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I cannot read or view any of this content because of the 100 ads that pop up.

Unless you're tigerbeetle and want to handroll every single thing you do lol

A small correction though. Because of AI I'd argue that execution is cheap while the best ideas are valuable.

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I deeply resonate with this. Even when I began reading, I felt myself wanting to jump away into my email or some other needless task. After getting through the premise, it felt almost like a challenge to read the entire blog. Very well done.

The final verdict that software engineers wont exist x years from now is a bit contrived. Today, my team is looking to hire an AI software engineer. I reached out to my close group of developer friends to gauge interest only to find out that each one of them is ALSO trying to find/hire software engineers, all looking for this new "paradigm" of programming knowledge. Maybe how the role itself looks different today than it did 5 years ago but it seems like every company is trying to accelerate their development and finding new opportunities that didn't exist before the AI craze.

More than anything, I believe that AI is pushing out those who enjoyed the ~act~ of programming more than the product being delivered itself. Mostly because those individuals might have the hardest time adopting this new way of getting things done.

And honestly, I feel for them. Coding has always felt like an art form to me. Nothing feels better than someone commenting on the elegance/beauty of something youve written.

I'd probably agree with most in the comment section. Comparing Rust & Zig is not productive. I spent the last month familiarizing myself with Zig after having done a 2 years stint with Rust and Zig is a much younger language with a far smaller ecosystem to work with. If I were to reach for C i'd recommend Zig. If I were reaching for C++ then it would be Rust.

Both are fantastic languages and I hope to see them both evolve in years to come. Zig has a longer road ahead but it really is elegant and simple to work with.

It definitely seems to be that way.

After reading the comments, I’d like to clarify a few things. This article isn’t meant to pitch a fraud scoring product. I recently discovered that several states publish VIN level data and, as a weekend project, decided to dig a bit deeper to see what I could learn. Given more time, I’d refine the analysis by normalizing against registration volumes, flagging outliers, and so on but for now I simply want to share an interesting glimpse at what ive found.

I haven't ever considered the self grading approach. Going to try that out!

This is exactly the wrong mentality to have about new technology.

Neat! Really curious how you managed to outperform DuckDB 5x. Do you see yourself maintaining this long term? would love to use polars as my one stop shop + plugins rather than pulling in additional tooling.