arthurbrown

Thanks for the good faith reply. I can see that this would require regular maintenance.

It is interesting that we see our infrastructure as 'valid' or correct, but the work these engineers (beavers) put in as a nuisance. In an ideal world, the benefits to local biodiversity and ecosystem health should be balanced with the cost of relocating roads when necessary.

What are the problems actually? That they have improved water retention and soil hydration?

The author asks "How can people take this seriously?"

I would reply the same regarding this article. Nearly all of these refutations are unconvincing.

The claim: "I believe we're reaching the upper limits about what generative AI can do and how accurate its outputs can be."

The rebuttal: "Zitron's argument at the time was that hallucinations were as good as they were going to get, which meant that AI performance is capped at 2024 levels. Both the overall prediction and the mechanism were wrong. This one seemed wrong at the time, in that I noted here in 2024 that you can make AI code halfway decently by just putting it in a loop and having it run until the code compiles and tests pass"

Putting an LLM in a loop, burning tokens, and thrashing against a compiler and test suite is a ridiculous way to say that hallucinations have been "solved". Please. This is absurd.

I appreciate the insight, and on closer reading the post clearly states that realistically only Zig and Rust were ever considered anyway.

Since you're here, could you comment on the approach Rust took in their rewrite? Was it more of a straight translation like Go did when they self hosted -- similar to the recent Bun transliteration? Or were there architectural changes made along the way like this article describes with Roc?

Interesting that OCaml was flexible and expressive enough to be used as a prototype testbed but not chosen as the implementation language, especially given the maturity of both. I would be surprised if Zigs incremental builds could be meaningfully faster than dune's.

Cross compilation is great, but not mentioned in the "why Zig" section. Is memory control that crucial for a compiler?

Rust itself was originally written in OCaml, same with WASM. I'm curious about what milestone gets reached where the maintainers collectively decide to transition away.

That chart stops in 2023.

Nationalized social media bans and restricted device usage while in a classroom are different things. Why would TikTok ever belong in the classroom?

Of course if even educational use of laptops is restricted then personal mobile devices would also be. They are already banned in my country.

I'm not a farmer, but you are welcome to ask a no-till farmer for their experience, or do some reading. Heck, you could read the article that we're commenting on where scientists have dedicated their career to understanding this stuff.