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Apple's ecosystem is the 8th wonder of this world. Nowhere else you can put a logo on a piece of cloth or aluminum wheel and sell them for hundreds of dollars. Greatest capitalist company of all time.

> The spec ended up being 6KiB of English prose. The final implementation was 14KiB of TypeScript.

Wait, this is how people vibe code? I thought it was just giving instruction line by line and refining your program. People are really creating a dense, huge spec for their project first?

I have not seen any benefit of AI in programming yet, so maybe I should try it with specs and like a auto-complete as well.

> Yes, OpenAI is burning $8-12B in 2025. Compute infrastructure is obviously not cheap when serving 190M people daily.

So casual. Actual ad giants like Meta and Google are serving many more people than 190M while bringing in actual profit.

Yes, let's say these are just the early days and they are burning money just like any other VC company. But how are they going to scale up their hardware/usage and get a profit at the same time?

AI hardware is getting optimized YOY too but the flagship models are getting bigger every year as well. I don't see how they are going to get profit without jacking their prices at the same time. And price increases always hits usage growth.

Serving an ad is very cheap these days, while serving a big model is very much expensive.

I just looked at Gmail on my Android phone and it is only 164 MB. That is a big difference.

Also, one thing that annoyed me when I used iPhones is that you can't remove an app's cache without reinstalling it and losing all your data. And most modern applications think cache is free so they use a lot of it. Many times it will exceed even your installed apps or data size.

Why do you think people stop creating new posts just because SO collapsed? People on GitHub issues and Reddit answer programming questions everyday.

SO was dying even before ChatGPT was released. LLMs just accelerated that process.

> All memory must be statically allocated at startup.

But why? If you do that you are just taking memory away from other processes. Is there any significant speed improvement over just dynamic allocation?

No, this is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_claims_require_e...

Funny how so many people in this comment section are saying Rob Pike is just feeling insecure about AI. Rob Pike created UTF-8, Go, Plan-9 etc. On the other hand I am trying hard to remember anything famous created by any LLM. Any famous tech product at all.

It is always the eternal tomorrow with AI.

I can imagine AI being just as useless in 100 years at creating real value that their parent companies have to resort to circular deals to pump up their stock.

Because not many people prioritize syntax design like GvR. Even now if someone releases a new programming language most people will ask what features it has, how fast it is, how fast is the package manager etc. Because these questions are simple yes and no ones. Unlike syntax design choices.

Even if they ask about the syntax design people just dismiss their question with saying "syntax is not important". Python did the opposite, it focused on syntax over everything else. That caught on with beginners and now here we are.

Of course with AI Python got even more popular, but even before ChatGPT was released it was already dominant.

I remember my first encounter with Matlab. Some YouTuber was building a toy rocket and he was simulating it in Matlab (Simulink). He just put in the weight of the rocket and it gave him the trajectory, apogee, flight time etc. It was like magic to a beginner like me.

You can do the same thing in other languages but it won't be built in like that.

> It's possible for a Rust program to be technically compilable but still semantically wrong.

This was my biggest problem when I used to write Rust. The article has a small example but when you start working on large codebases these problems pop up more frequently.

Everyone says the Rust compiler will save you from bugs like this but as the article shows you can compile bugs into your codebase and when you finally get an unrelated error you have to debug all the bugs in your code. Even the ones that were working previously.

> Rust does not know more about the semantics of your program than you do

Also this. Some people absolutely refuse to believe it though.

Everyone supporting this in the comments deserves to live under CCP style internet censorship.

> Is it time to rewrite sudo in Zig?

Taking the current RIIR movement and casting it on Zig as the next hyped language is clever.

> ITER achieves net positive energy for 20 consecutive minutes

Hilarious. I guess not many people talk about the challenge of proper shielding material against fusion radiation. Otherwise we would get hallucinations about new exotic heavy metals too.

I have noticed LLMs tend to generate very verbose code. What an average human might do in 10 LoC, LLMs will stretch that to 50-60 lines. Sometimes with comments on every line. That can make it hard to see those bugs.

I wonder if it is another bug , like unwrap, in their rewritten code.

Also, I don't think their every service got affected. I am using their proxy and pages service and both are still up.

Yeah, that is what I meant. It looks like Github's strategy is to push all the initial data they need to cache, to optimize subsequent requests.

I guess Github uses a lot of cache vs Codeberg.

Sure, it depends on your internet connection. But for Codeberg I see a blank page for 3-4 seconds until it shows something. On a big repo like Zig the delay is even worse.

On Github any page loads gradually and you don't see a blank page even initially.

That is surprising. It is the opposite for me.

  $ time curl -L 'https://codeberg.org/'
  real    0m3.063s
  user    0m0.060s
  sys     0m0.044s

  $ time curl -L 'https://github.com/'
  real    0m1.357s
  user    0m0.077s
  sys     0m0.096s

So who is complaining that Zig leaving GH is somehow a problem? I just don't like how they have to put out false claims like there are big problems with GH CI and Sponsors.

Zig is leaving GH for another provider. They did not make a better GH and fixed all the problems with it.

You literally have to fill out a form to convince Codeberg that you need CI. I would take GH CI over that.

I guess people think being a jerk is a signal that they are not a LLM bot.

Just because you think something is shit does not mean it becomes gospel for the rest of us. Millions of other people are fine with GitHub, respect their choice.

So tell us where is the better free macOS CI provider? I would love to switch to them.

That is what I meant by the BEST FREE CI provider. It is not the best if you have money for something better.

They could have easily done that without all the insults.

So much vague outrage over nothing. That CI system created by so called monkeys is the one of the best free CI service in the world. Not everyone has the millions of dollars like Zig Foundation to create their own CI servers.

After that they appreciate GitHub Sponsors, but say it is now a complete liability just because a project leader left. What are the actual changes? Any new rule? But no, it is now a "liability" and we should accept it.

Honestly speaking I like how big projects are exploring new hosting options. But there is no need to attack other platforms like this to promote your new host.

Unbelievable. I guess it's time to grep for every .unwrap in our code.

You don't need two phones to use ADB with Termux. Just put the ADB settings app on a split screen and it will work just fine. I used it several months ago.

5 billion is massive. So much of that 40bn daily volume is just leverage. Sort of like the derivatives market, trillions of dollars in volume but nobody has that much money, it is just margin. So even if some trading firm losses 1-2 billion everyone panics and goes out of the market. It actually happened during the flash crash.

Also, I highly doubt they sold those 5bn of shares in any exchange. Most likely they did it over several weeks on a dark pool. Because again 5bn is massive and it would cause a crash in any open exchange.

Market capitalization is not equal to real money. Take a look at how Elon Musk bought Twitter.