cloudhead

One thing that is not obviously present in the "don't look at the code" debate is that two AI-coded codebases can be reached in different ways: 1. controlling all the main ideas, so you have a mental big picture of what is going on. 2. with brute-forced prompts to get results.

Mind boggling to me that I can make a thing faster and there's always people that ask "but why?" What kind of mentality is that? The pursuit of excellence does not need justification. Also, I find in so many cases, we can't know the impact of an improvement until we do it. For example, one I've talked about before: Ghostty's high IO throughput has enabled terminal program (emulator and TUI) fuzzing at a speed thats incomparably fast to prior solutions. This has resulted in upstream patches to resolve issues in popular projects like btop, tmux, and more. Speed enabled that anecdotally example that lifted the tides of adjacent communities that don't rely on Ghostty technology at all. I didn't predict this. Make things better because they can be better and let the results naturally play out.

Peter is absolutely right here. Outside our AI bubble, I hardly know anyone who really knows what Fable 5 is or what a massive leap these new models represent. They only know AI Overviews in Google or ChatGPT on the free tier. They do not know what agents are or what is possible beyond basic ChatGPTs. We are the avant-garde, and I do not mean that arrogantly at all. 99 percent of people have no idea what is happening right now or how profound the change will be.

We’ve had a few similar cases recently. Worse, our org currently has no CI because GitHub wrongly flagged a contributor (not admin/maintainer, just someone new who opened a few PRs). We’ve escalated it through corporate account managers and still basically nothing.