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0 pointsdandellion13h ago0 comments

Four days ago there was no intention to rewrite, now it's a simple desire to refactor. It's not adversarial conclusion, it's pointing out the clear hypocrisy.

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johncolanduoni12h ago

Running an experiment, the experiment being more successful than you thought, and then deciding to put more effort into a bigger experiment is not hypocrisy. It’s engineering. If you think some of the objective facts they’re putting out (like test coverage and performance) are lies, go and prove it instead of appealing to emotion.

baranul10h ago

Especially if given near unlimited tokens to burn through, because any level of success fuels the LLM hype machine, which brings ROI.

> It’s engineering.

Significantly, but not totally. The marketing value can't be ignored.

johncolanduoni8h ago

What do you think one would have to pay to have flesh-and-blood engineers get a cross-language port of a codebase of over half a million lines with a broad test suite to over 99% conformance? I think it would be astronomically high, especially given that for this specific project your hiring pool is going to be limited to people who can get up to speed with Zig and JavaScriptCore right away (or you’re going to have to pay them for low output for a while as you train them). Also it would be literally impossible to do in 6 days no matter how much money you paid, so unless they’re lying about that it’s still something that couldn’t have been done prior for any price.

More handwaving about the LLM hype machine is incredibly boring and enough of it is spewed everywhere that whatever social good it was going to accomplish must have already happened by now. If you want to inject reality into the situation, talk about reality (like Anthropic is at least pretending to).

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christopherwxyz12h ago

Being able to change your mind is a excellent exercise in free will.

y3ahd0g6h ago

"People cannot change their mind!

One must stick to old assertions forever!

Giant foot is gonna squish us!"

...this forum is as bad as a single backwater sub Reddit.

I am so sick of emotionally frail software engineers. I don't know why I keep bothering floating back here every once in a while to see what is up.

Same old rustled jimmies over technology evolution like back during the emacs and vi! tabs vs spaces! Sysv init vs systemd!

Super hero power scaling message boards are more engaging than this site.

AI save us from these needlessly economically empowered labor exploiting non-contributor script kiddies. Such an unserious community.

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