compiler-devel

LLMs are only getting better and more competent, especially for code well-covered by tests. On such codebases it's definitely cheaper to maintain code with a LLM than by humans alone. I presume then that the XSLT implementation in Chrome is not well-tested.

That is a good reason. Is XSLT known for security problems the same way that CGI was?

I don't understand what you're saying.

In the age of LLMs I would expect that legacy code bet carried indefinitely. The LLMs will have it indefinitely in their training data, and with code "cheap" to produce now, what are the good reasons for dropping legacy code?

They'd be trading the seed constants for the timestamp constants, more annoying than cute honestly.

Will it be available for MariaDB, too?

If you haven’t already read it, then you may find “The Bitter Lesson” essay interesting to read.

http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

Good points yet how others view the art doesn't affect my enjoyment nor practice of it. Like music, others can enjoy listening to a CD or play their own instrument; I don't care. Why allow others' style and practice influence how we enjoy programming?

I don't understand what's difficult about enjoying programming now that LLMs are everywhere. It's akin to musicians who still play their instruments despite having the ability to stream any music they'd like. Nothing's stopping them from playing their instrument. Why is programming any different?

Do you upgrade your computer when the major release goes out of support?

I always wait one year, upgrading to major release N-1 in August before N comes out in September. I made an exception last year and stayed on Sequoia. It will be August of next year before I consider Golden Gate.

Rosetta is still present in 27.

Nobody really cares about externalized costs. If they did, then cars, electricity, lithium batteries, etc wouldn't be as popular as they are.

Local first models like qwen 3.8 are surprisingly capable even on an M1 MacBook Pro with 32GB of RAM. SOTA is not the only game in town

Why? Does it bother you to see people using their own devices in the ways that they want?

It's amazing to see LLMs give us software and hardware freedoms that the open source movement has only ever dreamed about.

This is patently false, see Tao’s recent use of ChatGPT regarding the Jacobian conjecture.

The greed is as endless as the earth is old.

This argument, while totally valid, will never halt the build out of data centers nor hamper the development of AI.

What’s implied here is that devs were supposed to optimize for user resources, not for developer convenience.

shitty is a perfectly cromulent name.

Didn't ask, don't care.

It's not the despair, it's the turnabout. Reading proofs containing the language that I mentioned seemed to suggest that the ideas were trivial to the author in a way that implied their superior intelligence. Now AI has come along and has, by way of counterexamples, shown theorems to be incorrect in devastating (maybe "trivial") ways. The shoe is on the other foot.

I’m also a human expressing genuine emotion. Why is one more valid than the other?

I can’t help but confess some sense of satisfaction with the upheaval described in the post. Many proofs and textbooks laden with statements like “without loss of generality”, “immediately”, or “obviously” are followed by anything but. AI now counters that streak of smug by toppling some long held theorems and it’s fun to watch.

There are so many neat use cases like this one that I'm skeptical of the AI-is-a-dot-com-bubble naysayers. Not to mention that, unlike in 2000, technical-adjacent people can now get a reasonable approximation of their ideas running quickly.

I've never had a problem with any CDs, even my old Quake CD from about 30 years ago. Probably there's an issue with your drive or the disc wasn't stored well.

Indeed. Things are looking very bleak for software engineering as a specialization. It's been clear for years that Capital has been desperate to crack the software development nut, so to speak. Starting about 15 years ago, the intensity of Capital to destroy software engineering as a lucrative discipline really began in earnest: bootcamps, special certificate programs, the "learn to code" movement, and now AI. For at least 20 years I've heard Capital banging on the door to invade and drive wages down and now they've finally won.

I did the same thing with Ghost of Tsushima because I heard that the PS5 version had performance problems.

The PS5 will be my last Sony console. The PS4 probably should've been my last, but I got caught up in the new generation hype cycle. The PS5 has, practically speaking, no games. It hosts a lot of ports from other systems, but the number of unique, new, and interesting games is near zero. Just rehashes from the PS4 era in the form of DLC, remasters, etc.