Yes. It's confusing, which is why this is often discussed in terms of shutter angle, which makes this a litter easier to understand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehpdzt0JHUc
1. Get hired into a company where you have a solid bet on making multi-century lasting generational wealth (>$50,000,000).
2. Every waking moment do everything in your power to boost the company that might give you the ability to define the direction of technology for the rest of your life.
3. Use the only thing you have (bun) to help push you in this direction and do things to help boost LLM marketing (a technology that already deeply struggles to find customers and has to rely on welfare (lucrative government contracts) to make sales).
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Honestly think this generation of tech workers in SF are more evil than those that worked at Google + Facebook in the early 10s.
So, your link shows that they probably have like $1 billion in sales per month (but they publicly overstated this by 30%), and that's the struggle to find customers?
There are tons of posts and reporting about Anthropic's problems with meeting demand, usage limits (on paid plans, especially during peak hours), fast growth (your link confirms that), and problems with infrastructure.
What does that have to do with rewriting from zig to rust??? This thread is what's pushing LLM marketing, not the rewrite itself.
If the rewrite is just a stunt and it will crash and burn it will do that whether we spend our free (or work) time writing comments. If there is any hype around this particular topic, it's happening here not in the GitHub repo.
The author of Bun is a Thiel Fellow, so he's already been trained in The Way.
People are trying to wash away the recklessness of this rewrite by applying engineering principles the author their self didn't apply. It's like trying to make sense of a certain president's words. There is a lot of missing analysis both before this rewrite, during it, and after that is missing. And given that Zig and Rust can interoperate with each other via C, it makes a wholesale rewrite even more bizarre.
Google and Facebook workers just made a lot of cash and mostly made everyone's life harder by Leetcode and bad interview process, they didn't threaten and actively work to put millions of SE on the street.
> they didn't threaten and actively work to put millions of SE on the street
Programmers in the 90s weren't less evil or had a stronger moral compass. They simply didn't have the opportunity to reduce the need for their fellow developers on a massive scale. They (we) would have, had we had the chance.
They (we) did it to tons of other industries. And we collectively patted ourselves on the back, saying that automation is a good thing and we're the good guys for doing it and people who lost their jobs will adapt and maybe they should just learn to code.
Now it's happening to (some of) us and suddenly it's evil?
No. The point is: programmers are whores. We like to act all righteous on forums, but very very few of us care enough about the consequences of our code to do something about it.
We either don't think about it ("what could go wrong?"), don't care about it (eh), justify it ("I need to eat!!!", "I'm just following orders"), or actively embrace it ("It's the future!").
> Programmers in the 90s weren't less evil or had a stronger moral compass. They simply didn't have the opportunity to reduce the need for their fellow developers on a massive scale. They (we) would have, had we had the chance.
Nah. The fact that such opportunity wasn't available attracted a different sort of person.
Do you think those same users know the difference between usb3, usb4, and thunderbolt (or even that all three exist)? More over, do you think they know how to tell cables apart for the three?
I legitimately have no idea what "SS" means next to a port, and I've seen it plenty of times. Labeling doesn't solve everything. The message on screen that you get when you plug something into the wrong port on the Neo is, obviously, much better because it assumes nothing about the user's knowledge except for the ability to read.
SuperSpeed, but you’re not supposed to use that as a consumer facing label anymore
> NOTE: USB4® Version 2.0, USB4® Version 1.0, USB 3.2, SuperSpeed Plus, Enhanced SuperSpeed and SuperSpeed+ are defined in the USB specifications however these terms are not intended to be used in product names, messaging, packaging or any other consumer-facing content.
USB-IF’s recommended name for this port is now just “USB 10Gbps”
Not that I would expect an average consumer to understand that as a label, but at least it takes up less space and allows relative comparisons better than USB 3.0 SuperSpeed+ or whatever the old equivalent was.
I feel confident in saying that I am better at computers than 99.99% of the general population and I have no clue what “SS” or blue USB ports are supposed to indicate.
Is there a large scale construction project that doesn’t incur these costs? Is the AI data center substantially worse on these metrics that other comparable projects? Or are we talking about it only because it’s AI-related?
By whether or not it is disrupting other users access to the resource like what happened in the article? By how much it effects our very finite water table. Things like that sound reasonable to me
No they're not. Using GPS and blinding following what it says is "wholesale giving over your navigation to GPS". Writing things down is "wholesale giving over your memory to paper".
AI chatbots do not have agency, they are not actively trying to take over your thinking. People can prompt them to do their thinking for them, or they can prompt to get examples and help with understanding.
Are you writing a book without an editor? Are you writing a book without spellcheck?
It’s nice to comment, it’s be great to engage with the actual point I made: if the AI write the whole book for you it’s because you asked it to. You can just as well ask it to clean up the prose, or look for inconsistencies, or find flaws in the arguments.
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