I get it. A jump from about 300ppm to 400ppm sounds terrifyingly huge. Like 50% up.
Whereas it was actually an increase from about 0.03 percent, which is almost nothing, to 0.04 percent, which is still almost nothing. A change of only 0.01 percent.
Phew, nothing to worry about then.

If every company had your idea to never hire junior devs again, then in 10 or 20 years there will be no senior devs. Then companies will be left with mountains of AI generated software that nobody has the skills to work on any more.

I conclude that you are planning for your company to only be around for a few years. I hope your share holders are fully informed of your plans for the future of their money.

Do you mean to say that those same Judges and Lawyers that now use AI to get their work done are needed to help us use AI to create our business applications? Something seems a bit off with that argument.

I cannot image what you mean by "consequenceculture" or who you think the "zealous consequenceculture-people" are.

I'm all into thinking about consequences. You know, cause and effect, physical reality and all that. But all punishment for bad deeds. bad karma and so on. That's how we get things to work and have a civilised society.

So let's think about the consequences of the regime being able to get this guys personal info. Clearly they want it so as to shut him down and silence the criticism of government agency.

A consequence of the regime getting that power in this case through the courts would be that it is much easier for them to do the same in future cases.

A consequence of that is a chill effect in free speech, as nobody will want to attract such harassment

A consequence of that is the regime descending into authoritarianism and ending up like Russia, North Korea or Iran.

It sounds like all of that is OK with you. Is it?

By the way you seem to be judging that the guy was guilty of something and should suffer the consequences. Well, may I ask what his crime was?

The 286 did indeed have a memory management unit.
The problem with its segments was that they were limited to 64Kb each.
So basically a souped up 8086 with read/write permissions on segments and protection rings.

Back in the day I skipped all that crap. It was. great when the 386 came along.

Oh, I remember, the company I worked for at the time had a big document, given under NDA, that described all the bugs in the 286 chip. Most of them were failures of the memory protections.

I was just concluding that the Polestar is now off my list of purchase options. On the grounds that I don't want to support the authoritarian regime that has been threatening Europe and generally wrecking the world economy with tariffs, war, etc.

Then you come along. To reinforce my decision.

"If you can't code worth a damn, then of course the AI is going to find a lot of "bugs" ..."

But this is Greg Kroah-Hartman we are talking about here, and many other kernel devs. If you are saying they can't code worth a damn then we cannot take you seriously.

Also note that may bugs, either logical errors or silly memory use mistakes (use after free, out of bounds array access, etc, etc) or UB, are not detected by the compiler as errors or warnings.

So, if AI can find those bugs what is not to like? Of course if it spams with countless false alarms it would be more trouble than it is worth. Or perhaps it turns out to be economical unviable if those AI companies ever want ti make a profit.

Having been using Rust for six years and interacting with Rust devs and other users I see no evidence of that "religion" of which you speak. Pretty much all of them advise against rewriting old code bases just because Rust. They know the effort, time and expense that can take and the problems it can cause. Rather they emphasis symbiosis with other languages.

In short, what are you talking about?

There is no way anyone is freeing 90 million Iranians. That is delusional. The USA's history of bringing freedom and democracy to such places is dismally poor.

Why are you talking about solar when this story is about windmills?

Round here, Finland, there are windmills. Electricity can be very cheap when the wind blows. When it doesn't much electric becomes very expensive. For example today 0.1 Euro per kWh. Last month 30.0 to 50.0 Euro per kWh. On top of that if I want to opt for 100% energy from renewable sources I need to pay more! Not less.

All this tells me that windmills not only destroy the beauty of the countryside they also don't work very well.

"...but LLMs remain laughably incapable as soon as something did not have good prevalence in the training data."

Remarkably similar to humans in that respect.

I recall reading of a test where they ran the signal through a chain of 10 or so 741 op amp chips. The cheapest, crappiest OP amps one can buy in modern times. No body could tell.

So even if the AI did 100% knock off an existing C compiler then it still impresses me that it translated the 100,000 lines of C or C++ to Rust and produced something that actually works.

Yes you did read such an article.

Perhaps it was the one from some MS guy. Luckily it turned out to be nonsense. It was just some MicroSoft droid talking about some job offering working on some research project he had dreamed up.

Or it could have been one about DARPA (I think), again just an announcement of an AI drive translation research project.

As it happens by way of fun and experiment I have been getting LLMs to create Rust applications for me for the last couple of months. Nothing very big and not essential parts of our operations, but quite complicated with real-time GPU 3d data visualisations using WGPU that run on Windows, Linux, Mac and in the browser. I'm amazed at how well they have worked out.

25 Years! Wow! Has anyone actually seen an Itanium machine? I thought it was still birth.

Back when the i860 was released I attended a 1 day workshop on its architecture and how to program it, in assembler, at Intel. That was enough to convince me that the thing was impossible to program if you wanted to achieve its performance promises. So it turned out to be, the compiler writers could not do it.