I work in silicon verification where we do extremely thorough testing, and that is nonsense. It’s perfectly fine to test internals of a system because often it is difficult or impossible to get good test coverage of internal parts of a system just using the public interface.
LLMs love advertising / speechwriting techniques. Wikipedia has a good list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing
If you use AI regularly these things are very very obvious.
Yeah maybe, but usually if I’m using Make it’s because my use case is “I want users to be able to build stuff without having to install any more build tools”. The curse of network effects. That’s the only reason I’d ever use Bash too. Otherwise I’d switch to Nushell in a second.
Can that scale down to individual .cpp files though? My understanding was that it works more at the package level.
I don’t think that’s unique to LLMs though. Traditional learning material is very often like that too, and I actually find it worse because you can’t ask it questions.
You need a project that you want to achieve. Maybe automating something, or some kind of Arduino thing? The latter might be especially good for learning because you can’t trivially delegate it to AI, but you can still ask AI for help.
How much are they offering? 😄
The latest models are capable of non-slop code and tolerable prose (OpenAI is much better than Anthropic on the prose but I think Anthropic has a slight edge on code quality). It’s really just pre-Astra models that are super sloppy. Annoyingly you get what you pay for.
Also the benchmarks don’t really seem to capture this at all. I guess it is difficult to have a benchmark for code quality or writing style.
Ooo interesting, I didn’t know that!
Rust is pretty great in almost all domains. The only ones where I think Python is a sensible choice are research, where a REPL is really useful (think Jupyter).
There are plenty of things that are “scripting”, i.e. ad-hoc admin of other projects that aren’t actually Python projects, where you want to share code between multiple scripts.
Rust has scripting support. It’s nightly only but that’s not actually a big deal since running nightly is trivial.
It has some limitations currently, but… so does Python.
Just because import works different in the language than the ones you like, does not mean the language is crap.
No, it means it’s unsuitable for scripting, if you need anything more than a single file. Better than Bash of course (not hard).
Why bother with the significant pain of FFI when you can just write the whole thing in Rust?
Also “the critical parts” is mostly a myth. After a small amount of optimisation, the vast majority of programs do not have nice isolated hotspots.
Python may be a grown up language but it’s still a pretty awful language for ad-hoc scripting. It really wants to believe that you only use it for writing Python projects damnit! You can beat it into submission, but as soon as you start typing import in a situation that isn’t a nice pure Python package it will say “whatchulookinatmate? Youwannafight?”
Don’t believe me? Explain how relative imports work.
Assuming that’s a genuine question…
AI needs feedback just the same as humans. I would think of AI like a human that’s of average cleverness, but has a huge breadth of knowledge and basically infinite time and patience. They are going to be decent at assembly but they’re still going to make mistakes just like humans.
Using a language like Rust that has a lot of static correctness checks gives a higher quality result for AI, just like it does for humans.
Yeah anyway with AI why would you use Python for a new project? I just do everything in Rust now, including simple scripts.
Unfortunately there’s a lot of existing Python code.
None of those have been successful for various reasons (I think primarily because they all sound like they’d be a total nightmare to set up and maintain).
As soon as uv provides an alternative implementation so you can just run uv run --but-fast I think it will become popular.
I would not be at all surprised if they are secretly working on a faster Python implementation. They own all of the non-shit Python tooling, they have unlimited tokens now, they aren’t afraid of vibe coding. Why not?
I am eagerly waiting for someone to vibe code a version of Python that isn’t shit. Probably not far off I expect.
This is pretty much the “I fancy her but I don’t want to reveal it unless it’s reciprocal” problem right?
Impossible because anyone can just lie. Say they fancy everyone, see who they match with and then say “haha joke!”.
Also £5 says your application is dating/sex/kinks lol