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@ALX23uz @schteppe rust anydaybro()?;

@schteppe `std::exception` is deservedly hated, but it has legitimate use cases. As far as I am aware, Rust has no throw+catch mechanic/exceptions. So saying that `Result<T,E>` covers it is plainly false.

Error handling, C++ vs Rust

@sisneruza @rfleury @awesomekling The problem with these discussions is people are claiming their swords can cut an ox clean in half. But when someone says show me? They produce paper cut examples. No ones denying the sword can cut. But there is a severe lack of proof compared to claims.

@rfleury @awesomekling What's a difficult problem? It certainly works on everyday problems.

Yup. My guess for how this plays out: 1. OSS will split between Pro/Anti AI. 2. The Pro-AI projects dramatically outpace the Anti-AI projects. 3. Pro-AI people held back by Anti-AI projects will fork/rewrite them.

@krismicinski @unorb_org @aiedge_ But who knows there maybe huge breakthroughs in computing tomorrow that changes everything. Hopefully Ai remains affordable as well. Many are forgetting this is all being subsidized as a loss leader. I could be soon only the privileged get access.

@krismicinski @unorb_org @aiedge_ imo 30 years is plausible and probably best case but it's impossible to predict. Anyone saying that were there now or just around the corner of ai replacing software engineers I think is lacking perspective on how this all works and what's required to get to that pivotal point.

Anthropic CEO (Dario Amodei): "Coding is going away first, then all of software engineering." What do you think about this?

@unorb_org @aiedge_ Only it's not true and according to reality it doesn't make sense. Machines won't become creative. They are not a live don't have thoughts. They are fancy calculators. Nothing more. And they are going to get very expensive to use soon.

It’s true and it makes sense. Software engineers are nothing more than writers typing complex looking text into a translator which then translates it to the machine. Now the machine can do writing and once it has reached a higher level of creativity, software engineers are obsolete.

Shit it while the shitting is good.

@devchef33 @RayZrDev @svpino So what's what's the monthly bill for this and have you seen a return on investment. Or was it more fun than anything?

Yep, that was one of my major issues as well. Just cold starts alone eating up so many tokens. We run a costless project map at the start of each session, that the journalist gets based on the teams scope. This way the agent doesn't need to perform that search, it's ready when they are. Then we prioritize cached tokens, which are 10x cheaper, so each agent runs at ~90% efficiency.

I don’t believe people who say they are running “12 parallel coding agents”. Either they are lying for clicks, or I’m a complete retard who can barely keep up with a single Claude instance.

@yacineMTB would you be more hurt to know you got pwned by a windows user?

seriously literally who is still using windows these days

youtube discovered negative time

@CoachDanGo Not a meal but have always included a lot of milk, eggs and oats in some shape or form and have always been 8-10% I haven't trained in like 13 years but basically have the body composition of when I did although I have been as low as 6 in the past. I figured it's the food.

Question for people under 15% body fat: What's one meal you eat on most days?

@elonmusk @JeffBezos Is this what all the cool kids are doing now? Dang I wanna make one xD

@JeffBezos Congrats

@thdxr Definitely. I don't think external or internal impact changes the underlying feeling of delivering value. And some people don't even need any validation to do what they do anyways. So double definitely.

are there people out there who just want to refactor every day? just wake up and find the worst code and just chip away at it and clean it up wake up the next day do it again, infinitely improving things with zero external impact?

@BenjDicken Rust ftw

You can only build software in one for the rest of your life: Go Zig Rust What are you choosing?

@elonmusk When reality hits incompetence will always fall in place. Were not as cooked as it looks.

Canada is cooked

@eliana_jordan Where I am in Canada that pays for like a weeks rent lol still nice congratulations 👏

posting on X pays my rent now crazy

@BretWeinstein Got your first ai high eh. Dw it's normal you should snap out of it soon

AI allows you to multitask. It can code for you, while you do research, for example. It also allows you to pull things off the back burner--objectives that were shelved for years or decades for lack of bandwidth--and complete them at a furious pace. These are superpowers.

@trashh_dev @BowToChris Dw they get em back

@BowToChris tell that to the people that did

this is like when you get laid off and they thank you for all your hard work and wish you the best of luck in the future

@karololszacki @levelsio I don't think they care. It's all just engagements for these folks.

@levelsio sure, but in the world of performance, stuff like loop unrolling, copy elision, inlining, native instructions, etc... makes a difference But then again we have people running JavaScript on microcontrollers nowadays 😂 And also simd in Java soon, so 🤷‍♂️ x.com/i/status/20297…

All programming languages are the same They all compile into CPU code when you run them With AI there is even less difference between them for the programmer Use any language, it's all mostly the same!

@MilesCarverSG @corbin_braun What did you see that convinced you? I can name a lot of things that convince me otherwise. We can run em if you want? You first.

@bbest12g @corbin_braun I'm an actual software person. It's not a narrative. You're just not seeing it yet. But it's OK, I don't need to convince you. Great talk.

I give it 2 years. before software is dead and anyone can instant build 90% of products. at this point. all that will matter is distribution and networks. adjust accordingly for end game.

@ChShersh I think people are generally just tired of rage-bait content. It was consuming the platform making everything feel disingenuous and just about racking up numbers imo and I am guessing that's why you see the decline 🤷‍♂️ You can still be witty and crack jokes id imagine.

I deeply regret to inform you that the content on my account will significantly change, effective immediately. Despite posting all these bangers, my X payouts were on a steady decline in recent weeks. Moreover, I got into trouble for my jokes. Some of you are immune to having fun, and I suffer the consequences. For 10 years, I had been posting exclusive serious tech content about Haskell. It got me from 0 to 5K followers. But most of you know me for my viral takes on tech in the recent couple of years. I cherish all the positive interactions I had with other people here who can have fun and can tolerate a rage bait or two. But I'm going back to my roots. I'm going to post neutral and boring tech content exclusively, mostly C++ If you followed me to have fun, I'm sorry. If you followed me to learn C++, you're just-in-time. Sorry, no, C++ is ahead-of-time.