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Comment · 11 hours ago
Jesus.

I only ever run one. You need to just write thoughts on a piece of paper while the agent runs. Do some design work or something.

The thing is, you’re not going to remember any of it so you’ll be useless to companies, and they can just hire someone else to have their own AI figure out what work your spaghetti agents did.

Slow down, for your own good!

Comment · 11 hours ago
You know what was actually a bigger invention? Language. Farming.

Imagine a world without those. Oh, wait: tomorrow people won’t know how to use language, will they? And they won’t have water to farm with, so there you go.

Comment · 11 hours ago
All fair points, and yeah I meant latter. :)

It’s just interesting that ALL of these languages have a C compatible interface built into the language. That’s an interesting fact and says something about C that no other language can really claim. Nor will any other language claim that any time soon.

I’m not looking for anything in particular. It’s just that I’ve seen and used a lot of languages over the years, and I’m not wholly sold on the “memory safety” of Rust when something like Python can just put the performance sensitive parts in C and have safety for everything else.

Most languages are memory safe.

Comment · 11 hours ago
So then why not use C# or even F# for language abstractions? Or clojure on JVM?

Just playing devils advocate it seems higher level behaviours don’t belong in a low level language.

Comment · 13 hours ago
I tend to wonder, in an alternate reality, where the buck stopped at C for systems languages, would we be better off because more people would use it and know how to fix memory related issues?

We’ve sent rockets into space running C/C++ and assembly. And that was long before C++11 rolled around.

I’m wondering because: man Rust is an ugly language. C is not perfect either, but it’s still pretty close to what it was FIFTY YEARS AGO.

Fast forward to now, and all we’ve come to is Rust? I just wonder why don’t we just keep using C, C#, and Java? I mean the former two are memory safe, and they can do “unsafe” just like Rust.

Another thing: why do we write pseudocode and not design languages to look like pseudocode? With Rust and modern C++ compile times you’d think the machine is parsing prose and turning it into assembly…

Comment · 1 day ago
I wanted to use the Claude GUI but it wants me to enable developer mode just to run it on Windows.
Comment · 1 day ago
Wouldn’t it make more sense to put in the user app data directory?

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