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by fooker 9mo ago
Do you have pointers to this? Would be a great resource to understand what works and what doesn't.
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by fooker 9mo ago
The way it seems to work now is to task agents to write a good test suite. AI is much better at this than it is at writing code from scratch. Then you just let it iterate until tests pass. If you are not happy with the design, suggest a new
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by fooker 9mo ago
Yes. I am, however, not willing to spend money to get it fixed. From the other side, the vast majority of customers will happily take the cheap/free/ad-supported buggy software. This is why we have all these random Google apps, fo
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by fooker 9mo ago
I disagree, most code is not worth improving. I would rather make N bad prototypes to understand the feasibility of solving N problems than trying to write beautiful code for one misguided problem which may turn out to be a dead end. There
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by fooker 9mo ago
I have worked on some of the most supposedly reliable codebases on earth (compilers) for several decades, and most of the code in compilers is pretty bad. And most of the code the compiler is expected to compile, seen from the perspective
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by fooker 9mo ago
For most code, this never happens in the real world. The vast majority of code is garbage, and has been for several decades.
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by fooker 9mo ago
By lines of code, almost by an order of magnitude. Some of the code is janky garbage, but that’s what most code it. There’s no use pearl clutching. Human engineering time is better spent at figuring out which problems to solve than typing c
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by fooker 9mo ago
> the specification of the language Guess what language the specification is written in (if it exists at all) ? It's usually natural language, and even then, compilers deviate from the specification all the time, and the specificati
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by fooker 9mo ago
> If my memory is not mistaken Your memory is as impeccable as your logic :) > asserted that prompts would be the future of software engineering. That’s exactly not what I asserted. Can you find the critical difference?
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by fooker 9mo ago
You are wrong about modern AI not being able to produce deterministic output for the for loop we are talking about. You are right about modern AI producing superior software engineering. You should read the chain of comments again and try t
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by fooker 9mo ago
> Programming languages are a set of rules that ~guarantee predictable behaviour down to the bit level. No, that’s your interpretation of what a programming language is, based on nostalgia and wishful thinking. If you get a programming s
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by fooker 9mo ago
I know what you mean, and it was correct a year or more ago. Now, you are wrong. AI is reliable enough to not mess up this translation now, especially if you configure it right (top p, and temperature parameters). This abstraction lifting i
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by fooker 9mo ago
> non-deterministic You can control the amount of non determinism. And also, it is interesting that you think modern compilers are deterministic.
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by fooker 9mo ago
Coming soon to a programming ecosystem near you: LLM(eat apples in fruitbasket) vs foreach (apple in fruitbasket) apple.Eat() Your comment can be repeated almost word for word here.
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by fooker 9mo ago
> It's not a technical problem How do you do encryption?
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by fooker 9mo ago
No amount of what ifs and buts is going to change the fact that the tech is now mature enough to make software in hours that previously needed man-years. And it is getting better at a pretty rapid pace.
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by fooker 9mo ago
At least it’s not among the thousand AI note transcribing startups that have sprung up in the last two years. I don’t understand if it’s something to do with the recommendation algorithm, but my LinkedIn is constantly full of those and my c
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by fooker 9mo ago
It really depends on how long `NeoCloud` takes to recoup their capital expenditure on the H800s. Current estimates are about 1.5-2 years, which not-so-suspiciously coincides with your toy example.
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by fooker 9mo ago
Well, try it out for a realistic program. It makes for nice looking code, yes. But is often slower (for various reasons that are well understood by now).
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by fooker 9mo ago
> it's still a strict upgrade over AVX2 If you benchmark it, it will be slower about half the time.
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by fooker 9mo ago
> 600mi range and 15min charge is plenty. Agreed. So, it would be a matter of how fast the solid state batteries you speak of make their ways into actual cars. Right now, there aren't any. And battery tech has always over promised a
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by fooker 9mo ago
> so maybe you mean you’d love to buy a discounted one Yes. I'd expect 4 year old hardware used constantly in a datacenter to cost less than when it was new! (And just in case you did not look carefully, most of the ebay listings ar
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by fooker 9mo ago
I’ll be so happy to buy a EOL H100! But no, there’s none to be found, it is a 4 year, two generations old machine at this point and you can’t buy one used at a rate cheaper than new.
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by fooker 9mo ago
I agree, this is likely the technology for the next few decades. Maybe with some supercapacitors or something like that thrown in. Electric motors are far more efficient at producing mechanical energy than a engine+transmission combo is. Bu
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by fooker 9mo ago
Almost everyone I know with an EV also has another car right now.
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by fooker 9mo ago
> That’s a really difficult design space to beat Rust in You are right. My prediction is some new language does it in 5-10 years. > identical to the critiques people have about IPv6 Maybe. With the difference that IPv6 gets out of you
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by fooker 9mo ago
> It's not a competition; it's pragmatism. Exactly right
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by fooker 9mo ago
> I had waited around Did I mention waiting around? You should always use the right tool for the job, and right now if you need a memory safe systems programming language for a greenfield project, Rust is the tool. My point is that Rust&
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by fooker 9mo ago
I think we are going to be driving hybrids in large numbers for several decades until there's a new battery technology that triples energy density over the state of the art now. It can be invented sooner of course, technology predictio
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by fooker 9mo ago
Here's the other one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathu_La_and_Cho_La_clashes

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