It's one of the reasons the US military is so good. As a soldier, you know they will come for you, behind enemy lines, so you can fight like hell, knowing that your fellows have your back. The gains in morale can not be…
Yes it's quite the blend!
There's probably a case for both. Core logic might benefit from hard types deep in the bowels of unchanging engine. The real world often changes though, and more often than not the code has to adapt, regardless of how…
I actually wonder about his conclusion that 50 years hence English will be unrecognizable. There will be changes of course. Yet we are also more connected than ever, whereas the next town over would be a whole day trip…
In fairness , Dickens is quite dry. My mind would wonder off. In some sense, it's better these days, competition has led to care for the reader that probably didn't exist as much then, since so few people can read.
The alternative is one type, with many functions that can operate on that type. Like how clojure basically uses maps everywhere and the whole standard library allows you to manipulate them in various ways. The main…
Iterating often is not helpful for stable systems over time. I like go's library it's got pretty much everything needed out of the box for web server development. Backwards compatibility is important too.
But open source didn't do the Linux model. It did the GitHub model of open to anyone. If anything the heirarchy of trust the Linux model uses will be more important now.
Possibly, but AIs might shift to more curated content, which has it's own dangers I suppose. There are definitely challenges, but I've been around long enough now that we'll adapt, and muddle through. The trouble will…
God please no. Do not involve government in this. That's a terrible terrible idea, and would do the opposite of intended.
It could push back more, true. Although it's role in pair programming is the driver, you are the navigator. I often begin a session with exploring and asking it questions of the code as I would a junior developer. Saves…
If all software could be as good as sqlite, I would not care how they do open source
Yes; yet... I thought the efficiency per compute has to do more with the nm process shrinking the die than anything else. That and power use is divided by so many more instructions per second
Actually, I wonder how they measured the 'speed' of coding, maybe I missed it. But if developers can spend more time thinking about the larger problems, that may be a cause of the slowdown. I guess it remains to be seen…
Speaking just for myself, AI has allowed me to start doing projects that seemed daunting at first, as it automates much of the tedious act of actually typing code from the keyboard, and keeps me at a higher level. But…
Yep, I can't trust software that has shone clear instructions to produce incorrect results, like Gemini did with it's image generation famously. If nothing else, it means Gemini's team has priorities other than the…
Okay. If you’re being vague, you get vague results. Golang and Claude have worked well for me, on existing production codebases, because I tell it precisely what I want and it does it. I’ve never found generic “find…
You could fix versions, and probably should. However willful disregard of prior interfaces encourages developers code to follow suit. It’s not like Clojure or Common Lisp, where a decades old software still runs, mostly…
All I know is that claude code is pretty dang good, grok's nice for searching info, and Google's Gemini hasn't really been in my workflow at all. Neither chatgpt, beyond when it first came out. Maybe I'm odd, but a…
Spending is the issue. That money is spent on something, and it isn't (all) teaching either. The chart in the link below shows employee vs students headcounts over 6 years. Even though student rolls went down almost all…
Including Steve Yegge, is Gas Town orchestrator of LLMs is... wild. And complicated. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...
Edison Motors up in Canada is interesting, in the truck space. Diesel EREV semis, and heavy-duty pickup modifications. Sounds like they're running into overregulation issues though. This is how China gets ahead, because…
EVs, as part of the world economy, aren't emissions-free either. Just at the tailpipe (or lack thereof). Rare-earth mining is very energy-intensive.
Every 5 years, there's a better battery in development 5 years hence. So I'm a bit skeptical that just a better battery would exclude hybrids. Any battery improvement would improve PHEV and EREV vehicles also, and…
Article says the next F-150 Lightning will be an EREV-style plugin hybrid. Which, if so, makes a lot of sense. EVs are great, but not so much for trucks. I was always bothered about how cars were either supposed to be…
It's one of the reasons the US military is so good. As a soldier, you know they will come for you, behind enemy lines, so you can fight like hell, knowing that your fellows have your back. The gains in morale can not be…
Yes it's quite the blend!
There's probably a case for both. Core logic might benefit from hard types deep in the bowels of unchanging engine. The real world often changes though, and more often than not the code has to adapt, regardless of how…
I actually wonder about his conclusion that 50 years hence English will be unrecognizable. There will be changes of course. Yet we are also more connected than ever, whereas the next town over would be a whole day trip…
In fairness , Dickens is quite dry. My mind would wonder off. In some sense, it's better these days, competition has led to care for the reader that probably didn't exist as much then, since so few people can read.
The alternative is one type, with many functions that can operate on that type. Like how clojure basically uses maps everywhere and the whole standard library allows you to manipulate them in various ways. The main…
Iterating often is not helpful for stable systems over time. I like go's library it's got pretty much everything needed out of the box for web server development. Backwards compatibility is important too.
But open source didn't do the Linux model. It did the GitHub model of open to anyone. If anything the heirarchy of trust the Linux model uses will be more important now.
Possibly, but AIs might shift to more curated content, which has it's own dangers I suppose. There are definitely challenges, but I've been around long enough now that we'll adapt, and muddle through. The trouble will…
God please no. Do not involve government in this. That's a terrible terrible idea, and would do the opposite of intended.
It could push back more, true. Although it's role in pair programming is the driver, you are the navigator. I often begin a session with exploring and asking it questions of the code as I would a junior developer. Saves…
If all software could be as good as sqlite, I would not care how they do open source
Yes; yet... I thought the efficiency per compute has to do more with the nm process shrinking the die than anything else. That and power use is divided by so many more instructions per second
Actually, I wonder how they measured the 'speed' of coding, maybe I missed it. But if developers can spend more time thinking about the larger problems, that may be a cause of the slowdown. I guess it remains to be seen…
Speaking just for myself, AI has allowed me to start doing projects that seemed daunting at first, as it automates much of the tedious act of actually typing code from the keyboard, and keeps me at a higher level. But…
Yep, I can't trust software that has shone clear instructions to produce incorrect results, like Gemini did with it's image generation famously. If nothing else, it means Gemini's team has priorities other than the…
Okay. If you’re being vague, you get vague results. Golang and Claude have worked well for me, on existing production codebases, because I tell it precisely what I want and it does it. I’ve never found generic “find…
You could fix versions, and probably should. However willful disregard of prior interfaces encourages developers code to follow suit. It’s not like Clojure or Common Lisp, where a decades old software still runs, mostly…
All I know is that claude code is pretty dang good, grok's nice for searching info, and Google's Gemini hasn't really been in my workflow at all. Neither chatgpt, beyond when it first came out. Maybe I'm odd, but a…
Spending is the issue. That money is spent on something, and it isn't (all) teaching either. The chart in the link below shows employee vs students headcounts over 6 years. Even though student rolls went down almost all…
Including Steve Yegge, is Gas Town orchestrator of LLMs is... wild. And complicated. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...
Edison Motors up in Canada is interesting, in the truck space. Diesel EREV semis, and heavy-duty pickup modifications. Sounds like they're running into overregulation issues though. This is how China gets ahead, because…
EVs, as part of the world economy, aren't emissions-free either. Just at the tailpipe (or lack thereof). Rare-earth mining is very energy-intensive.
Every 5 years, there's a better battery in development 5 years hence. So I'm a bit skeptical that just a better battery would exclude hybrids. Any battery improvement would improve PHEV and EREV vehicles also, and…
Article says the next F-150 Lightning will be an EREV-style plugin hybrid. Which, if so, makes a lot of sense. EVs are great, but not so much for trucks. I was always bothered about how cars were either supposed to be…