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i mean LLM based or not has nothing to do with it, this is a standard optimization, scripting lang vs systems lang story.
by swyx 2y ago
i mean LLM based or not has nothing to do with it, this is a standard optimization, scripting lang vs systems lang story.
- godelski 2y agoShhhh, let this one go. So many people don't get optimization and why it is needed that I'll take anything we can get. Hell, I routinely see people saying no one needs to know C because python calls C in "the backend" (who the fuck writes "the backend" then?). The more people that can learn some HPC and parallelism, the better.
- pjmlp 2y agoEven better if they would learn about these amazing managed languages where we can introspect the generated machine code of their dynamic compilers.
- godelski 2y agoAgree, but idk what the gateway in is since I'm so desperate for people to just get the basic concepts.
- dboreham 2y agoObviously AI writes the backend.
- godelski 2y agoYeah because AI writes better code than me. I mean I've been coding for a year, including my super intensive coding bootcamp (we coded for 5 hrs a day! You can learn anything in two weeks), and got a FAANG job, so I'm pretty much an expert. We use AI to write all our code! Kinda bummed I'll be replaced but you know, I'll just move onto the next hustle. What y'all think about AR?
- tinco 2y agoI wrote the blog mostly as an answer to people who ask us why we're choosing to use Rust. We're not using it for performance reasons, but it's also not the true that the performance difference is entirely insignificant.