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So much for being one person. Again, you are actually being arrogant when presuming you know better on this very topic.

I don’t think there is any point continuing a discussion from there.

I am pretty sure Facebook has clever people and deep pockets, but it hasn’t materialized properly. I cannot say for the very latest releases, but Google too has been a bit of a laughing stock on this front - same story.

As for viewing things with an economic lens. I profess to having only a moderate grasp of economics, I do better with history and geopolitics- and I think this is another blind spot. Americans largely view the world as “business as usual “, but you profoundly underestimate the animosity, concern, suspicion and outright fear other countries have now. There is simply no way our entire infrastructure will be hooked up to an American “super intelligence” firm where the president calls every other Tuesday to extort a country. And failing to appreciate that leads to vastly more rosy ideas of the growth potential of OpenAI, Anthropic and others.

Rome is not what it once was, and China has plenty of universities, bright people and capital of its own.

I don’t see how anyone, looking at the past 30 years, can be so sure that the US will out-do China. But good on you for being an optimist I guess.

I think the difference is - Chinese labs overwhelmingly submit papers, discuss techniques, ship open weights models.

If they decided to cut anyone off, it becomes gradual, as their tech moves on.

If a certain orange monkey decides his “super” intelligence is a negotiation leverage, the switch can be flipped and its dependents left high and dry.

If you fail to see the difference that’s on you.

Converting works really well when you have an oracle (something that you can test against and that is comprehensive)

I cannot begin to tell you how many places I have seen where this is fundamentally not the case. Not only are those tests missing, the software is fundamentally not written to be easily tested and in cases where multiple services across companies are concerned; how would you?

Rewriting via LLM is just not something the caretakers of a legacy banking- og state infrastructure system would countenance (not should they).

That will put some sweat on some brows :)

But if more an more people changed their attitude, stopped envying jet-setters and instead shamed them for their environmentally reckless attitude, maybe you would see a lot less plane travel, a lot less gas guzzlers, a lot less conspicuous consumption.

Shame works on the vast majority of people. We may lack inherent ethics, but we seldom like to swim against the stream.

I always cared. But I care more as I age. Why? Because I know (vaguely) the danger and I have ____KIDS____.

Older people usually have kids too. For anyone, ANYONE who accepts/knows the dangers we face to just shrug, knowing it's their own kids and grand kids that will suffer (wars, political upheaval, riots, deaths, migration) - no. I don't buy it.

Principally, it's the ignorance of the people to the things that matters most. Maybe they are partially sticking their heads in the sand a bit. But if it truly was properly reported on prime-time news and so on, they would know, and they would care.

I think Nixon’s watergate is a good comparison. It wasn’t nothing, but how many larger scams and scandals has Trump and family been through with apparent electoral acceptance?

And if it is so. How big a reaction would you get from the population if another Theranos happened? I don’t think people would care, really. Shrug and move on.

If you have reason to downvote, present it.

Such as it is - I doubt it, I couldn’t find any papers, so either it goes against someone’s religion or feel free to present your proof where any of the traits of Rust the language has been proven to actually benefit LLM code generation.

I just asked chatgpt today for research on whether any feature of a programming language which has been identified in studies to make it better suited for agentic coding. Or whether popularity in the data-set has been proven to matter or even cross-language learning (knowledge from one language benefitting the LLM in writing in another).

Aside from popularity, nothing I could dredge up could prove strong correlations with anything else - including types

Accepting the premise of 2000$ spent (I doubt it), the author completely forgets that the collectively saved amount far exceeds the 200$ of a single subscription.

Anyway, if I worked at Adobe, or any company with roughly the same business model, I definitely would feel nervous about now. And I still feel sympathy for the devs. But let’s be honest, Adobe principally benefits its shareholders and other dead weight, not so much the developers.

One; you are a private individual- not the local shop which simultaneously picks up all free apples only to turn around and make money off of them.

Secondly, while we can’t speak to everyone picking any open source license - there are good examples of people complaining that they are stressed because they either are underfunded or having to maintain critical infrastructure pieces in their spare time - because companies aren’t donating in exchange for the free code.

You can say “don’t”, but the openssl, xz, … maintainers are often aware how much can break if they don’t keep at it - and so for a sense of societal duty they continue.

If your neighbor stops hanging bags of apples by their house it’s not like they have a reasonable expectation that someone is going to die from starvation or anything.

(Much like contributing back in taxes for the infrastructure used and the educational system producing the qualified employees. But that may be a bridge too far for some of HNs readership :) )

Last I attempted to write some smaller ocaml project I used LLMs for support (but wrote myself). They generally weren’t excellent.

Honestly, types don’t help as much as people want them to. The LLM does best on popular languages, especially those whose use and feel is also mainstream.

That is to say, pick a niche language like Odin, and it may incorrectly start to over-apply Go’isms - knowledge from one language bleeds into how it approaches others.

Come on.

For my part, I loved a few Californian wines, but ever since Trump threatened to invade my country, I haven't bought a single bottle, and I never will.

I think that mirrors others here, those bottles seem to be going out of rotation entirely - and we generally mark whether a product comes from inside the EU now. Which, curiously, started when relations went sour.

Still love you, Germany :)

If you know you are and don’t care, culture fit ! :)

You couldn’t snapshot all, but you could definitely get a taste :)

Would be great for us (Europeans).

On the other hand, were I an American interested in projecting power across the globe, not so much.

I wonder if it is more of this administration’s fantastic 5d chess. Amazing how quickly a bunch of infantile idiots can dismantle the incredibly powerful US empire of the 50’s and beyond.

Fact is still that wayland does some things better, and a bunch og other things worse.

:)

It is very relevant and for a certain group of us, far more impactful to our work the next month(s) than any blog post could be.