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bdelmas··on Religious scholars met with Anthropic
I don’t get your comment for WeWork. Is the current estate industry any better with how dry their industry is? Compared to a company caring enough to do research of this type? Tell me a single real estate giant that has even just 5 guys working in R&D of this type and not money related projects…

We can’t blame them when they are looking to squeeze more profits and at the same time blame the ones who try to do things different.

bdelmas··on Bend – a language that blocks AI mistakes via proof and runs on GPUs
Well if possible you want an AI that understand the spirit of what you are asking for and will add all the missing stuff, instead of an AI that just want to hack its way to the result. Kinda what Fable brought to the table. For instance as a simple example I ask it to change the text that shows the email of the user by his name and Fable did all the code in case there is the family name missing etc. That this last part you want an AI to do. Helping you to build the system with you and not gaming what you ask for for reward.
bdelmas··on Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
I miss these times!
bdelmas··on Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
Why limit? This is a news website where users judge if something is newsworthy by upvoting it. If the community decides it’s newsworthy it’s newsworthy. Maybe not for you but at least enough people to make it visible in front page. Unless you have strong arguments, like topics creating death threats or people doxing, there is no reason whatsoever to censure any news because you personally doesn’t care or don’t like it and prevent others from accessing it.
bdelmas··on I resigned from Anthropic today
“ No other human activity poses this level of danger.” Yet. But it may be and very soon.
bdelmas··on Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue
It would have been funny a year ago but now I have no issues of that sort or even for more complex tasks
bdelmas··on GPT-6 Astra
People really believe in this AGI marketing?
bdelmas··on Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future
No rule makers. Players are not the one making the rules of a game. They just play it.
bdelmas··on Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future
It’s not the players we should hate but the ones who make the rules of the game. Specifically not the ones who make the rules for the greater good but for themselves.
bdelmas··on Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK
I would too and I have declined jobs everywhere they used their tech and it was not because they had to. And even then, unless it’s like Google and such I am very reluctant.

No thanks!

bdelmas··on Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK
Someone got a lot of those kickbacks…
bdelmas··on Claude Opus 5
Its not fair to say this when we have been chanting how "software is eating the world", or how much we love to "disrupt markets", that we won’t create mass unemployments with our technologies but that "people will transition elsewhere like we always saw", etc etc.. It’s our turn to have our jobs disrupted and now we are surprised? Come on. We don’t have to like but we are the last people who should be surprised. It’s our turn to transition and be prompt writers and do product I guess. Until this is disrupted again in a few years.

Hard truth but true nonetheless. How come we should have it both ways? We removed certain jobs, it’s our turn to have many types of jobs disrupted and have to transition.

bdelmas··on Fable extended until 19 July
I still have no idea if they really want to make Fable usable in a plan in the future or not. They said it's their goal but here they still double down that it will be out of plans, period.
bdelmas··on EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
Or exactly as planned.
bdelmas··on Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
I actually had a lot of problems with software cult followers of influencer gurus like ThePrimeagen, Lex Fridman, Theo, etc... Those are so worst. You can't resonate with them.
bdelmas··on Rewriting Bun in Rust
UE 5 doesn’t come with a scripting language even though there is blueprints which a node editor easy enough to be used by non dev. Studios like embark (The Finals, ARC Raiders) have been successful integrated AngelScript in UE 5 and use it in these games. UE 6 will see the appearance of Verse: the scripting language used for Fortnite (and the end of blueprint at some point). At first I was sad to see yet another language but it is worth looking at the doc to see why and how it makes a lot of sense.
bdelmas··on We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12
It’s only a question of time. I think right now 60% of AI paper published is from China. They are already the bests at cost optimization
bdelmas··on We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12
I wonder if they are not just gonna wait that GPT-5.6 is released before doing any move.
bdelmas··on We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12
I was planning on using it all until today so I burned quite a lot yesterday.
bdelmas··on The brain was not designed for this much bad news
You unplug yourself from media and social media. And maybe open the news paper of your town if you want to spice up your life. The rest you will probably hear all about it anyway from families or colleagues if it’s something big. We are in the era of over connections. We need to know how to unplug. It doesn’t have to be as extreme as u said but if someone is as much as affected like this, this person definitely needs a huge break.

For ICE it’s kinda a big stretch can we agree? And in this case the person does have control. This person does have agency over the issue and should regularize their situation as soon as possible.

bdelmas··on The brain was not designed for this much bad news
It’s more a question of knowing when to unplug yourself on things that are affecting you but that you cannot control. From government news to something bad happening miles from you. These news can affect you but you have no control over the situation. Not doing so is actually one way to get depression.
bdelmas··on Can you see three trees?
I would have like to see the map of cities that matches this 3-30-300 rule.
bdelmas··on C++: The Documentary
I agree for the comparison.

Now for Rust I don’t think it is going to change a lot. Because it is based on ML, it has the best foundations and all features are known. The question is more how much Haskell vs script/imperative do you want your language to be, and what’s the purpose of the language rather than we had the wrong paradigm and found a new better one. For Rust 99% of its features are known and most are already implemented.

Maybe things around the borrow checker, and await, but beyond that nothing as much as what C++ saw in its history. Even more when for instance you see the article from the guy doing Gleam where traits (impl) are not necessary, all you need is data and function to have the same functionality. Or how ML have been the main factor to most new languages or new features to existing languages.

The future is ML, with languages dedicated to specific use cases and niches. And also ML languages easily readable by AI.

bdelmas··on Vibe Coding Is Not Engineering
As of today they can't. You have to tell them what the new API looks like, which new classes they have to create and describe them in detail, etc... You have new projects that try to add good practices in the prompt [0] or audit your code once in a while [1] but it's not enough.

Right now they can be autonomous to finding bugs and inconsistencies. But not architecture or even just creating a long enough PR without any guidance and feedback.

[0] https://github.com/ChristopherKahler/carl

[1] https://github.com/ChristopherKahler/aegis

bdelmas··on Ferrari Luce
For sure this have been greenlighted all the way up to CEO so…
bdelmas··on Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged
Fuzzing can help with that. But it’s not only applicable to Rust.

For Actix web he was using “unsafe” to increase performance. That doesn’t mean the code written was unsafe… The Rust community was turning to a cult on this topic when perfectly experienced C++ can write code would need the unsafe in Rust when they perfectly know the code isn’t. It’s good for the community to push people to avoid to use unsafe but not to that extend of drama and bullying…

bdelmas··on Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged
This! I now have to fight bad tech decisions at my companies because many devs follow influencers.

Look also at the hate spread against UE5… It’s everywhere and half of the arguments are falsehoods made by influencers with no real experience in the industry…

bdelmas··on Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
> That is how all economies grow.

No it’s one way but there are many other ways. Look at the US, stating that they grew because China and the EU exported their industries there is simply false. But through technology advancements, market size, market leadership, etc… is closer to how they achieved their economic growth.

bdelmas··on Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML
Interesting read. I totally agree but like he said it takes 2 to 4 times the time to generate one. With today’s prices for tokens it’s not affordable. But once models are getting cheaper and cheaper I am sure the industry will move to this.
bdelmas··on A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
You are mixing cost and progress. It’s not because it’s more and more expensive that progress is slowing down by itself.
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