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Comment · 4 months ago
Reducing this to a simple language fanboy war is a massive oversimplification. Recent memory bloat and performance issues happen everywhere, whether it's C++, Java, or React. In most cases the real culprit is architecture and implementation not the language. Such as embedding browser engines just for cross platform UI.

You talk as if language choice dictates performance but even C# allows active stack allocation for optimization. Conversely C++ becomes a bloated mess if poorly implemented. In fact terrible C++ code has caused issues for decades.

Ultimately the root cause is that as users' available memory expanded, developers (or rather, management) stopped caring about memory usage. This approach is finally hitting its limit and alternatives are emerging.

Comment · 5 months ago
It is premature to conclude that someone is wrong and will ultimately be replaced, as the final verdict on LLMs is not yet in. In fact, recent trends show rather negative outcomes. Multiple analyses continuously indicate that recent layoffs are driven by the normalization of the post-pandemic bubble and economic recession due to wars, not LLMs. Companies are merely using LLMs as a convenient excuse to frame hiring freezes as innovation. Furthermore, many companies are reconsidering LLM adoption due to cost and efficiency issues.

You claim to be rational and logical, but your argument completely lacks substance and is just full of highly subjective claims. Your 'prediction' is closer to astrology than actual forecasting. Sure, prophecies hit the mark by chance every now and then, but that doesn’t prove the person has any predictive ability. That is precisely what your argument looks like: completely confident without a single piece of evidence. To top it off, you totally abandoned reason and logic in your last sentence. Saying that anyone who disagrees with you is just deluding themselves and that you already know what people will say to snap back is exactly the kind of stuff a cult leader would say.

You're completely giving up based on some strange delusion. I don't even blame you for that. But it's genuinely ridiculous how you use it as an excuse to attack others and act all smug while pushing your defeatist arguments.

Comment · 6 months ago
I haven't really experienced disconnections while using ChatGPT. Gemini is the frustrating part. Simply backgrounding the app (and the web version too) and resuming it causes the response or the conversation with an assigned ID to disappear. Haha.
Comment · 6 months ago
Creating something new for a different use case isn't pointless. It's like comparing inline skates to ice skates.
Comment · 6 months ago
Good grief. Now the YouTube Shorts crowd is showing up here too.
Comment · 6 months ago
It could definitely happen after a few years and yes I have already had cases where I had to trace the code again to understand them. It is still a major hassle though! I occasionally build simple CLIs that are immediately intuitive but GUIs are just too much work.
Comment · 6 months ago
Most of my side projects have functional core features that I use regularly but they aren't quite shippable. Building a GUI for others unfamiliar with the internal logic is incredibly difficult and tedious.
Comment · 8 months ago
lol truly informative and clearly something no one here knew. But your terminology is inaccurate. Please change it to GNU/Linux != Unix

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