Don't fall into the anti-AI hype

Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by onlyrealcuzzo on Sunday January 11, 2026 @10:31PM (#46583740)

I'm not sure if I got in this weird LLM bubble where they give me bad advice to drive engagement, because I can't resist trying to correct them and tell them how absurdly wrong they are.

But it is astounding how terrible they are at debugging non-trivial assembly in my experience.

Anyone else have input here?

Am I in a weird bubble? Or is this just not their forte?

It's truly incredible how thoughtless they can be, so I think I'm in a bubble.

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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by smj-edison on Monday January 12, 2026 @01:35AM (#46584845)

I've tried to use Claude Code with Sonnet 4.5 for implementing a new interpreter, and man is it bad with reference counting. Granted, I'm doing it in Zig, so there's not as much training, but Claude will suggest the most stupid changes. All it does is make the rare case of incorrect reference counting more rare, not fixing the underlying problem. It kept heaping on more and more hacks, until I decided enough is enough and rolled up my sleeves. I still can't tell if it makes me faster, or if I'm faster.

Even when refactoring, it would change all my comments, which is really annoying, as I put a lot of thought into my comments. Plus, the time it took to do each refactoring step was about how long it would take me, and when I do it I get the additional benefit of feeling when I'm repeating code too often.

So, I'm not using it for now, except for isolating bugs. It's addicting having it work on it for me, but I end up feeling disconnected and then something inevitably goes wrong.

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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by onlyrealcuzzo on Monday January 12, 2026 @08:50AM (#46588487)

I'm also building a language in Zig!

Good luck!

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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by smj-edison on Monday January 12, 2026 @12:12PM (#46591338)

Oh cool! I'd love to hear more. I'm implementing an existing language, Tcl, but I'm working on making it safe to share values between threads, since a project I contribute to[1] uses Tcl for all the scripting, but they have about a 30% overhead with serialization/deserialization between threads, and it doesn't allow for sharing large values without significant overheads. I'm also doing some experiments with heap representation to reduce data indirection, so it's been fun getting to learn how to implement malloc and other low-level primitives I usually take for granted.

[1] folk.computer

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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by selestify on Monday January 12, 2026 @01:47AM (#46584945)

> I can't resist trying to correct them and tell them how absurdly wrong they are.

Oh god I thought I was the only one. Do you find yourself getting mad at them too?

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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by onlyrealcuzzo on Monday January 12, 2026 @08:49AM (#46588467)

If a normal person looked at my messages, they could safely assume I've gone crazy.

Yes, nothing has made me angry like their insistence that they are always right, even when you prove them wrong.

Again, I think I've done this to myself.

They know that gets me to respond, and all they care about is engagement.

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