problems they don’t know exist?
You can totally fix AI-written code with AI. You tell it something is wrong, it tries to fix it.
I did a recent experiment with AI writing a document format converter and that’s exactly what I did. It wrote some code, I checked the output, found a formatting issue or similar, asked it to fix it, repeat. It works unreasonably well and with Fable the final code isn’t even bad.
Agents cannot program
This is just factually incorrect. Difficult to get past a false assertion of this magnitude.
They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed to mimic the distribution of programming.
I thought we had got over the stochastic parrot nonsense by now.
You can totally have objections about the ability of AI to program - how good it is, poor failure modes, high cost, technical debt, knowledge debt, broken social contracts, etc. All valid.
But if you’re still in the “It’s just a next word predictor! It can’t really think!” stage of denial, even now… Sorry you’re an idiot.
Who is still using pip though? They should just retire it.
Links 1, 2, and 4 definitely don’t confirm what you said - that “AI Slop has singlehandedly created more vulnerabilities total than any other changes in tech or software”. They are just saying that AI isn’t very good at writing secure code. That’s a very different claim.
I’m not sure about link 3 - seems like you have to pay to get the report or something.
studies have shown AI Slop has singlehandedly created more vulnerabilities total than any other changes in tech or software
Link?
The price per token for the same model isn’t going up (if you are paying per token anyway - I know they underpriced subscriptions).
Ok, your money I guess. In fairness it is harder to know if someone else who uses AI is just slopping shit out or guiding and checking it.
But also it’s not like humans contractors are guaranteed to write good code. I have seen plenty of human written code that is far worse than anything an AI would product (check thedailywtf for examples).
I’m not the biggest fan of AI either but honestly you’re just wasting a ton of money with that policy. Web sites are something that AI is pretty good at and yours doesn’t sound especially complicated - just a lot of work.
This is nonsense. Old software was not fast. Computers used to take minutes to start up. That’s not an exaggeration. MS Word could easily take 30 seconds to open.
Obviously if you run it on modern hardware it’s going to be lightning fast, but not because the authors cared more about performance and efficiency than we do now.