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by the_duke 7mo ago
Rust has managed just fine to remain mostly backwards compatible since 1.0 , while still allowing for evolution of the language through editions. This puts much more work on the compiler development side, but it's a great boon for the
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by the_duke 7mo ago
What context length and related performance are you getting out if this setup? At least 100k context without huge degradation is important for coding tasks. Most "I'm running this locally" reports only cover testing with very
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by the_duke 7mo ago
Musk is actually a brilliant marketer. He built his companies around a "vision", used it to attract high quality talent and push that talent to give their best. For Tesla it was "electrify transport to end dependence on fossi
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by the_duke 7mo ago
Good PR moves.
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by the_duke 8mo ago
Rust has an interesting crate for this, arc-swap [1]. It's essentially just an atomic pointer that can be swapped out. [1] https://docs.rs/arc-swap/latest/arc_swap/
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by the_duke 8mo ago
Rust has a very strict type system and an ecosystem that often utilizes the type system well. Many things that would only be caught at runtime in other languages are caught at compile time in Rust, making coding agents iterate until things
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by the_duke 8mo ago
Even Chrome has started to adopt Rust due to recurring memory vulnerabilities.... that's a big enough reason.
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by the_duke 8mo ago
Gemini 3 is pretty good, even Flash is very smart for certain things, and fast! BUT it is not good at all at tool calling and agentic workflows, especially compared to the recent two mini-generations of models (Codex 5.2/5.3, the last
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by the_duke 8mo ago
An Anthropic safety researcher just recently quit with very cryptic messages , saying "the world is in peril"... [1] (which may mean something, or nothing at all) Codex quite often refuses to do "unsafe/unethical" t
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by the_duke 8mo ago
From all indications the big players have healthy margins on inference. Research and training are the cost sinks.
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by the_duke 8mo ago
They claim the opposite, though, saying the chip is designed to tolerate many defects and work around them.
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by the_duke 8mo ago
That's because many developers are used to working like this. With AI, the correct approach is to think more like a software architect. Learning to plan things out in your head upfront without to figure things out while coding requires
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by the_duke 8mo ago
I do not trust the AI benchmarks much, they often do not line up with my experience. That said ... I do think Codex 5.2 was the best coding model for more complex tasks, albeit quite slow. So very much looking forward to trying out 5.3.
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by the_duke 8mo ago
Do you have a source for that?
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by the_duke 9mo ago
This is very confusingly written. From the post I expected that the tasks were about analysing traces, but all the tasks in the repository are about adding instrumentation to code! Some of the instructions don't give any guidance how t
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by the_duke 9mo ago
According to USTR data the EU had a 200bn goods surplus, but a 100bn services deficit in 2024. So a 100bn deficit out of 800bn total US imports. The deficit is there, but it's not nearly as lopsided as some reporting would have you bel
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by the_duke 9mo ago
Tell that to all the companies that built their entire tech stacks on US cloud providers... Massive endeavor for a lot of setups.
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by the_duke 9mo ago
The more advanced AI related workflows are the reason I finally switched away from neovim as my main coding IDE - for now. The existing AI plugins for neovim aren't great.
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by the_duke 10mo ago
With a bit of education one would know that manus is Latin for hand. That's where "manual" comes from. And their logo is, lo and behold ... a hand!
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by the_duke 10mo ago
I've been preaching similar thoughts for the last half year. Most popular programming languages are optimized for human convenience, not for correctness! Even most of the popular typed languages (Java/Kotlin/Go/...) have
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by the_duke 10mo ago
What you are saying is: no, it doesn't. Of course dynamic dispatch can be implemented in almost every language. The Linux kernel uses dynamic dispatch with C! But that's a hack, not a language feature.
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by the_duke 10mo ago
Would love a Rust implementation of this.
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by the_duke 10mo ago
To be fair, you can enforce this just by filling all the allocated memory with zero, so it's possible to fail at startup. Or, even simpler, just turn off over-commit. But if swap comes into the mix, or just if the OS decides it needs t
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by the_duke 11mo ago
I use AoC as a chance to try a new language every year. In the past I used it to try out Swift, J, R, ...
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by the_duke 11mo ago
LLMs, and especially coding focused models, have come a very long way in the past year. The difference when working on larger tasks that require reasoning is night and day. In theory it would be very interesting to go back and retry the 202
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by the_duke 11mo ago
The accounting, legal and business process requirements are vastly different at different scales, different jurisdictions, different countries, etc. There's a crazy amount of complexity and customizability in systems like ERPs for mul
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by the_duke 11mo ago
Side question: what are the current top goto open models for image captioning and building image embeddings dbs, with somewhat reasonable hardware requirements?
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by the_duke 11mo ago
The key is learning how to provide proper instructions. Treat it as a developer that just joined the project and isn't aware of the conventions. Provide hints for the desired API design, mention relevant code locations that should be r
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by the_duke 11mo ago
I bet they just wanted to counter Gemini 3 and stay on top of the leaderboards for coding, and were preparing this for a while to push out alongside Gemini 3.
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by the_duke 11mo ago
A lot of SpaceX employees went over to Blue Origin over the years, so there also was a lot of knowledge transfer and Blue could capitalize on the iterations of SpaceX.

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