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Comment In my experience (Score 1) 173

I love Rust. But in my experience, and maybe this has changed, it's hard to write large projects in Rust. I Rust was developed in an environment where computing power was cheap and abundant, so they could afford to compile everything for most projects. As with so many things at some point, however, "compile everything" starts to become a significant technical debt. You'll want to just utilize a black box library and some headers. This is especially true for companies that develop proprietary software. Even within the same company they don't want everyone to have access to all the code.

But, for example, KDE is 25 million lines of C++ code. The largest Rust project is Rust, at 110k lines of code, or 227 times smaller. There aren't any great Rust UI frameworks like Qt, which is 3.5M LOC.

Comment Maybe a good thing? (Score 1) 147

Star Trek used to try to make sense by loosely adhering to fringe, but not disproven, theories in science. Since Paramount took over they started traversing through space mushroom networks, because warp fields weren't exciting enough. Star Trek plots always resolved with a sprinkling of Deus ex Machina, but the newer Star Trek was a core of Deus ex Machina with a sprinkling of "maybe the Deus won't show up this time." It is very tiring and I can't believe anyone watches this garbage and enjoys it.

Comment Re: Reviewing code is more effort than writing cod (Score 1) 78

I've tried LLM agents for coding. I find they they do an OK job at getting a small project off the ground. Afterwards they're useless for me. However, it really depends if you're writing code that's essential a copy & paste of common code on the internet or if you're writing something new. What I haven't tried is using agents only to unit test my code. That could possibly work out ok.

Comment Reviewing code is more effort than writing code (Score 5, Interesting) 78

I've been writing software for 30 years. Honest code reviews take more mental effort than writing the code yourself, unless the changes are small and clearly and verifiably well tested. Proper design for unit testing is hard and beyond the capabilities of AI. Hence, you can't really do better than a human software engineer, yet.

Comment Reddit's other bot problem (Score 2) 116

Their other bot problem is that they frequently flag for TOS violations when you're saying the opposite of a violation. Like, if you say "I object to the notion that women shouldn't have equal rights" the bot will flag you for the phrase "women shouldn't have equal rights." So the only safe thing is to not even touch topics that relate to their TOS.

Comment I don't care anymore (Score 1) 152

Nothing I do compares to idiot politicians starting wars and burning millions of gallons of oil, gas and tons of ordinance. I'll pick up trash in my neighborhood and make sure my car doesn't ruin my local air quality. Otherwise, nothing I do matters for global warming, even voting as the last blue guy blew up a gas pipeline too.

Comment One month ago (Score 1) 83

One month ago Amazon announced huge AI related layoffs and reduction of red tape for decision making. Anyone could have predicted this outcome. There a new phenomenon, AI induced psychosis, which I think is much more widespread than people realize. It's almost unavoidable if you use AI frequently and will quietly creep into your thinking in whatever domain you use LLMs for.

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