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Re:Coding agent in 94 lines of Ruby by dontlaugh on Sunday May 18, 2025 @09:38AM (#44021344)
Ruby, the language famous for lots of difficult to understand runtime “magic”?
Re:Coding agent in 94 lines of Ruby by radanskoric on Sunday May 18, 2025 @11:42AM (#44022173)
It's a sharp knife. You can create a messy nightmare or a clean super readable codebase, it's up to how good the author is.
Re:Coding agent in 94 lines of Ruby by dontlaugh on Sunday May 18, 2025 @02:43PM (#44023461)
So Ruby isn’t actually a good target for stochastic parrots, after all.

You’d want the opposite, a language with automatically checked constraints that is also easy to read.

Re:Coding agent in 94 lines of Ruby by hoipaloi on Monday May 19, 2025 @10:25PM (#44037185)
I'll take ruby, give me the sharp knife, I know what I'm doing...