"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.

I was thinking kids had trouble with the Roman Numerals on analog clocks. But jees they have trouble with the big hand vs the little hand.

What, you don't have a Pi or other MCU or two in your pockets at all times? I thought every one did.

What do you mean by "social media"? For example I would argue YouTube is social media. YT is rapidly being swamped in AI slop. Soon it will be impossible to ever find anything real. That is a huge loss of a valuable resource.

I would argue that everything I can surf on the net is "social media". And that is rapidly being swamped by AI slop as well.

Basically I see AI making the entire internet useless. Or impossible to use. After AI has crowded out anything real as you say.

I wish we had an idea as to what to do about this.

Well, I was joking of course. But as it turns out my AI friend has actually manage to create tens of thousands of lines of Rust that does actually do what I asked for. It took quite a bit more prompting over and above getting things to compile though. Thing is knowing that the Rust compiler has caught all the silly type, mutability and lifetime mistakes the AI could sneak past me I feel a lot more confident in the working of the result. I'd be more worried if I were generating C or C++ or Python etc.

From the story:
"OpenAI said that, in a given week, the slice of users who indicate possible signs of mental-health emergencies related to psychosis or mania is a minuscule 0.07%."

So after 30 years AI will have driven us all insane.

I can believe that.

Or have they just discovered that about the same percentage of all humans are bat shit crazy, with or without AI help?

I feel your pain.

My solution was to ask my AI friend to only write code in Rust for me. With all the anal type, mutability, lifetime and other checking the Rust compiler does my AI friend can run around in loops all day trying to get it to compile while I do something else.

And as you know, if your Rust compiles it works.